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
School / Academy
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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One day a boy encounters a street vendor who sells chicks. Even the boy knows these birds will die very soon. To his eyes, the man is selling none other than death itself.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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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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Heartbroken, I bought two cans of beer and a bottle of wine and drank it walking home. A tipsy journey reconstructed using the Japanese traditional storytelling method ‘rakugo’ and pop culture.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father.
- Drama
- Family
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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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Reminiscing about the days I spent with an old friend, facing up to the narrow but deep gap that lies between us.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A robot works at a factory repeating the same operation every day. One day an unexpected visitor arrives and changes his routine.
- Drama
- Sci-Fi
- 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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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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Self-replicating entities that have evolved on different planets merge and proliferate exponentially. In search of more energy sources, they consume other stars.
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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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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One day a letter takes a blood-sausage to his friend, liver-sausage. So, he went…
- Drama
- Experimental
- Abstract
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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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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