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Short animation by Ryu Kato.

Some say that Japanese drum bridges serve as a channel between two worlds—the living realm and the afterlife. To answer the ancient question of what exactly transpires at the eternal crossing point, psychedelic twists and abstract visuals explore the legendary chaos that ensues at the enigmatic border between the mundane and the divine. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Short animation by Sawako Kabuki.

A comfortable rhythm composed of light and shadow. Director Ogino-style absolute movie which freely manipulates geometric figures.

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Big cities are glutted with information. Unconscious curiosity, hidden under apparent indifference, invites us into a noisy loop.

A short film by Nobuhiro Aihara where he projects abstract animation onto various surfaces of an old building.

Run & Roll is a campaign film created by Keiichi Tanaami for the Kyoto Marathon by CW-X.

A group of boys set out in search of a large fish. When they near its location, one of the boys jumps in the water as bait.

A short animation drawn on washi paper and cel with a marker and animex. Some kanji (they are used in the Japanese poem "Iroha Uta") metamorphose into various creatures. (Source: KRAUT FILM)

An abstract short film by Nobuhiro Aihara that combines the movement of abstract lines and the motif of an apple.

Light animation by TOCHKA. Takamori Saigo was born in Kagoshima in 1828 and has been dubbed the last true samurai who is still loved by the people of Kagoshima. Saigo committed harakiri in the Battle of Shiroyama in 1877. Nobody knows what he actually looked like since he only appears in an etching and drawings. No photos of him at all. The directors visited Saigo's descendants to ask for his facial features and characteristics for this film. Now Saigo has come back to life in animation, and he wanders around in towns and Sakurajima, an active composite volcano in Kagoshima. This is an experimental animation done by using penlights. (Source: The Guanajuato International Film Festival)

Sakadachi-kun is a 26-year-old boy who always lives upside down. He is a tough guy who wears a judo sash and is practicing somewhere today.

A work completed by Onohana during her enrollment at the Tokyo University of the Arts. A young boy is compelled to release his pet fish into the sea.

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Short film from animator Tsuji Naoyuki, who is known for his use of both charcoal and puppet animation. Wake Up is a dark and brooding animation epitomizing his story telling style by combining serene worlds and childlike images with darkness and nightmarish scenes.

The elderly at the nursing home have their heads shaved. The protagonist who works there sees them but can't read their expressions. However, from one instance, he finds himself looking closely at their faces. (Source: Official Site)

Sanuki Film Festival in 2015 and 2016 had opening animations to officially launch the beginning of the festival.

Short film by Yoriko Mizushiri.

Short film by Yamamura Kouji.

Space Shower TV Station ID directed by Kouhei Yoshino, with music by Serph.

An abstract work by Keichii Tanaami.

Film by Takashi Ito.

Graduate animation by Ryo Orikasa, based The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde.

By changing the overlapping of sections in the time axis / space axis, the laminate based on the die cut of the hand transforms into various shapes.

Experimental animation by Manabe Hiroshi, member of the Animation Sannin no Kai pioneer group of independent animation.

Short animation directed by Masanobu Hiraoka featuring the song Smoke And Mirrors by Sean Lennon.

People, animals, flowers, streets, now and the past, all are equally flowing and Bonnnou (Kleshas) will never disappear. (Source: YouTube)

Space Shower TV Station ID directed by Takashi Ohashi, with music by Tomggg.

Film by Takashi Ito.

Film by Takashi Ito.

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An early film by Keiichi Tanaami.

Set in a cave imagined as an air-raid shelter, images of the surrounding trees are painted over directly on the film. Vivid colors intermixed with the sound of wartime radio communications and bombing create a harmonious composition of documentary and animation. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

Short animation by Sawako Kabuki.

Graduate Work 2022 by Nichika Sakai, Musashino Art University, Imaging Arts and Sciences.

Space Shower TV Station ID directed by Wataru Uekusa, with music by sasakure.UK.

In Kei Oyama's grim Consultation Room, a medical diagnosis triggers a wave of traumatic fantasies, portrayed in greyish pencil drawings that waver as if left out for too long in the rain. (Source: Sydney Morning Herald)

Short film by Yoriko Mizushiri.

"Under the Lion Crotch" Here comes the end Our land is brutally torn apart by conglomerates Redevelopment swept across the city Their thriving business had left us homeless Rotten city, rotten crowd Luxury clothing won't conceal the stench Top yourself and throw a curse Fill the streets with our merry hearses Is the world going to end as we've been longing for? Destroy us all together with the chaos Set us free like the ashes in the wind (Source: Vimeo)

Graduate Work 2017 from Chinami Taniguchi, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. The story of Nosferatu vampires glimpsed by a boy who gets lost in a forest. (Source: Geidai Animation)

In this story, the kids are constantly forced to bury themselves into their endless homework by those giant monsters behind them. The children's brains are filled with water that can be heated by tension. If a kid is overstressed, the water in their brain would boil and produce steam, which becomes the food of the greedy monsters and the energy of the whole city. Thus, those poor children repeat their lives day after day, serving as the powerplant of their world, spending their childhood in tragic misery...

An ordinary college girl is sucked into the frenetic job hunting, where all her friends dive into with dog-eat-dog vigor and crazed ambition. A potent look at one of Japanese social phenomenon with a dose of black humor. Graduate Work 2012, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media. (Source: Geidai Animation)

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An educational film about abstract thought.

A love poem from the 1935 German film soundtrack has become a synonym for the funeral procession "Sisomi" in Taiwan, creating an interesting and absurd contrast between the two. The dance movements are interwoven with the stories of dead animals and death that belong to the city, telling their own life stories. (Source: Goldenhorse, translated)

A whale is being neglected and decayed since it has been drifted on the shore of Han River. Such strange things happened but no one in the city cares, only a dog and birds are around the whale. These sceneries are a remembrance of the depression which has been hanging over South Korea quite a while. (Source: vcrworks.kr)

A woman looks into her mind. Chasing her ideals on a tightrope. Every imperfect piece of her mind completes herself. (Source: IMDb)

A girl troubled by the threats in her home and the chaos of the outside world sits on a boat on a quiet lake. Her trauma, though suffocating at first, subsides as she finds refuge through her breathing. (Source: Geidai Animation)