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In 1960-1970’s Taiwan, when Taiwan Economic Miracle happens, a lot of females sacrifice their future under the pressure of supporting their families. Our story protagonist "Grandmother," was a reflection of countless young females from that era. By using scissor and threads as element of this story, the thread symbolizes the constraints imposed on Grandmother by her past by qualities of entanglement and continuity, while the scissor represents her awaken willing, which cuts off the attachments and regrets she struggles to let go of.

After ten unsuccessful IVF treatment attempts, the couple decided to try male pregnancy.

A mouse bribes a cat.

A visitor shows up in the middle of the night at the countryside house that Miyako shares with her father. Miyako goes to wake up her father, but the creature enters the house. Miyako stands frozen.

A short kaleidoscopic homage to Norman McLaren from Japanese artists Mirai Mizue and Yukie Nakauchi on the 100th anniversary of birth in 2014.

A mother making a traditional New Year’s vegetable dish for the family, and a child watching. The ingredients are anthropomorphic peas, carrots, burdock root and konjak. Enjoy the dish!

In Japan, there are many customs, folk tales, and legends unique to each region. This animation is based on a story told by a potter in Nagata-nasa, Mimata-cho, Miyazaki Prefecture, where there are many legends of kappa (water imps), narrated by the potter himself. The artist was kind enough to share some of the ash from the local Mt. Shinmoe volcano, which he also uses as a material for his pottery. This animation was filmed with drawing pictures on a glass table using the volcanic ashes.

She wonders when she started thinking that she was only a convenient tool for someone else. The protagonist finds herself rattled because of some minor occurrences in her daily life.

An informational OVA released before the main 1993 Moldiver OVA series began. While the OVA was primarily animated it also featured a live action cast interview segment.

Anime adaptation of the same name sports manga by Kurashina Ryou. The small town of Hakodate is suffering from poverty due to the closure of the coal mines. 17-year-old Ken Ryu, a giant man, gambles in boxing fights to feed his mother and sister. Eventually, Ken pursues his unfulfilled dream of becoming a world boxing champion.

Hero training gets serious! Inspired by a Trainer and his Arcanine, a little Pancham with big dreams sets out to prove its strength.

The horrid stories that remain in many conversations, the chilling urban legends come to life.

Inversion, as the name implies, is to turn order and relationships upside-down. Humans admire the shapes, sounds and vigor of other forms of life, while also taking everything away from them, numbed by greed. The human need to take over all will eventually lead to self destruction.

Kōichi, a young Japanese, moves to Los Angeles chasing his dream of becoming an actor.

A group of Robbie the Rabbits of varying colors move through the corridors of a hospital, calmly riding elevators, pushing gurneys, and sitting in silence.

A snowman teaches traffic safety for slippery icy winter roads.

Preserved Japanese paper film.

Norakuro's adventures in the Fierce Dog Brigade continue in this short film from the 1930s.

A special screened at special events named Odaiba Boken-Oh featuring characters from Astro Boy, Dragon Ball Z and One Piece.

Fearing dissection by his classmates, one unusual student decides to get in first. That’s when his problems really start.

Million Lucky Bath is a public bathhouse where everyone’s naked each with a story of one’s own: a wealthy mother, a poor mother, a mother who lost her child, a friend separated from her hometown, and a young woman who loves humanity but is saddened by her inability to act. Ultimately, they all love and yearn. This is the story of a bathhouse that serves as a vessel for the profound and aching affection that binds all of mankind.

On the hunt for some delicious Poké Beans, Scraggy runs into a peculiar Pokémon—Mimikyu! Will this unlikely duo become friends?

My Melody stars in the re-created story of Little Red Riding Hood.

Alfred Hitchcock was a great director, observer, and researcher of cinema. By imagining a typical day in his life, Ahn reveals the director's unrealized visions through animation. This was Ahn's first theatrical release, shown along with a live-action feature film.

Endou, a night guard, was patrolling the mall as usual. But this night was going to be different from usual...

