Geidai Animation

Through the Windows

Movie / 1 eps / 2014 / Original

The gaze of a woman from a window to windows leads to a recollection of the various scenes. The metamorphosed windows transfer, expand, reflect, conserve, and sometimes shine like a lighthouse.

Wanna Be Reborn as a Mole on the Back of the Unicorn’s Neck

Movie / 1 eps / 2023 / Original

It's the day before the last performance by THE PARADISE. Three fans who have never met get trapped in an elevator. They talk about their favorite band member, Unicorn, while they wait to be rescued. For some reason, the air is tense. Then, a notification goes off on their phones. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Umbrella

Movie / 1 eps / 2016 / Original

In the world of constant black rain, people live under umbrellas’ protection. One day a man threw his umbrella away, which resulted to brought him a green plant, only existing green in that world. People desire his plant and start to scramble for it. 1st year work 2016 by Wenrui Huang, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. (Source: Geidai Animation)

00:08

Movie / 1 eps / 2014 / Original

A man enjoys a drink over and over and over again, for eight seconds each time. At first, it seems like every drink is the same. But with every sip, something changes, making things a little more intriguing each time. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Woman Who Stole Fingers

Movie / 1 eps / 2010 / Original

One day, a boy who separated from his mother’s hand is deprived of his fingers. His fingers become a larva and part from his hand. The house. . . conceals a relationship between the two from anyone. How does the boy who is deprived of his fingers grow up? (Source: TMDB)

My Little Goat

Movie / 1 eps / 2018 / Original

A mother goat rescues her kids from the belly of a wolf, but her eldest son Toruku is missing. One day Toruku shows up home and has to confront his own fears as well as the disfigured bodies of his brothers and sisters. As the wolf once again approaches, secrets of Toruku's absence come to light as the flock fights for survival. (Source: asianmoviepulse)

The Tender March

Movie / 1 eps / Spring 2012 / Original

This is a humorous animated work in which a young girl walks through a mysterious town with both tranquil fields and buildings, followed by various monsters. The thoughts and feelings of the young girl as she daydreams are visualized on a monitor screen or by being likened to the forms of the monsters; the closed inner world of a young girl is depicted incisively, against a soundtrack of up-tempo music. The light shades and the lines drawn with a delicate touch and strong sense of design create a unique world view and transparency. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)

Oh Dear

Movie / 1 eps / 2014 / Original

Naoko had a fight with her brother over a trivial thing and pushed him away. She knew she was childish but she ran away from home.

PLAYGROUND

Movie / 1 eps / 2013 / Original

A boy is always alone, at school, or at home. One day, he finds a sandlot on the way home and thinks of making a ‘town’ of his own. Another boy was watching his play and starts to imitate him.

A Grandma's Goldfish

Movie / 1 eps / 2012 / Original

Short animation by Kaori Iwase. The story follows an old lady that is very fond of her gold fish and the dream she has revolving it. She recalls an event in her younger years as a child and the reason behind her love for gold fishes. (Source: AniDB)

In a Pig's Eye

Movie / 1 eps / 2010 / Original

A huge pig is lying down in front of a house. Father, mother, grandmother, six children and a dog live in the house. Everyone is aware of the huge pig, and the pig is aware of the family. But nobody knows how and what the other think. The mother doesn't understand the father… It depends what you imagine when you hear about normal family life. (Source: Fresh Film Fest Website)

A Gum Boy

Movie / 1 eps / 2010 / Original

The primary schoolboy "Kuchao" is hated person in his class. Even if everyone fly balloons, only he doesn't part with his it. When he immediately begins to chew a bubble gum, he enter the imagination world after school. When his balloon becomes the face and begins to chew a bubble gum, it changes into various things. His imagination makes rapid progress more. Then, the bird approaches while flying and... (Source: Official website)

Nosferatu Maiden

Movie / 1 eps / 2017 / Original

Graduate Work 2017 from Chinami Taniguchi, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. The story of Nosferatu vampires glimpsed by a boy who gets lost in a forest. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Scutes on my mind

Movie / 1 eps / 2015 / Original

The scutes glisten in the corner of her mind and she starts to dig her memories up. What was like the museum director she encountered when she was lost?

aaH / Hee

Movie / 1 eps / 2014 / Original

When the mind says aah, the body says hee. I dance around the confusion and the consensus, and my whole life is getting composed of these dances.

Kicking Rocks

Movie / 1 eps / 2013 / Original

All of sudden, a boy starts to play hopscotch. Kicking stone is a simply play but it doesn’t work simply as it seems. He struggles by the rule he made himself.

I Think You're a Little Confused

Movie / 1 eps / 2016 / Unknown

One day a letter takes a blood-sausage to his friend, liver-sausage. So, he went... (Source: Geidai Animation)

Fox Fears

Movie / 1 eps / 2015 / Original

In the evening of a village festival, a young boy named Bunroku goes to the festival with his friend and visits a clog shop on the way. There he learns an old superstition about the fox. (Source: haff.nl)

Usalullaby

Movie / 1 eps / 2013 / Original

Increasing in its number, small rabbits take care of a great dolphin. Can the dolphin get to sleep by rabbits' gentle caress? May many people have good sleep and sweet dreams tonight even in the world with whining sounds and wriggle of yin and yang. (Source: Official Site)

Candy.zip

Movie / 1 eps / 2017 / Original

Aoko is confident about the documents she creates at work, but doesn't get any positive feedback. Then, she witnesses her colleague secretly changing the documents she created. Aoko is turned into a piece of candy to keep her quiet... (Source: YouTube)

Templex

Movie / 1 eps / 2015 / Original

One rainy day, a woman wakes up, opens the curtains, and stares at her reflection in the window, noticing her curly hair. She climbs out of bed and begins to wash it, while strange images of self-hatred fill her mind.

The Cloudy Dog Talk About

Movie / 1 eps / 2012 / Original

Dogs all end up to be a dusty dog. Dogs’ dust consists of pride of themselves and that of you. The film is of the memory, love and gratitude of the dusty dog, and many other dogs, tracing their senses and memories, dedicating to you who gave love to them. (Source: Official Site)

A brightening life

Movie / 1 eps / 2010 / Original

Above ground, there are many people, coming and going. Underneath a certain sidewalk grate, lives a garbage bag. He has no work, no home, and no family. This is a story of the dirty, black garbage bag and how he gains new life through his connection to the outside world.

Do as the Fish Tells You

Movie / 1 eps / 2013 / Original

A work completed by Onohana during her enrollment at the Tokyo University of the Arts. A young boy is compelled to release his pet fish into the sea.

The Closet

Movie / 1 eps / 2014 / Original

Satomi Maiya's first year work at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. A young girl seeks the attention of her mother, who is occupied with her newly born sister. Out of jealousy, the girl hides her baby sister in darkness.

A Black Cat

Movie / 1 eps / 2015 / Original

A woman repeatedly strokes her cat while it moves around in her arms.

Fleeting Dream

Movie / 1 eps / 2011 / Original

A girl is informed by her doctor that she is pregnant. Surprised by the unexpected announcement, falls into an anguish. The fleeting dream is a despairing dream. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Moonlit Night and Opal

Movie / 1 eps / 2015 / Original

Half asleep with my eyes closed, my conscience flies beyond time and space and I transform myself to all the life forms existing. I become the universe and the universe becomes me, until I fall asleep.... It is a song to pray for the existence of heart and soul at an awakening.

RINGING CITY

Movie / 1 eps / 2017 / Original

Big cities are glutted with information. Unconscious curiosity, hidden under apparent indifference, invites us into a noisy loop.

Out of My Mind

Movie / 1 eps / 2016 / Original

Deep within my dream, there comes a landscape in my shapeless eyes. The peaceful sight gradually distorts. When anxiety and upsurge stands behind us, the nightly liberation begins. (Source: YouTube)

Fluffiction

Movie / 1 eps / 2018 / Original

A cavalcade of heretofore unheard-of critters, great and small, cute and hirsute. (Source: Fantasia Festival)

Our Little Pond

Movie / 1 eps / 2021 / Original

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.

The House of Loss

Movie / 1 eps / 2022 / Original

The elderly at the nursing home have their heads shaved. The protagonist who works there sees them but can't read their expressions. However, from one instance, he finds himself looking closely at their faces. (Source: Official Site)

Missing You

Movie / 1 eps / 2015 / Original

Satomi Maiya's graduate work at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. A mother secretly threw a letter written by her daughter into the snow-covered ocean. The suspicious daughter follows her mother by sneaking on a rowboat with her.

