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Music video for Chiaki Maruyama's song Boukentai: Mori no Yuusha.

Tetsuji Kurashige's nightmarish U-SA-GUI (2002) begins by citing a section from Brillat-Savarin's 1825 treatise, The Physiology of Taste, in which the renowned French epicure suggests that stimulating foods, meats in particular, can have an influence on one's dreams. The film depicts a macabre game played by two rabbits and a blindfolded woman. The rabbits face each other over an old-fashioned illustrated board game. When they land on a square, the woman must eat the food indicated in the illustration. If she has chosen correctly, a die pops out of her mouth and lands on the floor giving the rabbits their next move.

One rainy day, a squid falls on a crosswalk. A businessman and a homeless man see the squid and get lost in their own fantasies.

A short anime directed by Mizuho Nishikubo and produced by Production I.G, which was shown at the V Jump Festival '98. The special is based on the Slime Boukenki manga by Osamu Kaneko.

A lonely exchange student meets and falls in passionate love with a dancer. A girl who falls into madness when she learns her lover is going home to make his life.

Short animated film by Tomoyasu Murata.

3D IMAX movie, shown only at the Suntory Museum in Osaka.

In this film, Takamori Saigo, known as the last true samurai, comes back to life and wanders around in towns in Kagoshima. A light animation by TOCHKA.

Animation and music by Tomoe Obayashi.

The way the everyday and the extraordinary constantly change in the environment around us and within ourselves.

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

A stop-motion film adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid.

A mischievous cat and a young girl facing family troubles meet an unusual creature.

A festival star, Tomioka does not fail to deliver in his wild and unique take on the world. His multi-coloured animation talents take us on a whirlwind trip of old school trams with weird and wonderful characters

Sinbad and his friends run afoul of a storm while riding on the ship Bahal. Ali sights an island, which the ship heads toward to make repairs. Sinbad and Sana board a dinghy and land on the island. Sana sees a vision of a magical lamp, and Sinbad and the others set out to find it.

Short animation made by anno in his high school days

One day a letter takes a blood-sausage to his friend, liver-sausage. So, he went...

hololive IDOL PROJECT 1st Live. Bloom, is a live concert held by Hololive on February 17th, 2021 online featuring select members from Hololive Japan. It was held at Tokyo Garden Theater with no live audience. Members who performed on stage: Hololive 0th Gen. Roboco Sakura Miko Hololive 1st Gen. Yozora Mel Shirakami Fubuki Natsuiro Matsuri Aki Rosenthal Hololive 2nd Gen. Minato Aqua Murasaki Shion Nakiri Ayame Yuzuki Choco Oozora Subaru Hololive GAMERS Shirakami Fubuki Ookami Mio Hololive 3rd Gen. Usada Pekora Uruha Rushia Shiranui Flare Shirogane Noel Houshou Marine Hololive 4th Gen. Amane Kanata Tokoyami Towa Hololive 5th Gen. Yukihana Lamy Shishiro Botan Omaru Polka

A Swablu lives in the forest an discovers a passion for singing after quelling an argument between a Houndour and a Panpour. As it practices singing and makes friends in the forest, it attracts the attention of Rene and her Audino who give it a special ribbon that contained Alatrianite to wear.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.

Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

For eons, light and dark have fought ceaselessly for dominion over the world. Whispers echo of a Dark Lord whose insidious grip on the realm is marked by insatiable lust, twisted jealousy, ravenous greed, unrelenting vanity, and possessive manipulation. A group of adventurers rose to face this threat with hidden wishes of secrets and shadows untold.

New anime announced at "Live Milky Holmes Full Color Festival" concerts.

Through a splendidly drawn and masterfully animated short, Ito Rina reasons on the troubled battle he has to overcome in her daily life, accepting her new and constantly changing skin.

An argument over what appears to be an unusual fruit produces unexpected results.

I tried to “move” various “non-moving things” that I see in my daily life.

A short experimental animation from Tomoyasu Murata for Gallery MoMo

A group of businessmen working together to stop evil

While the Tribes of Light and Shadow have peacefully reunited and are living together on the surface, life in Astral's household has not gotten any easier as Sharon, Nina and Mew still fiercely vie for his attention - only to have Delta beat them to it!

Hololive 1st fes. Nonstop Story (hololive 1st fes. ノンストップ・ストーリー) was a live concert held by Hololive on January 24, 2020 at the Toyosu Pit in Japan, with Tokino Sora, Roboco, Sakura Miko, Hoshimachi Suisei, AZKi, and everyone from Hololive 1st Generation, Hololive 2nd Generation, Hololive Gamers, and Hololive 3rd Generation participating.

Made at the sites of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, this work is a collaboration with Butoh dancer Takumi Harada. The work is currently still in production.

Based on an old Russian folk song. This film was created in blackboard animation.

