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An unfinished housing complex has been abandoned. The imagined future from the past is taken over by foliage and wildlife.

Short animation by Kaori Abe

A psychedelic animation that starts with an irregular ink spread and develops while increasing the degree of confusion.

"RILURILU FAIRILU" MOVIE EDITION is a fantasy anime film directed by Sakura Gojo.

Hermy lives happily on the beautiful ocean floor. As he searches with his friends, Shelly and Breamy, they discover a sparkling blue and beautiful cave! “Alright! Let’s make this our secret hideout!” Time flies by as they have fun. The surroundings turn crimson with the setting sun, and it’s time to go home. However, they cannot leave the secret hideout. The sea water has receded, making it impossible to reach the entrance. What a dilemma! The sea water continues to decrease. If this keeps up, Breamy will be in great trouble. How will Hermy and his friends overcome this crisis?

Pearl, Marina, Callie, and Marie at Nintendo Live 2019, a gaming event in Japan. It also includes a special opening performance by none other than K.K. Slider!

In a mixture between documentary and fiction, the film examines the diverse dimensions of collecting, exploring collections contained in private households and those in museums. In doing so, it highlights the intertwined relationship between people and things.

The Moon falls into the room of a little boy who will have to face many obstacles to hope to put it back in the sky.

A mysterious high school mass murder that occurred three years ago remains unsolved. The only survivor of the incident, Gong Neum, is drawn to the Devil's Forest cabin by the shaman, Yeo Sunji. Yeo Sunji's true motive is to use Gong Neum to appease the vengeful spirits of the children who were brutally killed three years ago. As Gong Neum faces hidden memories and buried truths, the time for retribution finally arrives.

One day in the 70s, at the Northern New Territories.  Under the brazing sun, the sound of cicadas intertwined with the rotten smell near the train tracks. The five youngsters could not dismiss the summer blues. They pushed the weeds and stepped on the squirming maggots. They found a decaying dead body trapped under the burning sun. It was oozing a foul stench.  They covered their nose and vomited. Hearing the train whined, the youngsters made up their minds.  Even though they did not have much, they answered the call from the syrup and caffeine. They added colour to their lives with a pinch of salt onto the transparent White Cloud, and they dashed in full strength and leaped up.

Since the early days, Hayakawa's works have been established by hand-drawn moving images and digitally processed reproduction and proliferation, and the precision of this process has been accelerating in proportion to the evolution of video equipment. The balance between the organic nature of the vital movement that stimulates the fundamental part of human perception and the abstractness of the work's composition is pleasant. His challenge to always keep an eye on the cutting edge of video technology seems to be exploring a new animation language, and shows us the possibilities of images that can only be achieved through animation. (Koji Yamamura, January 2010)

Hero Hajime is going to school with Misa and Megumi. He loves Megumi, and asks Misa if there is a way to win Megumi over. Misa produces a pill that is supposed to make the taker reveal their exact feelings for someone. It turns out Megumi has been wanting Hajime, but so has Misa

My inspiration is from the novel Us, which was written by Yevgeny Zamyatin, a Russian writer. In this world, no one has his/her own name except a code. Human beings are divided into several levels. Different levels were assigned to different types of work. The “Fountain” is both the source of energy and the landmark landscape in this city. There are many tall towers like diving platforms near the fountain. People can get closed to the “fountain” here. This city is always crowded and dark. D-503 lives a regular life here every day…

My father's attempt to reminisce by his childhood seaside became one of the most inexplicable experiences of his life. The film strips were buried for 28 days in vinegar, mud, cheese, nato beans, beer, and kimchi. The disintegrated imagery produced by the decomposition is reminiscent of the fragmentation of memory.

A short animation by Haruka Suzuki based on the poem "Asa" by Ikuko Shirakuma

A short animation by Izumi Tanaka

Theater is a fictional world constructed for the viewers. To substitute our ideal selves through imitation, we seek inspirations in such performative acts to satisfy our subconscious and primitive needs for blood and thrill. In reality individual selves are always trapped in a state of isolation, constantly trying to communicate in some deep levels while always falling to do so. This need for intimacy is extended to the virtual world as we try establish the existence of the self. The four parallel stories are implicitly linked, and serve as each other’s metaphors.

A short to reduce Japanese companion animal euthanasia rate.

Seven animated vignettes, each with a different art style. Titles: Holidays, Potage, Them, Morning, Nap, Curtain Call.

There’s only so much information that can be pushed into a mind before the revolt is launched.

A young boy’s erotic fixation with a classmate boasting breasts on her back.

Almost everyone in a contemporary society is picked up and moved by someone or something like a ‘Sugoroku’. The first one which picks up is ‘Parents’. A hero grows up along a ‘Sugoroku’. This work describes. . . the process of his growth as he depends on his parents. . . One day he decides to cut off his relationship with his family.

