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Bird poo fell in love with the hill but the hill is taken away high above the clouds. Poo is devastated. But then, a triangular telescope falls from the sky and it's showing what the hill is seeing.

Gou-chan arrives on earth in search of the heart plasma that will restore peace to his home planet EX Panda. He meets a human girl named Moko, who lives on a farm with her grandfather, and several strange animals called Chinjuumin. They pass their days enjoyably, but trouble begins when humans invade the forest home of the Chinjuumin looking to capture them. Meanwhile, Moko's family life gets complicated when her grandmother arrives from the city.

A direct-to-video Christmas-themed musical.

In a mysterious pet market world, a girl who loves small animals lives alone. Her life is all about her pets, but little does she know that she has lost her sense of self in this world.

A clay animation horror short.

Using Malaysia’s national flower, the big red flower (the red hibiscus), alongside non-native plants in Taiwan as characters, this collage illustrates the experience of Malaysian Chinese living in Taiwan. Trapped between dual identities and the language of others, they search for self-definition and a sense of belonging. Through the perspective of plants, the work reflects personal life experiences, with the hope of breaking down the boundaries between individual, national, and identity definitions.

This is Aihara’s earliest surviving work. Motifs of psychedelic culture and the anti-war movement are directly scratched and painted on translucent film.

There is a huge fish that swallows boys. A boy tries to fish using himself as bait. He sails a boat to eat this huge fish.

Short patriotic war short film by Hakusan Kimura.

A young boy named Reffie disregards a “No Fishing” sign, dives into the water, and fights an octopus.

In 1999, Tabaimo exhibited her undergraduate thesis work, Japanese Kitchen and was awarded the prestigious Kirin Contemporary Award, marking the beginning of her international career.

Satoshi and Pikachu were having a Pokemon battle with a certain trainer. In the midst of an incandescent battle, he is suddenly surrounded by a large light and is blown to a strange place. What Satoshi and his friends see after chasing Celebi, the only clue to return to the original place.

I conveyed my love and gratitude to a certain deceased physician amidst the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, while a personal shopper expressed the same emotions from yet a different place.

A young man is drawing sketches of birds in the woods. The spotted pattern of the bird’s wings begins to scatter. He gradually becomes mesmerized by the pattern.

One morning, a woman leaves home for work like any other day. In another place, a loan shark is terrorizing a family. A cross-cutting of two incidents in two locations.

In early 2020, the lockdown has brought the world to a halt. Homes become space stations, hermetically sealed off from the outside world. Nobody goes out, only the thoughts go wandering. Students of seven international universities exchange personal impressions of and reflections on this forced isolation online and get to know each other through this joint project.

A film about the Battle of Okinawa during the last days of World War II.

From emptiness, a gentle breeze stirs, gathering grasses and leaves to form a creature. Grass turns to feathers, leaves to body. As It catch sight of itself, the world echoes into being, stirred by the wind. Feeling others, It is felt in return, in a rhythm where all boundaries blur into a seamless dance of harmony...

A short animation created by Junpei Fujita during his school days

Miller Fisher amalgamates the distorted visual, physical and existential experience of an autoimmune disorder by the same name, with the aesthetics and vernacular of the animated GIF.

In a cold, dark dog shelter, a young beagle is waiting for the right one to take him home. Time passes by, the beagle is getting desperate. Until one day, when hope finally shine upon him. He has to do everything he can to leave the place!

Kawamoto's animated self-portrait.

AZKi's Major Debut LiVE ‐Kowa-iro entropy‐ will be held at KT Zepp Yokohama (Kanagawa) on Saturday, August 3, 2024. This will be her first solo live performance at a local venue in approximately 4 years and 7 months. This live concert, adorned with the "Temperature of Voice" will feature "Voice and Sound" performed with a live band, stirring the hearts of the audience and uniting the rising entropy of the moment. A new map has been unfolded. Now, let's begin the story together.

A stop-motion adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's The Nightingale.

An ancient was looking for the plum blossom in the snow storm during the trip.

Sketches of natural plants and flowers in a voyage.

Girl who watches something in glass. Young person who looks into it from the outside to house. Bear that held fishbowl.

