Masami Akita Movies

  • 1990
    Female Harakiri: Celebration

    Female Harakiri: Celebration

    Female Harakiri: Celebration

    4.81990HD

    A woman in a nurse’s outfit sits in a dark room. She kneels on a mat and looks over a knife, touching it with her fingers and examining it. She...

    Female Harakiri: Celebration
  • 1999
    Routemaster

    Routemaster

    Routemaster

    01999HD

    Routemaster is a montage of rhythmically organised repetitions and involves an abstraction of motion that increases in frequency and scale. The basic...

    Routemaster
  • 1990
    Lost Paradise: Riding Habit Harakiri

    Lost Paradise: Riding Habit Harakiri

    Lost Paradise: Riding Habit Harakiri

    4.71990HD

    Directed by Masami Akita,who is also one of Japan's leading noise musicians under the name Merzbow. With a soundtrack by the director himself, this...

    Lost Paradise: Riding Habit Harakiri
  • 1995
    Hell Bento: Uncovering the Japanese Underground

    Hell Bento: Uncovering the Japanese Underground

    Hell Bento: Uncovering the Japanese Underground

    5.91995HD

    An exploration of underground Japanese counter-culture including the Yakuza, the nationalists, the gay and lesbian community, the bikers and the...

    Hell Bento: Uncovering the Japanese Underground
  • 1998
    Asphalto

    Asphalto

    Asphalto

    5.31998HD

    As a conceptual fiction, Asphalto describes the relationship of a man and a woman by means of metaphor and visual symbols related to asphalt, service...

    Asphalto
  • 1992
    The Sequence of Parallel Bars

    The Sequence of Parallel Bars

    The Sequence of Parallel Bars

    21992HD

    The film opens with a rubber-clad woman stepping sensuously out of a limousine. The camera lovingly closes-up on her stilletoed foot... She enters a...

    The Sequence of Parallel Bars
  • 1990
    School Girl: Harakiri

    School Girl: Harakiri

    School Girl: Harakiri

    4.61990HD

    A school girl kneels on her mat looking over an old photo album containing pictures of people committing seppuku. Becoming aroused by what she sees,...

    School Girl: Harakiri
  • 1995
    Injured College Girl

    Injured College Girl

    Injured College Girl

    01995HD

    A college student undergoes unorthodox surgical procedures by hospital nurses.

    Injured College Girl
  • 2004
    Nor Noise

    Nor Noise

    Nor Noise

    02004HD

    Nor Noise is the first norwegian documentary about noise music. Movie Maker Tom Hovinbøle has from the start in 2001 interviewed a number of...

    Nor Noise
  • 1998
    Beyond Ultra Violence: Uneasy Listening by Merzbow

    Beyond Ultra Violence: Uneasy Listening by Merzbow

    Beyond Ultra Violence: Uneasy Listening by Merzbow

    61998HD

    Documentary about and with the Japanese electronic composer and artist Merzbow.

    Beyond Ultra Violence: Uneasy Listening by Merzbow
  • 1994
    The Dead Man 2: Return of the Dead Man

    The Dead Man 2: Return of the Dead Man

    The Dead Man 2: Return of the Dead Man

    4.41994HD

    The Dead Man returns, but it's too late to save us. We are already dead.

    The Dead Man 2: Return of the Dead Man
  • 1993
    Kingdom of Noise: Japanese Noise Selection

    Kingdom of Noise: Japanese Noise Selection

    Kingdom of Noise: Japanese Noise Selection

    41993HD

    Various life performances by Japanese Noise acts: Aube - Low Spin Drift / Incapacitants - Live At 20000V / Dislocation - Writing And Masturbation /...

    Kingdom of Noise: Japanese Noise Selection
  • 2004
    Nameless

    Nameless

    Nameless

    02004HD

    Experimental gore horror film with music and samples from Merzbow, Tool and Aleister Crowley.

    Nameless
  • 2001
    Scanning of Modulations

    Scanning of Modulations

    Scanning of Modulations

    02001HD

    Eye-popping digital moving image work with an equally arresting soundtrack from noise music heavies.

    Scanning of Modulations
  • 1998
    Signal to Noise

    Signal to Noise

    Signal to Noise

    01998HD

    Short documentary on Japanese noise artist Merzbow by South African filmmaker Aryan Kaganof. Filmed on location at the Kamakura Temple, Japan, 1997.

    Signal to Noise
  • 2013
    Newscaster/Dragon/Maggots

    Newscaster/Dragon/Maggots

    Newscaster/Dragon/Maggots

    02013HD

    The surreal film Newscaster/Dragon/Maggots is a transmission of what lurks in between the channels. This is a rotoscoped piece of animation created...

    Newscaster/Dragon/Maggots
  • 1995
    Good Alchemy Video

    Good Alchemy Video

    Good Alchemy Video

    01995HD

    Performances by Japanese Noise acts: Masonna, Incapacitants, Merzbow, Solmania, Hijokaidan.

    Good Alchemy Video