Cybele: A Pastoral Ritual in Five Scenes

A group of boys playing near the seashore in Tokyo find a goat, kill it in a tug of war for ownership, bury it with ceremony, and, except for one boy, run off in heedless laughter ready for more games.

Donald Richie’s classic is, in the words of Yukio Mishima, an outrageous farce, and a pitiless indictment of all our false ‘human’ values. As an allegory of an ‘all-consuming’ Tokyo family cannibalizing each other in a Tokyo park, it attains the highest reaches of black humour.

Short film for the "A Commercial for Myself" programme.

Love affair between an older European woman and a younger Japanese man.

A young woman arrives at a resort and is soon pursued by a young man. Initially, he appears to be infatuated with her, but it becomes clear he simply wants to seduce her.

A cat's inquisitive look interferes with the pleasurable sensations of a boy while masturbating.

The homoerotic poetry of Mutsuo Takahashi sets the stage for these associated images based on male desire.