Koji Yamamura

biography: Koji Yamamura is a Japanese independent animator who, after leaving a career as a background artist at an animation studio, directs, writes, edits, animates, creates the model sheets and background art for and sometimes produces his own short films and has worked on many commissions such as music videos, television advertisements, title sequences and station idents, both on his own and under or with other directors. He is also a regular illustrator of children's literature and textbooks.

toco toco

overview: toco toco is a program where Japanese artists and creators introduce places in Japan that inspire them. No scripted text or guidance, guests speak naturally and are free to choose any place they like. “toco toco” is the onomatopoeia to describe the sound of footsteps in Japanese, for the walks we go on together with our guests.

original_name: toco toco

original_language: ja

Český

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

普通话

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: HK

english_name: Mandarin

Український

iso_639_1: uk

iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

also_known_as:
Yamamura
山村 浩二
Kouji Yamamura
Kôji Yamamura
Kouji YAMAMURA
Кодзи Ямамура

title: Red Peony of Night

overview: A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around them.

original_title: 夜の緋牡丹

title: Hand-Drawn: Documentary

overview: An indie documentary exploring the art form of hand-drawn animation through a contemporary lens in the digital era. Featuring insights and anecdotes by hand-drawn animation artists from around the world.

character: Self

original_title: Hand-Drawn: Documentary

title: Frank & Wendy

overview: Two American secret agents - Frank and Wendy - are sent to the world's hotbed of danger, known as Estonia. Estonia is a silly place, perhaps even sillier than the agents themselves. Frank and Wendy, for whom saving the world is their daily work, achieve both mental and manual feats with the greatest of ease. It appears that nothing can prevent their ultimate victory, but go figure. The axis of evil does not wither and attacks the super-agents from where they can least expect it...

character: Japanese Tourist (voice)

original_title: Frank ja Wendy

original_language: et

title: Film Adventurer Karel Zeman

overview: A look at the life, work and importance of Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman (1910-89), a genius of world cinema, a wizard of special effects, revealing his sources of inspiration and his revolutionary filming techniques.

original_title: Filmový dobrodruh Karel Zeman

original_language: cs

title: Kipling Jr.

overview: Canelo Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. sit down to discuss their highly anticipated May 6 showdown.

character: Yohann Kipling

original_title: キップリングJr.

title: Mado Kara Tobidase

overview: The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an agricultural and livestock industry, and has his father Ritaro (Hiroshi Shiomi), younger brother Yuji (Keiju Kobayashi), wife Fujiko (Kiko Todoroki), and four children (three of whom are Obinata's sons). They lived in a large family of 8 people, including 2 children and 2 daughters. The Fujieda family next door is Chieko (Ayako Okamura), whose husband, a captain, died in a shipwreck at sea, her daughter Mariko (Kyoko Kagawa), and her son Michio (Oohinata's son), who has a leg disability and is undergoing rehabilitation. ) We were a family of three. Through the interaction between the Tokuyama family and the Fujieda family, the importance of family and the kindness of people are reflected on the screen.

character: Thief

original_title: 窓から飛び出せ

title: Squishy Fish Eggs

overview: When I touched the sack of cod roe for the first time, it felt exactly like my thighs. It was light pink and so soft. Maybe my whole world is made of squishy fish eggs.

original_title: たらこを触ったら

title: The Mouse and a Prism

overview: The mouse finds a prism and it reveals to him a magnificent rainbow like he's never seen before. He tries to show his friends but for some reason it won't reappear. It seems beauty has a mind of its own.

original_title: ネズミとプリズム

title: So I Picked Up the Worm

overview: Far away from her hometown, the little fox studies in a foreign country. The monotonous days and bare relationships make her increasingly homesick. But one day, she finds the curiosity that she had once lost and takes a new step.

original_title: ミミズを拾ってみた

title: Round Trip

overview: Kaibun are palidromes in which words sound the same when read backwards and forwards. Sometimes the meaning changes, and sometimes not. I brought this playful and poetic world to life.

original_title: おうふくにくふうお

title: Conflicted

overview: Everyone has a sense of justice. The protagonist thinks her ideas are right and voices her opinions through protests for social justice. One day the demonstration turns violent. Maybe we could live in peace if self-righteousness were to disappear.

original_title: 正義紛争

title: Red

overview: I conveyed my love and gratitude to a certain deceased physician amidst the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, while a personal shopper expressed the same emotions from yet a different place.

original_title: 赤

title: Coping Mechanism

overview: No doubt negative enery is going to accumulate in my body today, tomorrow and the day after. When that happens, I'll have my own way of release.

original_title: 息抜きのすすめ

title: blink

overview: That moment of refreshing sensation when drinking a soda in the hot summer.

original_title: blink

title: Amane Diary

overview: 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.

original_title: あまねにっき

title: MUNCH MUNCH

overview: How to make this mysterious cake? The ingredients include blue eggs, cookie flowers, pillow stuffing and much more.

original_title: MUNCH MUNCH

title: Dear Viruses

overview: This work is a missive to the life form we call viruses in the hope that we can coexist. The relationship between humans and viruses is poetically expressed from a different perspective.

original_title: 親愛なるウイルスたちへ

title: POP JUNKIE

overview: TV shows, manga, music, movies, plays, pop stars and cartoon characters. I watch videos on my phone with the TV blaring and music in the background. I’m swimming in media... Is this the other side of the screen?! Awesome!

original_title: エンタメストラック

title: Brother

overview: When I was a kid, my big brother became obsessed with the 90s Japanese subculture of teenage guys who were known as "Gyaru-o." His odd appearance totally mystified me so I started to sneak into his room to look for his secrets.

original_title: Brother

title: A DOG

overview: Once upon a time, a man killed the king's pet dog. He was executed and reincarnated as a canis but with the memory of his past life as a man.

original_title: イヌ

title: Representation of Light

overview: My deceased great-grandmother had been a part of my life as a portrait on the wall. I searched for ways to substantiate her life inside me and decided to photograph and develop pictures of her at two different ages.

original_title: 光の表象

title: WOKE

overview: Right there in that little gap between fantasy and reality, me and you, movies and videos, concrete and abstract, is that nice cozy space.

title: Iron Pulse

overview: A small family-owned iron factory was closed down. What will remain of it?

title: Strangers in the Alley

overview: 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 hears a strange sound coming from next door.

title: Long Live the Cat

overview: Yasu is a cat over 20 years old. He's still alive and kicking in the house he was left behind.

title: Notre maison

overview: Alice goes alone. She opens the doors like she let her legs do the leading and she finds various houses by various people. This work expresses the landscape or the figure of love that we're keen from the bottoms of our hearts, with(using) various images and motifs.

title: The Big Tree in Front of the House

overview: It should have been an ordinary day, but it was very different from usual. There was a large crowd in front of my grandma’s house. Where did people come from and where are they going? I was peeping at them behind the window, but the big tree obstructed my view.

title: I Am a Motif

overview: 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.

title: Strawberry Candy

overview: She keeps a secret that can't be told, and gradually forgets it. The girl is no longer sure whether what she remembers happened in reality or in a dream.

title: My Hand, Her Hand

overview: 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 alike, but their hands do. The girl treasures this resemblance, which also enables the mom to treat her daughter with tenderness.

title: Empty Hands

overview: 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?

original_title: おうさま・ひめ・ぶた・こじき

title: House Rattler

overview: 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.

title: aaH / Hee

overview: 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.

title: Spoon

overview: A boy’s spoon falls on the floor when he is having breakfast.  The moment he is trying to pick it up, the boy is thrown into a different world.  There he begins the adventure to take his spoon back

title: Reinventing the Square Wheel

overview: On various forms expanded in all directions and a dance by a man in tights.

title: See ya, Mr. Banno!

overview: 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 balloon the next day.  Nobody knows anything about what happened to him after that

title: My Dear

overview: At the waterside surrounded by factories and waste lives a white frog.  It loves a goldfish who also lives in the neighbourhood.  Recently the goldfish appears to be in poor health, which worries the frog.

title: Through the Windows

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

title: Psyche

overview: One day, while the main character is dozing off, he is abandoned by the owner of the shadow that he lives in. This creature who has lost his home wanders through the night city in search of his shadow.

title: Flower Bud

overview: The uncertainty, struggles, and joy of the moment upon becoming an adult. Between lullabies and songs I hum to myself. Between a man and myself. That subtle flickering in a single instant, forgotten once it is over.  Never forget that moment...

title: Indoor Days

overview: On days I don't want to leave the house, I enjoy watching TV and videos on my smartphone. I'm supposed to be at home but the screen keeps taking me elsewhere and I lose my grip on my whereabouts and reality.

