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A cramped environment with all kinds of restrictions shapes Hong Kong into a square city. Perhaps life is impoverished, oppressive, and the actuality is being difficult to change. Yet, Bong hasn't lost his imagination of birds soaring high in the sky, and has still retained his longing for wonderful things.
Annie and her family are spending the holidays with an old aunt at a remote mountain village. For this city girl, the big adventure begins at The Ching-Hsiow Villa! Here she learns of the old aunt\'s love story during the Japanese colonial era, meets a magic raccoon, and makes friends with the local Native Taiwanese. Full of surprises - and some minor dangers, too! - this is an unforgettable vacation for Annie and her family. One of the few outstanding Taiwanese animation productions in recent years and a nominee for Best Animated Features at the Golden Horse Award in 1997, ANNIE\'S MAGIC RACCOON is a simple and yet profound tale about the heart. It also reflects the emerging awareness of environmental and political issues in Taiwan in the early nineties.
From that day an anxiety started to root in the man's room. He just keeps walking not to sink in listlessness. This is a document to reflect my own anxiety arisen after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
Inorganic and disconnected substances are infected with consciousness. They wander between points and surfaces believing they are complete individuals.
In a mysterious country, God makes couples by binding a man and a woman with a thread. However, Wendy and Elly fell in love with each other, but Wendy was forced to give up her true love by God's opposition. One’s love is the most precious in the other’s heart.
An American ambassador and his family move into an old castle. They learn from the help that Simon, a man suffering for 300 years due to a heavy sin he committed, resides in the castle. The Americans are quite lighthearted and unfazed by the situation. The father gives the ghost a gift, the boys pillow fight and play tricks on him, and the daughter Virginia is kind and forgiving with him. The ghost is quite surprised because he's used to haunting and people hating him.
A love triangle between three very different people. Has interjections of anime, a child sized mannequin, and lots of strange goings on throughout. Hard to pinpoint exactly what it's all about.
One day, a peaceful small town is visited by anold woman with widow’s weed and blackumbrella. Then, all of sudden, the rain starts tofall on the fine day. Next day morning, thewoman comes back and this time, with thunderand rainstorm. Later, the town people find outfrom a police man that the woman is wantedand dangerous, but it’s was too late to save thevillage from the disaster.
Where do sheep called to sleep come from and where do they go?
Created a new mythology for cold lands. Imaginary animals were rendered by the fur-renderer which was developed by Debuchi.
Alice sees a stranded whale. When the lifeguard goes in to rescue it, a wave swallows him. Then Alice turns into a whale to save him.
Selected works of Tachibana Kaoru bonus content, Animation workshop 1996.
A satirical puppet animation short on Chiang Kai-shek made by the communist party.
When I was a kid, my big brother became obsessed with the 90s Japanese subculture of teenage guys who were known as "Gyaru-o." His odd appearance totally mystified me so I started to sneak into his room to look for his secrets.
A day in a seaside town.
A short animated film by Furukawa Taku.
A trio of rascals discovers that their friends are making delicious pancakes. They then set out to steal their precious meal, but their plan doesn't go quite as planned!
A short animation from Tomori Komazaki for the Joshibi Art Museum in Japan.
The motif in this animation is the memories of my dog which lived 17 years.
An animated feature adapted of Brother Ox Cartoons' (牛哥漫畫).
Vivid, chromatic animation.
A high school student remembers that special boy whom she met in her first year. They were close friends and enjoyed each other's company, but then he had to move away. In his absence, she feels very alone, but she never gives up hope that they will meet again one day.
A small turtle and a rabbit rush to save an undersea kingdom.
An animated movie in the works adapting the Japanese superhero franchise 'Kamen Rider'. Plot TBA
An unexpected snowfall interrupts a hot summer day! What will three friends do when they discover the source of the flurry is a Pokémon in distress?
Young Teto rides to school on his bed to school, the lonely lighthouse keeper asks the seagull for breakfast. As various people dream of tomorrow through their imaginations, harsh, rough waves of reality crash into their imaginations as Teto wanders into the darkness.
Based on a well known children's book by Takeda Miho, the film follows a school bully Ochiai-kun and a shy girl Okada Miho-chan in their normal school days.