The island repeats volcanic eruption after earthquake, smoke and glowing heat bubbling from the morphing surface—but when the tectonic activity recedes, all is sand and, finally, the miracle of water flowing, of life.

A young prince and a minister's son go on a quest to find the greatest jewel the world has ever seen. An adaptation of Kenji Miyazawa's short story with the same title.

A stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast.

Taro, who looks like a skull, doesn't stand out at school, but he is blessed with friends like Yasushi, who has a head that looks like the inside of a clam, and finds meaning in seemingly meaningless things as he goes about his daily life.

On moonlit nights, within this great fair, a carousal awaits. An audience of shadows, rocking in merriment to the greatest show, oh, perhaps the greatest ever been told. Dancers, perfumed in milk and honey. Lyons, roaring like the orchestral pit. And the ringmaster, with his most alluring smile... I, too, wish to stand upon his stage.

Animation by Maki Morimoto.

Directed by Japanese filmmaker Ryo Orikasa, this animated short was inspired by Henri Michaux’s book of poetry and drawings of the same name, about his experiences with mescaline. The film explores the limits of language and perception, creating connections between sound, meaning, shapes and movement.

Early Japanese anime. A stop-motion papercraft animation set to a song sung by Kikoku Inoue

Hiroshi is tired of living alone so he orders a maid robot from a company called Happy ComeCome, but ends up with the robot mom Yoshiko instead. Yoshiko acts more motherly than Hiroshi's real mother, and over time she is able to heal his heart.

Japanese independently-animated short.

A fine day. Ojii leaves Koma alone at home. While Ojii is worried, Koma is a little excited, wondering if Ojii will be happy if she behaves nicely. In time, it begins to rain and thunder. And finally the light goes out. Koma, scared, shivers and something is behind her...! Can Koma go through this situation?

After Marisa realizes she forgot to make Alice a gift for Valentine's Day, she rushes to prepare a batch of cookies for her with the help of Sakuya, but runs into trouble along the way.

When copper wire is wrapped around an iron rod and connected to a battery, it becomes an electromagnet. A science teaching material movie that explains the principle and structure of electric bells and telephones by applying the principle of an electromagnet through a fusion of live action and animation.

A clerk has his own duty. A clerk does his own work. This is what a clerk should do.

I turned my gaze to the various events in daily life and made this filmic diary in a manner as if confessing my feelings. Of course, since I was making the film, I wanted to depict these feelings and events with tricky techniques. I used various methods to shoot photographs of a relative's wedding, the landscape I see from window of my house, commemorative travel photographs and the like frame-by-frame.

A bishōjo story featuring two friends – teenage girls – at a robot-themed amusement park. One of the girls finds that her boyfriend is now going out with her friend. Running away in tears, she finds her way to a virtual reality ride.

Momotaro takes to the ocean to fight a shark.

'There is a fusuma (paper sliding door) work based on the Hannya Shingyo (Prajna-paramita Hrdaya Sutram) by woodblock print artist Shikou Munakata. He wrote the sutra in one go without any rough drafts or scketches and the result is a very powerful and compelling work. Ever since I first saw this fusuma I have had a special interest in the Hannya Shingyo... ' (extract of the commentary by Keiichi Tanaami)

After a spoken introduction describing the various musical instruments used, the film tells the story of Kimba the White Lion, from his birth, to his escape from a ship intended to take him far from home. The story is told entirely without dialogue, and showcases a symphonic tome poem composed by Isao Tomita, based in incidental music he composed for the original television series "Jangaru taitei" (1965)

Animated film adapting Akimi Ozawa's story of the same name. Not to be confused with the other two anime adaptations made in the 1990s.

Blending psychedelic animation with haunting music. Centred around a black cat, it explores themes of misfortune and the uncanny through dreamlike visuals and Maki Asakawa’s melancholic song, "Fushiawase to Iu Na no Neko".

Yui Kotani, a second-year junior high school student, is obsessed with men's underarm hair. Her classmate Masato Takeo has the thickest underarm hair in the class.

A children's musical VHS about a magical girl and her family who move the Earth and encounter issues transitions to a life that isn't focused on magic.

A mysterious man lands his ship on a seemingly deserted planet. He sets out with his crew to see if any survivors remain.

Meat-kun has been kidnapped by Iron Mask. In order to save Meat-kun, the treasure of Inmora Island is needed. Furthermore, the treasure is hidden in the Seven Story Tower, which is guarded by the brutal Senshi Choujins. When Kinnikuman asks Terryman and the Seigi Choujins to help him, for some reason they all refuse. Alone, Kinnikuman heads to Inmora Island to fight the Senshi Chōjin and is overwhelmed by their great numbers.

A tense abstract animation with delicate line drawing. Contemporary musician Nakamura Shigenobu is in charge of the music used in the work.

Short animated film from 1947