title: The Man Who Ate an Apple

overview: An apple comes out of a man’s mouth.  The man’s life goes backward, as video player is reversed.  Many kinds of food accelerated to come out of his mouth and the man becomes younger and younger.  Time goes back without end.

title: The Cloudy Dog Talk About

overview: 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.

title: Recruit Rhapsody

overview: The heroin has been living life as an undergraduate.  There is nothing remarkable about her.  However, she has noticed there is something strange about her friends recently.  She learned that they were getting mad about ‘job-hunting’.  Without realizing what it is, the heroine also gets drawn into the Nipponese job-hunting swirl.

title: A Wind Egg

overview: 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.

title: My Dear Flesh

overview: A spring night, I walked past a ‘god’.  I wonder if it was a cat or a man.  Or was it a wind I felt in a slumber?  They were certainly there, celebrating the cycle of lives in small ways.

title: Cubic Centimeter

overview: This animation shows how the liquid in a glass erupts, spreads, mixes, and overflows.

title: Ream

overview: 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 erasure on a piece of paper.

title: Kicking Rocks

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

title: USALULLABY

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

title: From a Stone

overview: 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.

title: Wild Wild Ham

overview: How to spend a ten-minute break at club activities.  Let us take off [our] shoes and socks, and enjoy the fresh breeze between our toes.  We are all flesh after all.

title: Maze King

overview: 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, a soldier, a dog, to be in time for the merry-go-round.

title: It’s Time for Supper

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

title: See My World

overview: Two brothers are drawing pictures in art class, but they see completely different things. The younger one is confused by the behavior of his brother, who is lost in his own world. But then, his big brother shares his beautiful world of gentle sea creatures.

title: Crossing Sight

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

title: The Yellow Ball

overview: A mysterious yellow ball falls down into the present city across time and space. It involves many people and unfolds various dramas.

title: Flower and Steam

overview: A bride runs at full speed, with her veil flapping, and with steam.  When you happen to encounter a bride in her wedding dress, you would love to bless her with a wave of your hand.  Brides symbolize beauty and happiness.  They are also athletes who won their happiness.

title: If Everyone Looked the Same

overview: A glimpse into a world where uniformity and conformity rule.

title: People who are Eating

overview: 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.

title: Awaiting

overview: 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.

title: Black Cat

overview: It consists of only woman who keeps caressing a resisting cat.

title: Color Blots

overview: A game to find image in a chance. In this Aleatoricism there are much more potentials than what I have moved.

title: Mount Head

overview: A miserly man eats the pits of some cherries he can't stand throwing out. A tree starts growing from the top of his head. He cuts it off; it grows back. After a while, he gives up and lets it grow, but the crowds that gather on top of his head to enjoy the tree (and leave huge mounds of trash) eventually drive him to uproot the tree. This leaves a crater on top of his head, which fills with water, which becomes a popular lake.

title: Silence

overview: Short animation by Simon Feat at Tokyo University of the Arts

title: Umbrella

overview: 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.

title: man of many arms

overview: Many arms cling to a man. He doesn’t like it but he believes the situation will never change.

title: CHARON Pluto’s lonesomeness

overview: This is the story of Pluto, a planet that has been removed from the solar system and is wandering alone in the vastness of space, and its satellite, Charon, which hovers around Pluto.

original_title: CHARON 冥王星の孤独

title: Our 2

overview: Commemorating the 700th anniversary of Dante's death, the film is a reinterpretation of Dante and Beatrice's reunion story, from "Vita Nova" to the three parts of the "Divine Comedy" (Hell, Purgatory and Heaven). Where are we, young people, now? Where should we go? Since 2020, it has become clear that young people are free to choose anything. We can even choose to live or die. The new world is coming. Let's jump into it with love for ourselves and for others.

title: Starting Over

overview: You always stumble before reach. The glass in your hand gets chipped every time. Then everything should start again from the start. There are, however, things you can discover only through repetition. The answer resides in yourself.

title: Awakened Seed

overview: 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? This is a journey of blind pursuit for wisdom.

title: mayumi

overview: 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.

title: Red Forest

overview: Amii runs and runs on a bloodstained earth, through dark forests and warm fields. She keeps running in fear.

title: The Story of a Motorbike

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

title: Nosferatu Maiden

overview: The story of Nosferatu vampires glimpsed by a boy who gets lost in a forest.

