Ineffective Love Potion

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada, june 1993. Starring Katayama Kaoru as "Sleeping Beauty".

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada and Ichigo-chan. Shooting assistance by Kenji Onishi.

Koji Shiraishi interviews the survivors of an indiscriminate attack at a sightseeing resort and starts investigating the strange events that have been happening to them.

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. A short light entr'acte of "ROMANTISCHE".

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada, autumn 1992. A prelude to "Kazuko; RONDO..."

A strange DVD brought in from a man claiming to be a freelance director.

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miniDV film by Yukiyasu Shimada.

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada himself and the girl is Ichigo-chan.

A unique youth group drama set in a deserted local city in the 1980s, depicting the fate of a mysterious girl, Himiko, and the men surrounding her. Himiko, a girl who once left town, returns as a beautiful adult woman. Mukawa, a member of the baseball team who is practicing hard with the aim of participating in Koshien, meets Himiko by chance and is captivated by her.

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada starring Fusako Kumagai.

A woman spends her days with a sadistic man and decadent eyes. The man, with eyes drowning in drugs, constantly demands abnormal sexual acts from the woman. Eventually, after the man commits murder, the woman tries to escape this wrong way of life. The film depicts a world adorned with sex and violence. In the corners of the city, an exclusive individual builds their own colony. Imperfect human relationships, born from incomplete communication, unfold under the slow passage of time. The shadow-based imagery envelops the entire film more than necessary, in order to highlight the dark side of the human heart.

In the summer of 1998, the filmmaker went home to Takasaki to film the birth of his brother and sister-in-law's child. Days go by and the child is still to be born. With time on his hands and no one to talk to, the filmmaker finds the phone number for a telephone date club, and calls up with an earnest de- sire: I'd like to talk to a girl. While following the conventions of film-diary form, at some point the filmmaker falls into a times pace tunnel of false memory.

The third horror documentary released by the staff of the "Really scary urban legend" series. It includes an artificial lake "Kamiryu Lake" where there are rumors of ghosts appearing, "Kanto Mystery Tour", a longitudinal tour of the ghost spot, and "49Tunnel", one of Nagano's most frightening spiritual spots.

The man was seeking pleasure beyond sex. And the ultimate ecstasy he sought was pace poles and the death throes of a person. The man drags his friend Shinichi and his girlfriend Akiko into his world of madness, gradually corrupting their relationship and manipulating them. Then, he murders Shinichi in front of Akiko. Akiko's mind and body collapse from the shock, and the man toys with her for his own pleasure. However, Akiko's mind gradually becomes abnormal, and she enters a world where madness can be sanity.

Unfinished 8mm work by Yukiyasu Shimada.