Scape Escape

Movie / 1 eps / 2014 / Original

A man returns to his apartment at the end of the day completely disheartened. As he goes to light a cigarette, the flame takes on a life of its own.

Googuri Googuri

Movie / 1 eps / 2010 / Original

"Googuri Googuri" - a made up word, a secret word, shared by a girl and her grandfather. For the girl, her grandfather is at times like a mountain, at other times like a tree, or an ocean; a warm and comfortable place. Her thoughts take wing into her endless imagination. The things we have seen, smelled, thought, and everything we have experienced, extending and expanding within the infinite expanse inside ourselves.

I Wanna Be Your Friend

Movie / 1 eps / 2015 / Original

An award-winning short film following a claymation figure trying to befriend others. As stated in the video's official synopsis, "For friendship it is the most important to be cooperative."

People who are eating

Movie / 1 eps / 2012 / Original

People can show some other personality when eating. Some become like herbivores, chewing so many times. Some becomes like carp, crowing around bait. Some become like hamsters, with their mouths full, etc. Everyone is unique and worth observation. (Source: Official Website)

AEON

Movie / 1 eps / 2019 / Original

Self-replicating entities that have evolved on different planets merge and proliferate exponentially. In search of more energy sources, they consume other stars. (Source: YouTube)

Hide-and-seek

Movie / 1 eps / 2012 / Original

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)

Hear the Snow Melt

Movie / 1 eps / 2021 / Original

A girl made of unmelted snow has fallen in love with the dragon who brings spring. A story of changing seasons and thawing hearts. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Zdravstvuite!

Movie / 1 eps / 2016 / Original

On a summer day, a strange man who teaches Russian at the beach took me to the town. The familiar town looked totally fresh from a different point of view. The man should be there at the beach tomorrow. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Writings Fly Away

Movie / 1 eps / 2011 / Book

Graduate animation by Ryo Orikasa, based The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde.

In There

Movie / 1 eps / 2018 / Original

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

Bath House of Whales

Movie / 1 eps / 2019 / Original

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 child-like fascination at daily rituals, this quotidian act amidst feminine intimacy becomes a space of otherworldly fantasy. (Source: Anilist)

tumbled cat

Movie / 1 eps / 2014 / Original

Toshikazu Tamura's first year work at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. Images of cats are stamped in a notebook to create moving vignettes.

CLIMBER

Movie / 1 eps / 2010 / Original

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)

Bring me up

Movie / 1 eps / 2010 / Original

Almost everyone in our contemporary society is picked up and moved around by someone or something, like in a game of Sugoroku. Those who first do so are our parents. We follow a boy who grows up along on Sugoroku board, during which he depends on his parents. His family play the parts of roles in the game - his father rolling the die, and his mother picking him up and placing him he passively goes about his way. But for how long will he let this continue? (Source: YouTube)

Starting Over

Movie / 1 eps / 2016 / Original

You always stumble before you arrive. The glass in your hand gets chipped with every fall. Then, you start again. However, there are things you can discover only through repetition. The answer resides in yourself. (Source: YouTube)

Mayumi

Movie / 1 eps / 2016 / Original

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)

I'm here

Movie / 1 eps / 2015 / Original

One doesn't always know where to go, but he must move forward. He has to move toward his goal. Always transforming, his heart and mind drift and run towards the goal he discovers. (Source: YouTube)

Radio Wave

Movie / 1 eps / 2017 / Original

Numbers stations were prominently used during the Cold War. A boy was tuning the radio in the snow mountain and happened to tune the shortwave of codes.

Fishing

Movie / 1 eps / 2014 / Original

A group of boys set out in search of a large fish. When they near its location, one of the boys jumps in the water as bait.

Where He Can Relax

Movie / 1 eps / 2010 / Original

After losing a job at the company a man starts working part-time handing out balloons in a rabbit costume. He finds it comfortable to disguise himself in the costume, as nobody would recognize him. Finally he decides to wear the costume all time in daily life. Then the costume becomes a part of his body and confines him inside…

Promises

Movie / 1 eps / 2011 / Original

As the leaves turn scarlet, a mother cries in front of her recently deceased child. The body of the boy decays, leaving behind a shadow, which the woman quickly embraces and takes home. One day, she receives a visitor asking about a shadow of a child.

