Recent media works reveal hybrid and shifting identities. Works by Tatsu Aoki, Isamu Hirabayashi, Ryusuke Ito, Tomonari Nishikawa, Kentaro Onitsuka, Ichiro Sueoka, Sawa Takashi, and Junko Wada.
Toshio Matsumoto's notorious 1969 drag-queen melodrama dazzles with its humorous amalgamation of documentary, narrative, and visual experimentation. With Matsumoto shorts Expansion and For My Crushed Right Eye.
From the lighthearted to the terrifying, these films rebel against sexual and gender conventions and open up complex worlds of desire. Works by Mako Idemitsu, Takahiko Iimura, Koichi Imaizumi, Takashi Ito, Nobuhiro Kawanaka, Takashi Kimura, Takashi Nakajima, Donald Richie, Yukie Saito, Shin'ichi Tamano, Shuji Terayama, and Miho Uehara.