The 3rd arc of the Chiyotarou Kodomo Gekijou program that aired on TBS. Every episode is a different Brothers Grimm fairy tale told with shadow puppet animation.
A serene, abstract short film by Nobuhiro Aihara, featuring the song Asa no Inori by Kitarou (Masanori Takahashi).
Paper animation, directed and animated by Hideaki Anno while he was at university to show at a college screening "First Pictures Show".
(Source: Tokyo International Film Festival)
Set in a cave imagined as an air-raid shelter, images of the surrounding trees are painted over directly on the film. Vivid colors intermixed with the sound of wartime radio communications and bombing create a harmonious composition of documentary and animation.
(Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)
One day, the old wolf boiled a pot of chicken and was about to invite the old bear to taste it. Just after leaving the house, a fox sneaked in and ate the chicken. The fox who stole the chicken then fooled the two friends into arguing with each other.
Music video for the song Ofuro no Kazoe Uta by Bikkuri Electric Company (Juuichi Sase) that was featured on Fuji TV's Hirake! Ponkikki program.
The story takes place among a group of toys: the naughty Yuanyuan lost the shuttlecocks of two girls. In order to compensate for the shuttlecocks, he found chicken feathers. With the help of the robot, he caught a rooster, plucked the feathers and gave them to the little girls as compensation, but the two girls lost their shuttlecocks. The girl thought she shouldn't take the feathers, so she gave them back to the rooster.[Source: baike.baidu.com]
Amateur animation by 20-year-old Hideaki Anno while he was studying at Osaka University of Arts. The short features a speeding car with physics-defying tires.