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A short film about frogs and a fish trying to eat them all.

On a foggy morning, a simple conversation between two anglers turns into a collective panic. The film explores the psychology of the mob in ambiguous situations.

A mad scientist finds a seashell in a garbage bag and places it in a machine called "Gramophone No.13" in an attempt to create his ideal lover...

A special premiere clip-show before the series composed of old setting images. Due to tight production schedule and after the final episode of the previous program "Saber Kids", the episode was finally aired 3 weeks prior.

Recap of episodes 14-25 from the Panzer World Galient TV series.

While enjoying a date in a park, a man carelessly tosses an empty bottle onto the ground. His selfish littering promptly summons an imposing figure wearing a white hockey mask. The gruesome events that follow tell an admonishing tale about the importance of preserving the outdoors and defending the environment from the ugly menace of litter. The short was made for the tve YouTube Relay project, but wasn't included because it's too violent.

Off-street mysteries. There are many things we don’t find in the main streets. We might find many happenings in the back street, which don’t happen in the main streets.

An experimental animated short film by Yoriko Mizushiri.

The black fish is violent, devouring fish and shrimps, and grabbing bait hooks with the tortoises, vying to cook in the cauldron.

Two high school students are playing in the ruins. They hear something from the darkness and one of them goes deep into a dark room where something suspicious is hiding and both of them have their hearts taken out. Later a boy and his sister drop by the ruins. . .

A flash of light splits the darkness, revealing a mysterious image. The images are rapidly replaced with sharp noise that combines wave-like repetitiveness and explosiveness, and the flicker effect that it brings makes the viewer away from reality.

A very short animation by Turkish filmmaker Çağıl Harmandar

In a city where wearing a bucket is mandatory, a man puts it on each day to protect his stable "life". He blacks out documents belonging to complete strangers. One day, after a minor accident, his bucket comes off — and he notices an old man making strange claims.

In the 41st century, Queen Karen finds her planet will soon be devasted. As a solution, she plans to conquer and migrate into 20th century Earth by creating a powerful time machine using special substances called ‘Dianum12’. In order to stop her, Professor Judeen and his granddaughter Fera asks our Starland Trio to join forces and fight back the Queen.

The Larks' Moving Day. Early Japanese animation.

Li Yi-Fan’s What Is Your Favorite Primitive (2023) narrates “a death match” between the artist and their software while grappling with the production process. In a fight between social and ethical concerns, it also raises questions of image production and communication.

Momotaro takes to the ocean to fight a shark.

This video art experiment and survey on human's visual and sound perception which have an influence on the way of life, national integration, and people's belief in fact. The video changes the way of human's usual perception by using a Thai ancient tale read by a calm voice, along with the annoying visual and sound.

Halloween has arrived at Ayanagi Academy, bringing copious amounts of pumpkins, decorations, and delicious seasonal foods with it. Yuuta Hoshitani and his classmates enjoy preparing for the festivities until Kouki Nanjou tells a creepy ghost story, putting all of them on edge. As night draws closer, the lights in their dormitory go out and ghosts begin to appear, making the group believe that Nanjou's eerie tale is actually rooted in truth! While Hoshitani and a few others cower in fear, the rest of them investigate the supernatural occurrence to find the truth behind what is really going on.

A short morality/folktale film about an old couple that learn the virtue of not being greedy.

On her city balcony, Audrey delights in the flutter of tiny birds—fluffing their feathers, chattering, and sneaking tangerine bites. Their chirps sound like cheerful hellos and playful spats, inspiring her to invent a bird-language translator that unlocks their secret conversations.

Originally designed to be projected on 360 degree scope screen, the image portrays a life of one man and the never ending cycle of life.

Kitten Miaomiao and Mimi are a pair of siblings with opposite personalities, one is hardworking and obedient, and the other is playful and lazy. When the sun came out, mother wanted them to get up, and Miaomiao got up, but Mimi had to stay in bed.

Part of Anime no Tane 2021.

Animated short film based on Yoshiji Kigami's picture book of the same name.

The motif in this animation is the memories of my dog which lived 17 years.

Based on a well-known Japanese folk tale about an honest fisherman who is invited to an underwater castle after saving a sea turtle on a beach from bullies.

The short follows Saitama after he discovers a 1-yen (about US$0.01) sale for high-grade hot-pot meat — but the sale ends at 5:00 p.m. that day.

