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A darkly cute tale of foiled romance and contract assassinations starring Tuzki (兔斯基).

A zombie couple lived happily together under the soil of a graveyard. The zombie wife said she would cook them a delicious meal. But that dish was zombie soup. A fantastic and nonsensical film.

Gou-chan arrives on earth in search of the heart plasma that will restore peace to his home planet EX Panda. He meets a human girl named Moko, who lives on a farm with her grandfather, and several strange animals called Chinjuumin. They pass their days enjoyably, but trouble begins when humans invade the forest home of the Chinjuumin looking to capture them. Meanwhile, Moko's family life gets complicated when her grandmother arrives from the city.

Documentary on the development on trains, with animated sequences.

A girl is going along her way when a Japanese river otter catches up with her. The two try in vain to communicate while all the junk of humanity rains down around them.

A short animation is drawn on Washi paper and Cel with a marker and anime. Some Kanji ( they are used in the Japanese poem “Iroha Uta”) metamorphose into various creatures.

A photograph of Aihara’s grandmother, overlapped with a tranquil documentary style animation of her life ending at her funeral scene.

A data engineer rushes through life, believing multitasking saves time—but it only creates chaos. Despite his strict control over time, nothing gets done: his home is a mess, work overflows, and breakfast is always burnt. He discovers joy in life only when time breaks apart.

Surreal Short Movie

The lonely princess Tashen, by chance, establishes a connection with a foreign girl named Aila through a pair of twin flowers, and gradually opens up her heart while chatting with her. However, at this time, the shadow of war looms over them…

Whether their tastes lean umami or sweet, the duo here finds there is simply nothing more delish than a warm friendship.

Hans was making bread and North Wind was blowing all the flour out of his bowl. He decides to visit the North Wind in his castle to ask him to stop and for compensation. Based on a Norwegian fable...

The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father.

A visual experiment in crowd-sourcing, "Soft Pong Inari" was made entirely from pre-existing photographs of Fushimi Inari Shrine, available for modified re-use in the creative commons. The film explores how a multi-subjective viewpoint can express a sense of place and atmosphere. The soundtrack is a study by Swedish composer Palle Dahlstedt.

Japanese CGI fan film inspired by the Hideki Anno Shin series made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Godzilla vs. Hedorah.

A group of tanuki celebrate the moonrise while a rabbit on the face of the moon makes mochi in this nod to the folktale, “The Rabbit on the Moon.”

An animated work of pencil drawings produced and provided as a material for the Kanazawa College of Art encouragement research "Study on the possibility of painting-like viewing experience in analog material 8K filmed animation."

What do these creatures kept by humans think about in their lives? And how do we humans feel about the situation?

An experimental animated short film by Yoriko Mizushiri.

The Sea Slug Sisters will perform a puppet show "The Tale of Tanabata", using puppets with their figure in a small theatre. (Yuko Asano).

Nocturnal Roadwork is to end as if nothing had happened in the morning.It's a construction for repairing a road.And construction is for a scar unnoticeable, before I knew it.

My friend Emi came out in a dream. I was so surprised that I couldn't look her in the eyes.

From that day an anxiety started to root in the man's room. He just keeps walking not to sink in listlessness. This is a document to reflect my own anxiety arisen after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

A wild baseball story full of youth, blood and laughter!

Pilot episode of the famous anime Heidi.

A short film satirizing consumerism.

The mischievous Chinkoroheibei visits the underwater realm of the fish king where he tries to steal the king's treasure box.

In one place the sun rises, in another place the sun sets. When a woman's hair grows long, a man shaves off his full beard. The time may be different, but time passes in the same way in every place. The earth turns and the sun rises again... A time signal animation on the theme of "time" created for the digital signage of the Lumine Ikebukuro store. Each of the multiple frames has a structure that loops endlessly.

