Akira Matsumoto

Sexual Drive

Designer Enatsu worries about his sexless life. Office worker Akane is getting ready to return to work while undergoing rehab at home for panic attacks. Elite advertising agent Ikeyama wants to end his relationship with his lover. A shabby man named Kurita appears before all three with a secret.

The Torture Club

The "Torture Club" is an official after-school activity at the private school Saint Honesty Gakuen. Yuzuki has no idea about the club when she enrolls, and gets abducted by the club members and hauled off the club-room. There, she finds out that upper-class student Aoi, her secret idol, is in the club, and decides to join, but…

A Woman's Hole

Sachiko Suzuki is a female high school student. She claims that she is an alien and her mission on Earth is to conceive a child with a human man. Sachicko seduces her class teacher Mr. Fukuda. After their intimate encounter, Mr. Fukuda becomes becomes convinced that Sachiko is not a human. Meanwhile, female student Kobato Hagimoto knows that Mr. Murata has a crush on some male students. Because of this, Mr. Murata is treated as a pig by Kobata until he can't bear the situation anymore.

Torso

Hiroko is a young, alienated woman "in love" with a blow-up male torso. Tension rises when her sister discovers her secret desire.

Kougyou Aika Volley Boys

The story follows the risque misadventures of three students named Akagi, Miyamoto, and Taniguchi, known by others as the Numa-Kō 3 Baka Trio ("The Asanuma Technical High School Idiot Trio"). The trio start a second volleyball team at their school in a misguided attempt to be popular.

Freesia: Bullet Over Tears

In the near future of a Japan, the ancient 'Act of Vengeance' is revived and professional executioners are permitted to kill criminals by the requests from their victims. People who are to be executed are notified of the execution time and date in advance and they are allowed to have their own guard.

Antenna

Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M clubs. But his younger brother claims to be able to sense their sister with his "antenna".

Ryuko, in the Unfaithful Evening

Autumn, 1997. Ryuko, her brother Syuwa and their father Matsuo live in a small apartment. Matsuo loses his job after a quarrel and the Kato family's livelihood depends on young Ryuko, who secretly poses nude for various pornographic magazines. Matsuo ends up discovering his daughter's secret activity and throws her out of the house. Despite this, Ryuko continues working in the world of pornography and supporting her little brother and father.

Hole in the Sky

The film tells the story of a Drive-In worker and a young tramp who has been left alone by her boyfriend somewhere in Hokkaido. Things seem to work out at the beginning but as time goes by the newly formed relationship between the tramp and the Drive-In worker starts to show the workers harmful will of possession, which finally leads to the somehow sad but also optimistically interpretable ending.

Waveforms: Video/Japan

Art Com Video #2. A collection of video and performance art mostly from Japan (one is from a Canadian Artist and the piece is about Japan) and includes these pieces: Mt. Fuji - Ko Nakajima, Flow (3) Part 2 - Sinsuke Ina, Koto Buki - Tetsuo Sekimoto, Listen the Body - Yoshiomi Yamaguchi, My Gaijin Tengoku - Byron Black, Alley of Alley - Akira Matsumoto, and Japanese Syllabary - Yoh Hayafuji

An Urban Affair

Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments.