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Outside a village in deep snow, there lived a boy named Kanta and his grandpa. One day, the grandpa gets sick. Kanta decides to go get firewood for his grandpa from the woodshed he is very scared of.

Water is a precious commodity anywhere but all the more so in the desert where competition for it can come from any quarter.

Half asleep with my eyes closed, my conscience flies beyond time and space and I transform myself to all the life forms existing. I become the universe and the universe becomes me, until I fall asleep.... It is a song to pray for the existence of heart and soul at an awakening.

One morning, a woman leaves home for work like any other day. In another place, a loan shark is terrorizing a family. A cross-cutting of two incidents in two locations.

A dark dark amusement park. Gradually, the rides begin to move.

It's a story about a frog, who is eager to make his companions stand as a line. He is the only one who wears an armlet, and has a little different skin color from the other frogs. This work focus on the relationship between "rulers" and "ruled ones", and describes the consequences of some unexpected events.

The 5 animation poems singing joy of life, inspired by Normand Roger’s music. Mystery, dangerous, hope and anxiety, battles. The tiny little light is coming to us from beyond the darkness. This is a miracle. This is a big message. We are shining ourselves receiving light . We are the human, we are the nature.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

Based on the story by Kenji Miyazawa in which two hunters get lost in the woods and discover a strange restaurant which makes a number of increasingly strenuous demands.

— The term "KiyaKiya" comes from the old Japanese expression "mune ga kiyakiya suru." I first encountered it in Shibusawa Tatsuhiko's book Introductory Essays on Girls, in the chapter about "childhood experiences." The expression, which describes “an enigmatic, nostalgic, disturbing feeling,” or an impression of “deja-vu”, is at the origin of my "KiyaKiya" series. — This is one of my memories. When I was a child, there was a book I always used to read when I went to the hospital. One day as I was reading it as I always did, suddenly the ending had changed. Sometime later, when I read it again, it had returned to normal. — In our everyday routine, there are moments when suddenly we feel like something is different; this unexpected change, like in my memory, feels like it has a kind of reality. This impression is at the core of “KiyaKiya” and the related painting and drawing series. —

The three tales were "The Third Blood" (第三の皿), "Oppel and the Elephant" (オッペルと象), and "Sleepy Town" (眠い町).

In the spring of 2020, Yugo's Grandmother travels from the countryside to finally spend some quality time with Yugo. The two see a "comedy show" in the park together and later that night, Yugo has a good time telling his family about his day out. However, the next day Covid-19 restrictions are put in place in town and Yugo is stuck at home. Then, he learns that his grandmother is not feeling well. At first, Yugo patiently waits at home for things to return to normal, but eventually he gets bored and silently slips out of the house…

Short animation made by Anno in his uni days

A society of friendly frogs is terrorized by Danbei, a frog with his slingshot, and the only thing that might challenge his mischief is a mysterious gourd.

Red Oni, who is feared because of his appearance, wants to be friends with the villagers. For the sake of Red Oni, Blue Oni becomes a villain and makes the villagers believe that Red Oni is a kind Oni. When Red Oni visits Blue Oni's house...

A monkey and tanuki go fishing in a frozen lake but the king catfish isn't pleased. Condensed version of Osaru no Tairyou.

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A short experimental animation by Keiichi Tanaami.

Macross chibi special included on Macross 20th Anniversary Premium Collection DVD.

A solemn painting by 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt suddenly roars, transforming and deconstructing.

The stair of steps appear checkerboard room. Conflict between a young man tries to fit the situation and the stickman ridicules him.

We covered the area surrounded by [sea] and mountains. Since that day, this town has been in complete darkness. Lights, roads home, a mother and a baby in her womb are hidden in this darkness. This animation depicts the truth hiding behind the facts.

Yoshiro Ishihara (1915–1977), who burst upon the scene of Japanese modern poetry in the mid-1950s, is now remembered as a “poet of silence.” He said, “A poem is an impulse to resist writing.” This film is an attempt to seek out the landscape from his poem.

The very short adventures of a samurai and his fighting bear.

At night, a man holds out his own leash into the void. He has to explode in order to escape.

Rayca is a girl of the 31st Century where individuals exist only as computer data. She comes to the 21st century to learn about our sub-culture.

Remake of the 1960 film with the same name in color that tells the story of a man and a woman who go by raft to a remote desert island with chickens and a dog. At first, it is a kind of paradise for them. They farm and fish following the same routine every day, feasting on grilled sanma that they roast out in the open. One day, their harmony gets interrupted by a mustachioed scientist on a raft powered by an abused pig. This unwanted visitor constructs a robot which begins the process of industrialization on the island. The couple are disgruntled but decide to put up with the man and his technology.