网瘾战争 is an anti-censorship machinima advocacy production on behalf of the mainland Chinese World of Warcraft community, aesthetically notable for being made entirely in in-universe style. A protest against internet censorship in China, it was first uploaded by video creator nicknamed "Sexy Corn" onto Tudou.com, within days of its release it was banned from a few PRC video sites such as Youku.com, but has since struck a chord with the wider public beyond the gaming community, eventually becoming more popular on-line than Avatar. The 64-minute video expresses the frustrations of mainland Chinese WoW players being restricted to mainland servers and presents their grievances and normal feelings to the real world, inasmuch they are often marginalized as being Internet addicts dwelling inside virtual worlds. While the video was considered to be bold and rebellious by the Chinese government, it won the Best Video award in the 2010 Tudou Video Film awards. [from wikipedia]

A beautiful 7-year-old girl Fuyao is devastated when her parents are arrested and thrown into prison for their faith. Bullied and humiliated, Fuyao refuses to be crushed by the gigantic repressive regime. She and her mom find extraordinary means to connect through the iron bars and grow together.

He lives his life everyday like it's nothing special. Today he eats, gets dressed, and heads out once again.

Kaibun are palidromes in which words sound the same when read backwards and forwards. Sometimes the meaning changes, and sometimes not. I brought this playful and poetic world to life.

An animated “documentary” that retells the story of a 1934 hostage crisis that occurred in China.

This early gekimation by Japanese filmmaker Ujicha was produced as a graduate work in 2009 at Kyoto Saga University of Arts, Department of Tourism Design.

The industrious and brave little cat is a good friend of everyone. It is hard work for everyone to watch the nursing home day and night. One day, two mice sneaked into a family under the broad daylight, not only spoiled the grain in the barn, but also messed up the room. At the end of the day, they stole the big eggs from the hen. While dragging the eggs and looking around in a hurry, the scene of the sneaky was seen by the big cat who was playing basketball, and the hen was able to keep her egg baby.

Chestnuts, bees, and a mortar join forces to punish a villainous monkey.

Wandering the bizarre town looked like a fishing village boy hero that has been cut a vein bitten his left arm to Memekurage in the coast, in search of a doctor "doctor's where" and while saying being tormented by the fear of death, absurd eye It is talking can undergo surgery met Joy, even though the eye, and require at last (gynaecologist), of obtaining survived without incident.

A girl is going along her way when a Japanese river otter catches up with her. The two try in vain to communicate while all the junk of humanity rains down around them.

The humorous short film provides a lesson in arithmetic with the help of five people and twelve mosquitos.

As Seolgi is lying on a grass field with friends, a shooting star falls, and dark, intrusive thoughts hit her. Her melancholy blooms into bright and colorful "flower people," dancing and wishing for a meteorite to end the world.

Brave Rabbit 2 Crazy Circus (Chinese: 闯堂兔2疯狂马戏团) is a 2015 Chinese animated children's adventure comedy film directed by Zeng Xianlin

1212 AD. During the crusades, an innocent soldier finds himself betrayed, and leaps to his death, vowing to return as a fallen angel. Present day. Reborn as a woman named Aiko, the soldier rises as the military leader of a new crusade, successfully unites the world and abolishes all religion. Haunted by memories of a past life, Aiko travels backwards in time, and finds herself caught in an incredible battle to save the future.

Ultraman Kids was a 1984 television special aired in Japan featuring several Ultraman characters as children. The short was successful, as several others were produced. The shows taught life lessons and were comedic in tone. A sequel series was released in 1992, and lasted for 26 episodes. The second show was more adventure oriented and featured more characters, though mainly focusing on Ultraman, Ultraseven, Ultraman Taro, Pigmon, Alien Baltan, Alien Guts, and a new character named Piko (Not to be confused with Hanuman's human host) based upon Yullian.

Self-replicating entities that have evolved on different planets merge and proliferate exponentially. In search of more energy sources, they consume other stars.

Ordinary life repeats itself every day. The succession of moments that we repeat over is never the same, and everything changes. Only the feeling of the body touching something, which exists only in this present reality, can be recognized as “now.” That moment is lovely.

Animated short features bunnies and tanuki having wacky hijinks while going skiing.

Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

A man, heartbroken after the death of his cat, wakes up one morning… changed.

A short animation. Winner of the 1998 Noburou Oofuji award.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

The Shinano Mainichi Shimbun, a Japanese local newspaper based in Nagano, has created "A Family Story" - a new flip book animation together with Tekken who is famous for his work "Pendulum". This animation was created using an actual newspaper printing press

SOS... SOS... A black and white TV falls in love with the girl sending out the distress signal. He rushes up the mountain of trash and off to the moon he goes where the crying girl awaits. If only she could see him beyond the screen.

OVA adaptation of a manga by Watase Seizou.