Anime catalog

Found: 354

Gals

Onna Tomodachi

Movie · Psychological, Slice of Life

Synopsis: Reminiscing the days I spent with an old friend, facing up to the narrow but deep gap that lies between us. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Gradations

Movie · Psychological, Slice of Life

Synopsis: One day a girl and a boy set off to reach their ideal place. However, the girl comes to realize that the place they had arrived was not what she had really wanted. As the scenery around them changes, they find their minds too exist in gradations. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Grey Zone

Movie · Horror

Synopsis: Lumps of clay fall into the grey space. The white clay turns into a man, the black clay into a monster. The two lose their flesh every time they move so they start a battle to stay alive. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Specimens of Obsessions

Hyouhon no tou

Movie · Action, Adventure

Synopsis: A man jumped out of the window. Why did he have to leap out of his room? As time reverse, his struggles gradually get revealed. He has confined himself to his room and tried to escape from the horrible illusions and the memory of a. . . man. His room was full of specimens and eac…

Empty Hands

Movie · Slice of Life

Synopsis: This movie depicts parallel life stories that occur in Japanese modern society. The fate is determined by a person’s name in a hand-playing song, but the reality is unknown. Are they playing into the hands of someone or living invariably? (Source: Geidai Animation)

WILD WILD HAM

Sokonashi Winna

Movie · Psychological

Synopsis: How to spend a ten-minute break at club activities. Let us take off the shoes and socks, and enjoy the fresh breeze between our toes. We are all flesh after all. Graduate Work 2013, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation (Sour…

Spirits from the Night

Yoru kara Kita Hitotachi

Movie · Fantasy, Mystery

Synopsis: A sand man shows up in a child’s bedroom at night. He invites a dusty stuffed animal on the shelf to go out over the hill. The child follows them to get his animal back into the darkness of night. Graduate Work 2012 from Hiroko Satsuma, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate Scho…

Eikyuu Ten

Movie

Synopsis: From the creation of the human race to its final destination of being trapped in the point of permanence. Graduate Work 2024, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Representation of Light

Hikari no Hyoushou

Movie · Psychological

Synopsis: My deceased great-grandmother had been a part of my life as a portrait on the wall. I searched for ways to substantiate her life inside me and decided to photograph and develop pictures of her at two different ages. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Psyche

Movie · Drama, Supernatural

Synopsis: The main character of this story is a strange creature who lives in shadows. One day, he is left behind by the owner of the shadow he lives in. This creature who has lost his home wanders through the night city in search of his shadow. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Poo Down Hill Up

Fun Ochita Yama Tonda

Movie · Fantasy, Mystery, Psychological

Synopsis: Bird poo fell in love with the hill but the hill is taken away high above the clouds. Poo is devastated. But then, a triangular telescope falls from the sky and it’s showing what the hill is seeing. Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New…

I wanted to be wanted.

Hitsuyōna Sonzai ni Naritakatta na.

Movie · Drama, Slice of Life

Synopsis: She wonders when she started thinking that she was only a convenient tool for someone else. The protagonist finds herself rattled because of some minor occurrences in her daily life. Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Departme…

Dear Viruses

Shinai naru Uirusutachi e

Movie · Psychological

Synopsis: This work is a missive to the life form we call viruses in the hope that we can coexist. The relationship between humans and viruses is poetically expressed from a different perspective. 1st year work 2021, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Depa…

MUNCH MUNCH

Movie · Fantasy, Slice of Life

Synopsis: How to make this mysterious cake? The ingredients include blue eggs, cookie flowers, pillow stuffing and much more. 1st year work 2021, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Squishy Fish Eggs

Tara Ko wo Sawattara

Movie · Psychological, Slice of Life

Synopsis: When I touched the sack of cod roe for the first time, it felt exactly like my thighs. It was light pink and so soft. Maybe my whole world is made of squishy fish eggs. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Wish Upon a Snowdrop

Majutsushi to Yuki no Hana

Movie · Slice of Life

Synopsis: There is a family living in an air base town. I got a younger brother. Dad was only absent for work at the base and Mom was busy with the brother and little time for me. Out of loneliness and jealousy I hid brother’s charm. From that day, Dad stopped coming home... Graduate Work …

Vision

Movie

Synopsis: Eyes are magical spheres that make up dreams and retain memories. In our eyes, the visions of the within and of the beyond overlap. New worlds come to be when our gazes meet. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Let’s become human today

Kyo mo Chanto Ningen ni Narou

Movie · Comedy, Supernatural

Synopsis: The Daily Life of a spirit that imitate human. 1st year work 2021, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. (Source: Geidai Animation)

The Big Tree in Front of the House

Ie no Mae ni Ookina Ki ga Aru

Movie · Psychological, Slice of Life

Synopsis: It should have been an ordinary day, but it was very different from usual. There was a large crowd in front of my grandma’s house. Where did people come from and where are they going? I was peeping at them behind the window, but the big tree obstructed my view. (Source: Geidai An…

Our house / Notre maison

Watashi-tachi no Ie

Movie · Psychological, Slice of Life

Synopsis: Alice goes alone. She opens the doors like she let her legs do the leading and she finds various houses by various people. This work expresses the landscape or the figure of love that we’re keen from the bottoms of our hearts, with(using) various images and motifs. (Source: Geida…

Decorations

Movie · Fantasy

Synopsis: A quaint kitchen in a house tucked away in the outskirts of the city. Amidst preparations for a banquet, the birth of a new life brings turmoil and change. And then, she heads off on her own journey. Those who send her off recall the day they embarked on their own journeys, just …

The depths of us

Boku-tachi wa Chigaunda

Movie · Drama, Psychological

Synopsis: My older brother and I became separated on a mountain crawling with eerie insects. I was taught that family should stay together no matter what, so I climbed deep into the mountain in search of my brother. (Source: Geidai Animation)

My Hand, Her Hand

Haha no Te, Musume no Kami

Movie · Slice of Life

Synopsis: The little girl has a complex because she doesn’t look like her mom, and the mom wants her daughter to look more ladylike. Their faces don’t look alike, but their hands do. The girl treasures this resemblance, which also enables the mom to treat her daughter with tenderness.

Ukiyodoko

Movie · Comedy, Slice of Life

Synopsis: The film is based on Ukiyodoko, a rakugo storytelling piece. Hanzo, the hero, brags to his friends to make a party go. Human nature remains unchanged once and now, as the time goes. We love meaningless conversations among boon companions. Different communication methods are visua…