A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get into a quarrel with other villagers.

A girl loves an older man. He demands that she goes in a brothel, as evidence that she loves him.

A young man, haunted by his past, travels the land in search of the lyrics to a lullaby his mother used to sing to him.

Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?

A surreal experimental short about man's relationship with books.

As a family goes on with their day, the shadows on their walls lead a completely different life.

A series of unusual images inspired by the Count of Lautreamont's poetic novel Les Chants de Maldoror.

A collection of surrealist scenes featuring nails. The last ten minutes of the film are interactive, giving the audience themselves a chance to hammer some nails into the screen.

An experimental short where the fourth wall is being broken by playing around with the screen mechanics over some surrealist imagery.

Two men carry a portal door which leads to different realms.

A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.

An angst-ridden teen dealing with his dysfunctional family hits the streets. The story is inter-cut with various psychedelic, energetic vignettes.

After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, how long will it be before the bloodshed begins anew? Set in 1926 Japan, this serpentine crime thriller from director Hideo Gosha also stars Toshio Kurosawa and Isao Natsuyagi as Iwahashi's closest ally.

A subversive short film from director Shuuji Terayama.

A doctor, gynecologist, discover the corpse of his wife. His nurse advises to him to declare her death a simple heart attack, to clear himself without the slightest doubt. He refuses and calls the police force there. The interrogation of the doctor, then other witnesses, slowly reveals the truth of her demise…