Tomato Confit

Movie / 1 eps / 2012 / Original

There once lived two brothers in a town. The elder lived alone. The younger lived with his parents. They did not get along well, did neither badly. They called each other occasionally. The elder one was impatient and emotional and does nothing but work. The younger one goes steadily his way. One day the elder brother’s face turned into a tomato… (Source: Geidai Animation)

Uncapturable Ideas

Movie / 1 eps / 2011 / Original

A man is racking himself at a desk. On his desk there is a tiny man also racking himself at his desk.The big man remains still without any idea. The tiny man moves around in vain trying to catch some idea, which is supposed to be inside of him. Both man get cornered searching for idea, become desperate and after the daybreak the big man is struck by an idea... (Source: Official website)

Keep Forgetting

Movie / 1 eps / 2019 / Original

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. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Boy with Child

Movie / 1 eps / 2020 / Original

The boy got pregnant. Through the pain of morning sickness and prejudice, he finally gives birth. (Source: Geidai Animation)

The Nighthawk Is Not a Hawk

Movie / 1 eps / 2023 / Book

The Nighthawk is an ugly bird. So ugly that everyone thinks he stole the name and the Hawk demands that he relinquish it. The Nighthawk cannot accept this, but he also realizes that he's not much different from the Hawk. (Source: Geidai Animation)

The Death Vendor

Movie / 1 eps / 2019 / Original

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. (Source: IMDB)

Sunset Flower Blooming

Movie / 1 eps / 2012 / Original

Set in China in the 1960s, the story opens with an old woman cooling off in her garden. As the sky turns orange with the setting of the sun, an evening primrose begins to bloom. Prompted by the sight of the flower, the woman recalls her childhood and dreams of the time in her life when she was at her most beautiful. Using Chinese-style cutout pictures, the work consciously accentuates the soft texture of the paper and the brilliant colors. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival Archive)

Recruit Rhapsody

Movie / 1 eps / 2012 / Original

An ordinary college girl is sucked into the frenetic job hunting, where all her friends dive into with dog-eat-dog vigor and crazed ambition. A potent look at one of Japanese social phenomenon with a dose of black humor. Graduate Work 2012, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media. (Source: Geidai Animation)

From a Stone

Movie / 1 eps / 2013 / Original

Four years ago while out for a walk in Ome, I picked up an intriguing stone of 30cm across. Then I wanted to pursue its image until its ultimate end. Graduate Work 2013 from Tatsuhiro Ariyoshi, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Amane Diary

Movie / 1 eps / 2021 / Original

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. (Source: Geidai Animation)

My Secret School Days

Movie / 1 eps / 2017 / Original

It would be so much better if everyone just went away... A girl who hates school sits in the corner of the classroom and creates an imaginary world. 1st year work 2017, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Fruits

Movie / 1 eps / 2018 / Original

At some point, children diverge from the ideal path set forth for them by adults. The trigger is usually a trivial incident. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Al Dente Tango

Movie / 1 eps / 2011 / Original

The stage is a fancy restaurant featuring live tango performances. Both the cuisine and the clientele are impeccable, and everyone is fully content. But one customer’s visit disrupts the tranquility. (Source: Geidai Animation)

A Wind Egg

Movie / 1 eps / 2012 / Original

The film is about a family, [that] runs a chicken farm. The boy hankers after birds and his little sister keeps an eye on him. The father loves eggs. The mother loves somebody else. In the family fixture, each member stays there with bias or secrets.

Walls

Movie / 1 eps / 2010 / Original

A man walks in a crowd. He cannot stand the crowd but to cover his ears. Then it disappears and he gets lost in a white void space. In that space there is no other man but himself. He had nothing to identify himself and his existence was to come to naught. He starts to struggle to get away from there.

Jade

Movie / 1 eps / 2016 / Original

A woman is pronounced to be ill, but it is too much for her to accept. Her thoughts and worries continually change to makes a strange and mysterious world. 1st year work 2016 by Yume Ukai, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. (Source: Geidai Animation)

On the Way Home

Movie / 1 eps / 2018 / Original

The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Rootless Heart

Movie / 1 eps / 2011 / Original

Two high-school students are playing in the ruins. They hear something from the darkness and one of them goes deep into a dark room where something suspicious is hiding and both of them were taken their hearts out. Later a boy and his sister drop by the ruins...

Strawberry Candy

Movie / 1 eps / 2020 / Original

She has an unspeakable secret but the memory is gradually fading. The little girl is no longer sure if it was a dream or reality.

