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A man witnesses a fatal traffic accident on his way home from work, and the victim is clearly killed on impact. A moment later, when the corpse stands up and walks away, it could be a hallucination or something far more extraordinary.
Precocious tween Karin finds herself abandoned by her father in rural Japan. Living in a temple with her grandfather, she meets Anzu, a giant "ghost cat" and notorious layabout tasked with looking after her. Distrustful of her new guardian, Karin sabotages Anzu's odd jobs for the townsfolk and befriends the eccentric local forest spirits. In an effort to win Karin over, Anzu accidentally makes a deal with the devil, and all Hell breaks loose.
A certain girl Nene encounters asks her this question.
An animated short exploring group dynamics. How do we define ourselves when we are all equal? Who is steering the crowd? What if it is heading in the wrong direction? Where does the individual end and the group begin? What is done by choice, and what under duress?
A little girl reflects on her last summer with her father at his funeral.
A series of original Pacalien shorts which aired during commercial breaks on Toonami.
How to make this mysterious cake? The ingredients include blue eggs, cookie flowers, pillow stuffing and much more.
One spring, Eri, a Holstein cow, falls in love with Sawa, a Jersey newcomer. Eri idolizes Sawa and longs to be close to her, to become one with her. To refine her intense feelings for Sawa, Eri subjects herself to ascetic practices and rituals of her own making. In a world where those who do not bear children are disposed of, Eri has fallen for someone who shares the same fate.
Once we called the noble, profound and mysterious existence The Great. We have moved with the time, our thought and consciousness has changed. And yet what makes us still keep calling it The Great?
A motorbike yearns to return to its good old days. One day it takes a courageous leap to its own future.
The scutes glisten in the corner of her mind and she starts to dig her memories up. What was like the museum director she encountered when she was lost?
The boys are rehearsing a dance for their traditional initiation ceremony into adulthood; their teacher instructs them. A girl observes the scene but is not allowed to join in. When one of the boys chases after a strange bird, she follows him without knowing why. One day, the boy will no longer be able to see the bird either.
No doubt negative enery is going to accumulate in my body today, tomorrow and the day after. When that happens, I'll have my own way of release.
An apple comes out of a man’s mouth. The man’s life goes backward, as video player is reversed. Many kinds of food accelerated to come out of his mouth and the man becomes younger and younger. Time goes back without end.
There once lived two brothers in a town. The elder lived alone. The younger lived with his parents. They did not get along well... They called each other occasionally. The elder one was impatient and emotional and did nothing but work... One day the elder brother’s face turned into a tomato...
Based on a Japanese folk belief called Womb Diving (“Tainai Kuguri” ) – the cycle of life and death as depicted through insects, animals, grass, grain, and many other things in the surrounding world.
The uncertainty, struggles, and joy of the moment upon becoming an adult. Between lullabies and songs I hum to myself. Between a man and myself. That subtle flickering in a single instant, forgotten once it is over. Never forget that moment...
This installation work is inspired by dreams experienced during a fever. The two-minute looping animation visualizes incoherent nightmares seen intermittently when having a hallucinatory fever.
One night, a lonely man who has lost his wife is lured out into the streets at night by a cat. There, he has various encounters and partings.
A girl is informed by her doctor that she is pregnant. Surprised by the unexpected announcement, falls into an anguish. The fleeting dream is a despairing dream.
