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A special performance for Laforet, the large department store/museum in Harajuku.

Your first date becomes your worst nightmare...

A collection of Hello Kitty and Friends holiday specials. Includes Hello Kitty - Santa's Missing hat, Keroppi - the Christmas Eve GIft, and Santa and His Reindeer Kuppi. (1995) From the Family Home Entertainment Christmas classics series.

The short film is the earliest surviving Japanese anime broadcast on television. Originally airing on July 14, 1958, on NTV and again on October 15, 1958, the nine-minute animation was the first televised Japanese animation and the first example of a full color broadcast.

Animation by Ginko Abe. Music by Abhi Tambe.

A spring night, I walked past a ‘god’. I wonder if it was a cat or a man. Or was it a wind I felt in a slumber? They were certainly there, celebrating the cycle of lives in small ways.

Short animation by Haruka Suzuki

A short morality/folktale film about an old couple that learn the virtue of not being greedy.

An unemployed man picks up a flyer which happens to be a notice asking for investors to put up capital for raising a sunken ship. The sum is 10 yen each. To the man, who cannot even scrape together enough money to buy a 10-sen shochu (cheap distilled spirits), this notice seems to be completely beyond his realm. That evening, the man passes by a bar and is enticed inside where he drinks himself to sleep. When he comes to, he realizes that he is at the bottom of the sea. The man meets a samurai who is suspicious of him at first, but when he realizes that the man is Japanese, they cooperate to hunt for treasure. Almost immediately, they come upon the sunken ship of Mononai-go. What will become of them?

It's Halloween, Tuxedo Sam and Chip decide to investigate a haunted house in order to take back candy stolen by ghosts, but what will they discover?

An alien girl is fascinated by Earth, until she witnesses something terrible.

Mirai Mizue set up a camera over a water tray with an illuminated white background (presumably an animation table) and experimented with the flow of aqueous ink over the surface of the water using stop motion animation techniques.

A dutiful young fisherboy sets out to catch his grandfather's favorite fish, which leads him into an extraordinary encounter with a magic pot.

An old donkey, who had been working hard for a farmer, quits his job and heads for the town, where he meets a dog, a cat, and a cat. The four animals work together to come up with a plan to surprise the thieves.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.

A town flourishes on the sea, and a weed takes shelter there. From then on, the weed endlessly repeats its small and harsh life. The weed uses its own body to perform a dance that condenses the things perceived in that town over a lifetime.

At night, the child sees the sandy figure coming into his room. It lures his stuffed animal away from the shelf and they are gone beyond the hill. Following them to get his stuffed animal back, the child goes into the deep darkness of the night. . .

Working since before WW2, UEDA Shoji pierced through amateurism, Then, in his picture world he takes, cuts and rearranges photos through his own sensibility, which takes him to the new media that is Ga-nime, encouraged by his friend the actor SANO Shiro, born in the same prefecture. The pictures used for this exhibition are not only from his most famous “Dune Mode” series, but also of many pre/post-war pictures of his birthplace, streetcars running in Tokyo, and traditional scene of Japan, through which a whole culture appears.

In the near future, transportation has developed. The Japanese government, feeling that the conventional police were limited in their power of maintaining security, decided to allow citizens to assist with arresting criminals with the limitation of being limited to the designated area. This was the birth of the Deliver Police. The main character, Taichi, has dreamt of being a hero since he was a child, is active as one of those Delivery Police, in addition to his main job of making anime. Can he and operator Kazuko arrest the villains in time?

The preschooler Mako and the rabbit Pico learn what to watch out for when walking on the road. The work combines animation and live action to help young children learn the rules of the road in a fun and easy-to-understand way.

Two girls were watching a street performer. The girls sang out loud and the performer brought them up front so that they could sing for the audience. (Source: MyAnimeList.net)

Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

The place is Kyoto, Japan. The bride has a mishap just before the wedding ceremony. Her father and mother get into a panic, her younger sister runs around, and her pet just sits still. This is a story of a family.

A Yasuji Murata version of the classic Japanese story Saru Kani Gassen.

It was a season when the tree leaves turn red. There was a woman crying in front of the child’s [body]. She takes the shadow off. . . her dead son. Just to stay with him she runs with the shadow in her arms through the town at night. Then she makes a promise. . .

The Christmas Special aired in December 2000 and featured Piyoko again attempting to capture Dejiko by inviting all the characters on a cruise.

Residents of the Prism World Momo and Penguin-sensei work together to introduce various Prism Shows throughout the history of Aurora Dream, Dear My Future, and Rainbow Live. Within the many Prism Shows performed by Aira, Mia, Naru and their friends, only ten rank on top.

