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Bully the Weasel and Scurry the Ermine live in Wild Wood, the dark forest outside of Willow Town. Both Bully and Scurry will try every trick to get Willow Town for themselves. However, our heroes, Ratty the Water Rat and his shy friend Mollie the Mole with the help of their other animal friends, are able to overcome any attempt to take Willow Town.
The story takes place in Kanazawa and tells the story of Yasue, an old woman who suddenly became very ill, her whole body paralyzed. She is told by her doctor she only has two weeks to live...
A fictitious 1980s Japan. Soji, a soldier on furlough, returns to his country. He receives a request from Haya, who was sent from the World Bank, to help her on a mission to investigate the actual circumstances of a narcotic called "Golden Monkey" which is running rampant through Japanese society.
A short animation by Ryoji Yamada combining dreams and pictures.
A young girl takes it into her head that her mother is taken by her newly born sister. Out of jealousy she hides her baby sister in darkness.
There's more to picture than meets the eye in this journey into oriental metaphysical imagery. Starting (in a very Christian manner) with the Word, the film draws an explosion of visible forms, as if a sign of the shattering of shapes in the mundane world. But time is cyclical, of course, and what was once a multitude of sensible realities must eventually return to the Word and, finally, to sheer Color. (Sound of Eye)
A woman taking a trip encounters a nightmarish landscape juxtaposed against scenes of classical beauty.
Based on a manga by Fujiwara Kamui, serialised in Monthly Super Action and partly inspired by Jamie Uys's The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980). Grossly caricatured Africans Manbo, Chinbo, and Chonbo causes chaos in civilisation despite the efforts of their pretty tour guide/bedmate to tame their zany, grass-skirted cannibal ways.
A fast food restaurant manager sexually harasses a young girl who works there. He looks like an ugly monster. Enraged, the girl grows super-sized and crushes the manager.
Is the path I am walking on now part of a dream or reality? This is the first animation film that is largely motionless.
Three 10-minute videos present a trippy view into the minds of their creators. Scientific Attack Force features three shorts done in very different styles. PLASTIC GUN MAN, a 3D Western spoof, WORLD MECCANO TRIANGLE, a music video reminiscent of '90s era screensavers. HAIIROGAOKA NO SORIDAIJIN (translated as "Prime Minister of Gray Hill"), an anime-style animated video parody of Akira Mochizuki's famous 1977 manga, Yuuhi ga Oka no Souri Daijin.
By the maker of Yellow Night. Also an exercise in the storyless and meaningless description of a drawn journey through the subconscious. Hallucination as a cheerful firework display. Made with style and skill, because nonchalance obviously has to be conquered. (IFFR)
This work is based on 15 years of entries in the diary that I’ve kept since age eight. Through creating this work I was searching for freedom from my preconceptions about animation and myself.
A member of the Eagle Talon, a secret association including the President and Dr. Leonardo, who are delighted with the results of the Omikuji in Shimane Prefecture, the hometown of the battle chief Yoshida. Around that time, the evil empire Nemerle began to invade the planet Gogogo, a mechanical lifeform, beyond the distant universe. Oquitemas Smile, a middle-aged man with no mechanical life, and his daughter Jorney, are on the planet in search of "a man with sharp ears living in a shining blue star," as stated in the prophecy that he will save this crisis. Escape Gogogo. Eventually, they find a man who will be the legendary savior at the secret base of the Eagle Talon.
The activities of cats, kobito, carp, and an uncle dressed as a woman on a swamp.
Two creatures lie in a meadow in the land of Vita Lakamaya. The camera pans very slowly, exploring the ground and the world. There's a buzzing in the air. Something is different. The seemingly naïve animation reveals a tranquility - as similarly puzzling as the sudden procession of creatures passing through the forest. A funeral? Fish accompany them. The meadow is populated with beetles and butterflies. The year's cycle is complete. The leaves fall and the being sleeps. Dreamt and dreamy is the procession, the time. Just like Piezke, Popov's dormouse friend, whose favorite pastime is sleeping. The year draws to a close.
