Drama Anime
Eikou e no Spur: Igaya Chiharu Monogatari
A biography of Chiharu Igaya, who won a silver medal in men's slalom in Cortina d'Ampezzo Olympics in 1956, and became the first Japanese Winter Olympics medalist.
(Source: AniDB)
Bandoe Sareoriratda
46-year-old Oh Jun-koo is a downtrodden thespian who hasn't worked in ages. The closest he gets to treading the boards nowadays is teaching drama part-time to unappreciative college students. His home life isn't much better. Wife Mig-yeong is a socially ambitious nagger who's always working late, and son Hyeon-jun is in trouble with police after setting off fireworks on the roof of an apartment block.
Just as Mig-yeong starts making noises about moving to a more upmarket neighborhood and sending daughter Hyeon-seo to an expensive school, Oh receives a lucrative acting offer. At virtually the same time Oh is told he's in pole position for a permanent teaching post. Only catch with the latter is it means giving up acting for good. No sooner has Oh sacrificed what he loves for greater financial security than a serious spanner is thrown in the works. He witnesses what appears to be Professor Cho sexually assaulting student Kim Ki-pum.
(Source: Variety.com)
Peng You Town
In a small provincial town, three children play football but when they hear breaking glass, two of them flee; leaving a little girl to investigate. She finds that she has broken a fish bowl and a small fish is flapping on the ground gasping for its life. What will the girl do to save this poor creature?
(Source: AniList.co)
Ban Ye Ji Jiao
Etopirika: Omoi wo Tsumugu Tori
Etupirka: A Bird that Spins Thoughts is a animated film created based on the testimonies of former residents of the Northern Territories.
The film was produced with the aim of helping many people, especially young people, learn more about what happened in the Northern Territories at the end of the war and the harsh experiences of the former islanders who were forced to leave their homes, and to raise momentum for the return of the Northern Territories.
(Source: Official site, translated)
Eun-sil-i
In-hye and Sun-mi visit their hometown, a small and quiet village in the countryside, after a long time only to face unexpected news: their old friend Eun-sil died while giving birth. The town is left in an uproar because of the baby, whose father is unknown, and it is neglected, protected by no one.
While In-hye and Sun-mi try to save the baby with the help of Ji-young, their friend who has stayed in town, they find out that Eun-sil, who was mentally retarded, was a plaything of the village. In-hye and Sun-mi are troubled with the rage they feel against the village people and the guilty conscience they feel towards Eun-sil. Although they abandoned Eun-sil in the past, will they be able to protect her baby until the end?
(Source: HanCinema)
Out of My Mind
In my deep dream there comes the landscape in my shapeless eyes. The peaceful sight gradually distorts. When anxiety and upsurge stands behind us, the nightly liberation begins.
Graduate Work 2016 by Tomomi Komazaki, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Otome Kaibou
Music video for the Vocaloid song "Otome Dissection" featuring Hatsune Miku.
Bai Yue Er
The story takes place in a small town in China around 1930. In that turbulent age, Yueyue did not believe that his mother had left his reality. He remembered that his mother promised to come back for him, so he went on the way to find her.
Ore no Sora Keiji-hen
Yasuda Ippei (Shonozaki Ken) is the son of Yasuda Seijiro (Osugi Ren), the head of Yasuda Group, Japan's biggest business conglomerate. Although he is the son of a distinguished family, he has absolutely no disagreeable areas and is liked by everyone. His academic achievements are exceptional. He completed his entire high school programme in 2 years and qualified for Tokyo University's Faculty of Law without studying for the exams. In order to establish his own concept of justice, Yasuda leaves his position as the heir to the Yasuda Group to attend the police academy. He becomes a detective at Kyobashi Police Precinct and bravely faces great evil.
(Source: DramaWiki)
Fengyu Lang Qiao
Fengyu Lang Qiao: Kunlun Mo Le
First Light
Young Teto rides to school on his bed to school,
the lonely lighthouse keeper asks the seagull for breakfast.
As various people dream of tomorrow through their imaginations, harsh, rough waves of reality crash into their imaginations as Teto wanders into the darkness.
(Source: Kodansha Cretor's Lab)
First Line
Young animator Mito feels trapped between the demands of a difficult sequence, a tight deadline, debilitating self-doubt, and a seemingly deranged director. Sometimes the only way to get to the other side is to charge right through.
(Source: Fantasia International Film Festival)