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Along with graphic designer / ad-man Ryohei Yanagihara (柳原良平) and renowned book cover designer Hiroshi Manabe (真鍋博), Kuri formed the Animation Sannin no Kai (Animation Group of Three) in 1960. In doing so the three animators followed the footsteps of the 1950s Sannin no Kai composers (Yasushi Akutagawa, Ikuma Dan & Toshiro Mayuzumi) who banded together to stage performances of their avant-garde style of music. The Animation Group of Three showcased their work at three events: November 1960, December 1962, and April 1963. After 1964 this event expanded into a wider Animation Festival, that annually showcased the experimental fare of such artists as Taku Furukawa, Sadao Tsukioka, Goro Sugimoto, Keiichi Tanaami, and even Osamu Tezuka until 1971. Stamp Fantasy was introduced at the first Animation Group of Three screening on November 26, 1960 in the Sogetsu Art Center.

The film combines animation and mockumentary to get a glimpse of the boring but romantic daily life of a middle-aged man living alone from the perspective of a monitor. I put my emotional feelings and thoughts into this short film as a response of the pandemic. I want to illustrate the individual’s desire for love in this isolate environment.

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

Zheng Yi Sao (née Shi), forced into piracy prostitution, married Zheng Yi, co-ruling pirates with ruthless efficiency. After his 1807 death, she led the Red Banner Fleet, adopting Western tech to resist foreign invaders, becoming a legendary anti-colonial heroine in Qing China’s decline. All visual representations in this production are 100% generated by artificial intelligence (AIGC).

An animation that combines the motion of abstract lines and the motif of an apple.

Heralded by the futuristic computer-generated cityscapes that have become a signature feature of his work, Lawrence Lek’s mini-opus Geomancer is less inclined to map the building blocks of the urban architecture of tomorrow than to try and summon up the spirit of our rapidly dawning age - one whose characteristics, Lek implies, include the growing ascendancy of the cultural phenomenon of Sino-Futurism. As the geopolitical axis tilts further to the East, and as once-dominant economic/technological models are cast into doubt, Lek alights on a longstanding tension between the place of the human and the role of the machine, sharpened by contemporary hopes and anxieties around the rise of East Asia, and by speculations that new forms of artificial intelligence, already outperforming mere mortals in matters of automation and aggregation, will challenge us in more creative skills as well. (fvu.co.uk)

Animated short film

n order to sell arms, radish provokes a war between eggs and apples. Everyone is a businessman, just to do business, not want to break the balance of the galaxy... Pig, innocent is pulled down the altar...

The animation tells the story about a gloomy rainy season, a boy who accidentally met a little fox. There are two worlds, one is a humid but oppressive city, the other is bright and natural but needs water.

A huge mysterious comet is on a collision course with earth. A crash is averted, but the near miss causes tidal waves, exploding mountains and huge earthquakes. The earth cracks apart and up from the depths come creatures from the past. Huge dinosaurs begin to roam the planet, a planet now covered with swamps and jungles. Then, as suddenly as they came to life, the dinosaurs begin to die. Only the DINOSAUR PATROL can restore order on earth. Or can they?

A vampire story, told through eerie soundscapes and imagery.

A long time ago, the little bugs ate up all the wild fruits on the ground. The little bee was very anxious, but the little earthworm didn't care. Then, a heavy rain washed the little earthworms out of the cave.

12 little bears live in a dormitory on a mountain. The first 11th little bears are boys, but the 12th is a only girl, and she is a main character, Jackie. Curious and loving jokes, She is always having fun with her kind brothers. One day, Jacky and her brothers went for a trip. They met a girl bear, Katy. Jacky and Katy easily become friends. But Katy was sickly and became ill. Jacky and her brother begin an adventure to make Katy healthy.

The Jyusenki-tai/Cyber Beat Force are on their way to the Zorbados Empire's homeworld so that they can finish the war that they had fought on Earth. Awaiting them are Death Gaia, the last surviving general, and Muge Zorbados, the emperor himself. Before they arrive, though, the group looks back at all of the people who sacrificed their lives so that they could make it to this point.

Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations on the standard countdown.

One rainy day, I opened the window.

One day a little man meets an uninvited visitor. The beautiful story of their friendship is thrilling but full of warmth.

An adaptation of the 2010 Chinese video game, Roco Kingdom.

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 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.

The kitten from Yasuji Mori's earlier "Koneko no Rakugaki" returns, this time putting his talents toward directing a samurai film starring his mouse friends.

"An elf of dandelion takes off her bloom after her boyfriend, who has transformed into down a bit earlier. But there are monsters outside, and they take aim at her. In the outer world with no one to depend on, she grows up bravely."

Sora arrives at a mysterious hotel and spends a few days there, learning many things. One night, guided by the light, she steps into a large tree, where a magical space awaits her, with sparkling gems all around. Sora is absorbed in collecting the colorful, sparkling gems. What do these sparkles show?

One day, a forest fire broke out in the mountain where birds and acorns were playing happily. His mountain friends are chased down by a cliff, but he decides to use the swing to escape.

A maths test. Just a few minutes left. Yujin is concentrating when suddenly a small child shows up.

Short animation by Haruka Suzuki

It’s an underground world. Up on the ground there are many people coming and going. There lives a garbage bag. . . underground. He has no work, no home and no family. This is a story in which a dirty black garbage bag gains a new life through. . . various experiences.

