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A puppet animation based on the folk tale Kaguyahime.

Clips of illustrations by illustrator Chuck Mori centered around Kumakikai are set to various music.

The movement of light due to reflection, transmission, and refraction that occurs on the surface and inside of a diamond.

The third of five brand new video vignettes from Maywa Denki, a Japanese musical toy company and art initiative, using MIDI and animatronics to bring their popular Otamatone device and its assortment of associated kawaii noisemakers to life.

Short CG clips compiled to an artsy DVD experience. FeiFei is a "virtual idol", the clips are entirely computer generated, except for the longest story where FeiFei is placed in a natural environment.

A short film by Taku Furukawa.

A CGI-animated short movie featuring Godzilla and Gamera.

This is an experimental animation made by Tarafu Otani

A tired woman missed her last train home. She has to wander the city all night long, but she discovers that she's not the only soul waiting for the sun to rise.

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.

Short animation by Suzuki Haruka

Short movie by Tarafu Otani This is an animation made by time-lapse photography and live-action synthesis of a green bean ladder.

A short film satirizing consumerism.

Gestalt was shot over the course of a year in a Tokyo dormitory. Each day, Ishida would paint on the wall and photograph it using the available light from the window. The 7-minute long film, which is accompanied by haunting organ music composed by J.S. Bach, consists of those several seconds of film Ishida shot daily.

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

The visuals are by Peacedelic Artist Hiroyuki Nakano; Art Direction by Hiromichi Oohashi; music by Trippy House Sync Full EFX Kino Moderno. Six tracks: Funky Booster, Into the Future, Hi-Life, Rift, SYNC YOU, The Globe.

Independent animation by Hideki Nakagawa. This short film is his graduation project in 2012

A little story about a little boarlet.

Five orphans walk along a ditch in a society where protests against the government are on the rise.

Animated short film

One day, Masaki Inoue, who has quit his job and is living as a NEET, is sent from his closet by a mysterious alien to the mysterious planet Inoue. He ends up on a planet where he finds himself, inhabited by mass-produced Masaki Inoues just like himself. This eccentric puppet film depicts the fluctuation of individual identity, the establishment of oneself, and growth, with a cosmic expanse!

A huge garbage dump where old tires are piled up place turns into a different world late at night when no one's around. The old tires come to life, transforming their appearances and immersing themselves in boxing.

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Set to Fantasia-like music, the anime pans over a town during their Christmas celebrations while Santa flies across the sky.

This animation records the moment three women’s voices reached me—their childhood selves, longing for their mothers, unhealed wounds, and the search for belonging. They want to grow up but cannot. Through their own words, I convey your voice.

The title of this film symbolizes the two extremes of bipolar disorder. The story is about many rocks in my head, a cat and a dog. The dog often appears during the day and the cat at night. Of these two beings that live in my head, the cat's presence always makes me feel mentally ill and triggers all sorts of bad emotions and all sorts of bad feelings. Therefore, I prefer dogs to cats. So after I try to curtail my evenings and save more time for the dog, the results don't seem to get any better.

Pearl, Marina, Callie, and Marie at Nintendo Live 2019, a gaming event in Japan. It also includes a special opening performance by none other than K.K. Slider!

After the heroic organization "Mega Five," which once saved the world, disbands, Red continues his role as a "symbol of peace" and pursues justice. However, after the tragic death of a close colleague, Red finds himself torn between his ideals and personal desires.

It depicts high school students suffering from various forms of discrimination that they have suffered in their school life, and while being encouraged by the people around them who are watching warmly, they awaken to their pride and hope and confront discrimination. The story develops between the runaway group, the soccer club, the marriage problem between the main character and the sister who are troubled between them, and the discrimination in the company. Human Rights and Dowa)

A slapstick OVA featuring super deformed members of the Shinsengumi members.

One day in 1945, children in Tokyo mistake the distant factory smoke of Shitamachi for ghosts in the sky, though their happy playtime is soon destroyed by the arrival of American bombers.

It is an animation work using the material that Yoshinao Satoh repeats replication.