Opening its eyes, the moon that fell to the depths of the sea was met with complete darkness. Will the moon be able to return to its home in the sky?

A middle school boy, who likes to snap photos of things he fancies, and then draws pictures of them. On his usual route home, he spots the girl he likes with another boy. The balance between his delusions and reality is in constant flux.

How to make this mysterious cake? The ingredients include blue eggs, cookie flowers, pillow stuffing and much more.

The film is about a family, that runs a chicken farm. The boy hankers after birds and his little sister keeps an eye on him. The father loves eggs. The mother loves somebody else. In the family fixture, each member stays there with bias or secrets.

A group of animals want to end the violence of the wolf.

Men's muscle, lust for battle, conflict, and the game.

Once upon a time, the birds and the beasts fought each other in a war. It was a terrible conflict, and the clever bats would side with the birds when the birds were looking victorious, and then they would become allies of the beasts when that side was winning battles. At last the war came to an end, the two parties reached an amicable settlement, and a great party of friendship was held. But when it came to the turn of the bats to perform in the program, their fence-straddling tactics were exposed, and everyone refused to associate with them. Since that time, the bats have been too ashamed to show their faces during the day, coming out only at night to flit silently around.

"The Pine's Branches" is the latest work in Murata Tomoyasu’s series “Sei toshi ni matsuwaru kioku no tabi (Journey through memories of life and death),” which he began following the Tohoku earthquake in 2011.

The protagonist “Thread man” lacks self-confidence, has shrunk to a thread-like existence. One rainy day, the thread man is walking down an alley when an empty can falls in front of him.

Studio Colorido's promotional video for BANDAI NAMCO Online's mobile RPG VALHAIT RISING.

Drawing animation, Reshooting 8mm Film.

After Alain Delon murders Elizabeth Taylor, he and Brigitte Bardot face attacks from The Beatles, hired by Richard Burton to kill the French couple and take revenge for his wife's death.

A feature length colour animation describing the fantastic world of "Ukiyoe".

In a thick forest full of giant trees, a boy lives modestly with his family. One day, a guardian of the moon looking like a squirrel shows up in front of the boy, saying the moon got accidentally stuck on a high tree somewhere far East. Night dominates the world as the sky stops moving with the still moon. Now, the boy and the squirrel go off on adventures into the dark forest to search and free the moon.

Anime based on original story by Kinoshita Renzo.

Short animation by Haruka Suzuki

The juxtaposed movements resonate with each other, filling the conflict between continuity and fluctuation.

TimeFighters in the Land of Fantasy is the second film cut from Tatsunoko's Time Bokan by Jim Terry's Kidpix Productions. This film used mostly episodes themed around fairy tales, as well as the ending. It was released on home video in the 1980s alongside the original TimeFighters.

A stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's Thumbelina.

SPring-8 Angstrom Compact Free Electron Laser (SACLA) 5 minute pencil and watercolor anime short narrated by Mamiko Noto with music by twoth.

This work "Kikumana" is an animation of a girl called Kikumana who acts like in a stage performance, the role defeated by such an ill circumstance though she tries to find herself. The primal aim is to get the audience feeling a strange atmosphere spread from this work. The image has a pictorial atmosphere and a documentary touch at the same time. Unrealistic phenomena take place there.

The Great Kantō Earthquake is said to be the worst natural disaster in the history of Japan. When disaster struck on September 1st, 1923, a woman called Nobu managed to survive by fleeing desperately all while caring for her two small children. What did she see? What actions did she take? Her decision making during her evacuation is still relevant in present day and can help shed light on what actions to take to save your life should a large disaster strike without warning.

Photos taken with pinhole camera, sky + clouds. Swirling animation like smoke against a black background.

An omnibus movie produced to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Motomachi Eigakan.

An animation staring Gelée, an anthropomorphic cat character created by DLE.

In a mysterious pet market world, a girl who loves small animals lives alone. Her life is all about her pets, but little does she know that she has lost her sense of self in this world.

A traditional Japanese fable telling of a kind old man, his avaricious wife and an injured sparrow. The story explores the effects of greed, friendship and jealousy on the characters.

Early Japanese animation featuring a dancing tanuki (a Japanese raccoon dog).

Short film where the hero Hatanosuke battles ghosts and monsters in a haunted house.