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Animated adaptation of 40 carefully selected works from Moe Nagata.

One summer night at the lakeside where a party was taking place, there we met our loved ones who had passed away.

A mother waits all day for her daughter to visit.

Entangled in the difficulties of adult life, Inseo finds her childhood diary and remembers a special day.

The people of a certain village were living their normal lives, but everything changed when a humanoid crocodile appeared at the village's only bus stop. The crocodile's name was Kuroko, and she had a special reason for coming to the bus stop: to make friends with humans.

Surreal and hyperactive Japanese anime short about a new transfer student.

A one-yen coin becomes a samurai in search of adventure and love.

It was created by Murajikumamoto or Muraji Kumamoto in the early eighties as a college project. This was made in 1982 and it was shot on 8 mm film. This was originally going to be 20 minutes long.

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Authoritarianism deprives people of their right to live freely: rebellion or escape? We can only fantasize about a better future within the confines of unchanging laws.

What lives in a lonely boy’s ear? And why a boy’s ear? The boy who grew up as a man set out on a journey to collect lonely voices again. What would he eventually find there?

I’ve practiced these words for 20 years now, but maybe being candid isn’t the best idea. I’m starting my countdown again, another 20 years. Maybe the time will be right by then.

Three animated chapters by Polygon Pictures are featured in this collection: In Search of New Axis, In Search of Muscular Axis and In Search of Performing Axis.

31 years ago, the story was written. Origami animation.

A man on a beach, aims a gun at his head. The shoot only grazes his forehead, leaving a scar. As he walks along the streets, he notices scars on other people’s heads. Those who aim, those who are aimed at. Who are they, who are they shooting?

An uncertain look into the boundary between non-human and human relationships, between technological advancements and the human body.

The second of five brand new video vignettes from Maywa Denki, a Japanese musical toy company and art initiative, using MIDI and animatronics to bring their popular Otamatone device and its assortment of associated kawaii noisemakers to life.

This is a story of a 13 year old girl whose only dream is to participate in the Olympic Games: Her Struggles, her victories, her failures and her willpower fascinate all who help her to become a outstanding athlete.

The innocent Bee came to live in a big city, blending himself with the scheming Fly into the local corrupt officialdom day and night, witnessing all kinds of strange things in this world. After encountering many absurd events, the bee gradually turned into a parasite just like his friend.

This is a film about a daughter’s feelings about losing her father. Like the scenery from a running train, memories are beautiful, blurry, and keep changing. In this experimental animated documentary, the author mixed video footage and analog film with animation techniques and brought through a diary-like atmosphere to immerse the audience in unspeakable feelings of losing a loved one.

BOOKOLORBAR is an Animation project to elevate color bar from the supporting tool to the leading actor in film.

He goes to the Unknown Planet beyond the tunnel every day to see his loved one.

There are many couples show affection in public. A clown is thirsty for love and found that the consumption of canned love can quickly get love.

Who are you praying to and how are you praying to them?

Tired of being talked at by men, a woman takes a sensual trip with unusual friends.

The animation depicts the strange feeling of sleepiness while bathing in the bathtub, the gradual slipping away of consciousness from the body, and the awakening from this situation as an unreal experience hidden in daily life.

A woman comes home with her tired body. As she lies down on the bed and closes her eyes, the memories of the past recall her, with cooking sounds from the kitchen.

The grandma from the country seems to have magical superpowers. As time goes by, the boy gradually discovers...

A man and his phone

A woman who broke up with her lover can't accept the situation and runs away. She feels like the world is falling down around her. With her mind empty, it begins to snow as her memories pass by. Finally, she realizes that all the good and bad times were experienced together, and they are part of her memories. As she begins to accept her separation, time starts to flow once more.

A person has a problem about creation and she is so stressful because of it. Moreover, a red pimple comes out on the nose. Time goes by, she is getting painful by the pressure of creation and a pimple. Suddenly, she decides to remove a pimple because she thinks a pimple is an origin of all her problems. From the removal pimple, she finds a green leaf which has a small yellow egg and then, the larva becomes a beautiful moss. The moss starts to fly.

A curious little paper boy and a bouncy chipmunk live in a small planet in a fabric cosmos. One day, the boy sets off on a mysterious adventure as he pulls a strange ribbon while trying to find the chipmunk.

Japan's first computer generated animation

If I lose you now. How to live my life? You just come to me. Let us start a brand new life.

Minimalist line animation in which the sensual and the abstract intermingle.

Three unbroadcasted exclusive Special shorts of Gregory Horror Show (presented as bonus videos on the first series DVDs volumes 1-3 in Japan only), containing stories featuring Gregory himself as a guide, giving his commentary and thoughts on each of the guests in the hotel, also displaying paintings based around the said guests.

A particularly curious chicken larva did not undergo the adult transformation and did not hide in the cave. Instead, it roamed the plains and mounds wearing robot armour.

Short animation by Yiling Wang

In a perspective-distorted house, people are not on the same wavelength.

3D rendition of traditional Chinese ink and was animation techniques.