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Short animation by Tomoyasu Murata.

Shammy gets into a fight with a shadow boy.

Hilly is a 10-year-old silent Taiwanese girl, nobody was concerned about her depression and the pressure she suffered from everyday life. Hilly hates that she always oppresses herself, and also hates the world controlled by adults. What does Hilly really want to speak out to the adults? (Source: IMDB)

A global brand movie produced to commemorate the 100th anniversary of our founding. A family of three living near the forest. One morning in winter, the lumberjack's father is important It's hard because I forgot "something" at home and entered the forest! A young girl stands up with courage to deliver what she has forgotten. Beyond that, the mysterious creatures of the forest were waiting for us ... (Source: Zojirushi Mahobin)

Film by Takashi Ito.

Film by Takashi Ito.

(No synopsis yet.)

A worker is fired from a factory for demanding a wage increase. His mother, worn thin by poverty, is caught in her own spinning wheel. Then a strange storm buries the town in snow, freezing rich and poor alike. Another short film by Kihachiro Kawamoto

A stop-motion puppet animation fairy tale style story where on a warm island in the south a man encounters a woman.

In the corner of the universe, there was a small planet where creatures called men flourished. Doomsday finally looms near to this planet where destruction and creation have occurred repeatedly. The great king of terror appears from the sky and the mankind faces the end. "Encounters with that kind" is Director Yutaro Sawada's original stop motion animation. (Source: Anime Bancho)

Stop-motion animation about forest animals lives told through shiritori.

Papercraft stop-motion animation featuring tales ranging from a colourful jungle to a sports car race.

A Matsue Jinbo production of the classic "White Elephant" story where a kind white elephant is tricked into helping a human who leads others back so the elephant would be captured.

A Tadanari Okamoto film about the White Elephant story which originated in Southeast Asia.

When a young noblewoman, Iratsume, falls into a trance after copying Buddhist sutras and walks to a remote temple that women are forbidden to enter, she stirs up the ghost of the executed Prince Otsu. Otsu's ghost then mistakes Iratsume for one of her ancestors, a young woman who came to watch his execution. The beautiful face of this young woman was the last thing the Prince saw before he died, and his ghost cannot rest while her face haunts his sleep.

A traditional Japanese fable telling of a kind old man, his avaricious wife and an injured sparrow. The story explores the effects of greed, friendship and jealousy on the characters. (Source: Wikipedia)

A beautiful couple is enjoying a lovely dinner together when suddenly the woman's stomach begins to make loud, rumbling sounds. As she attempts to calm the beast in her belly, her partner proposes to her, leaving her both overjoyed and distressed at her situation. The astonishing events of that night now begin to unfold, as a mysterious mass starts to make its way out of her mouth... [Written by MAL Rewrite]

A girl is kept on the trot by a witch and continues to peel potatoes. She is fed up and tries to escape in vain. She gets desperate and decides to beat the witch... After all what will she find? What is her intention? Can we undo what has been done? Graduate Work 2011, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation (Source: Geidai Animation)

An educational film about abstract thought.

(No synopsis yet.)

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

An old man named Lot is crossing a desert with a snail-shaped wagon with Aram, his grandson, to collect the body of his son who died in a war. (Source: YouTube)

Music video for the song Son to Uso by Yoeko Kurahashi.

A soundless stop-motion paint on glass by Koji Yamamura showcasing the seasons. It is stated to have been created in 1988 early in his career but it is unknown if it was ever publicly showcased prior to Yamamura uploading this piece to his own YouTube channel in 2019.

A woman and a dog go on a spiritual journey and undergo a spiritual transformation while wandering in a forest side-by-side. Sora Iro Hana Iro is not a straight-forward narrative story, but rather series of subjective impressions to tell us more about the state of mind of the female protagonist. (Source: Nishikata Film Review)

Momotaro has been requested to fight off the Wild Eagle enemy which has suddenly appeared. He takes to the skies in his airplane, accompanied by a dog, a monkey , and a pheasant, and heads for an island some 10,000 kilometers away. One of the island people promises to prepare the two refuels that the plane requires during its flight to the island. The first refuel will be found on a giant tortoise shell, and the second is a refuel station especially positioned on the back of a whale which will come to surface. Momotaro's plane is attacked by the Wild Eagle out of the blue as it approaches the island, but after an exciting dogfight in the air, he successfully fights off the enemy. (Source: ANN)

Film by Takashi Ito.

