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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...

Summer is coming to an end. A little girl on the beach remembers the days spent giggling and dancing with her friend. The goodbyes and memories...

A girl made of unmelted snow has fallen in love with the dragon who brings spring. A story of changing seasons and thawing hearts.

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?

Two brothers are drawing pictures in art class, but they see completely different things. The younger one is confused by the behavior of his brother,...

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.

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

There lives a little girl with her brother in a city full of skyscrapers. One night when they were playing with their favourite game Jenga, something...

A little Chinku thinks his father does not love him. And when he thinks [that] his grandfather, his only supporter, rejects his hand for help,...

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

One day a boy encounters a street vendor who sells chicks.Even the boy knows these birds will die very soon. To his eyes, the man is selling none...

Here, everyone is an outlander. But something's not right. Everyone else has a place to sit at the table, a home to return to at will. Not him....

The angel of wind exhales, sending fluffy dandelion seeds into a slow dance. Wind and light guide the downy seeds into the magical world of botany.

Kaibun are palidromes in which words sound the same when read backwards and forwards. Sometimes the meaning changes, and sometimes not. I brought...

A robot works at a factory repeating the same operation everyday. One day an unexpected visitor arrives and changes his routine.

Hanako always watches the other kids play but she is too timid to ask if she can join in. Then one day, Booger Gal rockets out of her and helps her...

We have limited control over our bodies, and we can't change ourselves at will. While I yearn for complete freedom, I also want to make peace with my...

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...

A closed society, and idols created as numerical expressions of their own existence. Endless replications of the original data results in the loss of...

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...