An adaptation of a children's novel of the same name published in 1973. The author, Endo Hiroko, was inspired to write the story from a tale her father told her as a child. It follows a 13 year old girl named Aki. During a pilgrimage to Sensou-ji (a Buddhist temple located in Asakusa, Tokyo), she found a mistake in the sangaku. News spread quickly of her intellect and eventually landed upon Arima Yoriyuki, the lord of the Kurume Domain (he himself was famous for finding the rational approximation of pi). He hired Aki to become an arithmetic teacher for the region's princess, but hired others as well. In a math competition, Aki fought against other geniuses and prodigies, all for the hopes of earning a wage so that she may one day open a school for poor children so that she can teach them arithmetic as well.

Hangyodon and co. end up getting sent back to the past through a time machine and learn about dinosaurs.

Pusyu-pusyu suddenly loses its cheek and sets out on a quest into the universe with its buddy, Nyu, a green towel fairy. Their adventures continue as they land on various planets and meet new friends! On Planet Sky Lion, the two meet Sky Lion and enjoy hide-and-seek together!

Semi-animated adaptation of the manga Screw Style.

A talent show featuring cute tomatoes! The film features unique tomatoes such as ballerina and magician tomatoes! But for the tomatoes that fail to pass the judging, a sad fate awaits. Can the main character, Dancer Tomato, really pass the test?

Music video for the song Awate Tokoya by Bonny Jacks that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

A strange interaction between a wandering man and a mysterious creature, Yapolaponky.

Since the early days, Hayakawa's works have been established by hand-drawn moving images and digitally processed reproduction and proliferation, and the precision of this process has been accelerating in proportion to the evolution of video equipment. The balance between the organic nature of the vital movement that stimulates the fundamental part of human perception and the abstractness of the work's composition is pleasant. His challenge to always keep an eye on the cutting edge of video technology seems to be exploring a new animation language, and shows us the possibilities of images that can only be achieved through animation. (Koji Yamamura, January 2010)

Kensuke and Ayumu have known each other since childhood. It wasn’t until recently that they realized that they had feelings for each other that were much more than friends. While working in a PC Software company as a salesman, Kensuke is told to work at another branch due to a shortage of manpower. The big catch here is that he won’t be able to live at his apartment anymore so that he can easily commute to his new job. That being said, he won’t be able to see Ayumu for a very long time, but she’s been sweet enough to watch over his apartment while he’s gone. Well, you know what they say about long distance relationships; after a good amount of time has passed, Kensuke is in a mixture of loneliness and paranoia. He’s missing Ayumu, but also doubting why a woman like her would stick around for a guy like him. His girlfriend meanwhile cheating on him ..

Hero Hajime is going to school with Misa and Megumi. He loves Megumi, and asks Misa if there is a way to win Megumi over. Misa produces a pill that is supposed to make the taker reveal their exact feelings for someone. It turns out Megumi has been wanting Hajime, but so has Misa

Movie-installation by graphic-designer AQUIRAX UNO.

A compilation OVA of 5 stories portraying the life of Ozaki Yutaka, a famous Japanese musician in the 80s and early 90s who died young.

Follow-up version of Mirai Mizue's Timbre A to Z.

An animated special based on the World Heroes fighting game series by ADK.

A short film by Taku Furukawa.

I return to the past in order to bury myself. I conjure up my own life, things that actually happened, and a children's book that I once read.

Opening animation for URACON II.

Animated short

The spy Ando is still on the run and fighting every day against his most relentless enemy: his dandruff. This film features a ruthless pursuit across the world, using popular Japanese anime codes to target its market.

I hope you can interpret it in different ways.

On a sticky night in the jungle a taxi spirits a mysterious passenger to their destination.

Inspired by Dante's birth and by suggestions found in his Comedy.

A very short animation drawn on tracing paper with a brush pen and coloured pencil. “This work was inspired by an impressive dream. In the dream, I took a dictionary that printed flip-books in the corner from a book shelf, and when I returned it, the book had disappeared.”[Yuko Asano]