title: yelp

overview: Once we used to be happy and grateful for the pure act of eating.

title: South Forest

overview: The story about a Palestinian girl who feeds animals at the zoo.

title: Cosmopolite

overview: A subtle and softened x-ray tinted journey through an opaque, undescribed stratosphere.

title: There was a man

overview: An one-armed mountaineer encounters a lost arm on a mountain of salt. Who did it belong to? Why was it left there?

title: Squid Introspection

overview: 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.

title: Self-Honest Me

overview: One day the protagonist watches a movie with friends. She finds the film to be boring and reveals her discontent, but somehow nobody agrees with her.

title: RINGING CITY

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

title: The Death Vendor

overview: 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.

title: Winter Days

overview: An animated film based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material – the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names in animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuriy Norshteyn's, though, is nearly two minutes long).

title: Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor

overview: A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as "unearthly horses" transport him instantaneously to the bedside. The doctor, preoccupied with personal distractions and grievances against those he is employed to care for, fails to find what is revealed to be a vile, fatal wound. He is humiliated by the villagers, who are "always expecting the impossible from the doctor," and doomed to an endless return trip, losing everything.

title: The Old Crocodile

overview: A very old crocodile is shunned by his family after eating one of them.

title: Dissipate

overview: Clouds flow by. Pictures evaporate. When the act of drawing is in tune with nature’s ways, an ancient poetry echoes through the sky and in due time brings rain.

title: Pickle Plum Parade

overview: 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.

title: Dozens of Norths

overview: Here, everything is The North. This is an account of the people I met in The North. However, my fragmented memory doesn't capture the essence at all.

title: A Child's Metaphysics

overview: A child whose head is numerals, a child who winds his own face and has it under his arm. What was left is his identity, a child whose eyes are provided by fishes, a child who cannot say anything because of a zipper across his mouth. Ecology and philosophy of children with sadness and humor.

title: Stained Smell

overview: The film expresses the sense of being left behind. It stems from the realities of my childhood and how they did not match up with what I was feeling back then.

title: Before Dawn

overview: One cold and damp morning, two weasels were wandering the quiet streets. They get separated at one point but are reunited. Just then, bells and alarms began to ring through the city, and dawn came.

title: Tokyo Loop

overview: A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum.

title: The Body in the Mind

overview: 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.

title: Winter Star

overview: It's winter but my heart and the classroom are hot. Unexpectedly I got my hands on a star fruit, but I never told anyone about the taste.

title: Poo Down Hill Up

overview: Bird poo fell in love with the hill but the hill is taken away high above the clouds. Poo is devastated. But then, a triangular telescope falls from the sky and it's showing what the hill is seeing.

title: Aquatic

overview: An apple flows down the stream of a mill where innumerable illusions of fish appear and disappear in the sky reflected in the water.

title: Bavel's Book

title: Kid's Castle

title: Kipling Jr.

title: Japanese-English Pictionary

title: Karo and Piyobupt: A House

overview: The first short in the series Karo and Piyobupt by Koji Yamamura

original_title: カロとピヨブプト おうち

title: Pieces

overview: A series of nine flipbook-like vignettes showcasing simple revelations of movement and color. Koji Yamamura's animation refers back to the phenakistoscope, one of the earliest mechanisms used to make drawings move.

title: Karo and Piyobupt: The Sandwiches

overview: The second short in the series Karo and Piyobupt by Koji Yamamura

original_title: カロとピヨブプト サンドイッチ

title: Karo and Piyobupt: Imagination

overview: The third and last installment in the Karo and Piyobupt series by Koji Yamamura

original_title: カロとピヨブプト あめのひ

title: Perspektivenbox – Researcher's Research

overview: Buildings, black crows, a flood of bar codes, clone-looking businessmen, shopping-addicted ladies...these images which probably symbolizes excessive, standardized and overcrowded modern cities are condensed in this animation. Various techniques, like modified photo, drawing animation, 3D object and permeating lighting are combined onto a multi-planed (line drawing) stand, with a challenge to express a unique sense of unity and compression.

original_title: 遠近法の箱 博士の捜し物

title: Your Choice!

overview: The theme is indecisiveness but hand the reigns over to kids and a T-Rex is sure to show up sooner or later. Yamamura's delight in their errant narration is evident in his fresh sensitivity to the comedy of everyday life.

