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A short animated film by Furukawa Taku.

Somewhere between calligraphy, embryology and words from beyond the grave, a convulsive poem wraps itself around the Japanese syllable ‘da’ – a breath that could just as well be the first as the last.

A short film by Taku Furukawa.

The story of Nosferatu vampires glimpsed by a boy who gets lost in a forest.

At a midnight highway rest area, the weary travelers each quietly relax their minds. A brief moment spent with complete strangers is lonely yet somehow comforting.

Mayumi is a spoiled girl whose parents buy her everything she wants. She names her name "Mayumi" to everything she receives, and her room is gradually filled with many Mayumis. Mayumi herself gets swallowed by the characters of her name.

I was heading to junior high school one day when my maternal instincts suddenly kicked in. After being held hostage to those urges for a decade, I started to wonder if this feeling was really about motherliness. Virgin birth, genes, pregnancy... I journey through 10 years in search of the maternal.

The story of an impotent husband, unsatisfied wife and a megalomaniac policeman, illustrating the perfect ecosystem of the concrete jungle, where these characters are able to truly face their lust with no moral laws.

People come together to form a city. The appearance of the city is no more than a shell. Imagine a city free from walls and frames between people, relieved of its shell.

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

A Bosko-cloned samurai battles traditional monsters and demons.

Kitty is spending Christmas Eve with Grandpa Anthony and Grandma Margaret. Daniel is joining but he's really jittery and the only solution comes from Santa-san.

This short experiments with the flow of oil ink over the surface of the water. Mizue manipulated the ink by blowing with straws or stirring with toothpicks and used stop motion animation techniques to shoot the resulting effects.

Our favorite friend the little rice ball and his bento box friends are ready for a new adventure: winning the Tokyo Olympics. A new tasty delight by Mari Miyazawa.

Short animation by Iku Ogawa

Shun is forced into playing with four friends. But they are not friends, he hates them. The unbearable heat and heavy atmosphere deepen his depression.

A visual experiment in crowd-sourcing, "Soft Pong Inari" was made entirely from pre-existing photographs of Fushimi Inari Shrine, available for modified re-use in the creative commons. The film explores how a multi-subjective viewpoint can express a sense of place and atmosphere. The soundtrack is a study by Swedish composer Palle Dahlstedt.

An apple comes out of a man’s mouth. The man’s life goes backward, as video player is reversed. Many kinds of food accelerated to come out of his mouth and the man becomes younger and younger. Time goes back without end.

The same word may be received differently depending on the situation and the emotion at the time. This animation explores such sensory differences through the sound ‘Eh’.

An emperor tries using paintings to find a wife.

The phenomenon of increasing smartphone addiction can be attributed to today's cutting-edge technology. Staring at glowing screens instead of exploring the cast expanse of life, people are gradually alienating themselves from the richness, depth, and loneliness of life.

Shampoo discovers a broach which makes her feel the opposite of her true feelings for Ranma. Ranma begins to panic at the thought of losing one of his fiancees, and plans to tell Shampoo that he loves her.

There is a sports meeting in the forest, and Axiong, Azhu and the first "donkey champion" in the last competition signed up for cross-country running. Before the opening of the sports meeting, Ah Xiong and Ah Zhu practice hard every day, but the donkey champion thinks that the opponent is too weak, and he can securely win the first place without practicing.

Mirai Mizue's contribution to the SPACE SHOWER TV Canvas 2.0.0 campaign.

This film shows various images of flowers growing, blossoming and losing their petals.

Mimi has a pimple for the first time. A bright red dot right in the middle of her face. She is uncomfortable with it and afraid of being different. She begins to mimic the other girls. But it is difficult to blend in. Dressing the same and braiding her hair the same does not make the pimple disappear. Soon she is seeing red everywhere.

A collection of 15 short episodes depicting the magic world of Phantasmagoria.

Moving from planetary surfaces to deep space, mysterious shapes and spheres guide exploration and slowly return to the surface.

Tomorrow is Christmas, but the miserly Scrooge has made no preparations. That night, the ghost of Marley, his business partner, appears to Scrooge, urging him to change his greedy ways and announcing the arrival of three ghosts...

