Country

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41–60 of 87 films

  • Rabbit’s Blood

    2017 Adults 5 min

    by Sarina Nihei

    Rabbit’s Blood is a story about a society of two rival groups; sinister cloaked men and neutralist rabbits who have human-looking bodies that live underground.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Princess Mononoke (trailer)

    1997 16+ 133 min

    by Hayao Miyazaki

    While protecting his village from a rampaging boar-god, the young warrior Ashitaka becomes afflicted with a deadly curse. To find the cure that will save his life, he journeys deep into sacred depths of the Great Forest Spirit’s realm where he meets San (Princess Mononoke), a girl raised by wolves. It’s not long before Ashitaka is caught in the middle of a battle between iron-ore prospecting humans and the forest dwellers. He must summon the spirit-powers and all his courage to stop man and nature from destroying each other.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Adventure
    • Action
  • Nothing you need to see

    2020 Adults 4 min

    by ITO Keigo, Keigo ITO

    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
  • NEVERMEN: Mr Mistake

    2016 16+ 3 min

    by Tom Brown, Daniel Gray, Sarina Nihei

    A music video for Nevermen who consists of TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, Faith No More’s Mike Patton and Doseone.

    • Music Videos
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Nanzoya

    2019 16+ 5 min

    by Izumi Tanaka

    I was playing basketball until I entered college. During a basketball game, when I stole an opponent’s ball and attacked in haste, I felt my body started moving as fast as an army brain. I still get this feeling sometimes, even now that I no longer play basketball.

    • Experimental
    • Abstract
    • Non-narrative
  • My Little Goat

    2018 Adults 10 min

    by Tomoki Misato

    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
  • My Exercise

    2020 Adults 3 min

    by Atsushi Wada

    Let’s do sit-ups! Let a chubby boy do his exercise and sink into a dog’s body. Maybe animals will come to cheer him up.

  • Mubi

    2020 16+ 6 min

    by Tomoe Obayashi

    This animation thematizes a dream that you can’t wake up from. Mubi (夢寐) means dreams you have whilst you are asleep in Japanese. Shakuya mubi (夙夜夢寐) is a four character idiom. It means dreams you have even if you are awake. A young man endures conflict, rapture and anguish. And he will find out why he cannot leave his dream.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • by Hiroshi Saito

    Moominfamily has already started hibernating when they are woken up by a busy Hemulen, who tells them they can’t possibly go on sleeping when Christmas is coming!

  • Moomin

    1990 4+ 23 min

    by Hiroshi Saitō

    Tho Moomins' new adventures.

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Adventure
    • Family
  • Misfit Lil Sparrow

    2015 4+ 5 min

    by Yuriko Noda

    For some reason, little sparrow Chunko has her head always shaking. She doesn’t know why, and can’t stop it either. Except for that, she can move like other sparrows, and she wants to dance with them.

    • Experimental
    • Musical
    • Comedy
  • Mind Room

    2017 16+ 4 min

    by Moe Kuribara

    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
  • Midnight Vampire

    2025 Adults 7 min

    by Takena

    At midnight, she wanders for blood….

    • Horror
  • mekakure

    2019 16+ 6 min

    by Akifumi Nonaka

    Shun regretted this. He still can’t understand why he was playing with these four who are not really friends, nor actually people he likes. The unbearable heat and the heavy atmosphere at the shrine deepen Shun’s depression.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Maternal Awakening

    2021 16+ 5 min

    by Shiika Okada

    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
  • Look at Me Only

    2016 16+ 7 min

    by Tomoki Misato

    Having forgotten exciting feelings of the early days of the relationship, the man drifts along petting his guinea pig. One day he meets a beauty of flower who appreciates the pet.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Romance
  • L’envol

    2015 16+ 4 min

    by Hajime Kimura

    The bird in its cage dreams about clouds. This unique film made by the japanese director Hajime Kimura is composed of 2400 images created one by one with Photoshop only using the penbrush tool that gives a blurry hand-painted aesthetic.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Kuchiroro: Umi

    2009 Adults 2 min

    by Yoriko Mizushiri

    An animated video for the song “Umi” by Kuchiroro, from the album Everyday Is a Symphony.

  • Jungle Taxi

    2016 Adults 8 min

    by Hakhyun Kim

    The taxi driver picks up an unwelcome fare in the jungle. He does as he is told and takes his customer to fetch the man close to death on the beach. Arrived at the destination, the cabbie reaches inside his jacket for a gun.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • Jam

    2009 16+ 3 min

    by Mirai Mizue

    This film is based on a very simple idea: the increasingly varied the sounds, the greater is the number of creatures.

    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative