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Released by JCI (Junior Chamber International) Japan to promote self awareness and appreciation of "Japan's soul". Manubu's mother leaves him with his uncle, grandmother and niece Kiyomi to spend his summer vacation. Him being a real city brat he has no real appreciation for nature and the outdoors and the values of life. He will soon learn differently... (Source: AniDB)
A three part anthology anime film
The story of Bear, Acorn, Prawn Fritter, and Reading Glasses, or Specs, who live in a flat called Daisy Lodge from summer to a winter morning. And it continues to someday when we look back today.
This house rattling spirit has lived in this old house for generations. But the old woman who lives there as the final resident can no longer hear the noises it makes, which leaves the house rattler filled with a sense of longing.
The last in Tomoyasu Murata's My Road series.
A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.
Short animated film by Ryo Hirano.
Music video for the song Daremo Shiranai by Kusunoki Toshie that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.
The third in Tomoyasu's My Road series.
A skeleton is tied with red threads and stuck by clay. How much control do we have in our own actions? And what does hinder these actions?
Depiction of an incident that happened one night. . . as everyone returns to their hometown for the holidays, told from a child’s point of view.
An experimental animated short film by Yoriko Mizushiri.
Film by Tanaami Keiichi.
When a samurai witnesses a dancing maiden being kidnapped by ruffians, he rescues the poor damsel and takes her to the spring flower dance.
Tarepanda is a character that moves by rolling over (usually to music), with a record speed of 2.75 m/h.
Five brief vignettes, each described as a 'story'.
A baseball game among the animals of the forest. In the middle of the match, the fox transforms into a princess and the raccoon into a servant, turning the scene into a kabuki-style performance. Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and Betty Boop also make appearances. The assistant director was Kenzo Masaoka, often referred to as “the father of Japanese animation,” who also provided the voice for the raccoon.
A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum.
A remix of Hibiki Yoshizaki's short "ME!ME!ME!"
The angel of wind exhales, sending fluffy dandelion seeds into a slow dance. Wind and light guide the downy seeds into the magical world of botany.
Short film created by Takakyuki Hirao
Ultraman Kids was a 1984 television special aired in Japan featuring several Ultraman characters as children. The short was successful, as several others were produced. The shows taught life lessons and were comedic in tone. A sequel series was released in 1992, and lasted for 26 episodes. The second show was more adventure oriented and featured more characters, though mainly focusing on Ultraman, Ultraseven, Ultraman Taro, Pigmon, Alien Baltan, Alien Guts, and a new character named Piko (Not to be confused with Hanuman's human host) based upon Yullian.
Biopic of Takadaya Kahei.
A young boy named Reffie disregards a “No Fishing” sign, dives into the water, and fights an octopus.
A TV show that is so unclear to whom and where it is broadcast. A strange room where the recording and editing is taking place. A middle-aged gentleman like a wax figure sits on a turntable and grabs the microphone as the director signals him to do so. A reading about the mysterious genre "Ficfyon" has begun. 'What the heck did we not have time for?' The monologue of a man sitting in the audience and continuing to talk about his story will soon move into Ficfyon prophecies about the 2000s.
Eye-popping digital moving image work with an equally arresting soundtrack from noise music heavies.
Aiko lives in a shrine with a sliding door that mysteriously is only half painted and thought during her childhood that she wanted to paint it. But the 17-year old Aiko now has no dreams about the future. Suddenly, a strange man appears before her. Aiko's grandfather and the shrine's chief priest offers the man to stay in the shrine, but Aiko isn't having any of it. But he realizes the kindness of the brusque young man and slowly comes to like him. What is his true identity?
A seaside school. In the corridor stands the principal, beloved of the high-spirited youngsters. Gazing at a picture of a whale drawn as a child, the head teacher is swept away with sentiment into a flashback from the past.
During the summer, the grasshopper laughs at the ants who are gathering food. However, when winter comes, the grasshopper run out of food, and he reflects on his past attitude as he gazes at the warmth of their home.
Everything is liquid in this world, like the mayonnaise.
Private 2nd Class Norakuro is having the training for recruits, but makes so many mistakes.
In the world of Neverland, humans and monsters live alongside each other. Generation of Chaos details the start of the adventures of the two heroes of Neverland, Chiffon and Roze.
A work produced in Brittany, France, with funding from the French government and employing local CG artists, the main subject is the Stonehenge.
A worm in this river looks shiny to me.
We are all living in a food chain. All of the living beings support each other as predator-prey relationship in the balance of nature. Yet there is a huge and ferocious bird. It is so brutal that all the creatures are afraid of it. . . Everything repeats itself, slightly changing form.
Short animation by Komazaki Tomomi.
A short animation movie from Kunio Kato
Short animation by Ryoji Yamada
The original black and white version 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.
Gerda and Kai were close friends. But one day, a shard from a mirror that distorts everything it reflects entered Kai's eye. Drawn in by the Snow Queen, he disappeared beyond the icy plains. Gerda set out on a journey to find him, and eventually reunited with Kai in the Snow Queen's castle.
The cicada, an insect that I always associate with Japanese summers spent with family, has become a symbol of comfort for me. Its presence evokes a sense of belonging. Its sounds a constant companion as I navigate life in the sweltering summer heat. Much like my own existence, the life cycle of a cicada is marked by uncertainty and obstacles, yet the insect persists, following its intuition. The unpredictability of printmaking mirrors these experiences, ultimately portraying the inexhaustibility and beauty of life.
Short animated film by Tomoyasu Murata.
Sketches of natural plants and flowers in a voyage.
"Affordance" is a coined word by psychologist James · J · Gibson. "An affordance is a relation between an object or an environment and an organism that, through a collection of stimuli, affords the opportunity for that organism to perform an action." Can human beings feel what’s beyond “affordance”? If this is possible, can people mature in a way to change the outcome?
A grand collision of Mizue’s signature visual music forms and Onohana’s mesmerizing impressionistic illustrations, featuring music by Twoth.
Hands are magical. You can draw with them, grasp the reigns of a carousal, and reach out to be called up.
Recap of episodes 01-13 from the Panzer World Galient TV series.
The boy takes the knife his father once gave him. Did what followed make him a “man”?
The theme in this animation is doppelganger. This is story of one man and myself. Their memory, dream and hallucination are talked about in turn and their past and future go to gradually mix
A small family-owned iron factory was closed down. What will remain of it?
A retelling of part of the Gulliver's Travels adventures. A short film from 1950.
A short film spelling Tokyo in hiragana.
Looking for Hanako's stolen shoes, black cat detective Felix starts to move.
The old granny playing peek-a-boo is gone. Instead, a stranger appears and draws closer to the child. Peek-a-boo involves exercising memory, and looking directly at your partner.
A short animated film by Furukawa Taku.
She wonders when she started thinking that she was only a convenient tool for someone else. The protagonist finds herself rattled because of some minor occurrences in her daily life.
For whom does a girl keep rotating? A story of a weird relationship between a child and adults.
Short patriotic war short film by Hakusan Kimura.
Abstract animation assembled from newspapers.