A child whose head is numerals, a child who winds his own face and has it under his arm. What was left is his identity, a child whose eyes are provided by fishes, a child who cannot say anything because of a zipper across his mouth. Ecology and philosophy of children with sadness and humor.
A collection of seven little stories about Niger and its Sahara desert from the illustrated book by Hideko Fukuda & Masanori Inui.
Abstract short film by Kojirou Shishido featuring seaweed and sea urchins.
A short animated film from 1962.
A stop motion animation unfolds within a labyrinthine place. A mantis is invading the kingdom of ants while witnessing their ritual activities, and getting into the inside of the group.
In a small village overlooking the scenic Himalayas, a young boy, Suruya, receives a letter from a princess. It's a heartbreaking cry for help. Suruya, who is not the most courageous of boys, sets out to rescue the princess, managing to find the courage to carry out his mission along the way.
Japan, 1920. Okiku is a maid who works in a mansion, which is inhabited by a puppet theater writer and his wife, who lives in seclusion. When the maid tries to contact the woman, she brings to light a terrifying secret.
By photographing a mirror with clay attached to it from a blind spot, I created a single form using both the reflected world and the clay. In Japanese health education textbooks, women are described as becoming ‘rounded’.
There is a family living in an air base town. I got a younger brother. Dad was only absent for work at the base and Mom was busy with the brother and little time for me. Out of loneliness and jealousy I [hid] brother’s charm. From that day, Dad stopped coming home. . .
Giant apples appear in a city, and when people eat them, new apples start to grow from their heads.
The legless ghost of a girl discovers some disembodied tap shoes, dancing to "Moses Supposes" from Singin' in the Rain, and attempts to join them in their dance.
A work of cell animation created using special methods and equipment. Bodies in different poses are piled in several layers as they move. A high angle camera shoots their three dimensional outlines. An accumulation of bright colors and a gathering of a large number of physical bodies fill the screen, and the result is like some kind of initiation that leadsviewers into a trance and releases primitive sensuality.
The Squid Sisters performed at Japan Expo in Paris on Friday. Check out the show!
A chronological compilation of the TV series.
The interactions of troops and prostitutes near the Naval Air Facility Atsugi (Kanagawa Prefecture), animated from a child’s perspective. Aihara’s works of this period often contain a documentary view of Japanese society at the time of his childhood.
The first full cel-animated short. A group of tanukis investigate a temple and cause mischief.
This anime shows a mission commanded by the Lord of the Rats to bring food, but a cat is watching the mice, so the Lord of the Rats orders them to kill the Cat so that the mission is successful.
Animation film based on fieldwork in Bali, Indonesia, and rituals filmed there. Of the hundreds of rituals known to exist in Bali as 'Sangyan', the film takes as its motif the beautiful ritual 'Sangyan Dudari', which is said to be the most effective in exorcising demons.
Shiroinu writes down the day’s events before he goes to sleep. One day, he opens a drawer buried in the snow and finds old diary entries. He realizes that he’s forgotten the sensations and emotions from that time to the extent that he feels like he’s reading about someone else’s life.
Shinji is an aspiring manga artist struggling to succeed in his career, and when he accidentally discovers an old drawing by his childhood friend Masaru, a magical journey begins that helps him discover a new inspiration for his art. Revenge. The film unfolds a psychological analysis of a social environment characterized by hypocrisy and secrecy, skillfully playing with genre formulas of thrillers and ghost stories.
Self-replicating entities that have evolved on different planets merge and proliferate exponentially. In search of more energy sources, they consume other stars.
Fourth film in the Secret Society Eagle Talon film series. Initially released directly to DVD, but was later screened at TOHO Cinemas Roppongi Hills.
