A military man works in a nursing home. He is always watching these shaved, elderly people, but fail to understand them at a personal level. One day, he sees their faces.
- Drama
Production
Tokyo University of the Arts
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I was heading to junior high school one day when my maternal instincts suddenly kicked in. After being held hostage to those urges for a decade, I started to wonder if this feeling was really about motherliness. Virgin birth, genes, pregnancy… I journey through 10 years in search of the maternal.
- Drama
- Coming-of-Age
- Experimental
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Surreal, slightly experimental and excellently animated film Nothing You Need to See takes place in a subway train carriage. A young passenger has got problems with his face. It is rotating on his head as a mask and constantly showing its other side. The author suffices with gentle pencil strokes and three colours to create a very original work within three minutes of running time.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The world is filled with smells -- good smells, nasty smells, nasty but good smells, addictive smells, captivating smells, reminiscent smells, and so many more. What's that smell?
- Family
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The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father.
- Non-narrative
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The mother goat rescues her little goats from the wolf’s belly. But, she can’t find Toruku, her eldest son! Where is Toruku?!
- Drama
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Little by little, something has gone wrong with a career woman’s personal life. But these little things are what fills a big hole in her heart.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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An ex-couple in a café, a girl sucking on her girlfriend’s hair, a running woman, a fleeing town, a little girl walking along the river. In this world, there are as many forms of love as there are people.
- Drama
- Romance
- Experimental
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Aoko is confident about the documents she creates at work but doesn’t get any positive feedback. Then, she witnesses her colleague secretly changing the documents she created.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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hree Qs and more make QQQ. QQQ spin and roll. And QQQ transform themselves, spinning. QQQ transform, spinning, rolling, swinging, turning and traveling.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The blue evolves. The blue rises toward the upper world. The blue becomes green and then yellow, which makes things unstable. So red circle appears to bring into balance between blue and yellow. These three colors unite into one, which rises until the summit, over the boundary line, and becomes a white circle to a full stop. And then it returns to the first state.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative