Movie Anime

The moon that fell into the deep sea woke up in the darkness. An angler fish came there. The moon explained why he fell into the sea, but the angler fish did not hear the story because he was absorbed in fishing. Eating a fish, he went away. A shark came next. He tried to take the moon to the sky, but he got too tired partway and left the moon. Crabs came. They carried the moon to the beach, because they needed the light of a full moon to lay their eggs. When they finished laying their eggs, they went home. The moon left alone on the beach was washed away by the waves and returned into the sea. The moon rolled down a hill and fell on a turtle. It was a very old turtle who should know a lot. The moon asked him how to go back to the sky. The turtle asked a ray in the sand to take the moon with him. The ray took the moon with him and dropped the moon in the deepest sea. The moon sank deeper and deeper. There was a big fish in the bottom of the sea. Wrapped in particles of light coming out from the mouth of the big fish, the moon emerged on the surface of the sea and melted.

Did the moon return to the sky? This animation can be interpreted differently by different viewers. It can be interpreted, for example, as a story of the moon that fell into the sea whether in reality or in a dream, or as a story of an old moon that had to die for the birth of a new moon, or as a story of a soul heading for heaven. Whatever interpretation viewers make, the story conveys a positive message that we are all allowed to exist. Represented by this animation is a small world gently embracing us all -- transient existence...

(Source: YouTube)

I made this work because I wanted to try out the idea of floating images in midair that had come to me when making Thunder. The entire work was shot frame-by-frame with long exposures. I filmed this in the company dorm I was living in in the middle of the night after I had come home from work, and thought I might die from what had become my daily pattern of sleeping for two hours in the morning then going off to work.

(Source: Takashi Ito)

The dangerous underworld is policed by ghost messengers who use their shape-shifting cell phones to maintain order and go after bad guys. While hunting a dangerous spirit, Master Kang Rim accidentally gets trapped inside his cell phone. That cell phone falls into the hands of Little Kang Rim, a 12-year-old boy who lives with his grandfather, who owns an antique store. Little Kang Rim has the unique ability to see spirits, and he finds himself pulled into service to help Master Kang Rim.

With the help of Bari, Master Kang Rim’s commander, can LIttle Kang Rim set things right with the underworld?

(Source: VIKI, edited)

Kitty and Mimmy have to save a kingdom and break a magical spell on a sleeping princess.

An independent anime project by Nosferatu.

The film was screened at the Mini-Cinema Tollywood in Shimo-Kitazawa, Setagaya, Tokyo starting Saturday, August 21, 2010.

(Source: AniDB)

Animation movie by Hirata Toshio.

Immediately following the end of the World War II, Tokyo was trying to emerge from the rubble. In a corner of the black market stood a flimsy soba (buckwheat noodle) eatery.

It was a delicate time just before the closing. A man appeared at the threshold. "One moongaze (raw egg). With soba." This was none other than the legendary Fast Food Grifter known as Moongaze Ginji. His relentless scam quietly initiates.

The time changes. In the midst of the first anti Japan-US Security Treaty movement (1960), the streets rumored about Foxy Croquette O-Gin, a beautiful lady Fast Food Grifter, who disappeared all of a sudden. Wandering the alleys in the years of the economic miracle was Crying Inumaru, the loser. Then came Cold Badger Masa, whose scandalous death made people aware of the presence of Fast Food Grifters within the Japanese society. Beefbowl Ushigoro put an end to a major gyudon (beef and rice bowl) restaurant chain. And it is not possible not to mention Hamburger Tetsu, who shocked the entire fast food industry.

Fast Food Grifters are the phantoms that rise and fall with the shifting diet-styles. They are the dissenting heroes who carved their names on the dark side of dietary culture with their glare. Now their legend revives, strong as ever...

(Source: Production I.G.)

Ark takes place on a dying alien world in which a global war between two technologically advanced human civilizations has reduced the planet to a wasteland. The only way to escape the world is by activating the Ark, an ancient giant robot capable of supporting a human city as well as traveling through space.

(Source: Wikipedia)

A story about fourteen-year-old alien girl Aoi Hoshino. Her family uses a certain medicine to disguise themselves as humans. For some reason the medicine slowly stops working, but only on Aoi...

(Source: Official Website, edited)

Aiko lives in a shrine that has a sliding door that mysteriously is only half painted, and thought during her childhood that she wanted to paint it. But the 17-year old Aiko now has no dreams about the future. Suddenly, a strange man appears before her. Aiko's grandfather and the shrine's chief priest offers the man to stay in the shrine, but Aiko isn't having any of it. But he realizes the kindness of the brusque young man, and slowly comes to like him. But what is his true identity?

(Source: Anime News Network)

Kacchikenee! is one of four Anime Tamago 2016 young animator training projects.

People can show some other personality when eating. Some become like herbivores, chewing so many times. Some become like carps, crowding around bates. Some become like hamsters, with their mouths full, etc.. Everyone is unique and worth observation.

1st year Work 2012, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation

(Source: Geidai Animation)

A short film from 1935.

A stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of The Ugly Duckling, by Hans Christian Anderson.

A Hello Kitty theatrical version of Thumbelina.

A short film by Koji Yamamura. Both in English and Japanese, words develop in parallel from "A" to "Z"(from "A" to "Nn" in Japanese syllabary) taking the last syllable of the previous word. Ant-Take off-F..., Ari-Ririku-Ku... Along with the developments of those words, images metamorphoses using various animation technique so to be a pictorial encyclopedia of animation technique.

(Source: yamamura-animation.jp/e-filmo.html)

Having forgotten exciting feelings of the early days of the relationship, the man drifts along petting his guinea pig. One day he meets a beauty of flower who appreciates the pet.

Tomoki Misato's 2016 Graduation Work at Musashino Art University.

Toshiko Ei and her family are residents of Tokyo. Her father is a respected and skilled glass craftsmen so the family makes a good living. However, the Ei family soon finds itself having to suffer through many tragic hardships as a result of World War II.

(Source: Anime News Network)

A stop motion film about the classic Japanese tale of Momotarou.