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On the Lœss Plateau, during the late Ming Dynasty, a fate-torn soul embarks on a journey to recover his memories, unfolding a fantastical tale of obsession, redemption and family bonds.

Two sisters stay at home alone. They spend their time in their own worlds, at times in synch with each other and other times disconnected.

A collection of 6 shorts ranging from animated to live-action. Released by Toei Video on VHS.

A young chef chasing a lost flavor lands in a ruined city without taste. Saved by Kasumi, his cooking awakens forgotten memories. But a dark force threatens to erase all desire — making his quest the last hope to save both worlds.

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

The summer holidays are over: time for the students to present their self-selected research projects. But besides lemon lamps and sea clocks, some of the students have bigger plans. So also Kiyoshi, who wants to make up for his failure from last summer...

'There is a fusuma (paper sliding door) work based on the Hannya Shingyo (Prajna-paramita Hrdaya Sutram) by woodblock print artist Shikou Munakata. He wrote the sutra in one go without any rough drafts or scketches and the result is a very powerful and compelling work. Ever since I first saw this fusuma I have had a special interest in the Hannya Shingyo... ' (extract of the commentary by Keiichi Tanaami)

Fireworks. In Space.

Dr. Octo who researches octopodes decides to take over the world as he deems the eight legged creatures a more suitable master species than humans. To do this, he takes an idol singer Sumire Hoshino (aka Perman #3) hostage. Mitsuo Suwa (aka Perman #1) likes the idol dearly (as he doesn't know the real identity of his Perman partner) and becomes so angry that he transforms to go rescue her. But fighting a giant octopus is more challenging than it looks!

An adaptation of the 2010 Chinese video game, Roco Kingdom.

Ki-No-Ko is a surreal five-minute short film published on Art of Silent Hill, Lost Memories: The Art & Music of Silent Hill and The Silent Hill Experience.

A taxidermist looks out the window of his studio. Sequestered from the world, he protects his loneliness. The arrival of two foreigners may prove unsettling to his isolation.

A grieving mother sets out to break free from the grip of haunting trauma. A meditation on memory, love, resilience, and the echoes that trauma leaves behind.

An animation film that explores what it means to experience loss, yet never lose the love given to you when it is shared, keeping the legacy of a loved one alive.

Of the many unrealized projects Yang developed in the wake of Yi Yi, the one that came the closest to fruition was an ambitious animated martial arts movie inspired by his lifelong love of graphic novels and his friendship with Jackie Chan. Though production on The Wind was halted after Yang’s death, this brief assembly of completed scenes offers a glimpse of what might have been. Courtesy of the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute. – Film at Lincoln Center

An animated short by independent animator Sadao Tsukioka.

In this animation, three tin toys change their costumes on stage and take turns performing. However, they find themselves trapped in a dreamlike state, resembling a mirror image, unable to break free.

The mouse finds a prism and it reveals to him a magnificent rainbow like he's never seen before. He tries to show his friends but for some reason it won't reappear. It seems beauty has a mind of its own.

It has been found that plants of downtown areas produced more carbon dioxide than they absorbed from the atmosphere and leaded air pollution to be deteriorated. Trees changed their growth pattern to stand the heat of hot weather because of unusual above-average temperatures. Now the natural food chain starts the counter-cycle. This film should serve as a warning to continuous environmental destruction by showing the counter-cycle of transformed creature against natural food chain.

Animated short film

Long ago, a Dark Lord from another world named The Shadow Master (SM) invaded the Lion Kingdom in order to claim the three most powerful Lion Crystals. Luckily, they were hidden ages ago and the King and Queen hid the map away along with their newborn son Paddle Pop. Unfortunately 16 years later, SM found Paddle Pop in his hidden jungle home and took the map from him. Now, Paddle Pop and friends must embark on a journey to stop SM from getting the 3 Lion Crystals and achieving ultimate power. Utilizing a special flying vehicle called The Phoenix, Paddle Pop and his friends race against Shadow Master and his allies to the many fantastical places where the Lion Crystals are hidden. From a hidden pyramid among the desert sands to islands in the sky, the battle for the Lion Crystals rages! Who will claim them all?

Sakuikazuchi, ascending to Takamagahara, is gliding there quietly. Don't be deceived by its dazzling beauty...Just as a destructive force was born from Izanami's ruined body after she lost her former beauty, there is also a destructive power hidden behind this beauty, waiting to emerge. Although it appears calm, this calmness actually signals a great catastrophe to us.

Red Oni, who is feared because of his appearance, wants to be friends with the villagers. For the sake of Red Oni, Blue Oni becomes a villain and makes the villagers believe that Red Oni is a kind Oni. When Red Oni visits Blue Oni's house...

Looking in the attic reveals an emotional discovery made by a woman coming of age. Past, present, and future interweave into a nostalgic journey of youth played out in the rooms of her mind. How can memories satisfy her yearning for time.