From the Dolphin

Movie / 1 eps / 2011 / Original

A dolphin's-eye view of a hypnotic journey to a surprisingly unexpected end vision. (Source: Geidai Animation)

See ya Mr. Banno!

Movie / 1 eps / 2014 / Original

One day out of blue Prof. Banno of next class came to school with his hair shaven. Students made fun of his baldhead. Prof. Banno flew in a hot-air balloon the other day. Nobody knows anything about him afterwards. (Source: YouTube)

Destiny

Movie / 1 eps / 2021 / Original

Graduate Work 2021 by Minori Matsuoka, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 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. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Better Back Then

Movie / 1 eps / 2011 / Original

A girl is kept on the trot by a witch and continues to peel potatoes. She is fed up and tries to escape in vain. She gets desperate and decides to beat the witch... After all what will she find? What is her intention? Can we undo what has been done? Graduate Work 2011, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation (Source: Geidai Animation)

SUMMER TIME

Movie / 1 eps / 2017 / Original

Her mother was hospitalized that summer. This day from Aki-chan's summer is tinged with sadness in the company of her trusted Ryukyu dog named Goyapochi. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Typhoon No. 14

Movie / 1 eps / 2018 / Original

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... (Source: Geidai Animation)

Invisible Touch

Movie / 1 eps / 2017 / Original

Tosuke is a home tutor who meets a girl named Miyako on the job. She is blind and doesn't move or speak. But is Tosuke seeing the real Miyako? (Source: Geidai Animation)

Peek-a-Boo

Movie / 1 eps / 2011 / Original

The old granny playing peek-a-boo is gone. Instead, a stranger appears and draws closer to the child. Peek-a-boo involves exercising memory, and looking directly at your partner. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Eternal Flame

Movie / 1 eps / 2016 / Original

In the pitch darkness a man cannot see anything. Only light source is a light lit with a match by someone else. The light is lit and put out. This repeats sometime and eventually the man makes up his mind. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Journey to the Maternal Awakening

Movie / 1 eps / 2021 / Original

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. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Come Back to My Mind

Movie / 1 eps / 2010 / Original

The protagonist is with friends but bored with the conversation. His mind often slips away to his own imaginary world and comes back to them. So their conversation doesn’t go along very well. In several trips to his own imagination he gradually feels it void and became interested in chain of conversation and the development of the relationship with other people. Then he decided to com back to the conversation. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Melting Down

Movie / 1 eps / 2015 / Original

The fear to be ruined calmly without any conscience. Everybody is getting distorted soundly and gently. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Refuge

Movie / 1 eps / 2023 / Original

A girl troubled by the threats in her home and the chaos of the outside world sits on a boat on a quiet lake. Her trauma, though suffocating at first, subsides as she finds refuge through her breathing. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Summer Sky Reverie

Movie / 1 eps / 2019 / Original

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. (Source: Geidai Animation)

The Body Swap Center

Movie / 1 eps / 2018 / Original

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. Graduate Work 2018, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation (Source: Geidai Animation)

Those Scary Black Things

Movie / 1 eps / 2023 / Original

The sea at night. The sister in my mom's belly. (She's coming out soon.) These two things scare me. Why? Because I don't know what's inside them... (Source: Geidai Animation)

In Inertia

Movie / 1 eps / 2016 / Original

From that day an anxiety started to root in the man's room. He just keeps walking not to sink in listlessness. This is a document to reflect my own anxiety arisen after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. (Source: Geidai Animation)

The Crooked Man

Movie / 1 eps / 2010 / Original

Graduate work 2010 by Maho Yoshida, Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Design.

The Hen Begins to Lay Eggs in the Spring

Movie / 1 eps / 2024 / Original

In the year 200x, the world was struck by an unknown disaster in which all living things stopped being born or dying. In a world where life is a life sentence, a man and a girl meet. (Source: YouTube, translated)

Rest (Movie)

Movie / 1 eps / 2025 / Original

When immersed in the contours swelling and waning in the forest of needles, the mundane world drifts away, and we only live to breathe. (Source: Yamamura Animation)

Awaiting

Movie / 1 eps / 2012 / Original

A man is waiting for someone in a small boat. In loneliness he keeps waiting for someone. For whom or why he is waiting is not very important. He wishes to see the sight of formless "happiness," which can vanish in a blink of an eye as long as possible. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Vision