The princess is lively and active by nature, and she is very tired of the rigid life in the palace. The king thinks that her words and deeds are not a princess, and asks her to stay in the boudoir all the time. The woodcutter, who made her fall in love at first sight. The prime minister wanted his son to be a son-in-law. One day, he gave the princess a golden phoenix crown, and took the opportunity to propose marriage to the king, and the king agreed. The princess is unwilling to have her happiness ruined, but she doesn't know how to resist. The shepherd boy has an idea, remembering that he can use the local custom of riding a bull to "marry into the sky", and tells his plan, the princess is overjoyed.
The Rakugo story of PARROT is told by a Rakugo-ka, or a lone storyteller formed of Japanese characters.
Short experimental film by Naoyuki Tsuji.
Short animated film by Tanaami Keiichi.
A special screened at an event named Odaiba Boken-Oh, featuring characters from Dragon Ball Z, One Piece and Kochira Katsushikaku Kameari Kouenmae Hashutsujo.
Untitled is a collage film that combines the image and sound of Takashi Makino, the music of Lawrence English and the automatic writing text of Esperanza Collado, produced between March and June 2020, when the first attack of the coronavirus shook the world.
Mirai Mizue’s familiar amoeba-like cells cross with kinetic sketched lines and shapes in a colorful burst of energy suited for all audiences. Music by Twoth. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film
A short film by Taku Furukawa.
We constantly face different choices in life, that's for sure. But often, the anxiety of making a choice and facing the consequences gets the better of us. What if we just took a leap of faith and embraced the unknown? What kinds of treasures and surprises might the future hold?
An experimental animated short film by Yoriko Mizushiri.
An adaptation of the 2010 Chinese video game, Roco Kingdom.
First Second tells the story of two solitary figures - one aboard a never-stopping train, the other waiting endlessly at a forgotten desert station - whose worlds collide when the impossible happens: the train stops. In the wreckage of silence, they draw from one another the first moment of change, the first second of time that truly matters.
A little girl finds small friends one day afternoon.
A series of four animated prequels to Street Fighter IV, each centered on a different character. They depict events set after Street Fighter II.
Barami a little dolphin living in the Jeju sea. Kidnapped by an illegal whaling ship... The boat capsizes in a storm and you end up stranded alone in the open sea. The adventure of 'Barami' to return home begins.
Early experimental animation by Takashi Ishida
Short animation by Komazaki Tomomi.
A man, heartbroken after the death of his cat, wakes up one morning… changed.
A man is walking along the beach. Then a demon, the man’s pain, appears and chases him. The pain is unbearable, coursing through his entire body. He somehow manages to get away, but eventually, he returns to the ocean even though he knows that the demon will appear again if he goes there.
Kasumi has a dream where Santa Claus asks her to host a Christmas party at the Tendo Dojo. She rallies the entire cast, resulting in a chaotic and comedic holiday celebration involving nearly every major character.
One day, Masaki Inoue, who has quit his job and is living as a NEET, is sent from his closet by a mysterious alien to the mysterious planet Inoue. He ends up on a planet where he finds himself, inhabited by mass-produced Masaki Inoues just like himself. This eccentric puppet film depicts the fluctuation of individual identity, the establishment of oneself, and growth, with a cosmic expanse!
Hangyodon and co. end up getting sent back to the past through a time machine and learn about dinosaurs.
Based on a Japanese folk belief called Womb Diving (“Tainai Kuguri” ) – the cycle of life and death as depicted through insects, animals, grass, grain, and many other things in the surrounding world.
Preserved Japanese paper film.
There is certain things you would never know unless you take off the pants. And, or, also certain things you would never find out unless you wear your pants.
A drunk unicorn wearing a birthday cone hat, is lying on the road. But it is not his birthday. However when he hears the phone ringing and enters the telephone booth, someone congratulates him and gives him a birthday present.
Inspired by Dante's birth and by suggestions found in his Comedy.
This is no animation, it's one picture. Short experimental film by Mirai Mizue
A story about fourteen-year-old alien girl Aoi Hoshino. Her family uses certain medicine to disguise themselves as humans. For some reason the medicine slowly stops working, but only on Aoi...
The clever and lively genius girl Xiao Ta accidentally stumbles into the mysterious Answer Shop, where she meets the secretive Old Mi and the quirky pink dragon Xiao Q.