Tsutomu Asakura

A polar bear who is very bored with various marine animals in the deep blue sea. It continues an ancient tradition of "Caricatures of Frolicking animals" in scroll painting-style; this time, "Frolicking Sea Animals," in animation form, with a play on Japanese and English language word-plays: "Hokyoku-Guma Suggoku Hima. / Polar bear bears boredom", "Kawauso Kawaisou./Other otter, poor otter," etc.

I'm the only one who can't live without an oxygen tank in the underwater world. No matter how suffocated I feel, I preserve peace and harmony by pretending the selfish girl and my friends with complicated family backgrounds don’t bother me.

Yui has become estranged from her boyfriend, who doesn't even wish her happy birthday. Her friend Aya introduces a fortune teller said to be the real deal. What does destiny hold for them? This is a romantic comedy made during self-quarantine.

Malice comes up abruptly. As if it is blinking. Capricious like a flapping insect. One day the boy finds a winged insect and crushes it out of disgust. Meanwhile, the elephant sees the whole situation but says nothing. From that day on, the boy is chased by shadows of the winged insects.

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 of the maternal.

One day a girl and a boy set off to reach their ideal place. However, the girl comes to realize that the place they had arrived was not what she had really wanted. As the scenery around them changes, they find their minds too exist in gradations.

There are three "Motifs". The complete differences between them make themselves self-doubt. The melody begins, and the music motif could not resist the impulse to dance, but the others also catching up ... Am "I" also a "Motif"? This film uses a Fugue from Bach, tries to unify similar concepts that exist in different forms, including music, visual arts, and narrative.

日本の現代社会で起こるパラレルな人生譚。運命は、ある手遊び歌ではその人が持つ名前で決まるが、現実はどうなるかわからない。彼らは誰かの掌で転がされているのか、無常を生きているのか。

Graphic research inspired by photos and travel souvenirs made with oil pastels.

Why do you want acceptance? If it's not going to happen, then forget about what it was you wanted acknowledged and just have some soup, like always.

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. Lonely as it may be, he will look ahead and find his place here.

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 intertwine in a mesh of sorrow and joy.

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

"You're right. There was a bug–I killed it." Late at night, only one voice wafts around the room. What lies on the other end of the telephone line is anyone's guess...

Now a grown woman, I sit on the train recollecting my childhood. That morning field baking in the sun. Making one bamboo-leaf boat after the other. The smoke from the fireworks spreading like a thick fog. And to those memories I say, "Welcome back."

A girl goes for a ramble in the neighborhood. The friendly dog is barking as usual. Oh, there goes a cat. Wait, no, it's just a shopping bag. The old guys are laughing about something. I know a lot about this town, and yet there's a lot that I don’t know.

彼女と分かり合いたくて語りかける彼。でもいつものように、彼女は遥か遠くに感じられる。そんなはずないのに。彼女はテーブルの向かいにいるのだから。

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.

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 frustration.

This story is about a place long ago, before birth and before death, that everyone knows and no one knows.

A visitor shows up in the middle of the night at the countryside house that Miyako shares with her father. Miyako goes to wake up her father, but the creature enters the house. Miyako stands frozen.

Lion Nanny rides the train and embarks on a life journey while interacting with those around her.

Brothers eating dinner, a girl watering the plants, a boy awakening in the night… The daily scenery from the house where they all lived at one point or another.

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...

Mimi is fed up with her pathetic self. One day she walks along looking at the ground like usual when she notices a suspicious flyer.

Fluffy turtles, fluffy monkeys, fluffy lizards. Discover the world populated by these mysteriously charming imaginary creatures. They have adorably fluffy bodies and are becoming an ever more common sight in daily life.

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.

Shiroinu writes down the day’s events before he goes to sleep. One day, he opens a drawer buried in the snow and finds old diary entries. He realizes that he’s forgotten the sensations and emotions from that time to the extent that he feels like he’s reading about someone else’s life.

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.

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.

Everyone crosses the Red Bridge and yet no one likes him. One day, he falls into the deep valley.

宝町で暮らす親を知らない少年クロとシロ。町で“ネコ”と呼ばれるふたりは、かつあげやかっぱらいで暮らしていた。その町で“子供の城”の建設話が持ち上がる。しかし、それは古めかしい宝町を近代化して支配しようとするヤクザの仕業。昔気質のヤクザのネズミは反対するが、彼のボスは謎の男“蛇”にこの計画を一任していた。残酷な蛇はクロとシロを邪魔者だと判断し、刺客をおくる。ケンカでは誰にも負けない凶暴なクロだったが、刺客の前では手も足も出ない。そして追いつめられたシロは刺されてしまう…。

宝町で暮らす親を知らない少年クロとシロ。町で“ネコ”と呼ばれるふたりは、かつあげやかっぱらいで暮らしていた。その町で“子供の城”の建設話が持ち上がる。しかし、それは古めかしい宝町を近代化して支配しようとするヤクザの仕業。昔気質のヤクザのネズミは反対するが、彼のボスは謎の男“蛇”にこの計画を一任していた。残酷な蛇はクロとシロを邪魔者だと判断し、刺客をおくる。ケンカでは誰にも負けない凶暴なクロだったが、刺客の前では手も足も出ない。そして追いつめられたシロは刺されてしまう…。

トルコ。「ノアの方舟」が乗り上げたと言い伝えられるアララト山でアーカムの調査員が消息を絶った。同時にアララト山に強力な磁場が発生。その影響を受けたアメリカの軍事衛星が消滅した。その半年後、アーカムのNO.1スプリガン・御神苗優は、何者かからの挑戦状を友人の命と引き換えに受け取る。間一髪、難を逃れた優がアーカム日本支部に駆けつけると、そこには「次はお前の番だ!」とのメッセージと共に、3週間前にトルコ支部で襲撃されたアーカムの調査隊の遺体写真が届いていた。優は日本支部の制止を振り切ってトルコへ飛ぶ。だが、優を待ち受けていたのは「ノアの方舟」に触手を動かしたアメリカ国防総省の機械化小隊だった。

山里に住む若者アシタカは、怒りと憎しみにより“タタリ神”と化した猪神から呪いをかけられてしまう。呪いを解く術を求めて旅に出るアシタカはやがて、西方の地で“タタラ”の村にたどり着く。エボシ御前が率いるその村では、鉄を造り続けていたが、同時にそれは神々の住む森を破壊することでもあった。そして、そんなタタラ達に戦いを挑むサンの存在をアシタカは知る。人の子でありながら山犬に育てられた彼女は“もののけ姫”と呼ばれていた。

仕えるべき主をもたぬ「はぐれ忍び」牙神獣兵衛は、望月藩お抱えの甲賀組忍びでくノ一の陽炎を偶然助ける。彼女は、下田村に広まった疫病の原因を解明するために仲間たちと一緒に潜入したところを、謎の忍び軍団・鬼門八人衆に襲われたのだ。仲間はすべて殺され、生き残ったのは彼女のみ。陽炎を助けたために、鬼門八人衆に狙われることになった獣兵衛は、その最中、公儀隠密・濁庵の罠にはめられ、敵の陰謀を探る羽目になる。その中で獣兵衛は、みずからがはぐれ忍びとなった過去の因縁と向き合っていく。