A quaint kitchen in a house tucked away in the outskirts of the city. Amidst preparations for a banquet, the birth of a new life brings turmoil and change. And then, she heads off on her own journey. Those who send her off recall the day they embarked on their own journeys, just like her.
In the woods is a company where animals work. One worker, the chameleon, is hurt by the ridicule from his colleagues. Can they come to understand each other?
Here and There (1961) fuses live-action and animation and was screened at Three-Person Animation 2. Musique concrète and electronic sounds made by modulating everyday noises such as flush toilets are interspersed throughout the work. Contrasts between opposites, as encapsulated by the title – between live-action space and animated space, between mundane sounds of daily life and bizarre noises – and the war between the sexes, a signature theme in Yōji Kuri’s work, are also palpable in the juxtaposition of musique concrète and scat singing. (CJC).
Tonight, Yuzuru and Azumi are having a critically important date—if they don't become more intimate by the end of it, their relationship may be in trouble. Both of them are conscious about this pressing matter, but while overwhelmed with nervousness and insecurities, they question each other's intentions.
Our Bright Parade is hololive's musical concert portion of the SUPER EXPO 2023. As with the previous fes concert, this will be fully 3D Augmented Reality, with talent moving around the stage and accompanied by a live band. This year has been described as "a nonstop shiny stage where anyone can join the parade anytime, regardless of generation and boundary".
A independent short stop-motion animation film with cut-out puppets.
Minky Momo (Gigi) uses her magical powers to help a little boy named Billy believe in Santa Claus.
Waiter finished work, goes out and gets drunk.
A re-edited, feature length compilation of the two parts of Ôfuji's The Great Sage Shakyamuni Buddha - the culmination of Noburô Ôfuji's monochrome silhouette films. After a portentous dream about a white elephant, the ancient Hindu princess Maya gives birth to a prince. Reared in seclusion from the troubles of the world, Prince Siddhartha is troubled by sights of poverty and deprivation when he is 12 years old. He is married to a beautiful wife, but he is unable to bear the thought of others suffering, and leaves the palace in search of an answer. While sitting beneath a tree, he achieves enlightenment. Planned as a nine-reel life of Buddha, but exhibited in Cannes as ‘Part One’ with only 6 reels completed, this late work by Noburô Ôfuji was not completed until after his death. It was only in 1961 that it was finally exhibited as a full 72-minute film (comprising 10 reels).
A short film by Takuya Okada set in a conformist society.
A concert for the holo*27 project, a collaboration between Hololive and music producer DECO*27.
A polar bear who is very bored with various marine animals in the deep blue sea. It continues an ancient tradition of "Caricatures of Frolicking animals" in scroll painting-style; this time, "Frolicking Sea Animals," in animation form, with a play on Japanese and English language word-plays: "Hokyoku-Guma Suggoku Hima. / Polar bear bears boredom", "Kawauso Kawaisou./Other otter, poor otter," etc.
A surreal, pop-art depiction of a young girl losing her virginity.
The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.
A music video for the song Girl Electric by The Breakaways.
Hiro-chan, a girl celebrating her sixth birthday, visits her neighborhood Laughing Jizo statue. At that moment, on August 6, 1945, the atomic bomb detonates over the city of Hiroshima
A story of a boy and a girl who try to find the one thing that matters.
Why do you want acceptance? If it's not going to happen, then forget about what it was you wanted acknowledged and just have some soup, like always.
Have you or your partner ever had an experience where you missed your period or been “late”?
Short animated film by Kenjo Tada
A dog named Norakuro accidentally strands his friend on a hot air balloon and tries different ways to save him. Based on the manga character by Suihō Tagawa.
Based on a hit song by child star Hideko Hirai from 1929, this gem -- a real historical curiosity -- provides glimpses of 1930s popular culture through introducing the typical life of a bright, energetic young girl. It contains an early product placement (for Lion Toothpaste), educational content and newsreel footage of Japan’s first woman Olympic medalist, Kinue Hitomi.