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A car submerged in the water, a man mourning in it, and the monsters chasing him.

Music video for the song "Punpun Polka" by Hiroshi Ashino that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

The lazy Tompei is still asleep past 10 o'clock and even at 11 o'clock. He finally wakes up at 12 o'clock at the deafening sound of the angry clock. Hungry, Tompei walks to Sarukichi's house and grabs food Sarukichi has harvested. The next day, while Sarukichi is working in the hills, Tompei beats Sarukichi's two children who are staying at home and tries to steal things from Sarukichi's house. Sarukichi, who is alerted of the situation via telephone from his children races home, is infuriated at the cruel Tompei and punches him so hard he falls down.

Nobita and friends engage in an all out robot war in this unofficial installment of the Doraemon series.

After getting lost in Spaghetti Kingdom, will Tsuna and his friends make it back safely?

This is a hand-drawn animation depicting a moment of human behavior in the rain, in a simple, monochromatic style. A person on the horizon, the umbrella that person opens, a manual zoom-in, then the tip of the umbrella transforms into another person on the horizon. These people, drawn in a flowing style, eventually melt like liquid, mix together, then retake the form of humans. Although rain is never actually depicted, this is a piece in which we can experience the bodily sensation of a rainy day in poetic form.

A dog we like to pet on the way home from school, an eccentric guy, and ringing doorbells as a prank. That's our life in this town.

Playtime ends at the five o'clock chime. And there comes the indefinable time between vanishing playtime and dinner time at home.

A story set in a world before ours. A world in chaos where forces of good and evil fight and mingle. By doing so, it creates the chance to give birth to the new world. A couple of winged beings make love and fly away. They bear a child in an egg, and when the child opens its eyes they are immediately destroyed, one consumed by fire and the other by water. Mythical, elemental and mysterious, the world created by Tsuji is dangerous, menacing and suffuse with signs of apocalypse, but somehow simultaneously tender and compassionate. A Feather Stare at the Dark captures simple gestures and primal feelings and amplifies them, realising the non-verbal and non-literal with remarkable grace.

An animated parody about the Gang of Four. The 1978 post Cultural Revolution film is Lin Wenxiao's directorial debut.

The film is a comedic retelling of the real-life events of the 47 Ronin. The film combines Edo period setting with modern devices such as cameras, motorcycles, and cars.

A meteorite collision plunged Earth into apocalypse, and the remnants of humanity went in two different directions to survive. The aristocratic Dobias headed into space, while the earthy Shioru went underground. Centuries later, they returned to Earth's surface and are now fighting for control of the planet—that is, when they're not busy fending off a new species of predators known simply as Creatures.

The dialogue in question takes place between a woman, who appears to be submerged in water, and a man who sits by a tree on sandy soil. The messages the couple sends back and forth to one another take the form of metaphor: a seed, a fish, a thorn, and so on.

Nobody in a class loves ‘Kuchao’ who cannot live without. . . gum. When all [his] classmates fly their balloons, he wouldn’t let his go. After school, on his way home, he gets to his own imaginary world with a bubble gum. His balloon turns to be a face and to many things as he chews [his] gum. His imagination doesn’t stop flying. Then comes a bird. . .

Dreaming of rising up in the world, Chibisuke the little bonze travels to the city, where he becomes a retainer to a Cabinet minister, who takes a liking to Chibisuke who dances for him in his palm. One day, Chibisuke is accompanying a princess to Shimizu when a mountain devil attacks her. Chibisuke makes numerous surprise attacks on the devil before finally overcoming him, and using a horn of plenty left behind by the devil, he ends up a strapping young man.

Mirai Mizue set up a camera over a water tray with an illuminated white background (presumably an animation table) and experimented with the flow of aqueous ink over the surface of the water using stop motion animation techniques.

A man walks. His form wobbles precariously. The world is hard to tell subjective or objective. His body is cut in pieces. Only the power of image can make these unite.

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.

Abstract animated short uses unsettling imagery and haunting music to explore themes of human life, school, and bipolarity. Its hypnotic visuals gradually draw viewers in, creating a sense of unease and disconnection—a work that might make one question not only school but the very act of living.

A little girl reflects on her last summer with her father at his funeral.

My deceased great-grandmother had been a part of my life as a portrait on the wall. I searched for ways to substantiate her life inside me and decided to photograph and develop pictures of her at two different ages.

Stop-motion animation made by photographing and rephotographing antique kimono resist-dyeing stencils in positive and negative. Spatial shifts and variations in the repeating pattern elements generate apparent motion.

The first short in the series Karo and Piyobupt by Koji Yamamura

Two tramps on the way... a mother and a son.

Whether their tastes lean umami or sweet, the duo here finds there is simply nothing more delish than a warm friendship.

When I touched the sack of cod roe for the first time, it felt exactly like my thighs. It was light pink and so soft. Maybe my whole world is made of squishy fish eggs.

Documentary on the development on trains, with animated sequences.

The mayor of the animal village, Mr. Goat, has a big news. He says that a train will run through the animal village and the roads will be widened. Everyone is happy that the village will become more lively, but one after another, traffic accidents occur, and rules are made.

