Ishiro Honda - The Mysterians
The first Japanese alien invasion movie and the first film shot in Tohoscope (wide screen color) that set the standard in special FX.
Label: British Film Institute / BFIVD679
Artist: Ishiro Honda
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Cult, Fantasy, Japan, Monster Movies.
Toshi Ichiyanagi / Maki Ishii - Music for Living Process/ Cho-Etsu
Ichiyanagi’s ‘Music for Living Process’ (14’30) is for flute, shakuhachi, harp, percussion and 2 dancers. Ishii’s ‘Cho-Etsu&..(read more)
Label: Ed.RZ / EDITION RZ 1008
Artist: Toshi Ichiyanagi / Maki Ishii
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: '70s, Chamber Music, Japan, Percussion, Vinyl.
Maher Shalal Hash Baz and Masami Shinoda - Koshi Kudake No Inu
This DVD is a archival document of an early (1987) show by wide-eyed mystics Maher Shalal Hash Baz at Kid Ailack Art Hall, Tokyo and captures the innocent joy a..(read more)
Label: PSF Records / PSFDV004
Medium: DVD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Eccentrics, Japan.
Takahiko Iimura - The DVD Art of Takahiko Iimura
All of Iimuras cinematic Art (12 projects) on one DVD in 60 second excerpts.
Label: Own / ISBN 978-4-901181-35-1
Artist: Takahiko Iimura
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Abstract Cinema, Japan.
Takahiko Iimura - Observer-Observed
Observer-Observed is a video trilogy of Camera, Monitor, Frame with the aim to create a semiology of video as a videowork rather than a written text.
Label: Own / ISBN 4-901181-20-6
Artist: Takahiko Iimura
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Art, Japan, Video Art.
Takahiko Iimura - AIUEONN Six Features
Six funny faces wich were manipulated with a realtime texture mapping system (System G), to animate the visual images of Japanese vowels in Japanese and Roman a..(read more)
Label: Own / No Number
Artist: Takahiko Iimura
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Animation, Avant-Garde, Japan.
Ishiro Honda - Godzilla
Label: British Film Institute / BFIVD680
Artist: Ishiro Honda
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Cult, Fantasy, Japan, Monster Movies.
Yumikonian Orchestra - Blue Light Osaka
Big band formed and led by Japanese piano lady Yumiko Murakami.
Label: YMK / 1
Artist: Yumikonian Orchestra
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Improvisation, Japan.
Noriko Tujiko - I Forgot the Title
Featuring 4 tracks from her rare and pretty hard to find debut album, “Keshou To Heita”, plus one new track recorded at the Rhiz in Vienna on one of..(read more)
Label: Mego / 57
Artist: Noriko Tujiko
Medium: 12"
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Electronic, Japan, Songwriters, Vinyl.
