Mikio Yamazaki Trailers
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Born in Tokyo in 1959. Began playing around with an 8mm camera in middle school. Won the Fuji 8mm Film Contest with The Happy Days of M ( " M-kun no shiawasena hibi " ) which he made while studying cultural anthropology at Hokkaido University. Has directed over fifty films including Memory of Seaside (1982), Ghosttown at Dawn (1983), Guiding Star (1987), The Cat Night (1992), Pu (1994). Publications include A Contextual Analysis of Canned Coffee and The Whereabouts of a Hero.
Most Popular Mikio Yamazaki Trailers
Total trailers found: 57
01 April 2013
A documentary on the Associations of Silverpencils screening hosted in Higashimurayama. The Film features 8mm films and interviews.
01 January 2003
This work, filmed in Berlin, was created in homage to Elis, the model for Mori Ōgai's short story "The Dancing Girl".
01 January 2008
VIDA, starring AV actress Hotaru Hazuki, is an erotic work aiming directly at the Hypothalamus. DEATH is an event that makes life emerge in a different language.
31 December 1994
A wanderer and his son arrive on an obscure northern island of Japan, causing the village of Pu to fall into disarray.
01 January 2011
As part of the street observation work, I was working on collecting and arranging the number of the beast 666 in the city.
30 September 2005
The concept of "Rest In Eternalism" was to closely examine and photograph the things I encountered while traveling, so I thought about what would happen if I tried photographing one place thoroughly.
11 September 1993
VTR video work. The whole story is a parody of Shuji Terayama and Shuntaro Tanikaws "Video Letter". Self-questioning about "meaning" and "myself" through video.
23 February 2006
This is the DVD version of the video event held at Loft Plus One in Shinjuku on September 10th, supervised by Chiaki Konaka.
20 September 2005
Aiming to a tranquil yet raw energy. All of the footage was fixed using a tripod and the result was a series of inorganic objects that appear one after the other.
01 January 1982
8mm work from the 6th Pia Film Festival.
20 September 2002
One shot from inside a moving car and the other showing a vague image of a boy and girl playing in a cluster of light spots spinning around like a galaxy.
01 January 2015
A short film made as a prologue part of "Deep Sweets Senior".
20 September 2002
The title is a combination of "I want to meet you" and "靉靆 (the flow of clouds, or a lens)". A kind of fake work using old film shot 10 years after its expiration date.
13 July 2017
One day, middle-aged man Estan meets Nui, a woman who has lived for 20,000 years. The mysterious journey of Nui and Estan begins, using arrowheads to collect the emotions of humans in the past.
11 September 2003
No new footage was taken, and everything was spliced together from previously shot 8mm film. When I've been shooting 8mm for this long, I often forget what kind of memories I've taken.
01 January 1996
Kajol is a star actress in Indian movies. I discovered a strange scene when I was watching a video of a movie she was in.
20 February 1987
Kumi lives a hippie-like life in Tokyo's outskirts. One night while drunk she stumbles into an abandoned industrial site, except in addition to deserted factories, it is full of forests and greenery.
22 April 1999
This is an 8mm film shot and edited from 1996 to 1999. There is no story development like a normal story movie, and the image of only the author = the hero like a diary movie continues.
31 December 1994
A self-produced feature film. The main character, an 8mm filmmaker, has a bronze statue of the goddess of 8mm movies in his home, and he always prays before filming, and when editing, he places it above the viewer to be watched over by the goddess.
01 January 1988
The “Gamuze,” “Namara,” and ‘Dahan’ are frequently seen in this work, which were produced in collaboration with the "Katsuura Revolutionary University Video Course Practicum.
31 December 1987
In April 1985, I started to make a film with my friend Kamioka as the main character. But even after three months, the whole film was still unknown.
23 March 2024
The dialogueless journey of a carjacker, his young lover and the doll she created, in a world made of city ruins, blue dawns and red dusks.
31 December 1990
The original format is 8mm film (single8), and once the developed film is incompletely layered on the undeveloped film, it is projected onto a curtain swaying in the wind by shining light at an angle with a penlight.
16 April 2011
Rukani (Yamazaki), a middle-aged man with a cosplay fetish, tries to shoot an adult video featuring a woman named Karinpa (Komoda) as his model.
31 December 1984
So, what exactly were we doing with this work? To put it simply, we tried to see if we could do something similar to musical improvisation in film.
31 December 1982
It consists of two repeated images: a scene of cutting the back of a hand with a utility knife and blood oozing out, and another one of a man being slaughtered at the beach.
01 January 1989
We gathered at the Shinjuku Sports Center, located between Shinjuku and Takadanobaba. It was just before the “Great Funeral Reception” of the Emperor Showa after his death, and the police were on high alert.
01 January 2011
This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema.
18 April 2015
This is a feature-length work that combines the short stories "Night Palm Forest," "Red Bat Girl," "Night is Coming Soon," and "Kiri Rider" with "Mercury Heart" (starring Yu Arai) which was created as a summary.
24 April 2013
A middle-aged man, Lukani, is attracted to a woman holding a card for an offline social networking site meet-up in front of the station.
01 January 1990
The event was held at Shakujii Park in Nerima Ward, Tokyo. As a new twist, I scribbled graffiti and put red star stickers all over the route in advance.
15 June 1979
Unidentified people appear around the protagonist, Mr. M. No matter how many times he wakes up, he cannot escape from his dream.
14 May 1980
The scene I shot from my hospital bed when I was hospitalized with a punctured lung (a condition called spontaneous pneumothorax).
31 December 1988
The course was set to meet on the rooftop of Shinjuku Odakyu Department Store and penetrate Shinjuku's Kabukicho district.
14 May 1992
Stop-motion footage of moving clouds and the passing of the sun.
14 May 1982
This is a small piece that I shot with a Fujica P300 equipped with an auto fader, repeating the fading in and out on the light and shadow in a room at a regular rhythm.
14 May 2000
A nonsense piece. It starts with the fact that there are two butters in the fridge at home, one for the top and one for the bottom, and then for some reason it reminds me of the Moh-Roh-Ushi hot springs.
15 June 1993
A man stands in the city, holding a single red rose in his hand. He gets on the subway and places the rose on a street.
14 May 1991
Using a flat microphone, Yamazaki attempts to auscultate various places in the city. The sounds of manholes, of which he recorded many, sound like the pulsation of a living thing.
14 May 1987
The title means "fire poker" in Hokkaido dialect. It could be said to be a 3-minute condensed version of "Guiding Star.
14 May 1993
A work in which a photo of the filmmaker flies through the sky and returns to a garden where there are photos of his family and his pets.
14 May 1997
8mm short film by Mikio Yamazaki.
14 May 1988
The title means "key" in Hokkaido dialect. The man runs out of the room and attacks the children playing, but the microphone is snatched away by the girl.
14 May 1999
As Godard said, a film is made up of "images and sound," but inevitably the images tend to be primary and the sound secondary.
