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.

A mix of life tales in modern Japan where fate is predicted by your name and a fingerplay song. Are the members of this society playing into the hands of some higher being or are they living the life of impermanence?

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.

Communication is complicated. He tries to talk to her, but she seems unreachable. It’s unimaginable: she’s right on the other side of the table. When she tries to talk, it’s the same. At a time when “communication” is one of the great leitmotifs!

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.

홈리스와 야쿠자들이 모여 사는 '지옥의 거리' 다카라쵸. 그곳에는 서로를 의지하며 자유롭게 살아가는 두 고아소년 쿠로와 시로가 살고 있다. '고양이'라는 별명의 그들은 다카라쵸에서 아무도 손대지 못하는 '악동'으로 유명한 문제아들. 하지만 그들의 터전 다카라쵸에도 어둠의 그림자가 다가오기 시작한다. 테마파크 사업을 통해 떼돈을 벌어 마을을 삼키려는 야쿠자와 외부세력의 검은 음모가 시작된 것. 결국 쿠로와 시로는 자신의 마을을 지키기 위해 행동에 나서고, 이제 그들과의 숨막히는 전쟁이 시작된다! 『핑퐁』의 마츠모토 타이요(Matsumoto Taiyo)의 원작 만화를 (Animatrix)의 프로듀서 마이클 아리아스가 영화화한 작품. 의 니노미야 카즈나리(Ninomiya Kazunari)와 , 의 아오이 유우(Aoi Yu)가 목소리 출연하였다. 하늘을 날아다니며 사는 구로와 시로. 그들이 살고 있는 조용한 마을 ‘다카라마치’가 야쿠자의 폭력과 범죄로 물들면서 그들의 운명도 변하기 시작한다.

홈리스와 야쿠자들이 모여 사는 '지옥의 거리' 다카라쵸. 그곳에는 서로를 의지하며 자유롭게 살아가는 두 고아소년 쿠로와 시로가 살고 있다. '고양이'라는 별명의 그들은 다카라쵸에서 아무도 손대지 못하는 '악동'으로 유명한 문제아들. 하지만 그들의 터전 다카라쵸에도 어둠의 그림자가 다가오기 시작한다. 테마파크 사업을 통해 떼돈을 벌어 마을을 삼키려는 야쿠자와 외부세력의 검은 음모가 시작된 것. 결국 쿠로와 시로는 자신의 마을을 지키기 위해 행동에 나서고, 이제 그들과의 숨막히는 전쟁이 시작된다! 『핑퐁』의 마츠모토 타이요(Matsumoto Taiyo)의 원작 만화를 (Animatrix)의 프로듀서 마이클 아리아스가 영화화한 작품. 의 니노미야 카즈나리(Ninomiya Kazunari)와 , 의 아오이 유우(Aoi Yu)가 목소리 출연하였다. 하늘을 날아다니며 사는 구로와 시로. 그들이 살고 있는 조용한 마을 ‘다카라마치’가 야쿠자의 폭력과 범죄로 물들면서 그들의 운명도 변하기 시작한다.

터키의 아라라트 산에서 아캄의 조사대가 노아의 방주를 발견한다. 반년 후, 아캄의 요원 '스프리건'으로 활약하고 있는 오미나에 유우에게 그의 친구를 이용한 비겁한 도전장이 날아든다. 친구의 복수를 갚고 노아의 비밀을 찾기위해 유우는 아라라트산으로 향한다.

북쪽의 끝, 에미시족의 마을에 어느 날 갑자기 재앙신이 나타나 마을을 위협한다. 이에 강한 힘을 소유한 에미시족의 후계자인 아시타카는 결투 끝에 포악해진 재앙신을 쓰러트리지만 싸움 도중 오른팔에 저주의 상처를 받고 죽어야 할 운명에 처하게 된다. 결국 재앙신의 탄생 원인을 밝혀 자신의 저주를 없애기 위해 서쪽으로 길을 떠난 아시카타는 여행 중에 지코라는 미스테리한 수도승을 만나 재앙 신이 생겨나게 된 이유가 서쪽 끝에 있는 시시신의 숲과 관련이 깊다는 이야기를 듣게 되고 한시 바삐 서쪽으로 향한다.

불사의 술법을 익힌 괴력의 닌자, 히무로 겐마는 금광에서 발견된 금을 가로채려고 하고, 그 증거를 잡기 위해 막부는 밀사를 파견한다. 그러나 겐마는 귀문 8인조로 하여금 밀사를 제거하도록 하고, 여검객 카게고만이 살아남는다. 벳사이에게 겁탈을 당하려는 카게고를 위기에서 구해준 무사 쥬베는 곧 정체를 알 수 없는 노인이 던진, 독이 묻은 수리검에 맞는다. 해독약을 구하기 위해 쥬베는 귀문 8인조와 맞서기로 하는데...