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Koi Nobori

Music · Action, Drama

Synopsis: Music video directed by Mitsuyuki Ishibashi and animation director Kousuke Sugimoto for the song Koi Nobori by JITTERIN'JINN. The song was originally released as a single in 2001 and was included as a bonus track on their 2007 greatest hits album "8-9-10! (Ver.2)".

Under the Sun

Movie

Synopsis: Regarded as a creative extension of Stone, animation unfolds on a drawing paper placed on a field and farm. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

Kochira Katsushikaku Kameari Kouenmae Hashutsujo Special: Ryou-san Saidai no Kiki! Rival wa Chakichaki Edokko

Special · 2000 · Comedy

Synopsis: Special episode of Kochira Katsushikaku Kameari Kouenmae Hashutsujo broadcast between episodes 191 and 192 of the TV series.

Hoshi to Niji to

Music

Synopsis: Stars twinkling in the sky and a bright rainbow crossing the sky. There's no need for tears with a world so beautiful. The music video invokes these thoughts through stop-motion paper cut-outs with a shadow puppet flair.

★ 4.0

Kawawawawawada

Special · Music

Synopsis: A video created for Ryou Inoue's friend Kawawada's wedding ceremony.

Hendo Garden

Special · Music

Synopsis: A short created for Hendo-san's wedding party. The video was uploaded to YouTube a day after the wedding.

Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Mythical Ark - Adventures in Love & Happiness

Xi Yangyang Yu Hui Tailang: Xiqi Yang Yang Guo She Nian

Movie · Adventure, Comedy

Synopsis: In the face of impending disaster, the animal world is looking to the Mythical Ark for salvation. The problem is that only the snake tribe can operate the ark, and the snakes have already escaped to Utopia. To save the animals, Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf travel to Utopia to c…

Water Dream

Mizu no Yume

Movie

Synopsis: A homage to Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) by American composer George Crumb, depicting the evolution of life in the ocean from its birth to whales through music and images. There are four parts: Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic. (Source: Yamamura Animation, tran…

xx

Movie · Psychological

Synopsis: Red ribbon of double spiral is bondage “xx” to connect the girls; the transmitted touch of the soft hand, and the gentle memories only girls can inherit. Those dreamy moments abruptly end and the bodies transform regardless of their intentions. “Xx” gives and takes. It is an ines…

Capsule Hero

Capsule Boy

TV · Sci-Fi

Synopsis: 6.5-centimeter tall Degirdians fall to Earth in their spacecraft while chasing fugitives. Their spaceship transforms into a capsule toy stand near a toy store and a human boy accidentally takes home one of the aliens thinking it's a capsule toy. They befriend a human boy and try …

Smells like Coffee Spirit

Magokoro? Masuta

Movie · Comedy

Synopsis: Kosaku Sarutahiko is a miniscule manager of a mysterious café. He tries many ways to treat his customer with the coffee he brewed but… 1st year work 2016 by Erica Ohyama, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. (Source: Geidai…

First Hand Memories

Tenohira no Niwa

Movie · Drama, Slice of Life

Synopsis: A girl looks at the surrounding world through a toilet paper roll, a play everybody has similar experience of. The Rakugo story of PARROT is told by a Rakugo-ka, or a lone storyteller formed of Japanese characters. 1st year work 2016 by Haruka Umemura, Tokyo University of the Art…

Yocchan no Biidama

Special · Drama

Synopsis: Based on the picture book by Kodama Tatsuharu.

Yasai no Yousei: Quiz Gekijou

Movie · 2013 · Comedy

Zoku Zoku Mura no Obake-tachi

OVA · 1996 · Fantasy

Synopsis: A succession of tales taken from the 1.3-million-selling children's books by Akiko Sueyoshi and Mako Taruishi, including Ram the Mummy, Obatan the Witch, The Childish Goblin, and Kitten Ghosts Goo, Soo and Pea. (Source: The Anime Encyclopedia)

La Vilaine LuLu

Special · 2009 · Comedy

Synopsis: Based on a picture book by the late fashion icon Yves Saint-Laurent. Saint-Laurent originally created the cartoons in his picture book in 1956, when he was a 20-year-old working for the Christian Dior haute couturier. The cartoons follow the bizarre fantasies of a mischievous gir…

Kareinaru Budoukai

Movie · Fantasy

Synopsis: Part of a series of animated short films shown at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka called "Film Guru Guru". A sewing dummy turns on itself. Her white dress then reveals her different layers of colors. It then returns to a stationary state.

Boku no Me wa Neko no Me

Music · Romance

Synopsis: Music video for the song Boku no Me wa Neko no Me by Kiyoshirou Imawano that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program. The video was animated by Toshio Nishiuchi.

Ichigo no Hanayome-san

Music

Synopsis: Music video for the song Ichigo no Hanayome-san by Maro and Kuni Kawachi that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program. The video was animated by Seiichi Hayashi.

Tanjoubi no Chachacha

Music

Synopsis: Japanese school children merrily sing about Happy Birthday songs, not "the" Happy Birthday song, but songs the children created specifically for the birthday person.

Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Amazing Pleasant Goat

Xi Yangyang Yu Hui Tailang: Yang Nian Xi Yangyang

Movie · Adventure, Comedy

Synopsis: In Green Green Pastures, there exists a much loved legend about valiant dragon-slayers who lived in the Stone Age. Having grown up listening to stories about their awe-inspiring adventures, Pleasant Goat and Fatty Goat have always wanted to become dragon slayers themselves. While…

Fussa Dancing Animation

Movie · Slice of Life

Synopsis: "This work was produced at a workshop where you can experience the animation created using a technique called rotoscoping up close at the event "Ginza Shoeikai Art Festival" held in Fussa, Tokyo in June 2014. We asked the visitors to draw each one by hand, and joined them togethe…

The Man Who Ate an Apple

Movie · Comedy, Supernatural

Synopsis: An apple comes out of a man’s mouth. The man’s life goes backward, as video player is reversed. Many kinds of food accelerate to come out of his mouth and the man becomes younger and younger. Time goes back and goes back without end. 1st year Work 2012, Tokyo University of the Ar…

My Wish

Music

Synopsis: A metaphorical poetry song about the real-life wish of a 15-year-old girl with a terminal illness. She was supposed to have died at the age of 10 but kept fighting to stay alive. The band Indigo Blue who made this song in her honor never had a chance to meet her directly while sh…