title: 919

overview: A man is walking along the beach. Then a demon, the man’s pain, appears and chases him. The pain is unbearable, coursing through his entire body. He somehow manages to get away, but eventually, he returns to the ocean even though he knows that the demon will appear again if he goes there.

title: Muybridge's Strings

overview: Koji Yamamura's allegory the immutability of time, love and devotion, and the unbreakable nature of the parent-child bond, into interlacing story.

title: What's that smell?

overview: The world is filled with smells -- good smells, nasty smells, nasty but good smells, addictive smells, captivating smells, reminiscent smells, and so many more. What's that smell?

title: Tracing Jake

overview: Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in many countries around the world. He continues to travel around the world, listening to the testimonies of various people of different ages, nationalities, and sighting situations who have seen "Jake".

title: Stay With Me

overview: 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."

original_title: 湿らない 腐らないおいしく まろやか

title: The On-hold Music of Terror

overview: "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...

title: The Elevator

overview: A normal day turns into a day of adventure when an elevator that carries a boy does not stop where it should.

title: Polar Bear Bears Boredom

overview:
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.

original_title: ホッキョクグマすっごくひま

title: Pupa

overview: How long has it been since she lost control of her body? She is completely tapped out and finds herself wishing that she could just shed her body.

title: A Pawn

overview: In a land where there are no enemies or allies is a lone soldier. He spends his days sculpting wood with his bayonet. And then one day, out of the blue, an enemy stands before him.

title: Dozens of Norths

title: Dozens of Norths

title: Dozens of Norths

title: Dozens of Norths

title: Dozens of Norths

title: Dozens of Norths

title: Dozens of Norths

title: Hear the Snow Melt

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

title: That summer there were two of us

overview: 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.

title: In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket

overview: When it shrinks, it expands. It floats and it sinks. It separates but connects. When I think I’m watching them, they're actually watching me.  A charming animation rhyme that weaves together the many days of observing, recording, and experimenting.

original_title: ミニミニポッケの大きな庭で

title: Where is my home?

overview: 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.

title: Polar Bear Bears Boredom

original_title: ホッキョクグマすっごくひま

title: Polar Bear Bears Boredom

original_title: ホッキョクグマすっごくひま

title: Polar Bear Bears Boredom

original_title: ホッキョクグマすっごくひま

title: Polar Bear Bears Boredom

original_title: ホッキョクグマすっごくひま

title: Polar Bear Bears Boredom

original_title: ホッキョクグマすっごくひま

title: Flow of Life

overview: The girl wished to transcend her own body and become a jellyfish. She was drawn to the figure of the jellyfish floating freely in the sea.

title: Keep Forgetting

overview: 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.

title: Are you here, Ser Brunetto?

overview: Inspired by the Fifteenth canto of the Divine Comedy, in which Dante meets his teacher, Brunetto Latini.

title: My Milk Cup Cow

overview: The father tells his daughter Nunu a lie that there is a cow in her milk cup. She believes it and drinks up milk, but there isn't any cow. Her father tells her a variety of lies, which Nunu finds increasingly difficult to believe.

title: Boozy Woozy Wonderland

overview: Heartbroken, I bought a bottle of wine and drank it walking home. A tipsy journey reconstructed using the Japanese traditional storytelling method "rakugo."

original_title: ワンダフル千鳥足 in ワンダーランド

title: Summer Sky Reverie

overview: 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.

title: 四季

overview: A Japanese-produced animated film using Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons as its soundtrack. The four seasons all have separate animation directors. Its production was partly crowdfunded. The film premiered in Kitakyushu in 2017 along with a live performance of the Four Seasons and this performance was recorded and distributed to supporters of the project.

title: Behind Us

overview: One day a girl notices a distortion in her surrounding environment, which prompts her to start searching for her own connection with the world. But, the distortions become even more extreme. She wonders if the deviation is happening within her, or in the outside world.

title: Mrs. KABAGOdZILLA

overview: ‘Mrs. KABAGodZILLA had a daughter whose feet and arms looked just like her own.’ Mother and child were always together, but the mother's hospitalization makes the daughter remember the past, and think a little about what lies ahead.

title: Crazy Little Thing

overview: The two of them, all alone at home. All alone with her father's corpse. Memories, ideals, and reality all sink beneath the muck. Everyone is alone. Everyone is in solitude.

title: In a Pig's Eye

overview: A huge pig lies by a house. The family of the house go about their everyday life, pretending to ignore the pig’s existence.

