Anime catalog

Found: 354

tumbled cat

Movie · Psychological

Synopsis: Toshikazu Tamura's first year work at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. Images of cats are stamped in a notebook to create moving vignettes.

Jade

Hisui

Movie · Psychological, Slice of Life

Synopsis: A woman is pronounced to be ill, but it is too much for her to accept. Her thoughts and worries continually change to makes a strange and mysterious world. 1st year work 2016 by Yume Ukai, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animatio…

Promises

Yakusoku

Movie · Drama, Supernatural

Synopsis: 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.

Strawberry Candy

Ichigo Ame

Movie · Drama, Psychological

Synopsis: She has an unspeakable secret but the memory is gradually fading. The little girl is no longer sure if it was a dream or reality.

★ 4.5

Al Dente Tango

Movie · Comedy, Music

Synopsis: The stage is a fancy restaurant featuring live tango performances. Both the cuisine and the clientele are impeccable, and everyone is fully content. But one customer’s visit disrupts the tranquility. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Maternal Awakening

Journey to the Bosei no Mezame

Movie · Psychological, Slice of Life

Synopsis: I was heading to junior high school one day when my maternal instincts suddenly kicked in. After being held hostage to those urges for a decade, I started to wonder if this feeling was really about motherliness. Virgin birth, genes, pregnancy… I journey through 10 years in search…

Fourth Period Swimming Class

Yon Jikanme no Pool

Movie · Romance, Slice of Life

Synopsis: The fourth-grade protagonist is going through physical and emotional changes and feels awkward as she can’t help but compare herself to her friends. One day, she is blown away by her classmate Aya’s swimming and realizes that she has feelings for her. (Source: Geidai Animation)

In My Room

Movie · Horror, Psychological

Synopsis: This installation work is inspired by dreams experienced during a fever. The two-minute looping animation visualizes incoherent nightmares seen intermittently when having a hallucinatory fever. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Braid

Amikomi

Movie · Psychological, Slice of Life

Synopsis: A girl braids her classmate's long hair. She remembers the moments with her friend... Did all these actually happen? 1st year work 2016 by Nozomi Koyasu, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Come Back to my Mind

Uwa no Sora kara Kaetekuru

Movie · Fantasy

Synopsis: The protagonist is with friends but bored with the conversation. His mind often slips away to his own imaginary world and comes back to them. So their conversation doesn’t go along very well. In several trips to his own imagination he gradually feels it void and became interested…

Summer Sky Reverie

Untei

Movie · Psychological, Slice of Life

Synopsis: It’s summer vacation and all the kids in the neighborhood have left to visit relatives. But there in the relentless glare of the sun, is a boy looking up at the sky. (Source: Geidai Animation)

My Dear Flesh

Kamisama no Harawata

Movie · Psychological

Synopsis: A spring night, I walked past a "god." I wonder if it was a cat or a man. Or was it a wind I felt in a slumber ? They were certainly there, celebrating the cycle of lives in small ways. 1st year work 2013, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Depar…

I'm nothing

Nan demo Nai

Movie · Psychological

Synopsis: I get up in the morning, prepare myself, wait for a bus, then the train, go to school, and return home. Days go by even while I wonder about, cry, or sleep. 1st year work 2013, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. (Source: …

Sounds Over Seas

Kaigara no ura

Movie · Psychological

Synopsis: The film is a journal of a woman who travels in time, in peoples and in mind. 1st year work 2016, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. (Source: Geidai Animation)

A Pawn

Movie · Psychological

Synopsis: In a land where there are no enemies or allies is a lone soldier. He spends his days sculpting wood with his bayonet. And then one day, out of the blue, an enemy stands before him. Graduate Work 2019, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department…

Umbrella

Kasa

Movie · Psychological

Synopsis: In the world of constant black rain, people live under umbrellas’ protection. One day a man threw his umbrella away, which resulted to brought him a green plant, only existing green in that world. People desire his plant and start to scramble for it. 1st year work 2016 by Wenrui …

Dissipate

Mai Sora

Movie · Psychological

Synopsis: Clouds flow by. Pictures evaporate. When the act of drawing is in tune with nature’s ways, an ancient poetry echoes through the sky and in due time brings rain. Graduate Work 2019, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. (Sour…

The life of the weed

Kusa no issho

Movie · Psychological

Synopsis: A town flourishes on the sea, and a weed take shelter there. From then on, the weed endlessly repeats its small and harsh life. The weed uses its own body to perform a dance that condenses the things perceived in that town over a lifetime. 1st Year Work 2011, Tokyo University of …

Invisible Touch

Anata ga Miemashita

Movie · Psychological

Synopsis: Tosuke is a home tutor who meets a girl named Miyako on the job. She is blind and doesn't move or speak. But is Tosuke seeing the real Miyako? (Source: Geidai Animation)

Live or Let Live

Hana to Larva

Movie · Drama, Supernatural

Synopsis: There's a pet caterpillar named Larva in my class. I don't like bugs but Larva is sweet and we become friends. But one day, I am faced with a horrible choice. Graduate Work 2018, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation (Source:…

7 falls, 8 comebacks, 7 sports

Nankorobiyaoki Nana Shumoku

Movie · Sports

Synopsis: 1st year work 2018, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. Bloopers in sports are different from the blunders we make in everyday life but they tend to share similar physical movements. The title comes from an old Japanese sa…

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…

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…