This animation was based on a scene I dreamt, where white smoke was rising from a bed. I was influenced by one of Zhuangzi’s thought, The butterfly dream, and visualized the contrast between dream and reality. While I was creating this piece, I was never aware of whom the man sleeping in the movie was, but somehow, he ended up looking just like my grandfather. (Source: Official Website)
"Your dream will come true if you believe in it." (Source: Maya Yonesho)
A horror spin on the classic tale of "The Little Match Girl".
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This year, it sudden shower a lot. When it sudden shower, people look up at the sky, fast walk, and point umbrellas. The motif in this animation is like that scenery of a bunch and be reminded scenery. (Source: Hirotoshi Iwasaki)
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Program ID by Yoriko Mizushiri for Space Shower TV's music video programming block BIG HITS!
Film about the ''Sick building syndrome'', it won multiple awards including the 2015 Urban Nomad Film Festival's Best Animation award. It is a city without memories, but a growing maze with construction sites, skyscrapers, advertising billboards that keeps taking over or being taken over their domains. Citizens wander around and eventually get lost in vain, and the Mô-sîn-á is the only one to lead their way. (Source: Creator's Vimeo account)
Bio-Sensor is a 1984 Japanese computer-animated surreal short film produced by Takashi Fukumoto at Toyo Links and Hitoshi Nishimura at Osaka University. It's notable for its early use of primitive motion capture, using profile and head-on films of a tiger walking. (Source: Wikipedia)
Toshiaki Hanzaki's graduation work depicting the evolution of various species in a comical fashion.
A short film by Keiichi Tanaami featuring the song Fushiawase to Iu Na no Neko by Maki Asakawa.
This short experiments with the flow of oil ink over the surface of the water. Mizue manipulated the ink by blowing with straws or stirring with toothpicks and used stop motion animation techniques to shoot the resulting effects.
A film by Keiichi Tanaami.
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The official website for the Pop Team Epic anime announced on Monday that the series' Bobunemimimmi (Bob Epic Team) segments will be compiled into a standalone Blu-ray Disc release. The release will include all 22 previously released segments by the production team AC-bu, plus two new segments, a "high speed kamishibai (paper theater) collection" of the "Hellshake Yano" segment, and original stickers. (Source: ANN)
Directed by Atsushi Wada, Silver Bear Winner of 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, the animation to increase the entertainment value and number of new fans for American football in Japan. (Source: YouTube)
An award winning surreal stop motion anime from Korea using noodles, about a little Bologee (a so-called convex boy) who was born on the Concave Planet. He desperately wants to get to a another planet called Convex Star. When he finally manages to get there he falls in love with a girl from the Convex Planet. The people living there do not approve......
Four short animations screened at the in-person venue "BONUS TRACK" located in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo.
Five short animations screened at the in-person venue "BONUS TRACK" located in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo with the theme of cherry blossoms.
Five years ago, a string of grisly murders shook the city to its core and now the rumors have begun once more. Boogiepop... Everyone knows about Boogiepop: meet her one dark night and you are taken. People tell each other the stories and laugh: no one believes that she can possibly exist in this day and age. Still, strange things appear to be going on and the darkness is taking on many forms. Something is out there. Are you safe? (Source: RightStuf)
Hushed exchanges among the female student populace of Shinyo Academy center around an enigmatic supernatural entity. This entity is Boogiepop, a Shinigami who is rumored to murder people at the height of their beauty before their allure wanes. Few know of his true nature: a guardian who, between periods of dormancy, manifests as the alter ego of a high school girl named Touka Miyashita to fend off "the enemies of the world." Now, a string of mysterious disappearances—presumed by the school to be merely runaways—has caused Boogiepop to awaken. But somewhere in the academy, a menacing creature hides, waiting for its opportune moment to strike.... read more
A dark surreal film of several creatures metamorphorphing inside a room. A stop motion animation film from the minds of Kobayashi Masahide and Keita Funamoto of The Village of Marchen
Film by Takashi Ito.
Dante "The Divine Comedy" The Inferno, Canto XV, Circle Seven, Round Three In this circle of Hell, homosexuals are being tortured for violating the order of nature. It is here that Dante finds his mentor, Ser Brunetto Latino. Fast forward 700 years to a fictional modern Japan where Dante the cat is a university student. His town has put a ban on alcohol. (Source: Official website)
