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Short experimental film by Takashi Ohashi

Dogs play a game of rugby against a team of unscrupulous monkeys.

This film depicts evolution from birth of life to whale in the sea with music and images by dedication to the American contemporary composer George Crumb's "Vox Balaenae (1971)" .There are 4 part, Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic.

This film is an allegory towards clumsy people. Having met egocentric people, I go down the stairs of melancholia. I get swallowed up by the waves that I myself create. I know life is not only bad... But who am "I"? What am "I"?

Short animation by Takahiro Shibata

A psychedelic animation that starts with an irregular ink spread and develops while increasing the degree of confusion.

The gaki is a "biwa" player of the ogre, who plays the instrument well. When he starts to play it at the veranda, surroundings transform into the profound and remote world. Characters come out from the electric wire and then they start to dance to the melody on the line. The music turn into the wind and the wind calls the waves. The gaki integrates with the waves.

A somewhat historical tale about a famous Japanese businessman who made his fortune by shipping oranges from the farmlands to the capital city of Edo.

Memories from the ancient times have been engraved on his body. "Where do we come from?"he asks,"Where are we going?" Would the light guide us there? This is a journey of blind pursuit for wisdom.

When one butterfly falls, a wave is born from it, the wave becomes a bubble, and various lives are born and disappear.

Butterfly, a faithful Japanese wife, waits patiently in Nagasaki for the return of her American husband, Pinkerton. She sees the Stars and Stripes fluttering atop an approaching ship and rightly surmises that Pinkerton is onboard. However, the feckless foreigner is arriving in the company of his "real" Caucasian wife, causing the heartbroken Butterfly to commit suicide. This masterpiece of Japanese silhouette animation makes the best of its source material.

Mirai Mizue continues his experimentation with music and movement in his latest "cell animation," Tatamp. Not to be confused with the animation technique of "cel animation," Mizue’s unique style of "cell animation" is hand-drawn and colored on paper then scanned onto the computer for editing. The name refers to the fact that the creatures that he draws resemble amoeba and other minute organic creatures one might find under the lens of a microscope.

An animated movie in the works adapting the Japanese superhero franchise 'Kamen Rider'. Plot TBA

A troubled high schooler makes a startling discovery at the bottom of an old swimming pool.

An unexpected snowfall interrupts a hot summer day! What will three friends do when they discover the source of the flurry is a Pokémon in distress?

The everyday life of an elephant and a woman, his wife in a lakeside house. Their life together with a certain distance repeats itself. The traces of the passing time cover the familiar landscape. One day an accident happens to the couple living together with contradictions and secrets

He’ has kept moving forward through his life. Nothing else bothered him. But, one day by chance he realized that he has definitely grown old. And eventually he makes a complete stop.

Cute, pop, comical and funny colorful animation. Cute food character "Lemon-chan" fights!

Lisa Fukaya's short film.

A collaboration between Ponkotsu Quest and the video game Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth - Hacker's Memory for the latter's release on December 14, 2017.

Graduation work of Mayuko Miyashima at Tama Art University.

Midnight. A construction site. A man with a colored corn head and a woman with pink hair meet in a powerful encounter. A provocative tale of love, right and wrong over a quarter of a century between two outcasts. A sensational subject matter and a staggered ethical viewpoints are explored in this latest work of the artist's best work! We run, leaving the world behind.

Preserved Japanese paper film.

Animation work that approached relation of score without time that undertakes expression and the blueprint with time axis of music axis. The time axis was given to the score and "Made of the score an image" was tried. It keeps likening the music sheet to the bird that stopped in the electric wire, and the image doing the panning.

A one-off TV-Special featuring characters from Koha-Ace.

Looking for a challenge, Emi, an impetious gamer enlists her pal Hiroshi to illegally hack her VR game console together with her AI device so that she can play in a fully AI created VR game world. At first it appears to be a typical RPG (role playing game) set in medieval Japan with plenty of action, but bizarre events begin to take place, and she gets separated from Hiroshi. Will Emi prevail and escape with her life or does the AI have other plans...?

In the afternoon on a sunny day, a middle-aged man goes for a walk to meet his favorite ducks...

The story of Three Brave Frogs.

A man who had diarrhea after eating an expired potato salad wanders into a strange personal space.

