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At the end of the 1984 film "Part One End" was shown. After 20 years Shanghai Animation Film Studio continued the story for now aimed at the parents who grew up watching the original as children.

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As the leaves turn scarlet, a mother cries in front of her recently deceased child. The body of the boy decays, leaving behind a shadow, which the woman quickly embraces and takes home. One day, she receives a visitor asking about a shadow of a child.

A story set in a world before ours. A world in chaos where forces of good and evil fight and mingle. By doing so, it creates the chance to give birth to the new world. A couple of winged beings make love and fly away. They bear a child in an egg, and when the child opens its eyes they are immediately destroyed, one consumed by fire and the other by water. Mythical, elemental and mysterious, the world created by Tsuji is dangerous, menacing and suffuse with signs of apocalypse, but somehow simultaneously tender and compassionate. A Feather Stare at the Dark captures simple gestures and primal feelings and amplifies them, realising the non-verbal and non-literal with remarkable grace.

Music video for the song Yami Yami by Etsuko Yakushimaru that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program. The video was animated by Toshiko Hata.

Music video for the song Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment) by BTS.

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The rooftops of a darkened city, a couple walking by a lone streetlight on an otherwise darkened street, an old man rocking in a creaky chair in the corner of a room lit only by the moon or the streetlight entering through the window. (Source: Nishikata Film Review)

"Yoru no Okite" takes us to the sky (or to hell) to accompany the delirium of a man who is assassinated. A different take on a spirit who is adrift after being murdered. This restless spirit takes us on a surreal journey through death, the after life, and back to the land of the living again.

Stop motion animation of aliens on a guided tour around an amusement park. (Source: AniDB)

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One day, a boy who separated from his mother’s hand is deprived of his fingers. His fingers become a larva and part from his hand. The house. . . conceals a relationship between the two from anyone. How does the boy who is deprived of his fingers grow up? (Source: TMDB)

A stop-motion adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen.

A young girl wanders outside on a snowy night, trying to find a place to stay.

Music video for the song Yume ja Nai by Spitz.

Film about a ghost ship. There is no dialogue, just music and a choir.

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Music video for the song Zou da Zou by Isao Sasaki that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program. The video was animated by Toshikatsu Wada.

A claymation short film about strange creatures who live atop a middle age office worker's head.

When a meteor crashes to Earth, it briefly changes the climate and dinosaurs once again roam the planet. It's up to a newly formed expedition team to relocate the dinosaurs to a safe environment. (Source: AniDB)

An adaptation of Aesop's fable The Ant and the Grasshopper but with a slight change. We have a diligent family ants versus a drunken lazy frog, a bourgeois butterfly and grasshopper couple. As winter comes, the frog, butterfly, and grasshopper are ill and starving.

Mr. Ogino should have died during the war but his spirit was brought back to life by the power of science. He sees the world 100 years later during the year 2032 lead by one of his descendants. They decide to take a trip to Mars too and the ship malfunctions, because a spirit of the past was on the ship, it went out of control trying to reach Buddha's paradise instead.

Animal Village has built some roads with a lot of cars running through. In order to keep everyone safe, traffic rules were put into place.

Music video for the song Present by SEKAI NO OWARI that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

Inspired by Katsuhiko Kamimura's Myths of India, a collection of short stories on Hindu mythology, Mukashi no Yama tells a poetic and humerus tale about mountains that could fly. When they fell to the ground, the earth shook with a great sound. (Source: Official Website)

Based on chapter one of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen. The original text depicts a disaster brought about by tools and technology. There is a connection between this theme and the nuclear power plant accident that occurred in Japan in 2011. Tsuji's film attempts to be an interleaving depiction of the original story and the real-life disaster. (Source: Vimeo)

The story of a mother, her baby, and a wind spirit, and their journey in the sky. (Source: Official Website)

A series of stop motion fairytales by Gakken.

A stop-motion animation about a demon who tries to get his father's approval by traveling to the big city.

On the Ryoku Tama Shinshi DVD release there were 10 short stories included. These original stop-motion animation stories were not present in the feature film. The first short story is actually a prequel to the feature film telling the viewer why Monsieur Greenpeas went the the city. The rest of the episodes are more side-stories and flesh out the characters.

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A TV show that is so unclear to whom and where it is broadcast. A strange room where the recording and editing is taking place. A middle-aged gentleman like a wax figure sits on a turntable and grabs the microphone as the director signals him to do so. A reading about the mysterious genre "Ficfyon" has begun. 'What the heck did we not have time for?' The monologue of a man sitting in the audience and continuing to talk about his story will soon move into Ficfyon prophecies about the 2000s. (Source: CaRTe bLaNChe)

The noise of the badly projected cathode ray tube image cleared up and a news program called "Ficfyon 7" appeared on the monitor. Professor Kim Wilson, an expert on the mysterious genre of "Ficfyon" was introduced as a guest, and the host asked him questions about the current state of "Ficfyon." The professor's answer was not in words, but a mysterious gesture. With the presenter's astonished expression, the images on the monitor split and repeat like a matryoshka. Eventually, the program ends as if nothing had happened, but the strange loop continues afterwards... (Source: CaRTe bLaNChe)

Kongjui, who had been living alone with her father, welcomes a stepmother and a stepsister called Patchui into her life. When her father is out, the stepmother and Patchui make her do all the housework and the stepmother believes all of Patchui's lies and beats Kongjui mercilessly. When talks of marriage between Kongjui and the son of a respectable family come out one day, the stepmother does everything in her power to get Patchui married to the young man. Unaware of her stepmother's plans, Kongjui runs into the young man in the woods and the two fall in love. Source: (themoviedb.org)

Music video for the song Koneko no Byouki by Japanese women's chorus sextet Voce Angelica that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program. The video features stop-motion animation by Group Claire.

A music video for the song "Punpun Polka" by Hiroshi Ashino that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

A song for the Minna no Uta segment.

A song for the Minna no Uta segment.

A song for the Minna no Uta segment, it adapts "Flohwalzer" (Flea Waltz) is a simple German piano piece, often one of the first learned because its fingering is simple and it allows beginners to perform a piece that is harmonically and rhythmically pleasing. It has different names in different countries but in Japan this piece is known as Neko Funjatta (I Stepped on the Cat). (Source: Wiki)

A stop-motion commercial for Panasonic Connect demonstrating supply chains.