At the edge of the universe beyond the limits for most to reach, a genius began to think... "If 42 types of magic cannot make a piece of cake that makes one explode with joy from the smell alone and suffer a most unwilling smile..." "Then, that proves that this is a scientific theory that has yet to be studied fully."

Animated folk tale

on a feelin', high on believin'

Follow-up version of Mirai Mizue's Timbre A to Z.

The Eggy Robot project aims to synthesize a robot of which artistic appearance and emergent behaviours make us feel and imagine the emergence of primeval organisms. Of all the computer animators that pursued the goal of wild, virtual exotica, none could equal the overwhelming, needlepoint visual intensity of Kawaguchi’s work. One of the world’s leading researchers into 'blobby organic modelling, he depicted a world composed of molten, shape-shifting organs without a body.

Life is a ray of sunshine that breaks the darkness. In the vast universe, the lives of human beings and all things in the world are just as short and gorgeous as a dayfly. The film follows three different short stories, starting from 0:00 and ending at 24:00 the next day – the lifetime of a dayfly.

Puppet Film. The film exposes imperialism's sinister scheme of feigning peace while secretly preparing for war by depicting its opposition to the dove of peace.

A CGI-animated short movie featuring Godzilla and Gamera.

In a Chinese style garret, four men were playing Mahjong. A woman stood aside in silence, holding a bottle of liquor.They all had hidden cravings of their own, unaware that they would be invariably led to the ultimate doom.

Short animation by Simon Feat at Tokyo University of the Arts

It should have been an ordinary day, but it was very different from usual. There was a large crowd in front of my grandma’s house. Where did people come from and where are they going? I was peeping at them behind the window, but the big tree obstructed my view.

In a world going to apocalyptic hell, the last hope might be a grandpa with a special broom and vacuum. Maybe.

A man is racking his brain at a desk. On his desk there is a tiny man also racking his brain at his desk. The big man remains still without any ideas. The tiny man moves around in vain trying to catch some idea, which is supposed to be inside of him. Both men. . . become desperate and after the daybreak the big man is struck by an idea. . .

Things are kind of crappy right now. In Japanese, we say "hanakuso (nose snot)" instead of crap, though. Here's a dose of hope and giggles.

In the darkness of a cave, one man who had never seen even his own figure found a hollow flooded with light. An expression of a chaotic world. This experimental graduation film is a mixture of different animation techniques

Music video directed by Yoriko Mizushiri for the song Teleport by Shuta Hasunuma that was released on his album "Melodies".

Tadasu Takamine's “God Bless America”, a continuously looping stop motion/live action video of he and assistants modeling a huge and monstrous head with an unmistakable resemblance to George W. Bush and consequently accompanied by an appropriately garbled and fractured rendition of God Bless America. Shown in 2003 in the Arsenale during the 50th Venice Biennale.

On her city balcony, Audrey delights in the flutter of tiny birds—fluffing their feathers, chattering, and sneaking tangerine bites. Their chirps sound like cheerful hellos and playful spats, inspiring her to invent a bird-language translator that unlocks their secret conversations.

Here, everyone is an outlander. But something's not right. Everyone else has a place to sit at the table, a home to return to at will. Not him. Lonely as it may be, he will look ahead and find his place here.

A series of mini-stories satirising our world in the 20th Century.

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

After a row over a TV remote control, Uncle Tung accidentally kills his nephew…?!

Vocal calisthenics and an ultra stunning example of the art of synchronisation.

The world that appears calm on the surface is, in fact, quietly changing. One day, a man as unshakable as a mountain fell because of a toothache.

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

A lifeless old mansion hosts the liveliest birthday banquet. Guests enjoy the food and music while the birthday star remains silent. Only a peach seems to stir her soul. Adapting a story from Qing-era writer Pu Sonling’s zhiguai collection “Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio”, A TALE OF THE STOLEN PEACH narrates the traditional Chinese cultural sympathy for the deceased, “finding rest in the blessed kingdom for spectral spirits.”