Death is the gateway to birth. The deceased crosses the line to join the kingdom of the dead. He sees there the dance of the sperm and the egg. He is drawn towards the sky. This is the path to the afterlife.

Colorful lights construct a maze.

A Japanese fairy tale about a bear cub who would rather play than help his parents with house chores.

This is the story about a cat with a boy's mind and a mouse with a girl's mind. They try to escape from a wicked tamer of a circus. A mouse takes a risk to save a cat.

An existentialist conversation divided in chapters between the animated alter ego of the author and two alien creatures that represent future versions of herself.

A mysterious ice object appears on a beach. Everyone talks about it, between fear and curiosity. At the same time, a boy swimming in the sea discovers a portal to another dimension...

Humans defeated the King of Hell and occupied hell through numerical superiority and they redesigned the reincarnation process using high tech, but they overestimated their ability

A man was caught cheating when his girlfriend just walked in. She died in an accident immediately after the witness. The man then fell in love with another woman after a short period of mourning. The ghost of his girlfriend got furious, and revenge was about to begin….

A woman working in the service industry is routinely exposed to personal attacks and abusive comments. One day she gets tired of this daily routine.

On a hot summer day, a car is stuck in a traffic jam. The kids are sleepy in the backseat. They seem to feel something cool when they’re half awake. All of a sudden, they’re riding the waves with their feet on surfing boards, surfing in the gridlock. The streets in a big city are like rivers and their branches, and they’re racing each other. Cars, vans, trucks and buses are surging like sea waves. Suddenly, a super big wave comes and knocks them off their surfing boards! To their surprise, a bucket of water is splashed over the windshield. It turns out that their mom has driven the car into a car wash! It was just their imagination. They exchange a glance and smile.

A humanoid fish is walking down the street and saw this sushi stall by the roadside. He decided to order the dish of the day. The chef and owner of the stall is an octopus, and he served a dish shortly after the fish ordered. The dish was delicious, but the meat was made of humans.

The film is made with the Surrealist game ‘exquisite corpse’ as its core methodology. Pictures are. . . drawn repeatedly. After several days [he] forgets the images he has drawn himself. Through the accumulation of coincidences and contiguities the act of ‘combining the forgotten images together’ generates interstices, and finally this play gets its own rhythm and opens itself like a window through with the sunlight streams.

Motion graphics work to have made good use of dynamic switch of space and comparison of sound. Is the world that the image draws dynamically changed from micro to the macro and the network - City space - It faces space.

Legs and shoes float across the screen in this short film by Yoriko Mizushiri.

Sug-i, a poor North Korean girl is ordered by the communists to go into the mountains and bring wild ginseng for the Red Chief. She wanders around in Mountain Geumgang, where she slips over a rock. Ttoli lives in the mountains with the wild animals and is also called Jang-gun. He saves Sug-i with his animal friends. Through Sug-i, he comes out into the world and comes to learn of his past. His parents had tried to escape from North Korea but had been arrested, and Ttoli had been abandoned. Meanwhile, with the Red Chief’s birthday approaching, communists force workers to “dig the tunnel faster,” “make a trench,” and “bring wild ginseng.” Ttoli, catches on to the communists’ plans. Together with his friends, he defeats the North Koreans who were digging the third tunnel, saves his father who was among the prisoners, and finally comes face to face with the Red Chief.

He’ has kept moving forward through his life. Nothing else bothered him. But, one day by chance he realized that he has definitely grown old. And eventually he makes a complete stop.

Human-like creatures inhabit this planet. Their peaceful lives are senselessly destroyed by octopus suckers that appear out of the blue. Then comes a mysterious spaceship shaped like a chikuwa (fishcake tube). A new civilization - OCTOPOLIS - is about to emerge.

To spend the summer vacation, junior high school student, Kazuki rides a bullet train to Hiroshima to stay with his aunt. Arriving in Hiroshima, his aunt narrates the tragic past of what happened the day the atomic bomb fell. From the aunt who had to overcome a lot of hardships, he learns the value of peace and to have the courage to lose.

On Christmas Day, Kitty and Mimmy's childhood friend Daniel comes to visit them from New York. They are very happy. However, there is a heavy snowfall in New York on the day, and planes are unable to fly...

The girl, trapped in a dream where she is chased by those who resent her, falls into the place where the nightmare dwells. There, she faces the old sense of guilt that has turned into the nightmare.

Sequel to the 2021 film ‘Goldbeak’ confirmed by Liangzi Film on their official website, slated for 2027. Plot TBA

A husband, trapped in a train accident, lies about it to his wife, but she has since learned the truth but is lying to him for similar reasons.