Tokyo University Of The Arts Movies

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...

The adventure of a lost little rabbit wandering through the woods. As night draws near, wonder-working plants and flowers show the way.

Off-street mysteries. There are many things we don’t find in the main streets. We might find many happenings in the back street, which don’t happen...

One rainy day, a squid falls on a crosswalk. A businessman and a homeless man see the squid and get lost in their own fantasies.

Memories from the ancient times have been engraved on his body. "Where do we come from?"he asks,"Where are we going?" Would the light guide us there?...

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.

The theme is ‘one continues to live, leaving his trace.’ It is an abstract animation in which movement is done by repetition of pencil drawings and e...

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.

Various visions of life and death, as seen from an operation table. Did the operation succeed ? Is the patient still alive ?

The little girl has a complex because she doesn’t look like her mom, and the mom wants her daughter to look more ladylike. Their faces don’t look alik...

Deep down the alley the black cat has entered is a town where nonhuman beings live in peace. The cat returns to his home to rest when suddenly he hear...

You drift through outer space with your buddy and end up in an abandoned interstellar town. The remaining residents of this town live without gravity...

A young man is drawing sketches of birds in the woods. The spotted pattern of the bird’s wings begins to scatter. He gradually becomes mesmerized by...

In a dimly lit kitchen as a chunk of meat is sliced, bugs creep out from the cut. Ordinary action like cooking transforms to the weird and creepy.

The film is based on Ukiyodoko, a rakugo storytelling piece. Hanzo, the hero, brags to his friends to make a party go. Human nature remains unchange...

A motorbike yearns to return to its good old days. One day it takes a courageous leap to its own future.

She wonders when she started thinking that she was only a convenient tool for someone else. The protagonist finds herself rattled because of some mino...

One day out of the blue Prof. Banno of came to school with his hair shaven. Students made fun of his bald head. Prof. Banno flew in a hot air balloo...

In the courtroom, a trial is in progress with you, an AI, as the defendant. You are being charged for killing a fellow submarine crew when the vessel...

A day in the life of a little ghost imitating human beings.