Original film by Kakeru Mizui, featuring music from Masato Abe."An old book" was written by a writer, and was read by many people. The interpretation of the intention of the writer and readers of this book, is just like "life." I created this work with a theme about "words lives are close and open," which represents the concept of life and regeneration."
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After graduating from Tama Art University, Nakajima made this work with the intention of submitting to the Sogetsu Animation Festival. Without much funding to work with, Nakajima devised the technique "Kaki-mation," a method of drawing directly on 35mm film. At this time, he frequented Studio Zero—the formative mainstream animation production company of the period.
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My friend Emi appeared in my dream. I was so surprised by this, I couldn't face her at school that day. But I forgot that we had to go to the swimming pool for PE class that afternoon, so I ended up having to borrow Emi's swimsuit.
Furukawahara Momoka's graduation work from 2019 at Tokyo Zokei University.
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A stop-motion adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's The Nightingale.
Sanpei is a boy beekeeper and the sole survivor of an accident that killed his entire family. Sanpei meets Chiyo, a girl who gets stung by a bee, and starts a new life in her village. Eventually, Sanpei cultivates the land that the villagers had abandoned, and then disappears. In the land now filled with flowers, Chiyo waits, believing Sanpei will return.
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A dog race is interrupted by a ringmaster, who attaches fish to the dog's collars and makes them run in circles. The crowd is incensed, but the ringmaster insists that the audience is no better off than the dogs. In the end the ringmaster is assassinated and the race continues, but a single red rose sprouts from the ringmaster's blood; a symbol of truth in a crazy world?
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Raoul, an alligator, has a bad tooth, and also needs a hair cut. Is he going to a barber, or a dentist, or neither of them? Madillo, an armadillo, wonders if he should bring an umbrella, or not. So, what is your choice? In the story of this animated film, a series of events which need judgments, spontaneity and decisiveness of the "Junior Directors" continue to occur.
Keroppi receives a letter from a friend who is scared of an abandoned house in his new town. He and the gang go and visit him to help him feel more comfortable and overcome his fears. While exploring the house they run into some robbers and an apparition that doesn't seem to be what it is.
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Once upon a time, a little doggy poo lived on the side of a road. He felt all alone in this world. He believed that nobody needed him for anything, and that he had no purpose in life. If only Doggy Poo had a reason for being, then he wouldn't give up on his dream to be useful to this world. One day, Doggy Poo meets a lovely dandelion sprout. Will she explain his purpose in life? Will she help him make his dream come true?
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