Movie Anime
Ashita no Kibou: Kanashimi yo Arigatou - Takae Tsuneo Monogatari
An animated biographical film about the life of Takae Tsuneo, who was dealt a heavy blow when he lost both of his arms but worked to help other people with disabilities.At the age of seventeen, Tsuneo is electrocuted during his job installing power lines and has both of his arms amputated. However, he decides to devote his life to poetry and literature, and begins to practice writing by holding a pen with his mouth. He eventually gets a job as a newspaper reporter, and turns his attention to other people dealing with disabilities.Trailer (requires flash): https://jfdb.jp/player/trailer/1207
(Source: Japanese Film Database)
Ashita Genki ni Nare!: Hanbun no Satsumaimo
The story is about a 5-year-old girl who lived in just after World War II when people were struggle for living.
(Source: AnimeNfo)
Asari-chan: Ai no Marchen Shoujo
Movie produced by Toei Animation after the anime series, Super Gal Asari and by the original manga by Mayumi Muroyama. Asari and her family go through more unlucky happenings.
(Source: MAL)
Uwa no Sora kara Kaetekuru
The protagonist is with friends but bored with the conversation. His mind often slips away to his own imaginary world and comes back to them. So their conversation doesn’t go along very well. In several trips to his own imagination he gradually feels it void and became interested in chain of conversation and the development of the relationship with other people. Then he decided to com back to the conversation.
1st Year Work 2010 by Naoaki Shibuta, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Nanumu no Ie
A documentary anime covering the lives of Korean comfort women used as sexual slaves for Japanese soldiers during WWII.
Nanmu Ichibyou Sokusai
Stop motion cut-outs animation by OKAMOTO Tadanari, song narration by OIKAWA Kouhei.
(Source: AnimeDB)
Aru Kokoro no Tabi
A short animation from Ariyoshi Tasuhiro for the NHK Five dreams in 2010.
Aru Apartment no Isshitsu
A short animation from Tomoyasu Murata about a journey between dream and reality.
Nani mo Minakute Ii
This hand-drawn animation thematizes what we are looking at in everyday life. Created using pencils, pastels, and oil paints, the drawn pictures were then shot with a digital camera and spliced together as video. Set on a fantasy train representing a kind of mental landscape, a young man shuts himself off from the outside world by reversing his face so he does not see anything, while another man silently stuffs garbage into the face.
(Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)