title: Natural History

overview: Several painted figures are superimposed.

title: The Hyuga Episode of Kojiki

overview:
A festival cut/compilation of the animated segments made by Yamamura Kouji for a TV documentary by NHK, Kojiki Girl Travelogue (古事記ガール 日向路を旅する).  The 4 episodes that compose The Hyuga Episode of Kojiki are:  #1 The Cleansing (禊/ Misogi, 3’17”)
 #2 Sun Goddess Amaterasu (天照大御神/ Amaterasu Ookami, 2’11”)
 #3 Flowering Tree (木花之佐久夜毘売/ Konohananosakuya-bime, 2’31”)
 #4 Umisachi and Yamasachi (海佐知山佐知/ Umisachi Yamasachi, 3’30”)

title: A Bite of Bone

overview: A little girl reflects on her last summer with her father at his funeral.

title: Exit My Room

overview: He lives his life everyday like it's nothing special. Today he eats, gets dressed, and heads out once again.

title: Everyday Sins

overview: Guiltee is an art university student who is slacking off on her school work and feels horrible about it. Plus, she's confused about her family and Christianity, and she can't even get her ex-boyfriend to accept a small present she bought for him.

title: 00:08

overview: This piece takes 8 seconds, and creates intervals between the frames, and then makes them bigger. It's about expansion and enlargement, not the passage of time. 8 seconds becomes that much more luxuriant.

title: Moonlit Night and Opal

overview: 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.

title: Zdravstvuite!

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

title: Fox Fears

overview: 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.

title: Missing You

overview: Mother secretly threw a letter of her daughter in the snow ocean. The daughter in suspicion, followed her mother and sneak into a boat. She waits for a thaw with unreached feelings

title: Tepid Bath

overview: The borderline of water, a body, or a bathtub gets more and more unclear. All are mixed together in the lukewarm water.

title: Water Dream

overview: This film depicts evolution from birth of life to whale in the sea with music and images by dedication to the American contemporary composer George Crumb's "Vox Balaenae (1971)" .There are 4 part, Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic.

title: Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor

title: Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor

title: Satie's "Parade"

overview: A Parade for three managers and four performers. Sketchy drawings in a neatly arranged palette, involving quotes from the French composer Erik Satie, set to the music of Parade performed by the Dutch Willem Breuker Kollektief.

title: Five Fire Fish

overview: Created using "Etching on film" from the NFB's McLaren's Workshop Application.

title: Anthology with Cranes

overview: "Anthology with Cranes" is a 17th Century scroll painting by Sotatsu Tawaraya, measuring over 13 meters long. Koji Yamamura attempts to decipher this painting by interpreting it as animation.

title: Pieces

title: SONODA Video - Spring / Summer / Fall / Winter

overview: The soundless stop-motion paint-on-glass film by Koji Yamamura showcases the different seasons. He created the short in his early career in 1988. It is unclear whether the public could have seen it before its upload on YouTube in 2019.

original_title: SONODA Video - Spring / Summer / Fall / Winter

title: Nakamura Kazuyoshi - Jubilee

original_title: 中村一義 - 「ジュビリー」

title: Serenade

overview: One night Mr. K went for a walk with his pet...

title: Zodiac One Third

overview: This work was commissioned for the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and made possible by support from the 2016 Champion and Patron Members of Reel Asian. Chinese Zodiac is 60-years cycle by 10 heavenly elements and 12 earthly animals, 20th anniversary is just one third. In this movie appearing and changing into 20 elements from 1997 that was started the festival to 2016.

title: Satie's "Parade"

title: Satie's "Parade"

title: Satie's "Parade"

title: Extremely Short

overview: Somewhere between calligraphy, embryology and words from beyond the grave, a convulsive poem wraps itself around the Japanese syllable ‘da’ – a breath that could just as well be the first as the last.

title: The House of Loss

overview: 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.

title: Muybridge's Strings

title: Muybridge's Strings

title: Muybridge's Strings

title: My Inner Ear Quartet

overview: What lives in a lonely boy’s ear? And why a boy’s ear? The boy who grew up as a man set out on a journey to collect lonely voices again. What would he eventually find there?

title: Joy of Life

overview: The 5 animation poems singing joy of life, inspired by Normand Roger’s music.  Mystery, dangerous, hope and anxiety, battles. The tiny little light is coming to us from beyond the darkness. This is a miracle. This is a big message. We are shining ourselves receiving light . We are the human, we are the nature.