When copper wire is wrapped around an iron rod and connected to a battery, it becomes an electromagnet. A science teaching material movie that explains the principle and structure of electric bells and telephones by applying the principle of an electromagnet through a fusion of live action and animation.

The animation was produced for the Tezuka Osamu Manga Museum, thus it features scenes from the "life and nature" of Tezuka Osamu's childhood, themes that are central to the museum as a whole, through exchanges between the boy Osamu and the carabid beetle (Osamushi) who provided the origin for the artist's name.

Animated short.

Tao-Tao the baby rabbit goes to a theme park and goes on a pretty cart ride.

Based on a manga by Chuusonji Yutsuko, it tells the story of OL (office lady) extraordinaire and golf fanatic Oyamada Non. She is 23 and works at Major Products in Tokyo's commercial district, Marunouchi. Between bossing her bosses and managing her managers, she finds time to golf, shop, party, and pursue the important things in life, i.e., marriageable men.

Outside a village in deep snow, there lived a boy named Kanta and his grandpa. One day, the grandpa gets sick. Kanta decides to go get firewood for his grandpa from the woodshed he is very scared of.

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.

The film is inspired by the costumes of folk art performers at Taiwan's ceremonial festivals. Adapted from the Southeast Asian folktale The Mousedeer Crosses River, it integrates similar folktale narratives from different countries to create animated puppet dancers.

Popee the Performer deals with a circus that operates in the middle of the desert. Each episode deals with the small cast of characters attempting at times to rehearse their performances, but it usually dissolves into the characters trying to humorously destroy each other in the usual cartoon manner. The star of the show, Popee, is a clown in an odd red-striped jumpsuit and bunny ears. He is adept at juggling, being a clown, pulling large knives and small bombs out of thin air. He is not adept at ever succeeding in his nefarious plans to hurt his poor assistant or the owner of the circus. His mischievous nature is the driving force of each episode.

Music video for Chiaki Maruyama's song Boukentai: Mori no Yuusha.

With the help of a small round robot, an astronaut escapes from a dimly lit prison cell and goes on exploring her surroundings.

An eastern and Feminine reinterpretation of the 7days of creation through tattoo, a primeval art itself.

There once lived two brothers in a town. The elder lived alone. The younger lived with his parents. They did not get along well... They called each other occasionally. The elder one was impatient and emotional and did nothing but work... One day the elder brother’s face turned into a tomato...

Zhang Fei solves a malicious accusation when he is taking charge of a local official.

A grand collision of Mizue’s signature visual music forms and Onohana’s mesmerizing impressionistic illustrations, featuring music by Twoth.

On the island of Okinawa, driven by his kindhearted nature, a boy named Ray determines to stop the destruction of the island's natural forests and coral reef, no matter what he has to give. What will he give to stop a tidal wave from killing the island's people?

Zero One is a code-based generative video commissioned by Zero One Technology Festival 2018 in Shenzhen, PR China. This project consists of multiple interlinked generative systems, each of which has its customized features, but collectively share the core concept of an evolving elementary cellular automaton.

Animated retelling of the Aikatsu! series.

A traditional Japanese fable telling of a kind old man, his avaricious wife and an injured sparrow. The story explores the effects of greed, friendship and jealousy on the characters.

The background is set in nostalgic Hong Kong, a man keeping having nightmares after murdering his wife. In his nightmare, a big rat always appears to make trouble.

Early experiment by Ko Nakajima.

Haru is a Japanese word that means spring (season). A lighthearted anime about spring time. It was originally set to an elementary school song. The film features several vignettes.

Short animation made by Anno in his uni days

Short film made by Michio Mihara in 2008. Key animator of Jin-Roh, Paprika, Princess Mononoke, among others.

A picture-story showman is reading a story about a troublemaking tanuki on the street to children. A starving tanuki with nowhere to go plots to steal offerings from Mangokuzan Temple, which has a lot of offerings. The raccoon sneaks into the temple. While he is eating bean-paste buns, a child bonze comes. So, the tanuki turns himself into a statue of Buddha. A shortened and revised version of The "Enchanted Kettle". According to The History of Japanese Animation written by Katsunori Yamaguchi and Yasushi Watanabe, the picture-story scene at the beginning of the film and the scene of the raccoon dog dancing at the end were added in this version.

Tia arrives on the island of Marcleida with her trusted sword 'Grandeek,' which holds a spirit within that helps her on her quests. She is soon turned away however. Determined to get on the island, Tia searches for a way past the fences that guard the entrance, as another stranger arrives on the island to take on a mysterious job. Someone has been killing the inhabitants of the island and has the ability to appear and disappear at will. Seems the sword 'Aihorn' has been stolen and the spirit that resides within it seeks vengenance on those who killed its master 50 years before.

The series follows Kou Ootori, an ordinary high school student who experiences a recurring nightmare of being eaten alive by a beast from within. However, when he meets Reiichi Kuki, an upperclassman who controls the school, the curtain of fate unravels.

Nobita and friends engage in an all out robot war in this unofficial installment of the Doraemon series.

Yurado dreams of being a commentator just like her mom. As her mom works, Yurado makes a diorama with Kangaskhan in the next room—and then something mega occurs!