Psychological Anime
Shukatsu Kyosokyoku
An ordinary college girl is sucked into the frenetic job hunting, where all her friends dive into with dog-eat-dog vigor and crazed ambition. A potent look at one of Japanese social phenomenon with a dose of black humor.
Graduate Work 2012, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media.
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Taikutsu wo Saien Shinaide
Music video directed by Waboku for the song Don't replay the boredom. by Eve.
Choudai na
Music video directed and animated by goru for the song Choudai na by MIMI featuring Okiishi.
Climbing
Professional climber Choi Se-hyeon, who got recovered from a car accident recently, discovers that she is pregnant just before the Climbing World Championships. As her long-time aspirations are threatened, she struggles to break free from the duties of motherhood. However, at the same time, she receives text messages from 'herself' who seems to have been through a quite different life after the car accident. And most importantly, she wants to keep her baby.
(Source: IMDB)
SHELTER
Set in a cave imagined as an air-raid shelter, images of the surrounding trees are painted over directly on the film. Vivid colors intermixed with the sound of wartime radio communications and bombing create a harmonious composition of documentary and animation.
(Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)
Sensuikan Cassiopeia
Experimental animation by artist and illustrator Manabe Hiroshi, member of the Animation Sannin no Kai pioneer group of independent animation.
cosmopolite
Graduate Work 2017 from Rina Okada, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
Hold up minerals and natural stones to the sunlight. Search for the shapes where light shines through and the shapes of shadows. The process of a small spot gradually finding its own form.
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Sekai Kei Sekai Ron
Regarding the destruction of the world, the light relation between the world and me.
Da Shijie
A hard rain is about to fall on a small town in Southern China. In a desperate attempt to find money to save his fiancée’s failed plastic surgery, Xiao Zhang, a mere driver, steals a bag containing 1 million from his boss. News of the robbery spreads fast within the town and, over the course of one night, everyone starts looking for Xiao Zhang and his money.
(Source: Metacritic)
Tentaifu
Using the constellation as a motif, the heavens and the earth, metamorphose all the creatures. An animated 16 mm short film.
Samayo shinzo
Two high-school students are playing in the ruins. They hear something from the darkness and one of them goes deep into a dark room where something suspicious is hiding and both of them were taken their hearts out. Later a boy and his sister drop by the ruins...
(Source: MAL)
Sakana no Iu Koto wo Kiku
"I want to leave home," a pet fish told a boy one day. The boy reluctantly takes the fish out to the sea to "keep his promise," as it says. Their recollections on the way became slightly discrepant.
1st year work 2013 by Onohana, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
(Source: Geidai Animation)