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On a scorching summer day, I transform into an extraordinary knight among the ordinary, donning an astonishing outfit and riding a handsome horse. Maintaining my composure, I ensure no one can see my exhaustion. When the light turns green, I'll dash towards unknown adventures—starting with the gas station!
In the 21st century, the powerful nations of the Earth have launched into fierce competition over natural resources found on the newly discovered planet Gradioras. But each time a probe is launched to extract resources from Gradioras, monsters appear and threaten life on Earth. As Baeklim University professor Heinrich Park studies the monsters, he discovers that the monsters are receiving orders from someone through artificial brains which have been implanted in each monster. Professor Park develops a gamma ray in order to defeat the monsters, but Spectre, an international crime syndicate, has other plans. Directed by Yu-soo Yong, the film is a representative work from Korea's animation boom period.
Short animation by Renzo and Sayoko Kinoshita satirizes in a non narrative way the 'economic animal' Japan and predicted the economic recession in the 70s
When a young girl of a generationally owned fishball noodle stall gets a chance to change her life, she must first confront her strict grandmother. A story dedicated to family, food and all the love that gets lost in between the chaos. Student short film made for senior thesis requirements at Loyola Marymount University by Sum Yi "Ashley" Ma, Yuxin Zhou and Danica Dickison.
This is stop-motion animation produced, with respect to the masterpiece of japanese KAIJU film "Gamera: Guardian of The Universe (1995) ".
The first full cel-animated short. A group of tanukis investigate a temple and cause mischief.
Two girls were watching a street performer. The girls sang out loud and the performer brought them up front so that they could sing for the audience. (Source: MyAnimeList.net)
It's Halloween, Tuxedo Sam and Chip decide to investigate a haunted house in order to take back candy stolen by ghosts, but what will they discover?
Experimental short film featuring artwork by Daisuke Ichiba.
A baseball game among the animals of the forest. In the middle of the match, the fox transforms into a princess and the raccoon into a servant, turning the scene into a kabuki-style performance. Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and Betty Boop also make appearances. The assistant director was Kenzo Masaoka, often referred to as “the father of Japanese animation,” who also provided the voice for the raccoon.
An educational film to raise awareness for the prevention of cavities.
Chi is a six-year-old little girl who lives ob the Happiness Road with her family. She recently starts school, but finds the teacher to be very demanding, and she has to speak Mandarin instead of her Taiwanese tongue to be a good student in class...
A man makes a robot girl and tries to teach her the aspects of daily life. But what is his real goal? Hidamari no Shi is the fourth part of the five-part film Zoo, adapted from the first volume of Otsuichi's novels of the same name. It is the only part of the film made from animation; the other parts are live-action sequences.
Barry is a goat, who graduated from Harvard Medical with honors but faces unforeseen challenges in a world that's not ready for him.
Short animated film by Mihaya Tanaka
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.
Residents of the Prism World Momo and Penguin-sensei work together to introduce various Prism Shows throughout the history of Aurora Dream, Dear My Future, and Rainbow Live. Within the many Prism Shows performed by Aira, Mia, Naru and their friends, only ten rank on top.
Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto
Depiction of an incident that happened one night. . . as everyone returns to their hometown for the holidays, told from a child’s point of view.
This house rattling spirit has lived in this old house for generations. But the old woman who lives there as the final resident can no longer hear the noises it makes, which leaves the house rattler filled with a sense of longing.
On a winter's night a bear, a fox and a squirrel seek refuge from the cold. They are drawn by the hearths in the homes of two woodcutters. One man treats them poorly, while the other welcomes them.
Produced for "Gebocon I", a convention organized by Fanroad magazine, an anime/manga/doujin magazine in the 80s and 90s.
Love Live! Hasunosora Girls' High School Idol Club 3rd Live Tour TRY TRI UNITY!!! with Mira-Cra Park! (ラブライブ！蓮ノ空女学院スクールアイドルクラブ 3rd Live Tour TRY TRI UNITY!!! with みらくらぱーく！) is Hasunosora Girls' High School Idol Club's third live tour concert that took place in Tachikawa Stage Garden in Tokyo on November 16, 2024.
Bonnie is something like the wind, and she was hoping that everything would get blown away.
"Anthology with Cranes" is a 17th Century scroll painting by Sotatsu Tawaraya, measuring over 13 meters long. Koji Yamamura attempts to decipher this painting by interpreting it as animation.
In a certain city, for just a moment in time, the lives of three strangers intersect.
A love-hate relationship between a girl and her pet fish which leads to regret.
The story centers on a 65-year-old woman named Umiko, who is grieving the recent loss of her husband. She goes to a movie theater for the first time in decades, and there she meets Kai, a university student majoring in film. Umiko becomes really interested in the audience's reactions during the film, and Kai notices. Afterward, Umiko invites Kai back to her house. When Kai then asks her, "You're someone who's interested in making films, aren't you?," Umiko realizes her feelings. From there, she dives into the world of filmmaking.
This film is an allegory towards clumsy people. Having met egocentric people, I go down the stairs of melancholia. I get swallowed up by the waves that I myself create. I know life is not only bad... But who am "I"? What am "I"?
This short film was inspired by the story told in the prose written by Jia Pingwa to memorize his father in 1989. Set on the North Shannxi Loess Plateau, the story tells about two boys trying to sell a pig, the only valuable property of the poor family, for food. However, things go wrong. The film was artistically designed to present the spectacular and broad scenery of the Loess Plateau as well as the simple life of the people. This is a black humor about the difficult years in the northwest of China in 1970s.
Dream Land is a one-year ink painting project by GAO Chun-fu. Every night, in the late hours, GAO captures the busy and chaotic state with ink painting. Applying the flowing technique, he paints the images and illusions emerging from deep within. The spontaneous gathering and scattering of water and ink reflect the artist’s internal breathing as well as the passing of time.
Sarina Nihei's graduation film from Tama Art University.
The love story between a girl whose parents were murdered and a murderer known as a demon.
The story revolves around the peculiar relationship between a princess, a castle, and the Bug King. Through a fragmented narrative style, the princess's yearning ambition for her past kingdom is personified, transforming into the Bug King, a being of only faint power. He becomes a surrogate for the princess in reviving the kingdom, creating an imagined fantasy within a forest of strange creatures.
An short experimental film by Tarafu Otani
Big Fatty and Little Fatty are a pair of twins. Because they look almost identical, grandma often mistook them, but the two brothers have different personalities. One day, the two brothers started to do their homework after breakfast. When Fatty was concentrating on solving problems, Fatty planned to kick a ball and slipped out while Fatty was not paying attention.
The rooftops of a darkened city, a couple walking by a lone streetlight on an otherwise darkened street, an old man rocking in a creaky chair in the corner of a room lit only by the moon or the streetlight entering through the window.
Film by Tanaami Keiichi.
OVA adaptation of a manga by Watase Seizou.
Shouta no Sushi is about a young boy who dreams of being a sushi chef just like his father. The anime steps away from the competitive nature of the manga and focuses on self-sufficiency and policy issues of agriculture, forestry, and fisheries in Japan in order to educate the population (as it was funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries) using the popular franchise as a proxy.
An old donkey, who had been working hard for a farmer, quits his job and heads for the town, where he meets a dog, a cat, and a cat. The four animals work together to come up with a plan to surprise the thieves.
Winter is here, and in the snow-covered valley, a hungry little fox takes one step at a time. The fox stumbles upon Bear's house. The mother bear and her two cubs quarrel how to divide the pancakes between them. The fox might be able to help with sharing.
A record of sensation and signs of watching tumbling, moving and then floating
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.
After an unimaginable future war, there remained a vast amount of fatal radiation and uncontrollable AI military robots. The conflict between flesh and machine unfolded amidst the apocalypse. It was a cruel game from which there was no escape, but some had different thoughts... To die in the battle, or to abandon the human identity – that was the question.
〈Yangrim-dong Girl〉, which captures the life of director Oh Jae-hyung's co-director's mother (Lim Young-hee), is a combination of narration (documentary) and painting (anime).
Sakutaro's poem "Sad Moonlit Nights" and the phrase "a dog barking at the moon" remind the viewer of a lonely young man roaming a seaside town. I thought of the image of a lonely poet = a criminal, and turned it into a story. Men roaming the streets at night, women like prostitutes, moonlit bullfights, human shadows turning into animals, clothes dancing like ghosts, etc. The song poetically depicts the desires and fantasies of men.
Short film from Suzuki Haruka's solo exhibition "Yawarakai Yuurei" held at gallery cadocco from May 25-30, 2018.
A monochrome composition of dynamic shapes and patterns comes to light and to life.
Iwasaki’s ink oscillates like an evil lava lamp that might actually be alive and its progression into more and more disturbing images create an impressive sense of dread in a film that is basically just some pencil drawings on a blank background. (Film School Rejects)
Animation work that approached relation of score without time that undertakes expression and the blueprint with time axis of music axis. The time axis was given to the score and "Made of the score an image" was tried. It keeps likening the music sheet to the bird that stopped in the electric wire, and the image doing the panning.