Apart from the fact that she looks different from the rest of her family, Kay is a normal happy 20 year old, who enjoys fighting with her sister Suzy, a computer whiz and her brother Mike, a star Dodgeball player. Ever since their father Robert disappeared several years ago, their mother Sally had taken over the household. One day, Mike discovers the secret behind Robert's disappearance and embarks a pursuit for the truth. Kay soon learns the truth that this all has to do with her past links to the Lee clan (an underground clan behind the deadly game of CRUSHBALL). Her endurance is tested to the limit in her first game. She's up against the Death God, Jin, the most powerful and destructive player in the game. Who is Kay really? And will she prove to be a CRUSHBALL player worthy of the Lee clan and save her adopted family? This action mystery depicts the unconditional love of a family and a story of fate that crossed the path of two families

An animated short by Rapparu.

She keeps a secret that can't be told, and gradually forgets it. The girl is no longer sure whether what she remembers happened in reality or in a dream.

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Young Teto rides to school on his bed to school, the lonely lighthouse keeper asks the seagull for breakfast. As various people dream of tomorrow through their imaginations, harsh, rough waves of reality crash into their imaginations as Teto wanders into the darkness.

A demon is playing the "hunt down the woman and molest her in any way humanly and inhumanly possible" game. However, there is more to that demon than meets the eye. Will the true face of the demon be revealed?

It is the day of Grandpa’s wake. Grandma is a alone in her room looking at the album full of memories of him. ‘Are you sad, Grandma?’ asks the boy. She answers her grandson merrily with jokes. . . she falls asleep and in her dream she meets a man and makes him a promise. . .

Yooko short animation.

Special OVA bundled with the "Magical Halloween: Miracle Quartet" pachinko slot machine game CD.

This is a work I created in 1991 as an attempt to become a "master" on "Yuji Miyake's Shrimp-Bending Master Heaven." Unfortunately, the show ended before I could take on the challenge. It was a fun year that taught me the obvious truth: the meaning of a work lies not in leaving it as it is, but in showing it to an audience. I'm grateful to all the staff and performers.

A short film by Taku Furukawa.

A time-lapse animation in which colors move around vividly.

When you’re tired, just leave it to Pooch to make you feel better about putting everything off for another day—or two. All you have to do is say, “Nighty-night.” A tap animation for your smartphone, coming soon in March 2022!

One day, Kanta, a lonely boy, rescues an orphaned baby deer and names it Poyu. There is something special about Poyu, his golden tail. When hunters go after Poyu, Kanta is determined to protect his golden-tailed friend and the other deer.

Short animation by Takahiro Shibata

Winter in Japan means kotatsu and mandarin oranges. Tarafu Otani used these two things to represent the birthday of Christ.

My father’s 100-year-old family home may soon be torn down. Filled with traces of past lives, it holds the weight of memory. To preserve those memories, I captured them on film.

One morning, Papa transforms into a giant insect in the futon, emerges instantly in front of the astonished family, breaks through the window and flies into the sky. Short animation by Keita Kurosaka for MTV Japan.

Neither Japanese, nor Italian, nor American cuisine, Naporitan Spaghetti sets off on a journey as an itinerant wanderer. The tragic story of Spaghetti who never learned to love others.

Contemporary Japanese painting animation using painting materials such as mineral pigments, mud pigments and metallic foil. It sensuously depicts joy and anxiety, daily elusive emotions and the subtleties of interacting with people.

Yui has become estranged from her boyfriend, who doesn't even wish her happy birthday. Her friend Aya introduces a fortune teller said to be the real deal. What does destiny hold for them? This is a romantic comedy made during self-quarantine.

A short film made by projecting onto a sculpture.

The theme is ‘one continues to live, leaving his trace.’ It is an abstract animation in which movement is done by repetition of pencil drawings and erasure on a piece of paper.

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

Moe Nagata, one of Japan's leading illustrators and picture book writers, visualizes the fairy tale masterpiece "Oyayubi-hime" while keeping the charm of her original picture. An image-rich fairy tale video.

This animation shows how the liquid in a glass erupts, spreads, mixes, and overflows.

A man shelters from an approaching storm in a seemingly abandoned house. He finds an old book entitled "Regnum Congo" and an old man who is obsessed with a disturbing illustration within it.

A kaleidoscopic animation about Deerman, whose reality starts to unravel when he becomes addicted to a pink bootleg liquor designed by ex-boxer "Luginsky".