Toshi Ichiyanagi Movies

A short animated film by Furukawa Taku.

There's more to picture than meets the eye in this journey into oriental metaphysical imagery. Starting (in a very Christian manner) with the Word,...

The humble line has a life of its own. As it travels from one point to the next it can take whatever route it fancies. With plenty of ups and downs,...

Expansion remixes the images of Matsumoto’s Esctasis into an more colourful psychedelic short.

A five-part documentary chronicling Toshio Matsumoto, the legendary filmmaker known as a pioneer of experimental cinema in Japan and also active as a...

Part documentary, part fiction this film revolves around the life of the haiku poet Seigetsu Inoue who wandered Ina Valley for about 30 years from...

A small white box. Everything happens in that little world. A woman's face comes out from the side of the room and roars, birds peck at human flesh,...

Writes Matsumoto, "I used the Erekutoro Karapurosesu (Electro Color Processor), which is mainly used in the field of medicine and engineering, to...

A medical film that explores the mechanism of bones, which support the body and act as a calcium storehouse to maintain balance within the body.

Why Not is hypnotic, compulsive and claustrophobic. It is bathed in a cold, pervasive eroticism, which, oblique and displaced at first, finally...

Cameraman Yonesaku Kobayashi (1905-2005) is a pioneer of scientific films of Japan. He and producer Sozo Okada made many scientific educational...

The entire human body is made of cells, and health is maintained through the continuous process of old cells making way for new cells. Bones are no...

The red blood cells that carry oxygen throughout the body have a lifespan of 120 days. The living body continuously produces blood to ensure a...