Harbor Tale

Mizuki Kiyama's short animation utilizes a paint on glass technique to render a young girl's visit to a neighborhood sento (bath house) with her mother with dazzling sensuous wonder. Evoking childish fascination at daily rituals, this quotidian act amidst feminine intimacy becomes a space of otherworldly fantasy.

Button Nose is a little girl who is home alone for a few days when a robot comes to gather strawberries. She is so excited by his spaceship she accidentally starts it, and goes on a voyage to his planet. When she lands she is brought before the king, who is a distant relative of hers and invites her to spend some time on the planet.

In the Harbor town "Y", The old red brick-built building which is in a corner of the town has watched the changing times of the harbor and people's lives for above hundred years. A red brick who is a piece of the building has seen "the glittering square thing" from there. It has been in his mind. One day, he gets out of the building wall and begins to walk. After walking, he finds it a sea. And then, he is given some encounters.

An animated film based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material – the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names in animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuriy Norshteyn's, though, is nearly two minutes long).

A young girl takes it into her head that her mother is taken by her newly born sister. Out of jealousy she hides her baby sister in darkness.

One morning in the rainy season.A woman with curly hair wakes up.Phantasmagorical images of self-hatred come to her one after another.

How to make this mysterious cake? The ingredients include blue eggs, cookie flowers, pillow stuffing and much more.

In the moments before death, one of the Battling Gods recalls his defeat in a magnificent fight. That battle transcended meta worlds, time and parallel universes as the Battling God faced off with another of his kind. All living creatures celebrated their fight with cries of joy.

A closed society, and idols created as numerical expressions of their own existence. Endless replications of the original data results in the loss of individuality, but emotional impulses begin to emerge.

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?

Okinawa is ominous right before the arrival of a typhoon. At first, Anri is excited by the unusual turn of events, but gradually she becomes fearful of the threatening typhoon. Then, her big sister tells her that typhoons have an eye...

Heartbroken, I bought a bottle of wine and drank it walking home. A tipsy journey reconstructed using the Japanese traditional storytelling method "rakugo."

Deep down the alley the black cat has entered is a town where nonhuman beings live in peace. The cat returns to his home to rest when suddenly he hears a strange sound coming from next door.

She wears a white mask to keep her sadness hidden from others. How can she free herself from the darkness of her mind?

A dark dark amusement park. Gradually, the rides begin to move.

It would be so much better if everyone just went away... A girl who hates school sits in the corner of the classroom and creates an imaginary world.