Dong-hwi, who suddenly died of suffocation and went to the underworld. The judge says, 'You killed a man, you must go to hell.' Dong-hui goes from place to place to claim his innocence, but there are too many documents needed to prove it.

A girl heading home from school is met with a bigger version of herself who poses arbitrary challenges with unspeakable consequences. The little girl tries to keep up but suddenly the stakes are raised.

A short puppet animation movie by Tadahito Mochinaga.

In a cozy burrow, a mole lives with his daughter. He often peers through a narrow window, dreaming of the world beyond. Though he longs to venture out with her, his fear of sunlight keeps him confined. How can he overcome this and explore the vast, beautiful world?

The gaze of a woman from a window at other windows leads to a recollection of various scenes. The metamorphosed windows transfer, expand, reflect, conserve, and sometimes shine like a lighthouse.

A boy competes in various events during the Olympic games. Short film from 1936.

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.

Held only once every eight years, MegaRace begins when the planet Stellar is in eclipse, which opens up a special portal. The winners get to claim a gigantic prize and a secret, magical force. It is one of the most exhilarating sports to watch live. But it is also one of the most dangerous, as the contestants might fall off the tracks and become either trapped in the portal or find themselves lost in another era.

Independent animation by Suzuki Shin'ichi.

A dare goes awry when a young girl and her friends explore a “haunted” staircase at their school!

In postwar Tokyo, while his mum works, Taichi spends his days alone and misses his dad who was killed in the war. Through his friendship with an old man who tends a seemingly dead cherry tree, Taichi learns about the tree and gradually becomes more positive. (Source: Treasures of the Heart)

The mutating forms of Tensai Banpaku, or “Genius Expo” create a stunning abstract orchestra.

I try to set this work – a film using texts, or a film-book – between watching and reading. This film is dedicated to J.L. Borges, a great artist, who had translated The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde at his early childhood, became one of the greatest writers of the 20th century and continued to publish the works by dictation even after losing his eyesight.

"Wonder World" follows Bret, a young man who secretly dreams of exploring the big, wide world. Little does he know that after wishing on a falling star one night, his wish is about to come true! With the help of the mischievous wish-fairy, Hailey, Bret is transported to Wonder World, the magical realm where dreams come true. But, as Bret’s about to find out, getting everything you've wished for isn't always all it's cracked up to be…

A poetic film about love, solitude, and emotional independence.

This is an experimental movie by Tarafu Otani, made by time-lapse animation of snow on a monitor showing a CG animation.

An ode to Norman McLaren from Mirai Mizue

When the mind says aah, the body says hee. I dance around the confusion and the consensus, and my whole life is getting composed of these dances.

Gestalt was shot over the course of a year in a Tokyo dormitory. Each day, Ishida would paint on the wall and photograph it using the available light from the window. The 7-minute long film, which is accompanied by haunting organ music composed by J.S. Bach, consists of those several seconds of film Ishida shot daily.

Short animation by Komazaki Tomomi.

“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.

While a narrator reads from Osamu Dazai's "Schoolgirl", a day in the life of a young girl in Showa-era Tokyo unfolds featuring various retro items from the era.

The last work of Junichi Kouchi, a pioneer of Japanese animation.

A story about granny, her granddaughter and a goat.

In this animated short, hands are delivered to people every morning. Delivered hands consist of habits, knowledge, and thoughts of each job for people to handle every day. With the help of hands, people can adapt easily to each task.

Short animation by Haruka Suzuki

Graphic research inspired by photos and travel souvenirs made with oil pastels.

Combined units of colorful blocks. They act like people. However, the color disappears, you feel it differently.

Nice to meet you, I’m Obake-chan.

Four short vignettes in this early animated film. In the first, shadows pull away to reveal a puddle, and automobile and bicycle tires pass through it. In the second, cutout shadows of a variety of shoes of people walking are seen. The third is a flurry of geometric forms. In the fourth, the playing card spade courts the heart and pushes away the club, but eventually the club returns, beats up the spade, and wins the heart. (Source: AniDB)

Very early animated short from Japan featuring a cast of anthropomorphic animals.