Byururu came from the straw world. At night the kitchen turns into a magical forest inhabited by witches. Here Byururu sets out on an adventure.

Straw-saurus Neo is a small dinosaur from space. He came looking for his friend who has gone missing and sets out to find him in the sandy wilds of the planet.

An elderly man walks along his house and sees a turtle munching on a turnip. He does not disturb the creature but lets it eat in peace. Later that night, he has a dream of his late wife...

The stream of a mil, an apple flows down through the stream, where innumerable illusion of fish appears and disappears in the sky reflected in the water. (Source: Yamamura Animation)

When Narcissus's begin to bloom, Spring is just around the corner. But today is the fourth of the Narcissus Month, the day of Winter's last icy breath... The original story of this film was written by Kenji Miyazawa, the most famous fairy-tale writer and poet in Japan. (Source: Official website)

This is a story about a country of "Sukima", a tranquil country that is in between the worlds. Porta, the hero in this story leisurely delivers parcels for everyone in town, riding on Robaroba, his partner. Will Porta be able to deliver important parcels safely? Zouzou, Kabakaba and variety of other characters are expected to be in the story. This is the first original animation of Ryoji Arai, the winner of Astrid Lindgren Award.

It would be so much better if everyone just went away... A girl who hates school sits in the corner of the classroom and creates an imaginary world. 1st year work 2017, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Stop-motion animation using sand. Depicts a child going outside to play and exploring nature, rough-housing with friends, and using the full extent of his imagination.

Music video for the song Suppon Pon Pon by Ai Iwasaki that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program. "Suppon" is the Japanese name for the Chinese softshell turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis). The video features stop motion animation by Aki Kouno.

Enter the world of the Sylvanians, a community of tiny anthropomorphized animals who have the same difficulties that people do. But the Sylvanians are often able to work through those dilemmas, teaching the children who join them valuable life lessons. (Source: Amazon.co.uk)

A music video for the song by The King Tones that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program. Animals made out of string use their bodies to make instruments and perform a symphony.

Surreal cutout (kiri-gami) animation following a young girl's physical journey, which is also an inner voyage through which she will learn all the pain and joy of life. She travels to an anonymous Western city, a bizarre dreamscape cluttered with elements from works by Dali, Magritte, de Chirico and Escher. The journey will change her completely but when she returns she will be the only one who knows how she has changed. (The poem in the film is by Su Tong-Po, a famous Chinese poet) -AniDB

A series of four minute claymation shows. Each episode shows the different antics of the various Taiko no Tatsujin characters.

TAIYO KIKAKU Co., Ltd., a commercial production company based in Tokyo, Japan, was founded on February 5th, 1968, and proudly celebrates its 49th anniversary with the release of a paper craft stop-motion animation short to celebrate this milestone. The sun-shaped corporate logo symbolizing the company’s name is beautifully animated in a white setting, depicting the whole process of filmmaking from pre-production to post-production. The film is crafted entirely out of paper by director Ayako Hiroki, a member of “TECARAT,” a division of TAIYO KIKAKU. (Source: Official Site)

Talpy is an odd creature than can transform into anything be it a bicycle or cowboy or a tailor. Every episode shows Talpy transforming into a few items/people based on the scenario he's in.

Early experimental film by Koji Yamamura.

Teach is a curious monkey who travels the world listening to funny stories and listening to a wide variety of music.

The opening video for Nagao Takena's film screening event in Kobe, Japan that was organized by the Horror Eiga Koujou Iinkai MebiusRing. The video features the song Intoxica by The Centurians.

A man with his cat finds himself in a bizarre situation involving a television. A stop motion animation from the creator of Kotatsu Neko.

On NHK's "Uta Techne", we created a sequel to the family deck in conjunction with the beloved Masashi Sada's Ten made Todoke. (Source: NHK)

A stop-motion music video of bitter melon superhero named Gouyaaman (Bittermelonman). It is originally based on an insert song from the live-action TV series Churasan where Gouyaaman was an in-story yuru-chara a character created to help promote tourism to the dying town. In the TV series, Gouyaaman was a failure and the butt of jokes. Unprecedentedly, the TV series was popular and Gouyaaman became a real-life yuru-chara in Okinawa with merchandising.

A short puppet animation directed by Takeo Nakamura.