Akira Osabe

Movies

Round Trip
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Kaibun are palidromes in which words sound the same when read backwards and forwards. Sometimes the meaning changes, and sometimes not. I brought this playful and poetic world to life.
Squishy Fish Eggs
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When I touched the sack of cod roe for the first time, it felt exactly like my thighs. It was light pink and so soft. Maybe my whole world is made of squishy fish eggs.
The Mouse and a Prism
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The mouse finds a prism and it reveals to him a magnificent rainbow like he's never seen before. He tries to show his friends but for some reason it won't reappear. It seems beauty has a mind of its own.
Dear Viruses
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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 expressed from a different perspective.
AMANE DIARY
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This work is based on 15 years of entries in the diary that I’ve kept since age eight. Through creating this work I was searching for freedom from my preconceptions about animation and myself.
Brother
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When I was a kid, my big brother became obsessed with the 90s Japanese subculture of teenage guys who were known as "Gyaru-o." His odd appearance totally mystified me so I started to sneak into his room to look for his secrets.
POP JUNKIE
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TV shows, manga, music, movies, plays, pop stars and cartoon characters. I watch videos on my phone with the TV blaring and music in the background. I’m swimming in media... Is this the other side of the screen?! Awesome!
MUNCH MUNCH
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How to make this mysterious cake? The ingredients include blue eggs, cookie flowers, pillow stuffing and much more.
Red
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I conveyed my love and gratitude to a certain deceased physician amidst the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, while a personal shopper expressed the same emotions from yet a different place.
blink
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That moment of refreshing sensation when drinking a soda in the hot summer.
So I Picked Up the Worm
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Far away from her hometown, the little fox studies in a foreign country. The monotonous days and bare relationships make her increasingly homesick. But one day, she finds the curiosity that she had once lost and takes a new step.
Coping Mechanism
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No doubt negative enery is going to accumulate in my body today, tomorrow and the day after. When that happens, I'll have my own way of release.
Iron Pulse
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A small family-owned iron factory was closed down. What will remain of it?
Representation of Light
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My deceased great-grandmother had been a part of my life as a portrait on the wall. I searched for ways to substantiate her life inside me and decided to photograph and develop pictures of her at two different ages.
My Hand, Her Hand
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The little girl has a complex because she doesn’t look like her mom, and the mom wants her daughter to look more ladylike. Their faces don’t look alike, but their hands do. The girl treasures this resemblance, which also enables the mom to treat her daughter with tenderness.
Strangers in the Alley
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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.
Psyche
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One day, while the main character is dozing off, he is abandoned by the owner of the shadow that he lives in. This creature who has lost his home wanders through the night city in search of his shadow.
Indoor Days
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On days I don't want to leave the house, I enjoy watching TV and videos on my smartphone. I'm supposed to be at home but the screen keeps taking me elsewhere and I lose my grip on my whereabouts and reality.
The Death Vendor
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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 other than death itself.
House Rattler
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This house rattling spirit has lived in this old house for generations. But the old woman who lives there as the final resident can no longer hear the noises it makes, which leaves the house rattler filled with a sense of longing.
Behind Us
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One day a girl notices a distortion in her surrounding environment, which prompts her to start searching for her own connection with the world. But, the distortions become even more extreme. She wonders if the deviation is happening within her, or in the outside world.
Summer Sky Reverie
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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.
Boozy Woozy Wonderland
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Heartbroken, I bought a bottle of wine and drank it walking home. A tipsy journey reconstructed using the Japanese traditional storytelling method "rakugo."
Flow of Life
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The girl wished to transcend her own body and become a jellyfish. She was drawn to the figure of the jellyfish floating freely in the sea.
Pupa
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How long has it been since she lost control of her body? She is completely tapped out and finds herself wishing that she could just shed her body.
On the way home
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The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father.
Bero Bero
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A dog we like to pet on the way home from school, an eccentric guy, and ringing doorbells as a prank. That's our life in this town.
Gals
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Reminiscing the days I spent with an old friend, facing up to the narrow but deep gap that lies between us.
The Pearl Remains
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A woman traces her memories through a pearl ring, and comes upon her mother gazing at the same ring. But her memories soon lose their outline and become enclosed within the pearl.
To day plus one
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We go to sleep in hopes for a better tomorrow. The moment of truth nears as our eyes slowly open to the new day…
Jinxes
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A girl heading home from school is met with a bigger version of herself who poses arbitrary challenges with unspeakable consequences. The little girl tries to keep up but suddenly the stakes are raised.
Dance to Life
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For her, dance is life. And life is dance. Every tingle in her heart gets her swinging to the beat.
7 falls, 8 comebacks, 7 sports
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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 saying about recovering from bad happenings.
SIBLINGS
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Two sisters stay at home alone. They spend their time in their own worlds, at times in synch with each other and other times disconnected.
A4 Microcosm
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Microorganisms propagate, gather, and transform into an A4 sheet of paper. You can feel signs of life within the page.
Shiosai-bound
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A white lump appears at a landfill site with an ocean view and slowly heads for the sea. It is anxious to find a place to return.
Time Autobahn
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A speeding car leaps onto the highway of Time and hurtles forward -- its velocity is limitless.