A normal day turns into a day of adventure when an elevator that carries a boy does not stop where it should.

The world that appears calm on the surface is, in fact, quietly changing. One day, a man as unshakable as a mountain fell because of a toothache.

An unauthorized compilation film.

Shinjuku forest at night. In the sap taverns of insects and their neighborhoods, the honey dumplings that drive the body crazy have begun to flow. It seems that Club Swallowtail's "Yuko" is involved with the stag beetle gang leader "Suigyu", who has a crush on him.... Kiri, an informant behind the scenes, and Hitoshi, a silent insect slayer, are on the move. Behind Yuko's back is a bewitching queen bee, and a beautiful butterfly, Ageha, is chasing after her... Money and power, love and hatred turn one midsummer night into a nightmare. The stag beetle, rhinoceros beetle, and wasp families, as well as a group of goldfish, are all caught in the middle of the bloodshed. What will Hitoshi and the others see? Hitoshi's blade shines and roars in the dark night where not even the moonlight can reach!

While trying to get super powers from Hirako to beat Anpanman Baikinman is accidentally turned into a baby.

Almost everyone in a contemporary society is picked up and moved by someone or something like a ‘Sugoroku’. The first one which picks up is ‘Parents’. A hero grows up along a ‘Sugoroku’. This work describes. . . the process of his growth as he depends on his parents. . . One day he decides to cut off his relationship with his family.

A young alien named Bytheway arrives on Earth to see its legendary sharks. But just as he begins his exploration, all the city lights suddenly go out, and communication is lost! In the southern sky, massive thunderclouds loom, while in the north, a mysterious red light flickers. What could be happening?

The girl Nycteris has only known a world of perpetual shadows. Lured through a portal to the outside world, she emerges into a realm of life and colour. There she encounters the boy Photogen, a child of the light, terrified by the darkness. Promising new anime talent Naoki Arata’s first short film is a gorgeous, gothic fantasy in miniature, adapting a Victorian fairy tale.

A short film by Taku Furukawa.

Animated short

This is a story about a country of "Sukima", a tranquil country that is in between the worlds. Porta, the hero in this story leisurely delivers parcels for everyone in town, riding on Robaroba, his partner. Will Porta be able to deliver important parcels safely? Zouzou, Kabakaba and variety of other characters are expected to be in the story. This is the first original animation of Ryoji Arai, the winner of Astrid Lindgren Award.

A stop-motion short film created by Yoshiro Kimura and Motosuke Kuroda.

The short follows Maya's day at work at the Tamaya Shichi Pawn Shop.

This 1982 image was based on the Italian comic book "Altri Mondi" by Andrea Romoli. This is a six-minute pilot for the series "Spaceship Sagittarius".

Animation and music by Manabu Himeda.

"The Queen of Dots is also a queen of Instagram and Tumblr. Two minutes and two seconds. Love forever."

The scenery of the forest in Ogawa and the city of Kyoto and the abstract animation conceived from there are juxtaposed.

A young girl dreams in the midst of her routine life.

A short animated film about how to keep germs at bay.

Short animated film by Yanagihara Ryouhei.

A boy works hard to please his lord and gain advancement. Short film from 1938.

Short animation by Saori Shiroki.

An extraordinary animated work composed of 99 still images. The bizarre story of the mechanized walking doll “Margaret” kidnapping and confining a female student in a sailor-style school uniform is realized with a precisely calculated method of full in-camera editing of one 100-foot reel. The filmmaker himself appears in this humorous, radical Pop film, one of Nakamura’s best-known works.

Mirai Mizue’s familiar amoeba-like cells cross with kinetic sketched lines and shapes in a colorful burst of energy suited for all audiences. Music by Twoth. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

A girl reads a book titled “The Anatomy of Feelings” in a room floating on the sea.

Futako, a woman made from the remains of fireworks, is fated to explode at the fireworks festival this summer. After spending time with Ichiro, she forgets her role as a firework and is forcibly reincarnated at a special ritual.

One day, a boy who separated from his mother’s hand is deprived of his fingers. His fingers become a larva and part from his hand. The house. . . conceal[s] a relationship between the two from anyone. How does the boy who is deprived of his fingers grow up?