Surrealist video art short film.

A documentary style animation of an apiarist at work in combination with scenes of a seaside village, overlapped with images of a boy trying to escape from fetters.

A boy meets a girl, a girl meets a boy. Or is it something completely different?

A short puppet animation movie by Tadahito Mochinaga.

A husband tells his wife a story about the stars while looking up at the night sky. It’s about twin granny aliens whose kind are on the verge of extinction and their efforts to prevent it. How will their story end…?

Abandoned apartments are home to supernatural beings. Mr. Y, with his taste for the macabre, peeks into their lives.

In a city shaken by climate change and disappearing habitats, a strange new stick insect appears: TUBULUS PLASTICUS, evolved to mimic plastic straws. What begins as a curious spectacle turns into an eerie presence, quietly disrupting everyday life.

Based on a Japanese folk belief called Womb Diving (“Tainai Kuguri” ) – the cycle of life and death as depicted through insects, animals, grass, grain, and many other things in the surrounding world.

A short based on the Brothers Grimm's fairy-tale Town Musicians of Bremen.

Story of Qs. Three Qs and more make QQQ. QQQ spin and roll. And QQQ transform themselves, spinning. QQQ transform, spinning, rolling, swinging, turning, and traveling.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.

Tetsuji Kurashige's nightmarish U-SA-GUI (2002) begins by citing a section from Brillat-Savarin's 1825 treatise, The Physiology of Taste, in which the renowned French epicure suggests that stimulating foods, meats in particular, can have an influence on one's dreams. The film depicts a macabre game played by two rabbits and a blindfolded woman. The rabbits face each other over an old-fashioned illustrated board game. When they land on a square, the woman must eat the food indicated in the illustration. If she has chosen correctly, a die pops out of her mouth and lands on the floor giving the rabbits their next move.

A very short animation drawn on tracing paper with a brush pen and coloured pencil. “This work was inspired by an impressive dream. In the dream, I took a dictionary that printed flip-books in the corner from a book shelf, and when I returned it, the book had disappeared.”[Yuko Asano]

Under Professor Penguin and Mayor Seal's misguided rules, the undersea society is convinced that "Aliens are harmful". But when Olly stumbles upon a little alien named Wugu, who comes to Earth for a visit and gets lost from his family, it's Olly to the rescue. During their journey, Olly realizes that aliens are not dangerous at all, but in fact, quite friendly. Now Olly and his friends must keep Professor Penguin from executing his evil plans in order to help Wugu find a way home.

A short puppet animation movie by Tadahito Mochinaga.

An adaptation of Aesop's fable The Ant and the Grasshopper but with a slight change. We have a diligent family ants versus a drunken lazy frog, a bourgeois butterfly and grasshopper couple. As winter comes, the frog, butterfly, and grasshopper are ill and starving.

An old couple live in a Japanese village. They make brooms for a living. They have been together. . . and worked together for a long time. Recently, the husband has noticed his wife has had some symptoms of the disease which has caused some obstacles in their work.

An early silhouette animated film by Hidehiko Okuda, Hakusan Kimura and Tomu Uchida. The original story is a Buddhist tale of a young lady who saved a crab (a spiritual being according to Japanese Buddhist faith) from being eaten, and was later saved from danger by the same crab.

A movie adaptation of the virtual idol "LIP x LIP", a duo of high school boys produced by the popular creator unit "HoneyWorks".

Claymation animator Young Man Kang uses traditional Korean images to portray his homeland.

An animation of landscapes fluidly changing shapes.

A work produced with the theme of the number "4" as an event for the 4th Into Animation, an independent screening by the Japan Animation Association.

It’s sumo time! Plenty of animals come together for a rousing set of battles in the ring, but only one will prove victorious. Will it be the duck, the monkey, or maybe even the elephant that will win the day? Only time and skill will tell!

“Elephant in Castle” is created within the context of two strange years, 2019 and 2020. The work expresses a constant change within Florence’s inner world, to express the emotional, aesthetic, and tactile responses that she has to Hong Kong, the city where she grew up. The film is both a reflection on the political and social changes in the city and an attempt to understand the relationship between city, place and the individual.

On the night of the blue moonlight, the girl has a magical dream. She meets a mushroom fairy who takes her to their festival.

When you're insanely happy, you're so happy to be happy, that you forget what made you happy. Shishi Yamazaki's film for her graduation show on January, 2013.

A man, a woman and a crane, in six repeating scenes.

Contemporary Chinese artist Sun Xun uses woodblock printing, a centuries-old technique, to reimagine and transform the 21st century medium of digital animated film. In Time Spy (2016), Sun Xun has created a three-dimensional cinematic world that roams freely across time and cultures, following an enigmatic and visually driven narrative that draws its influences from both Eastern and Western traditions of art, history, myth, and imagination.