Rescue Plaza

In 1984, a commercial for a radio-cassette maranntz. Yoyogi Park. A strange girl.

At the bar, three office workers enjoyed drinking alcohol and discussing their views on life. Eventually, Sawai, who got drunk, began to talk about the daily events he spent with a strange woman he met in the graveyard a few months ago.

It's a work that I didn't originally think about showing to people, so I wonder if this is all right ... I can't help it anymore.

A trap awaiting the killer Yuki, who longs for the life of an ordinary woman.

Short film by Nobuyuki Yamagishi.

An unique love story spelled out with a documentary touch.

A trip to Hakone shooting training at Tokyo Senmon Gakko, 1984.

Summer 1984. An image of when I visited Sapporo, Otaru etc. And my parents hometown. I'm shooting only girls (shame ...).

Koji had a thriving general store in the family business and was about to marry Fujiko, the daughter of a business tycoon. He went to talk to his lonely father about whether he should invite his friend to Korea for a wedding, but he tossed Koji with his dissocting remarks and deeds. Has my father gone crazy? And what is the "judgment" that father sentences Koji?

Short indie film by Nobuyuki Yamagishi. Mix of 8mm film & miniDV & 4K.

Last year, an 8mm film that popped out from the back of my closet. "Winter 1994" is magically written on the film reel (definitely my handwriting), but I don't even remember where it was taken

The novelist Sawai enjoyed seeing the mirage on the Kugenuma Coast with his wife and friends as a breather for work. However, the headache of the having a disease occurred frequently as usual, and various illusions and hallucinations which seemed to invade from the mischief of the sand of the coast or the crack of daily life were seen, and an ominous event was encountered.

Natsumi, who works part-time at a date club, finds herself looking for something that money cannot buy - Love...? A cameraman with a lovely smile appears in front of her.

Blues singer Nakase enters a bar, invited by the melody of the piano that echoes in the lonely dark night...

In 1984, I took a picture in a production training work of the Tokyo Photography College Department of Film Arts, when a teacher told me to take something with the theme of "light". A student work.

This is a film history and film poetry based on images excerpted from 872 minutes of 32 works directed by Yamagishi from 1984 to 2010.