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Independent animation by Suzuki Shinichi.

A whale is being neglected and decayed since it has been drifted on the shore of Han River. Such strange things happened but no one in the city cares, only a dog and birds are around the whale. These sceneries are a remembrance of the depression which has been hanging over South Korea quite a while. (Source: vcrworks.kr)

I often fall into the fantasy upon her back. What kind of person is she? What does she like? What world view does she hold? From the occasional detailed observations of her daily life, I have inferred many unexplainable clues... After a series of fantastic imagination, I suddenly realized that the girl who has been dialoging with me in my mind is just my own wishful thinking. Therefore, on the day of the reunion, I decided to take this step... (Source: YouTube)

The film covered a residential area with a superb view of both ocean and mountain. From that day, this town became dark as pitch. Hidden in this darkness were lights in the town, my way home, my mother, and my expected baby in my belly. This animation depicts the truth hiding behind the facts. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Animated music video for the song Eureka by Kirai Hiiragi featuring flower. Directed by Tokichiaki.

This film consists of 6 animated shorts produced by the Human Rights Commission of Korea. Like the previous movie, the stories deal with seeing the world through the eyes of people who are different from social norms. The film was nominated for Best Animated Feature in 2008 from the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. 1. "The Third Wish” (AN Dong-hui, RYU Jeong-wu). A fairy godmother appears before a visually impaired young woman to grant her three wishes. But this is no fairytale. The irritable middle-aged fairy wants to finish her job as soon as possible. Yet she proves to be helpful as she leads the woman through a busy marketplace, which is delightfully reminiscent of "Amelie". But it's no walk in the park, as busy urbanites show no consideration for our protagonist. Yet she prevails through obstacles. With a walking stick, she taps together the heels of her shiny new shoes and follows the "yellow brick road" (guiding tiles for the visually impaired) around the city. 2. "Ajukari” (HONG Deok-pyo) is a street-style cartoon. It comically depicts how a certain macho "complex" can cripple men. Male circumcision becomes the ultimate standard for being "manly" and those who have failed to do the deed are forever fearful of going to public baths. 3. "Baby" (LEE Hong-su, LEE Hong-min) portrays the difficulties a career woman faces in having a child. "I'm not saying you can't have maternity leave, but can you afford to raise a child while working?" asks her boss. This smart story portrays everything from mother and daughter-in-law relationships to a parody of "Tazza: The High Rollers" and hilarious episodes where an "ambulance bus" picks up several patients en route. 4. "Shine Shine Shining" (KWON Mi-jeong) is drawn like a warm, watercolor storybook for children. Grade schooler Eun-jin is smart and popular, but she has a secret. She hides her curly hair, which she gets from her Filipino mother, in braids. 5. "Merry Golasmas" is an adorable claymation, or stop motion animation of models constructed from clay, plasticine, etc. It explores physical discrimination or stereotypes. In an open audition to find a Santa Claus, the real Santas ― one who's black, another who's Asian, a female Santa and one in a wheelchair ― lose to a fake Santa, a pot-bellied, Caucasian. 6. “Lies" explores homosexuality. Drawn in pastel-like sketches with art deco-esque details, it is a stunning digital cut-out animation, A homosexual man is forced by his parents to marry a woman, while others are pressured to fake having a girlfriend or receive "therapy" to become straight. (Source: The Korean Times)

This story is about a place long ago, before birth and before death, that everyone knows and no one knows. (Source: Geidai Animation)

A female killer, who desires to have a child and a cold-blooded male killer. They go to an apartment at night to assassinate a drug addict. Unfortunately, the drug addict's wife is there on the scene. The female killer has no choice but kills the wife too. Then she finds something underneath the woman's body - it's a baby. (Source: IMDB)

Otoboke Beaver's new album ITEKOMA HITS features six new tracks, two re-recorded songs, and the contents from their Love Is Short and Bakuro Book EPs. To promote the album, an animated summary video was made by Naoyuki Asano.

There is a stone pillar that continues long and long. Climbers are climbing it. Each climber keeps climbing the stone pillar spending time. They are the symbols of accumulation. (Source: Tokyo University of the Arts)

Mayumi is a spoiled girl whose parents buy her everything she wants. She names her name "Mayumi" to everything she receives, and her room is gradually filled with many Mayumis. Mayumi herself gets swallowed by the characters of her name. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Shun is forced into playing with four friends. But they are not friends, he hates them. The unbearable heat and heavy atmosphere deepen his depression. (Source: eventive)

In 2016, Replicants, human clones developed to replace the human workforce, rebel in a space colony and infiltrate Earth, and Agent Recur, a Blade Runner, is deployed to eliminate them...

Music video for the song Violet!? by Fuwa Minato.

She was abused by her father during childhood. Since he left, the pain and anger had begun to fade. One day, unexpectedly, she was struck by a revelation about her father's life that cast her feelings about him into confusion. (Source: IMDb)

The noise of the badly projected cathode ray tube image cleared up and a news program called "Ficfyon 7" appeared on the monitor. Professor Kim Wilson, an expert on the mysterious genre of "Ficfyon" was introduced as a guest, and the host asked him questions about the current state of "Ficfyon." The professor's answer was not in words, but a mysterious gesture. With the presenter's astonished expression, the images on the monitor split and repeat like a matryoshka. Eventually, the program ends as if nothing had happened, but the strange loop continues afterwards... (Source: CaRTe bLaNChe)

In an unknown time when everything is colorless, the world pale and desolate, everybody is born with pale white skin. There is absolutely no sign of color in this world at all. However, one boy is born with yellowish skin. Everybody treats him like some sort of monster, and the boy lives in isolation, in the woods with his mother. The year he turns 16, the boy’s depressed mother, unable to bear the seclusion, commits suicide. The boy blames himself for her death and dreams of becoming a normal pale-skinned person. (Source: koreanfilm.or.kr)

At night, a man holds out his own leash into the void. He has to explode in order to escape.

The animation is based on a self-experience. It is about the injury of rigid religious upbringing to a teenager who discovers the strange and terrifying reality behind fundamentalism. Warped into an ultra-religious environment from a young age, his surroundings force him to adhere to a rigid and sometimes irrational world-view. He eventually succumbs to the madness, and lives consumed by guilt while devouring every crumb of false hope thrown at him from his religious community. One day he gathers the courage to leave his faith behind, and sees that human existence is actually a more nuanced experience than the black and white reality in which he grew up in. By using metaphors of signs and symbols, the animation highlights and describes the mental illness caused by the conservative church on the lead character and illustrates how the character makes his way out from his dire situation. (Source: IMDB)

A music video for the song Panspermia by Kami-sama, Boku wa Kizuite Shimatta.

Music video for the song Aaaaaaaaaaa by Satapanpi, featuring Hatsune Miku.

Music video for the song Ghost Avenue by Eve.