Movie Anime

A monkey and tanuki go fishing in a frozen lake but the king catfish isn't pleased. Condensed version of Osaru no Tairyou.

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The riveting harmonies of music may conjure images in one's mind to accompany the noises they hear. In the case of Erik Satie's composition "Trois morceaux en forme de poire," perhaps some indiscriminate geometry would be suitable.

Experimental animator Masaki Okuda attempts to study the relationship between sight and sound in an abstract grayscale artwork.

(Source: MAL Rewrite)

A young girl wanders outside on a snowy night, trying to find a place to stay.

Follows a snowman who came to life in a fairytale-like setting.

A short film based on a story by Japanese writer Miyazawa Kenji.

"Unbelievable" Zorori is a prankster fox determined to become the Prince of Mischief, with his very own castle and beautiful bride. While is notorious for his prank-making schemes, his ill-meaning plots often backfire against him, and can usually end up even benefiting or cheering up his targets, much to his dismay. Nevertheless, Zorori has the wits and intelligence to wriggle out of the tightest of all spots, and journeys with a pair of twin boars, Ishishi and Noshishi, in order to fulfill his long wished-for goal and at last prove to his deceased mother, Mama Zorori that he truly holds the potential to achieve his dreams.

(Source: AniDB)

A visualization of how dreams mush up unrelated events together to make up a single story.

Spring, the fox is in the middle of a party. Workers' family of raccoon dogs reveal their field work during the hot summer and harvest autumn. A fox who stupidly hunts the Raccoon dumplings carrying the harvest with perspiration, before the raccoon dog wears it, takes away the food of the rabbit. A cold winter comes. The Raccoon family is having a good time around the hearth, but the fox is troubled with food and wandering in the snow. The fox intends a collective battle, raises a fire from the fire, causes a fire, and tries to rob the storage of the raccoon warehouse. A raccoon dog that turns into a truck and turns a fox that escaped a storage, turns it into a rainbow and chases it. The fight between the fox and the raccoon dog begins with a transformation. The family supports the raccoon guns that are struggling as one wing, and finally fights the fox.

(Source: Japanese Animated Film Classics)

Stop-motion animation utilizing puppets, narrating the relationship between two European border patrol officers.

Increasing in its number, small rabbits take care of a great dolphin. Can the dolphin get to sleep by rabbits' gentle caress? May many people have good sleep and sweet dreams tonight even in the world with whining sounds and wriggle of yin and yang.

Graduate Work 2013, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation

(Source: Geidai Animation)

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An adaptation of the story of Adam and Eve; this is Oofuji's first film produced in full colour and a precursor to Kujira (1952) and Yuurei-sen (1956) stylistically.

At night, a man holds out his own leash into the void. He has to explode in order to escape.

Graduate Work 2017, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation

(Source: Geidai Animation)

In 1925 Paul Rusch, an American missionary, arrived in Japan to help The Young Men's Christian Association with reconstruction efforts after the Great Kantou earthquake. Through his association with the Anglican Church he also became a professor at Rikkyo University in Tokyo and deepened his attachement to Japan as a result of conversations with his students. However, he had to leave the country when the Pacific War broke out.In 1945 Paul came to Japan again as an officer of General Headquarters and grieved over the deaths of many of his former students. He vowed to dedicate the rest of his life to helping the people living in Kiyosato - a highland area in Yamanashi Prefecture. He raised funds in the United States, helped build various facilities for the population and established the first highland dairy farm in Japan. However, not all Japanese were happy to deal with an American after the war ended, and so emerged one more important task for Paul: to help soothe post-WWII relationships between the people of two countries.

(Source: AniDB)

August 1945. In a converted theological seminary on the outskirts of Nagasaki, a young doctor works to help his patients, as unsettling news comes of a new weapon used by the Americans on the city of Hiroshima. When the second nuclear weapon is dropped on Nagasaki, the hospital staff must work to save lives in the midst of the concentric circles of death that their city has become.

Spring—birds are singing, frogs are dancing. A cave mother tells the bear to play outside with his brother's son. But beware of scary humans. When a bear takes sumo and eats honey, the hunter shoots with a gun. Two people who saw the human for the first time finally arrive at the cave where the mother bears are born.

To a child bear who was impressed by the person walking and walking, her mother bears teach standing to walk. Swallows and cranes flew away, summer is over and autumn also deepens. Parent-child bears will be able to stand and walk as they practice. After imitating a hunter and standing and walking, watching the appearance of a walking bear, she thinks that the mountain animals are human beings. A bear boasting to be proud of being proud in front of animals. A real hunter appeared there and the animals fled at once, but the baby girls responded by imitating humans. But there is no translation to the hunter, the two crawl underneath the tree and jump, jump over the valley with four legs, and lift it.

(Source: animation.filmarchives.jp, edited)

Based on the shounen manga by Fujiko Fujio.