Kôichi Hayashi

A wolf finds himself transformed into a teenage boy. (imdb)

This is a completely new kind of SF film which shows the future of our civilization profoundly and quietly but humorously, having "The Box" as the leading role. It tells allegorically like a picture book the possibility of the peaceful co-existence of high technology and tree, a symbol of nature. The quite unique world of this film is depicted in its simple and beautiful images, which can entirely change our images for monochrome films. (worldscinema.org)

Strongly anti-war film based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The location is Burma. It shows the everyday problems of soldiers in contrast of their ideas and the cynicism of their commanders.

This is the only surviving "Mito Komon Manyu-ki" film. This release also known as Adrift Tour Memoir is an 80-minute compilation of the first and second parts (147 minutes), which were re-edited and screened at a time when presentable films were dried up immediately after the defeat of the war. (Cinema Japan Retrospective)