At a Shogi-chess game, the players start pondering opponent’s game strategy or calculations. They lose themselves in their deep contemplation. 1st year work 2016 by Moe Kuribara, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, De
A story of a baby and a spirit of wind Zephyr. The short travel in the sky. Through many cloud and arrive to the sun. Charcoal drawing animation with bass guitar sound. Music, Sound composition performed: Makiko T (Vimeo)
A stop-motion animated short film featuring "Danboard" characters from Yotsubato!
The adventures of high school girl Ireesha and her friends (talking frog and guitar-fairy Robby) as she visits Elf world to retrieve her friend’s soul.
Yamakita Higashi's 2020 Tama Art University graduation project.
A stop motion animation using several phenakistoscopes of polyhedron and other materials. Five “Egg birds” appears in the artificial garden. (Source: Kraut Film)
Coffy and Daniel were practicing the Japanese lion dance for their exhibit in the school festival, when Abukuma-san started yelling at them for being so loud. Coffy's temper snaps, and she hurls his beloved bonsai at him. Daniel becomes convicted for
The Frogman Company presents, a Tumulus Cinderella Story! Once upon a time, a gentle girl named Coffy lived a life of misery, being treated like trash by her sister-by-law Daniel and her family. Coffy was not allowed to go to the dance party where Pr
A man is left alone in empty white space. He starts to create his own world with materials popped up out of nowhere and build a house and made animals. But there is a hole in this world and he wonders about it. In the meanwhile he learns there is the
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. Sound
Original film by Kakeru Mizui, featuring music from Masato Abe. "An old book" was written by a writer, and was read by many people. The interpretation of the intention of the writer and readers of this book, is just like "life." I created this work w
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 20
A movie version of Gamba no Bouken, covering the main events of the series in 90 minutes. An adventurous wild mouse called Gamba travels with his friends to see the ocean but he finds an injured mouse and hears about the violence of white ferret Noro
Yuangong, the deacon, opens the shrine and exposes the holy book to the human world. He also carves the contents of the book on the stone wall of white cloud cave in the mountains. He is then punished by the Jade Emperor to guard the book for life fo
Norman and the boy decide to go on an adventure to see the stars filling the sky as shooting stars will reach the town soon. What they don’t know is it will get too cloudy to see anything up there. It’s about their small and yet heartwarming journey.
The mythical nine-tailed fox, gumiho, also known as Lee Yeon, has just moved into the city. Able to take human form, he cleanses human minds, while creating havoc. Nam Ji Ah, whose current show features urban myths, will stop at nothing to highlight
Short film directed by Kenji Iwaisawa, adapted from the manga of Hiroyuki Ohashi.
It happens at a half-demolished shopping street. After a brief rain, there comes a moment of another landscape. 1st year work 2015, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. (Source: Geidai Animatio