The expression of emotional desire called love. Every person is an individual whose spirit and soul cannot be bound.
- Drama
- Romance
- Abstract
- Experimental
Country
Japan
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- Experimental
- Music Videos
- Non-narrative
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During the morning roll call at school, Wataya gets more and more nervous as her turn approaches. The tension causes her to lose the ability to control her own body.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Three Renees go on a quest to find God, who is also Renee. As they traverse the mountains and valleys of Renee, they discover all the great joys, sorrows, and mysteries of being Renee.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Numbers stations were prominently used during the Cold War. A boy was tuning the radio in the snow mountain and happened to tune the shortwave of codes.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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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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.
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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
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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!
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Tho Moomins' new adventures.
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Adventure
- Family
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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
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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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At midnight, she wanders for blood….
- Horror
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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
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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