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1–20 of 92 films

  • She and Her Cat

    1999 All audiences 4 min

    by Makoto Shinkai

    A lonely young woman adopts a cat on a rainy day.

    • Teenage
  • K-ON! THE MOVIE: English-Dubbed Version

    2011 Late Childhood (9-12 yrs) 110 min

    by Naoko Yamada

    This heartfelt continuation of the beloved, slice-of-life anime series K-ON! traces the charming adventures of five high school students who come together to form the band Ho-kago Tea Time. As they prepare for graduation, the girls embark on a celebratory trip to London, where they make new memories exploring the city and sharing their music while preparing to say goodbye. Beautifully blending humor, music, and gentle emotion, K-ON! THE MOVIE is a bittersweet ode to friendship, creativity, and the bonds that last a lifetime.

    • Drama
  • K-On! The Movie

    2011 Late Childhood (9-12 yrs) 110 min

    by Naoko Yamada

    This heartfelt continuation of the beloved, slice-of-life anime series K-ON! traces the charming adventures of five high school students who come together to form the band Ho-kago Tea Time. As they prepare for graduation, the girls embark on a celebratory trip to London, where they make new memories exploring the city and sharing their music while preparing to say goodbye. Beautifully blending humor, music, and gentle emotion, K-ON! THE MOVIE is a bittersweet ode to friendship, creativity, and the bonds that last a lifetime.

    • Drama
  • Gunbuster: The Movie

    2006 Late Adolescence (16-20 yrs) 95 min

    by Hideaki Anno, Shoichi Masuo

    Distilled to feature length from the acclaimed, six-episode anime series that marked the debut of visionary animator Hideaki Anno (“Neon Genesis Evangelion”), this exhilarating space opera blends turbocharged mecha action with a disarmingly poignant exploration of time’s passage and the fragility of human life and relationships. In the near future, humankind is under attack by warring alien insects; the only hope for survival is a band of heroes piloting enormous robots. Among those selected for duty are two young women who forge a deep bond while fighting the aliens. But while they travel the universe near the speed of light, what seem like moments to them are actually years flying by on Earth. What awaits them when they return to a home that has aged far more than they have?

    • Action
    • Drama
  • Shugo Tokumaru – Poker

    2014 Adults 4 min

    by Mirai Mizue & Yukie Nakauchi (MIRAI FILM)

    Official animated music video for Shugo Tokumaru's Poker created by Mirai Mizue and Yukie Nakauchi.

    • Music video
    • Non-narrative
  • Gatchaman: The Movie

    1978 All audiences 110 min

    by Hisayuki Toriumi

    Fans of classic anime will delight in this awesomely retro sci-fi extravaganza teeming with pop-psychedelic visuals and whiz-bang-pow action. Assembled from a selection of episodes from the popular 1970s Japanese television series, GATCHAMAN: THE MOVIE brings together the original color-coded teenage superheroes known as Gatchaman, bird-suited ninja warriors who must fight to save the Earth from an intergalactic terrorist organization threatening world peace. With its comic-book verve, this touchstone of golden-age anime helped shape the team-superhero genre for decades to come.

    • Drama
    • Sci-Fi
  • The Garden of Words

    2013 All audiences 48 min

    by Makoto Shinkai

    On a rainy morning in Tokyo, 15-year-old Takao, an aspiring shoemaker, decides to skip class to sketch designs in a beautiful garden. This is where he meets Yukari, a beautiful yet mysterious woman. They strike an unlikely friendship.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Family
  • Q

    2024 All audiences 7 min

    by Masataka Kihara

    Q was created as Kihara's 2024–25 graduate film project in the Graphic Design graduate program at Tama Art University.

    • Drama
    • Romance
  • Part Blue

    2010 All audiences 4 min

    by YungSung Song

    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
  • What’s that smell?

    2019 Adults 3 min

    by Yinan Liu

    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
  • QQQ

    2012 All audiences 8 min

    by YungSung Song

    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
  • Misérable Miracle

    2023 All audiences 8 min

    by Ryo Orikasa

    Inspired by Henri Michaux's poems and drawings about his experience with mescaline, "Miserable Miracle" explores the limits of language and perception, creating connections between sound, meaning, line and movement.

    • Drama
  • Alienhuman

    2022 Adults 5 min

    by Pang Wen

    This omnibus animated work is based on the comics series by Yuewei Wang, including four episodes of Pearl, The Goldfish, Ocean, and Hole. We are, after all, aliens to anyone not ourselves.

    • Sci-Fi
  • The Weeknd – Snowchild

    2021 All audiences 4 min

    by Arthell Isom

    Official music video for The Weeknd "Snowchild".

    • Music video
  • Aragne: Sign of Vermillion

    2018 Adults 74 min

    by Saku Sakamoto

    A residential building stands on the outskirts of town. A college girl named Rin has moved into one of the room in the building. One night, she sees a huge insect coming out of the arm of a woman. She goes to a library, and learnes that they are called “Spirit Bugs”, and have existed since ancient times. Rin attempts to unravel the mystery of the Spirit Bugs, but this is only the prelude to a new form of terror…..

  • Yapolaponky

    2024 All audiences 6 min

    by Masataka Kihara

    The short is deliberately minimal and surreal, focusing on an unusual encounter between a lost man and an enigmatic creature. Its atmosphere relies heavily on visual storytelling rather than dialogue.

    • Experimental
  • On the way home

    2018 Late Adolescence (16-20 yrs) 2 min

    by Mizuki Kiyama

    The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father.

    • Non-narrative
  • In a pig’s eye

    2010 All audiences 10 min

    by Atsushi Wada

    A huge pig is lying down in front of a house man's family lives in.Each of them notices the other exist.but each of them doesn't understand how the other understands.The mother doesn't understand the father either.

    • Drama
    • Family
  • Mt. Head

    2002 Adults 10 min

    by Koji Yamamura

    After a stingy man eats some cherry seeds, a cherry tree grows on his head and he gets into a lot of trouble. This animated film is a modern interpretation of the traditional Japanese Rakugo story "Atama-yama" set in contemporary Tokyo.

    • Drama