A short puppet animation movie by Tadahito Mochinaga.

A short film by Taku Furukawa.

The two of them, all alone at home. All alone with her father's corpse. Memories, ideals, and reality all sink beneath the muck. Everyone is alone. Everyone is in solitude.

Korinco, an isolated island, is home to three animal chefs of a famous dessert shop. One day, when a monkey president writes a letter to the chefs asking them to make the best dessert, they ask their children for advice.

In a cabin at a campsite deep in the forest, three girl scout children sit together and talk about scary stories, and encounter a small strange monster that comes into the cabin.

A girl purchases some flowers and a fairy offers to enchant them. The girl follows the fairy’s instructions, and plants the flowers. The next day, the flowers grow into small characters and start dancing, to the amusement of the girl and the animals nearby.

In a distant place, there is a beautiful bird kingdom, but soon its tranquility is shattered by a mutiny of the opposition, and Ugly Duckling's parents mysteriously disappear to protect the Lurid Bird. In order to unlock the secret of the glazed bird and find his parents, Ugly Duckling and his best friend Ugly Little Eight embark on a journey to find the old cat mage, unaware of the danger that is sneaking up on them. In order to prevent the war from expanding further, Ugly Duckling, who is carrying a big secret, resolutely climbs the glazed tower…

The pilot for GR: Giant Robo. However, there were significant changes between the pilot and the actual show, including a different writer and a different director. Thus, the special is less a promo for the series than an alternate version of how the series might have looked.

Short animation by Anchi Shen and Jiayu Hu

The borderline of water, a body, or a bathtub gets more and more unclear. All are mixed together in the lukewarm water.

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

It depicts a summer memory experienced by a pair of brothers and sisters. Based on experiences common to many Japanese people, such as summer vacation, hometown trips, Obon, and summer festivals.

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.

"Someday, this will end. I hate it. I wanna live forever," murmurs a girl over and over again. Does she repeat the same moments, or does she move forward? It looks and sounds either way. A wordplay animation.

Stop motion animation of an old Japanese fairy tale. A poor man trades a piece of straw for a more expensive item. In the course of his journey, he manages to finally exchange the last item for a villa.

The theme comes from unique Japanese folklore, Red Uncleanness or defilement with blood. A girl, whose thought pattern jumps at a leap. . . confines her various thoughts on the other side of the mirror and inside the sliding doors to go outside.

In the middle of the night, on a mountain road, a man was struck down in a motorcycle accident. This was the cue.

Reffie goes to an observatory and notices that the face of the moon is sticking its tongue out at him. As revenge, Reffie crashes a rocket into the moon, turning the moon into a crescent moon.

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

This film depicts evolution from birth of life to whale in the sea with music and images by dedication to the American contemporary composer George Crumb's "Vox Balaenae (1971)" .There are 4 part, Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic.

After learning skills from the cat, the tiger begins to bully other small animals and even beats the cat. But the cat escapes by climbing up a tree, because climbing is the only skill that the tiger has not learned.

Animated promotional short for Persona 2: Innocent Sin.

A quiet and disquieting story about a boy who reaches puberty and his family.

Animated short.

For a kid to eat with an open mind, parents must also be open to changes. Opened is an animated short film about picky eaters. The story shows how parenting and environmental factors influence a kid's eating behavior.

This is the story of the life of the Lord Buddha as an animation in Thai language (it has also been translated into English). This is not the same as the similar animation "The Life of the Buddha". It tells the trials an triumphs that the Lord Buddha had to endure to reach enlightenment and is a guide to the basics of Buddhism.

Short animated film by Shuhei Nishizawa

We should never forget our manners no matter how much we may excel in martial arts. Learn lessons from Yoshichiro's failure.

ChenQielan, a boy born into a dyehouse, has an eye disease that only lets him see the color blue. Following his sister’s last wish and with the help of the God of Color, he begins making the blue dye his sister could not complete. When he finally succeeds, he understands why she had wanted to make it.