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A Japanese equivalent of a Hollywood Screen Song.

The short film features Pyramid Head and a Lying Figure from Silent Hill 2, the Fukuro Lady, and many monsters from early sketches for Silent Hill 2. The film contains disturbing, surreal imagery.

Very early animated short from Japan featuring a cast of anthropomorphic animals.

Independent animation by Suzuki Shin'ichi.

Short by Koji Yamamura

A short experimental animation by Keiichi Tanaami.

In a city where wearing a bucket is mandatory, a man puts it on each day to protect his stable "life". He blacks out documents belonging to complete strangers. One day, after a minor accident, his bucket comes off — and he notices an old man making strange claims.

After getting lost in Spaghetti Kingdom, will Tsuna and his friends make it back safely?

One of Toei Animation's first animated short films in color.

Kōichi, a young Japanese, moves to Los Angeles chasing his dream of becoming an actor.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

Music video for the song "Punpun Polka" by Hiroshi Ashino that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

A meteorite collision plunged Earth into apocalypse, and the remnants of humanity went in two different directions to survive. The aristocratic Dobias headed into space, while the earthy Shioru went underground. Centuries later, they returned to Earth's surface and are now fighting for control of the planet—that is, when they're not busy fending off a new species of predators known simply as Creatures.

One-sided love is like a seed quietly planted in the stomach. It awakens slowly, sprouting and blossoming, by the hair behind the neck, by the itch of wind-tossed hair brushing across fingers. That itch becomes a desire, a desire to reach to the other side…

There is a stone pillar that continues long and long. Climbers are climbing it. Each climber keeps climbing the stone pillar spending time. They are the symbols of accumulation.

In the evening of a village festival, a young boy named Bunroku goes to the festival with his friend and visits a clog shop on the way. There he learns an old superstition about the fox.

The project reimagines the historical castles in Japan as giant robots that transform and combine. In particular, the above short features the Kumamoto, Takamatsu, and Aizu-Wakamatsu Castles. A group of children and the Shirodama (the castles' souls, who are actually historical army commanders) join forces to pilot the castles.

In 1999, Tabaimo exhibited her undergraduate thesis work, Japanese Kitchen and was awarded the prestigious Kirin Contemporary Award, marking the beginning of her international career.

The second year of a project to draw graffiti of light that looks like lightning. We left Japan and extended the circle of the project to Los Angeles and Ottawa.

On the night of the blue moonlight, the girl has a magical dream. She meets a mushroom fairy who takes her to their festival.

An animated “documentary” that retells the story of a 1934 hostage crisis that occurred in China.

An omnibus OVA where three elementary school students, Manabu, Ryota, and Mina, deal with mysteries they encounter at their school. This OVA is split into two stories of 15 minutes each: "Poisonous spiders at school" and "Hanako-san's hand". This OVA is based on the "Hontoni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series derived from the "Hontoni Atta Gakou Kaidan" series published by Asahi Sonorama.

One night Mr. K went for a walk with his pet...

Reward yourself or give a gift to your loved ones around you.

We should never forget our manners no matter how much we may excel in martial arts. Learn lessons from Yoshichiro's failure.

The “living wall” reshapes itself into various forms like a large fallen tree to a dying monster. This metamorphosis evokes a fascinating sense of freedom though imagination, assisted by the detailed yet unrestrained paint strokes and faint vocal echos

A story of two boys told through a dragonfly specimen. Is the story told from the boy’s side? Or is this a dragonfly’s dream?

Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

Hello, my Utopia friends Hello, my Realism friends And hello, my Utopia Realism Friends

A train as it travels through the countryside.

2315. Humanity was defeated at the end of the war, refusing to coexist with machines with intelligence born from a certain accident, "Machine Intelligence". Driven from the ground, they hid in large shelters. Hundreds of years later. The nation has lost its form, some vigilante groups such as the "Security Forces" are in control of the people and facilities, and humanity, who has stopped even counting the calendar, has only surrendered itself to gradual destruction. 2824, a blind girl who once fought as a soldier of the Security Forces, "Tenshu Mikoto" is an engineer girl who manipulates the Security Forces Organoid Organoid, 13th Generation Cradle--F/V-10 Honet-C. Along with Noriko, she earns a living by salvaging and repairing machines and batteries in the discarded section as an outcast "Outer" who does not belong to any community.

