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Back in the waring States Period, the King of Qi enjoyed listening to the pipe played by 300 people. Knowing nothing about playing pipe, Mr. Nanguo somehow made his way to the band.

Independent animation by Suzuki Shiniichi

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

Opening its eyes, the moon that fell to the depths of the sea was met with complete darkness. Will the moon be able to return to its home in the sky?

Young-soo has a strange encounter on the way back from the sanatorium where he left his mother.

Architect A is an architect who builds a house in a very special way. He builds a house that resembles the way that person has lived by collecting materials from the client's life. However, he gives up on architecture after an unexpected accident. One day, an elderly woman comes to his house and shows out a fish-shaped wind chime, which A and his wife sculpted a long time ago, requesting A to build her own house. Architect A hesitates because of his trauma after the unexpected accident, but the fish-shaped wind chime brought back the beautiful memories with his wife and that made him accept the request. In the process of building a house, flashing back an elderly woman's life, Architect A faces his painful memories, but he finally completes the request and finishes building his own house as well, which has not been completed for a long time due to his trauma.

Koichi and his sister Yuki befriend Hanaguro, a swan who has flown to Japan from Siberia. Hanaguro is attacked by a dog, and the cowardly Koichi flees, but that night he has a dream in which he is whisked away to the Kingdom of Snow Prince, where he finds the bravery to help the other swans.

The sequel to Superflat Monogram (2003). The short celebrates six years of collaboration between Louis Vuitton and Japanese modern artist Takashi Murakami.

When a young girl of a generationally owned fishball noodle stall gets a chance to change her life, she must first confront her strict grandmother. A story dedicated to family, food and all the love that gets lost in between the chaos. Student short film made for senior thesis requirements at Loyola Marymount University by Sum Yi "Ashley" Ma, Yuxin Zhou and Danica Dickison.

In a dystopian world, male shoes dominate and the females—high-heels with spindly vines—are kept strictly for breeding purposes. Under disguise, a female breaks loose and attempts to move beyond her confines. Her attempt alters not only her fate but the very fabric of society.

Far away from the universe… The dinosaur, Dr. Tru who escaped from Dino World is on the verge of destruction due to a meteor impact! He accidentally crashed into a spaceship to Mudeung Mountain in Gwangju, Korea! Four dinosaur eggs from Seokseokdae hatched to the dinosaur hero, Dinoman to protect the earth! Three years later, the space robot specialized in martial arts invades the earth to catch endangered animals. Dinoman and his friends are dispatched in cool vehicles, defeating them with great wit and courage!!

A man is tasked to observe and report on a dwarf, but an accident occurs during lunch.... Individuality and humanity are rubbed out for maintenance of group order and daily continuity.

Animation by Katomomo. Music by Kazune Yamagata.

In front of a girl with the traditional Japanese hairstyle, a small man on a desk says, "women descended from tobacco." The girl laughs at him and traps him under a glass. The angry man puffs on a cigarette in a pipe and blows smoke at the girl. The girl takes the cigarette from the man and puts it under her book. When the man threatens her with a gun, the girl throws the cigarette into the yard. The man becomes really angry and tries to shoot her, but the gun does not fire. In the end, the man starts telling her about the beginning of tobacco. According to the 1926 film censor record, the original one reel version had a total length of 174 meters and lasted 6 min. The second half of the film is missing from the existing version. (animation.filmarchives.jp)

Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

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

A short animation from Xinxin Liu.

A short animated film by from 1959.

Three 10-minute videos present a trippy view into the minds of their creators. Scientific Attack Force features three shorts done in very different styles. PLASTIC GUN MAN, a 3D Western spoof, WORLD MECCANO TRIANGLE, a music video reminiscent of '90s era screensavers. HAIIROGAOKA NO SORIDAIJIN (translated as "Prime Minister of Gray Hill"), an anime-style animated video parody of Akira Mochizuki's famous 1977 manga, Yuuhi ga Oka no Souri Daijin.

The dead are transformed into photographs and loved by people. If you touch their cheeks in the photo, they are certainly there.

Domo-kun and Charo meet a strange girl in the hustle and bustle Tokyo. Since "that day", she has not gone back home. When Charo gives the girl a wreath of Gerbera plants, she accidentally sneezes. A burst of magic came out of the Gerbera, and a flower train emerges from the middle of a flower garden. As the three board the flower train, it starts moving toward the girl's hometown. However, what awaits them is a ferocious storm! Animated short to support the reconstruction of areas hit by the 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake.

Yu-Gi-Oh! CARD GAME THE CHRONICLES is a special 6-minute animation produced by KONAMI animation to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game.

In a small village overlooking the scenic Himalayas, a young boy, Suruya, receives a letter from a princess. It's a heartbreaking cry for help. Suruya, who is not the most courageous of boys, sets out to rescue the princess, managing to find the courage to carry out his mission along the way.

Koji Yamamura's allegory the immutability of time, love and devotion, and the unbreakable nature of the parent-child bond, into interlacing story.

An omnibus movie consisting of three stories by Miyazawa Kenji.

Minimalistic abstract hand made animation from the award winning Mirai Mizue.

Spacewarp is a collaborative audiovisual piece commissioned by Audi & UCCA Lab. All visuals are programmed and generated using Processing. The soundtrack "Denatonium" is produced by 3ASiC.

On a sunny day, the old man brings umbrella with him. On his way it starts raining, and he sees a woman carrying a child. He hurries over them, to cover them with his umbrella. Someone felt envious of them, trying to steal the umbrella...

The world is filled with smells -- good smells, nasty smells, nasty but good smells, addictive smells, captivating smells, reminiscent smells, and so many more. What's that smell?

Untitled is a collage film that combines the image and sound of Takashi Makino, the music of Lawrence English and the automatic writing text of Esperanza Collado, produced between March and June 2020, when the first attack of the coronavirus shook the world.

Ohei is brought to the lake where the kappa reside.  The kappa king announces there will be a celebration for Ohei and the kappa celebrate with drums and dancing.

One summer day, a quiet boy, who is playing on a local baseball team, has a strange experience.

In spring, the fox is busy partying. On the other hand, the diligent raccoon dog family works hard in the fields even in the hot summer and are ready for the fall harvest. The fox makes fun of the raccoon dog family sweating as they carry their crops and steals a rabbit’s food in front of the raccoon dogs. When cold winter comes, the raccoon dog family enjoy themselves around a fire, but the fox wanders in the snow searching for food. The fox works out a plan to rob the raccoon dogs of the stock of food in their warehouse by starting a phantom fire. The fox changes into the shape of a truck and gets away with the food, but a raccoon dog turns into a sleigh and chases it. A battle of transformation between the fox and raccoon dogs starts in the air. One raccoon dog, reduced to one wing is facing a tough fight, but his family helps him with an anti-aircraft gun and finally fights off the fox.

Seer 6 is a Chinese animated fantasy adventure film based on the online game of the same name.

The second in Tomoyasu's My Road series.

At a Shogi-chess game, the players start pondering opponent’s game strategy or calculations. They lose themselves in their deep contemplation.

Earth is the place and the established existence. Earth is also a ball of dust, and a capricious object. At the avalanche of time-layer, falling deep down into the ground, you can see the fallacious landscape far from reality. The body recognizes the reality of the world by touching the landscape to regain the reality. It is an adventure between the real and the unreal.

A short experimental animation by Keiichi Tanaami.

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

The film is a journal of a woman who travels in time, in peoples and in mind.

A messenger receives a letter every time he delivers a package for the Kabbalah Man. One day, he finds him working at an ice cream stand by the road.

Parallel lines sometimes intersect.

In Korean funerary tradition, when a person dies, their soul must cross a river called Samdocheon within three days to reach the afterlife. They are not alone on this journey, wooden spirit guides known as Kkokdu accompany them to ensure that death is not a lonely passage. Haesol follows the story of a timid young boy training to become a Kkokdu. One day, he is unexpectedly assigned to guide a soul who has lost both her name and her memory.

When Japan is flooded by Western civilization... or the invader invaded.

A short film spelling Tokyo in hiragana.

There is a huge fish that swallows boys. A boy tries to fish using himself as bait. He sails a boat to eat this huge fish.

Doki, a female rabbit, falls in love with, and chases Nabi, a male cat, in a world where love between rabbit and cat is socially unacceptable.

In bed, late on a sleepless night in the depth of winter, Eujin finds a small dust kid. She decides to do the cleaning she has been putting off for so long. Cleaning every corner of her room, she keeps finding other dust kids here and there, and starts clearing them up one by one. Just when she thinks she has cleaned her room and the dust kids are all gone now, she comes face to face with another one… When I am at home alone, I sit silently and mull over many things. As I think, my brain fills with pointless worries and anxiety. That’s when I start to clean my room. As I clean busily, wash the dishes and do the laundry I’ve been putting off, my anxiety disappears naturally.

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

The very short adventures of a samurai and his fighting bear.

An Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman at a graveyard in Tokyo.

Based on the visual novel by Overdrive. The what-if story reunites the Second Literature Club Band members Kirari, Chie, Shikanosuke, and Sarina, several months after the concert in the d2b vs Deardrops ~Cross the Future~ fan disk.

Short film by Ryohei Yanagihara.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.