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All living things are born and die. Water flows and never returns back. The money you have might be gone away. However, you might become friends with someone who was your enemy. Everything keep changing and never be the same. Even these ideas could be changed, just in a moment. (Source: Vimeo)

A music video for mikimisa's song Mukou no Hikari.

Without using a camera, this film was made on an optical printer with a countdown leader as its primary visual subject. Tanaami gave frame-by-frame color printing instructions to his film laboratory by phone to create the film. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

One day, the snow metamorphosed into an earthworm, when it sensed danger for melting. The earthworm, who longed for aboveground, metamorphosed into a tree. It continues metamorphosing and... Someday, it will remember her old self. (Source: Vimeo)

A woman looks into her mind. Chasing her ideals on a tightrope. Every imperfect piece of her mind completes herself. (Source: IMDb)

A short film by Haruka Suzuki.

People can't bear all kinds of suffering in the world, and they struggle to rise up on the path to peace and tranquility. In the end, people pay a huge price to get peace and tranquility.

Described by filmmaker Nobuhiro Kawanaka as ‘sexier than sex itself’, the film intercuts between close-up images of a naked heterosexual couple and long shots of a bamboo forest taken from above using a helicopter. The edited cut was projected and rephotographed using high contrast black-and-white film, which was printed in 80-100 types of color gradations at the laboratory, creating what looked like a posterization effect. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

Experimental short film about animal exploitation from Chinese animator Liu Zuofeng.

The fifth anthology work by animation collective G9+1, about the forever unfinished city Tokyo.

Music video for the song Funauta by Aki Yashiro. The song was featured on her 2021 Best Hits album that was released in commemoration of fifty years since her debut.

A film by Keiichi Tanaami.

Music video for the song Popcorn by Denki Groove.

Regarded as a creative extension of Stone, animation unfolds on a drawing paper placed on a field and farm. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

Music video for the song Aye,aye,sir! by SatapanP, featuring Hatsune Miku, Kasane Teto, and KAFU.

This animation was based on a scene I dreamt, where white smoke was rising from a bed. I was influenced by one of Zhuangzi’s thought, The butterfly dream, and visualized the contrast between dream and reality. While I was creating this piece, I was never aware of whom the man sleeping in the movie was, but somehow, he ended up looking just like my grandfather. (Source: Official Website)

Short film by Hirano Ryou.

Music video for the song Oni no Ko by SETA.

Music video for the song Banana Bread Pudding by Serph from his EP "Mirapyd".

This animated documentary is derived from footage shot at the site of the Sanrizuka struggle opposing the construction of Narita Airport. In addition to scenes evidently shot before and after the Nihon Genyasai Festival in Sanrizuka, it features time-lapse sequences showing abandoned houses and construction equipment leveling requisitioned land. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

A group of children dances to music, being observed by their teacher. A girl tries to interfere.

Living things, artificial things, geometry shapes, and lines. When these different things encounter, a new direction is born. Desiring it as the sense of touch, things keep chasing it forever. Animation of tactility you only can let yourself go with the streaming of the images. (Source: NEW DEER)

The waves of the sea gently ebb and flow, while the mountains silently observe the passing of time. The short life of a bee and the long transformation of continents, both are merely illusions. The flow of time shines eternally in each fleeting moment. Perhaps there are neither beginnings nor ends, nor haste nor delay, not even existence or cessation, in its true essence. (Source: Vimeo)

Film about the ''Sick building syndrome'', it won multiple awards including the 2015 Urban Nomad Film Festival's Best Animation award. It is a city without memories, but a growing maze with construction sites, skyscrapers, advertising billboards that keeps taking over or being taken over their domains. Citizens wander around and eventually get lost in vain, and the Mô-sîn-á is the only one to lead their way. (Source: Creator's Vimeo account)