Short animation by Simon Feat at Tokyo University of the Arts

Video with the theme of "war" by DIR EN GRAY's song of the same name. Live-action video work including animation.

Vocal calisthenics and an ultra stunning example of the art of synchronisation.

The Shinano Mainichi Shimbun, a Japanese local newspaper based in Nagano, has created "A Family Story" - a new flip book animation together with Tekken who is famous for his work "Pendulum". This animation was created using an actual newspaper printing press

Eleven cats take part in a marathon. The marathon course begins in a shopping district and takes in mountains and valleys, an amusement park, ruins, and a maze. And cheering on the "Eleven Cats' Marathon" is an audience of cats!

An experiment concerning the attempts at creating a ‘moving image’ long before the invention of cinema. A re-experiencing of the history of ‘magic with light’ unfolds through the use of various devices and techniques, including flip-book animation and Muybridge’s photographs in motion zoopraxiscope. (IFFR)

A music video by Koji Yamamura.

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

It is a fantasy piece about a young man disappointed with the world and himself who bargains with God for salvation.

What is it about living things that makes us desperately want to warm them up when they are dead?

The son of a local grub shop is goaded by his father into seeking his fortune as a chef. He attracts the attention of powerful culinary forces as well as rivalry (and potential love interest) from the female descendant of a legendary cooking family. He engages in competitions to prove his prowess and improve his skills, finding unique and novel solutions to the problems that face him.

A man walks. His form wobbles precariously. The world is hard to tell subjective or objective. His body is cut in pieces. Only the power of image can make these unite.

Ki-No-Ko is a surreal five-minute short film published on Art of Silent Hill, Lost Memories: The Art & Music of Silent Hill and The Silent Hill Experience.

Even though I feel like I'm living in the now, here, I think I just end up being in nowhere all the time. And in the nowhere, I find the now and the here.

The story of Nosferatu vampires glimpsed by a boy who gets lost in a forest.

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

Animated short film

A husband tells his wife a story about the stars while looking up at the night sky. It’s about twin granny aliens whose kind are on the verge of extinction and their efforts to prevent it. How will their story end…?

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

It shows the Olympic Games on Dankichi Island, where humans and animals compete against each other, in the categories: relay race, tug-of-war and tree-changing race. Who will be the champion?

ANIMA is a dance animation movie representing a human "life."

Alien Human asks us, “Is human the only species who can hurt each other psychologically?” In Wen Pang’s animated reimagining of a comic series by Yuewei Wang, four short stories are pared down to four fleeting poems—Pearl, The Goldfish, Ocean and Hole. An audiovisual pleasure that will delight even those among us who think they don’t care for animation. The first moment the velvety narrator promises, “If you hold your breath long enough, I’ll take you to another world,” let yourself be transported.

A boy encounters a trace of his lost father on tracks where time comes and goes, at a station where time stops. With the help of a mysterious projectionist, the boy and station master search for the truth of the father's image.

Lumps of clay fall into the grey space. The white clay turns into a man, the black clay into a monster. The two lose their flesh every time they move so they start a battle to stay alive.

Animated promotional short for Persona 2: Innocent Sin.

Short animated film by Mitsuyo Seo

"Hana wa Saku" is a song written by Shunji Iwai and Yoko Kanno to support NHK's reconstruction efforts in the areas hardest hit by the 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake. An animated music video was created in commemoration of the two-year anniversary of the disaster and broadcast on NHK G.

Anpanman to start it ! Learn numbers, colors and shapes. Step 1 Genki 100 times! Color Kazu - kids intellectual training on subjects of challenge, life, the theme of discipline, English, Hiragana, colors and numbers.

A homeless thief takes the sacred rope from a bolder to cover a bloody wound, not realising what evil it will unleash.

A donut-shaped image floating in the center of the screen begins to move like a living creature. The colors and patterns are constantly changing, gradually gaining strength, and eventually leading to an explosive radial movement.

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

The Orcoro Circus is a band of people who have come together to bring joy to people's faces. Julio, a young boy in the Orcoro circus, wants to be a professional and famous Monster Breeder. One day after a performance a mysterious beautiful girl with special powers by the name of Nayuta came to force her way into the circus troop.

Story of Hagoromo, or feather robe from heaven, is a legend of Miho Beach. An angel sets her foot on the beach to bathe in the sea. Watching her, a fisherman sneaks her robe out, but returns it due to feeling guilty. That makes the angel very happy and she flies up to. . . heaven, dancing in the sky.