Konigiri-kun is an energetic rice ball boy, with a triangular body and a sesame salt head. He goes to the birthday party of his friend, Mini Tomato. Believe it or not, his home is the highest point of a high-rise apartment! They get straight into a gondola and head off! Good heavens! The roof next door has been blown away by the winds! Ms. Tori (bird) desperately tries to protect her children, but neither the rain, nor the wind are stopping. But everything’s okay because Konigiri-kun is coming with his parasol to help!

The heroin has been living life as an undergraduate. There is nothing remarkable about her. However, she has noticed there is something strange about her friends recently. She learned that they were getting mad about ‘job-hunting’. Without realizing what it is, the heroine also gets drawn into the Nipponese job-hunting swirl.

A retired frog samurai wants nothing more than to be left alone and spend his remaining years in peace on the golf course. But when he unwillingly becomes the protector of a baby turtle he must draw his club for one more round. An animated amphibious adventure for golfers of all ages.

The story follows a hapless budding guitarist nicknamed "Piyohiko" who gets steered into the music business by a mysterious man named Jaguar — if Piyohiko would play a recorder instead of a guitar. (Source: Anime News Network)

The dialogue in question takes place between a woman, who appears to be submerged in water, and a man who sits by a tree on sandy soil. The messages the couple sends back and forth to one another take the form of metaphor: a seed, a fish, a thorn, and so on.

The soundless stop-motion paint-on-glass film by Koji Yamamura showcases the different seasons. He created the short in his early career in 1988. It is unclear whether the public could have seen it before its upload on YouTube in 2019.

This is a story of a little girl who believes she can hatch an egg one day if she keeps it warm.

A mysterious yellow ball falls down into the present city across time and space. It involves many people and unfolds various dramas.

A series of short clips that look like different kinds of ads, with Tamala sharing bits of her own story.

A man is continually stalked by a small woman named Kemoko who is utterly in love with him.

Two lovers, Akira and Yumi, break up and find other relationships. But the new arrangements are unsatisfactory, and they slowly gravitate back toward one another.

After losing his cat Nyago, young Naoki’s consciousness isn’t ready to let go of his beloved companion just yet. Diagnosed, institutionalised and heavily medicated, he enters a system that dulls his mind and threatens their precious bond.

Stop motion animation of an old Japanese fairy tale. A poor man trades a piece of straw for a more expensive item. In the course of his journey, he manages to finally exchange the last item for a villa.

Short animation by Renzo and Sayoko Kinoshita satirizes in a non narrative way the 'economic animal' Japan and predicted the economic recession in the 70s

Another Anpanman adventure!

A boy who wanted to see his friend Primeape not angry, and tried various things while keeping an observation diary during his summer vacation. Despite failing many times, the boy finally finds an answer.

In 1930's England, a young woman enters an abandoned manor while looking for someone and becomes imprisoned by a cult of young girls who live on a strange airship. They force her to work for them. She must get her bearings and escape. (A compilation of all the FMV cutscenes from the game)

A black-and-white short by Mitsuyo Seo.

When I touched the sack of cod roe for the first time, it felt exactly like my thighs. It was light pink and so soft. Maybe my whole world is made of squishy fish eggs.

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

Eight woman, one life. Short animation by Sumito Sakakibara. The 9th Japan Media Art Festival Animation Division Grand Prize Winner

A woman and man speak over the telephone. From the woman to the man, from the man to the woman, their feelings, love and hate get mingled.

A short experimental animated film featuring flowers and patterns.

On a winter's night a bear, a fox and a squirrel seek refuge from the cold. They are drawn by the hearths in the homes of two woodcutters. One man treats them poorly, while the other welcomes them.

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

Before dawn, with everything covered in fog, a crow's funeral commences.