I have lost my interest in any kind of social activities after my nose left me.

Aiko lives in a shrine with a sliding door that mysteriously is only half painted and thought during her childhood that she wanted to paint it. But the 17-year old Aiko now has no dreams about the future. Suddenly, a strange man appears before her. Aiko's grandfather and the shrine's chief priest offers the man to stay in the shrine, but Aiko isn't having any of it. But he realizes the kindness of the brusque young man and slowly comes to like him. What is his true identity?

The short film features Pyramid Head and a Lying Figure from Silent Hill 2, the Fukuro Lady, and many monsters from early sketches for Silent Hill 2. The film contains disturbing, surreal imagery.

The heroin has been living life as an undergraduate. There is nothing remarkable about her. However, she has noticed there is something strange about her friends recently. She learned that they were getting mad about ‘job-hunting’. Without realizing what it is, the heroine also gets drawn into the Nipponese job-hunting swirl.

Hello, my Utopia friends Hello, my Realism friends And hello, my Utopia Realism Friends

In a gentle adaptation of Megume Nagata's book Flowers Wait for the Moon, a girl grows up, falls in love, and becomes a mother, realizing that her childhood is now forever behind her.

Carefree, coquettish, and capricious, Tamala is the cutest girl-cat in dystopian Cat Tokyo, year 2030—or at any other point in the time/space continuum. She has randomly invited herself along on her detective friend Michelangelo’s missing-person investigation. It seems the case is one of seven sudden vanishings in an astronomical pattern across Cat Japan that occurred at the exact same moment one night. Their search leads ever deeper into a mystery with ancient, occult roots and apocalyptic implications—and threads leading to Tamala herself. Shadowed by a covert agent of the Catty & Co. consortium, she may in fact be the greatest enigma. Indolent ingénue? Megacorporate mascot? Mythic messiah, or manifestation of cosmic malevolence? Anyhow, wow—she sure is a great dancer!

After a mall appears on the top of the hill, the farm girl’s life starts to change.

Pan Tianshou was a Chinese painter and art educator in the 1960s. He studied Chinese traditional painting and built the foundation of Chinese traditional painting education. He was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution until his death in 1971.

The theme is indecisiveness but hand the reigns over to kids and a T-Rex is sure to show up sooner or later. Yamamura's delight in their errant narration is evident in his fresh sensitivity to the comedy of everyday life.

The second year of a project to draw graffiti of light that looks like lightning. We left Japan and extended the circle of the project to Los Angeles and Ottawa.

When taking a microscopic view of a dot of the printer ink, it begins to transform into unstable forms. The other sphere/eyeball which appears when moving away from the dot, suggests the overlay of the swaying of the retina that occurs when staring, and the motion within animation.

Mr. Grey struggling with his delusions fails to see the basic needs of his family. When he lies on his sickbed in the hospital, he remembers his long-forgotten wish is to build ““a house with a toilet”” for his Granny…

Fisherman Urashima Tarō rides a turtle on top of the ocean waves.  They then submerge underwater and arrive at a castle, where they are celebrated and greeted by dancing people and octopodes, and a princess.  Based on the folktale “Otogi Banashi.”

An omnibus OVA where three elementary school students, Manabu, Ryota, and Mina, deal with mysteries they encounter at their school. This OVA is split into two stories of 15 minutes each: "Poisonous spiders at school" and "Hanako-san's hand". This OVA is based on the "Hontoni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series derived from the "Hontoni Atta Gakou Kaidan" series published by Asahi Sonorama.

A short animated film by Furukawa Taku

On a highland with beautiful scenery, there lived some small animals. They had a good friend named Xiao Tie Zhu.

This 1982 image was based on the Italian comic book "Altri Mondi" by Andrea Romoli. This is a six-minute pilot for the series "Spaceship Sagittarius".

Animation by Yutaro Sasaki. Music by Yudai Kisami.

The digital age has given birth to a new reality: infinite screen time. Rather than experiencing the natural world around us, our intake of communication, ideas, visuals, and sounds is packaged via a series of zeros and ones, waiting neatly for us to consume. This screen-dependent existence is even more prevalent and maddening for the modern-day creative. Beyond entertainment, so many artists rely on screens for work — using digital tools to create more digital experiences that are designed to be digested through yet another screen. It creates a loop that at times feels paralyzing and inescapable.

A short animated film about how to keep germs at bay.

Short animated film by Yanagihara Ryouhei.

An animation short about a sleepy dinosaur called SLEEPY.

The history of humankind is infinitesimally small compared to the vast deserts of time and space. Reality melts away, and the past ceases to exist.

Short stop-motion animation by Tomoyasu Murata. A remake of an old movie called "tomorrow".

An animation of landscapes fluidly changing shapes.

A horror spin on the classic tale of "The Little Match Girl".

A boy who wanted to see his friend Primeape not angry, and tried various things while keeping an observation diary during his summer vacation. Despite failing many times, the boy finally finds an answer.