title: The Happy and Short Life of a Goldfish

overview: Goldfish born in Tenjinnuma, a famous goldfish production area, were auctioned off and sold to Yokota Gumi. The goldfish scooped by elementary school student Mitsui at the night store scooping goldfish will be kept at his house. For a while, the goldfish attracted attention as a pet of the Mitsui brothers and sisters, but on that Christmas, the green turtle took its place and was sent to his sister, Kana's friend, Sacchan's house. Sachi-chan is a kind child and loved to name the goldfish Hiroshi, but one day in August, a forgotten goldfish left in the garden for cleaning was exposed to too much direct sunlight, Close the whole life without missing. 1 year old and 2 months. She cried and buried the goldfish in her grave, but a week later she forgot.

title: Man & Whale

overview: A seaside school. In the corridor stands the principal, beloved of the high-spirited youngsters. Gazing at a picture of a whale drawn as a child, the head teacher is swept away with sentiment into a flashback from the past.

title: Dreams into Drawing

overview: The painter Kuwagata Keisai lived over 200 years ago. He created 'Ways to Sketch', a series of picture books illustrating humans and animals, all richly expressed. One day he was sketching out a carp, just at that moment he slept and he became a carp in dream. A carp was enjoy to swimming, but a fisherman caught that carp...

title: Freshwater

title: Heavenly Bodies' Score

overview: Using the constellation as a motif, the heavens and the earth, metamorphose all the creatures.

title: At The Mouth of Summer

overview: The beach is packed in a Chinese resort. People are enjoying the summer holidays. An abrupt thundershower makes them run around in a flurry.

title: flower

overview: This film shows various images of flowers growing, blossoming and losing their petals.

title: Quest of the Battling Gods

overview: 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.

title: light of temptation

overview: 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.

title: In There

overview: This story is about a place long ago, before birth and before death, that everyone knows and no one knows.

title: Memory Drawers

overview: 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.

title: Serenade

title: WildAid 'Hankograph'

overview: Ivory consumption in Japan is a bit of a problem. It needs to be stamped out.

title: The Red Bridge is Falling Down

overview: Everyone crosses the Red Bridge and yet no one likes him. One day, he falls into the deep valley.

title: Take Me Home

overview: 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.

title: Heavenly Bodies' Score

title: Bath House of Whales

overview: 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.

title: Lion Nanny's Journey

overview: Lion Nanny rides the train and embarks on a life journey while interacting with those around her.

title: The Body Swap Center

overview: 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.

title: Live or Let Live

overview: 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.

title: Fluffiction

overview: 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.

title: Namahage's Obon Homecoming

overview: 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.

title: My Little Goat

overview: A mother goat rescues her kids from the belly of a wolf, but where is her eldest son Toruku?

title: Mount Head

title: Mount Head

title: Mount Head

title: Woman Who Stole Fingers

overview: 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. .  .  conceal[s] a relationship between the two from anyone.  How does the boy who is deprived of his fingers grow up?

title: Bring Me Up

overview: Almost everyone in a contemporary society is picked up and moved by someone or something like a ‘Sugoroku’.  The first one which picks up is ‘Parents’.  A hero grows up along a ‘Sugoroku’.  This work describes.  .  .  the process of his growth as he depends on his parents.  .  .  One day he decides to cut off his relationship with his family.

title: Getting Dressed

overview: This woman has detached herself from the outside world.  For her, it is daily work to feed her bird and to look at the town from her window.  Because she doesn’t go out, she does not even put on clothes.  However, this daily life has ended.  She has run out of the cornflakes that she eats every day. As we get up in the morning and put on clothes, we are alive in a social system.  Nobody understands whether it is the correct world.  However, even if you escape from the system, the day you have to return will come.

title: Googuri Googuri

overview: Story of a girl’s imagination.  ‘Googuri Googuri’ is a made up word, a secret word shared by a girl and her grandfather.  For the granddaughter, her grandfather is at times like a mountain, at times like a tree, at other times like an ocean, and her thoughts take wing into her imagination endlessly.

title: A Gum Boy

overview: Nobody in a class loves ‘Kuchao’ who cannot live without.  .  .  gum.  When all [his] classmates fly their balloons, he wouldn’t let his go.  After school, on his way home, he gets to his own imaginary world with a bubble gum.  His balloon turns to be a face and to many things as he chews [his] gum. His imagination doesn’t stop flying.  Then comes a bird.  .  .