Movie / 1 eps / 2023 / Original

Eyes are magical spheres that make up dreams and retain memories. In our eyes, the visions of the within and of the beyond overlap. New worlds come to be when our gazes meet. (Source: Geidai Animation)

About the Girl

Movie / 1 eps / 2010 / Original

An old man is trying to create a girl out of his memories. Little by little the doll is being made and given a physical body of machinery parts. The old man makes her as a pure creature, but she denies her identification. The doll demolishes herself, saying, “This is not Me!” (Source: Geidai Animation)

Maze King

Movie / 1 eps / 2013 / Original

We cannot stay here any longer. We must leave tomorrow morning. A clown convinces and hurries the residents of an amusement park — a girl, a gay man, a soldier, a dog — to be in time for the merry-go-round. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Into a Landscape

Movie / 1 eps / 2024 / Original

Today, somewhere, a landscape is born on paper. Eventually, it will become immobile. But the landscape within us never ceases to flow and expand. The colors and shapes push and pull -- not even a moment of preservation. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Kamigami Rairai

Movie / 1 eps / 2024 / Original

The man who had been walking only on the white lines could no longer move forward. He turned his attention to his smartphone and saw a video titled "The Gods Come." The story began, and he turned around and started walking again. (Source: Geidai Animation)

It's Time for Supper

Movie / 1 eps / 2013 / Original

Playtime ends at the five o'clock chime. And there comes the indefinable time between vanishing playtime and dinner time at home.

Imagination Trip

Movie / 1 eps / 2012 / Original

Visualization of the phenomenon one has in their mind when they try to get some inspiration. A woman, after a lot of hair pulling at a meeting, goes on an imaginary trip to generate some ideas. She creates some new ideas with the found elements in that trip. (Source: Geidai Animation)

To the Moon and Back

Movie / 1 eps / 2023 / Original

Since I was born, the moon has circled the Earth 9,125 times. We all grew older with each orbit, but the moon never seems to age. A story about my grandma, her death, and my childhood. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Mind Scape

Movie / 1 eps / 2015 / Original

The things are formed in the mind from the casual scenes of daily life. These imaginations accumulate and make an assembly of fantasy. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Watakushiritori

Movie / 1 eps / 2013 / Original

One day is presented by shiritori, a word game of last and first. A chain of images in one line evolves the story of this game. (Source: Geidai Animation)

2 PM at the Glass House

Movie / 1 eps / 2013 / Original

Ha Na Ku So

Movie / 1 eps / 2022 / Original

Things are kind of crappy right now. In Japanese, we say "hanakuso (nose snot)" instead of crap, though. Here's a dose of hope and giggles.

Dozing on Doomsday

Movie / 1 eps / 2016 / Original

Provided the world ends tomorrow, what would we want in the last day of grace? A beam of light embraces a woman and a man then, the world gently closes its eyes. (Source: Geidai Animation)

House Rattler

Movie / 1 eps / 2019 / Original

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. (Source: Official website)

Football Animals

Movie / 1 eps / 2023 / Original

Only one minute left in the second half. The RED ANIMALS are slick, pushing through the deadly defensive line of the BLUE BEASTS. And just when you think it's all over, the ball goes up in the air. Who will smell sweet victory? (Source: YouTube)

Rain Shower

Movie / 1 eps / 2015 / Original

A black cat wanders around a half-demolished shopping street. After a brief rain, it catches a glimpse of another landscape.

The Story of a Motorbike

Movie / 1 eps / 2017 / Original

A motorbike yearns to return to its good old days. One day it takes a courageous leap to its own future. (Source: Geidai Animation)

I

Movie / 1 eps / 2025 / Original

Candles are flickering. In the dark, endless dreamscape, where do I find myself? (Source: Geidai Animation)

Bero Bero

MOVIE / 1 eps / Fall 2018 / ORIGINAL

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. <br><br> (Source: Geidai Animation)

四季

MOVIE / 1 eps / 2017 / ORIGINAL

An animated adaptation of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, each movement directed and animated by different directors:<br> Spring - Anna Budanova<br> Summer - Priit Pärn & Olga Pärn<br> Autumn - Atsushi Wada<br> Winter - Theodore Ushev<br> <br> Crowdfunded via READYFOR and premiered as a live concert, the recorded performance was released on DVD to backers of the campaign.