Movie Anime
Taiyou no Hou - El Cantare e no Michi
The first title in the series of anime films by the Happy Science cult.
8-gatsu no Symphony: Shibuya 2002-2003
Based on the autobiography of the singer Kawashima Ai. The name of the book is "Saigo no Kotoba (The Last Words)" and it follows Kawashima Ai's life after her mother's death.
The story chronicles her journey to make her dream come true to be a singer and, among other things, how she used to perform for free on Tokyo's streets.
663114
663114 is a short but hard-hitting monologue of a 66-year-old cicada. The insect draws parallels between the catastrophes of Hiroshima and Fukushima and poses a fundamental question about the future of our planet.
66 is the number of years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by Little Boy and Fat Man. 3/11 is the date of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and following disastrous tsunami. 4 is the number of reactors emitting radiation from the Fukushima Daichii plant.
663114 won the Noburou Oofuji Award at the Mainichi Film Awards in February 2012.
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Attack No.1 (1970)
The first recap film of Attack No.1, it covers the first 6 episodes of the TV anime.
Kozue is a high school girl and an enthusiastic volleyball player. Her dream is to play on the Japanese national volleyball team. Over the course of the series she makes it from the school district league up to the Japanese volleyball finals, step by step until the international volleyball championship. But the faster and higher Kozue climbs, the more she is confronted with the dark side of success: too-high expectations, self-conceit, and envy.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Kutsuya to Kobito
A puppet animation adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale "The Elves and the Shoemaker."
Ice Movie
Souseiki
This is a short film parodying the major Hollywood film "The Creation" directed by John Houston. This film has the look of a tongue-in-cheek production, done on a small budget by animators who wanted to make fun of great works that cost enormous sums of money.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Ibara-Hime mata wa Nemuri-Hime
An alternate retelling of the classic Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. The story begins in the same way as the original story but our young heroine instead of falling under the mystical spell begins to uncover the mystery of the man who cursed her and his relationship with her mother. It is a realistic reminder that "They lived happily ever after...", may not be as happy as we once envisioned.
Sakura no Ondo
An original animated short film by Ufotable. The film takes place in Sanuki, the birthplace of the film's director Takayuki Hirao.
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Ari to Hato (1959)
In this tale an ant and a pigeon help each other. Third remake of the Ari to Hato.
Minamo
Made by a frame-by-frame shooting of ink streaming on the surface of water.
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Lost Utopia
The story of Adam and Eve with jazzy music. Short experimental animation without words. Mirai Mizue's postgraduation film.