title: Scripta volant

overview: I try to set this work – a film using texts, or a film-book – between watching and reading. This film is dedicated to J.L. Borges, a great artist, who had translated The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde at his early childhood, became one of the greatest writers of the 20th century and continued to publish the works by dictation even after losing his eyesight.

title: First Hand Memories

overview: The Rakugo story of PARROT is told by a Rakugo-ka, or a lone storyteller formed of Japanese characters.

title: Typhoon No. 14

overview: 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...

title: Shiosai-bound

overview: A white lump appears at a landfill site with an ocean view and slowly heads for the sea. It is anxious to find a place to return.

title: On the way home

overview: The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father.

title: Notes on Monstropedia

overview: An animated archive of imaginary monsters written by a fictitious mosterologist in Medieval Europe.

title: Angel inside a box

overview: This video installation is an experiment that imagines the canvas as a box and animates images within that space.

title: SIBLINGS

overview: Two sisters stay at home alone. They spend their time in their own worlds, at times in synch with each other and other times disconnected.

title: A4 Microcosm

overview: Microorganisms propagate, gather, and transform into an A4 sheet of paper. You can feel signs of life within the page.

title: Bero Bero

overview: 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.

original_title: わたしとあさみちゃんとベロベロおじさん

title: Dance to Life

overview: For her, dance is life. And life is dance. Every tingle in her heart gets her swinging to the beat.

original_title: 毎日は踊りたいことだらけ

title: 7 falls, 8 comebacks, 7 sports

overview: Bloopers in sports are different from the blunders we make in everyday life but they tend to share similar physical movements. The title comes from an old Japanese saying about recovering from bad happenings.

title: Jinxes

overview: A girl heading home from school is met with a bigger version of herself who poses arbitrary challenges with unspeakable consequences. The little girl tries to keep up but suddenly the stakes are raised.

title: Gals

overview: Reminiscing the days I spent with an old friend, facing up to the narrow but deep gap that lies between us.

title: The Pearl Remains

overview: A woman traces her memories through a pearl ring, and comes upon her mother gazing at the same ring. But her memories soon lose their outline and become enclosed within the pearl.

title: Time Autobahn

overview: A speeding car leaps onto the highway of Time and hurtles forward -- its velocity is limitless.

title: To day plus one

overview: We go to sleep in hopes for a better tomorrow. The moment of truth nears as our eyes slowly open to the new day…

title: Sunset Flower Blooming

overview: The film is set in China in the 1960s.  An old woman cools herself in the garden.  The sunset makes the sky orange.  Sunset flower starts to bloom.  The flower guides her to daydream.  The woman dreams of her childhood memories and when she was young and beautiful.

title: Spirits from the Night

overview: At night, the child sees the sandy figure coming into his room.  It lures his stuffed animal away from the shelf and they are gone beyond the hill.  Following them to get his stuffed animal back, the child goes into the deep darkness of the night.  .  .

title: From the Dolphin

overview: The image of dolphins ties together this story.

title: AEON

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

title: RADIO WAVE

overview: 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.

title: Cogito Wonderland

overview: This film is an allegory towards clumsy people. Having met egocentric people, I go down the stairs of melancholia. I get swallowed up by the waves that I myself create. I know life is not only bad... But who am "I"? What am "I"?

title: Milky Ways

overview: A woman pours milk from the top of the mountain. At the foot of the mountain a man milks and pours it into a tank. One evening his pigeon doesn’t come back as usual, and finally it brings back small miracle from a woman. 1st year work 2016, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation

title: Candy.zip

overview: 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…

title: Spots Spots

overview: 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 the pattern.

title: The Grouse in Snow Mountain

overview: A man blown by a blizzard on Snow Mountain wants to return to his warm home.

title: My Frame

overview: Suffering from her delusion, K tries to depict her disorder in her paintings.  In her dream, she finds a frame, which makes her believe that drawing is her destiny.

title: I’m Nothing

overview: I get up in the morning, prepare myself, wait for a bus, then the train, go to school, and return home.  Days go by even while I wonder about, cry, or sleep.

title: Our Little Pond

overview: 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.

title: Extremely Short

title: Water Dream

title: Quick-Sand

overview: This is an animated work created using sand. We built our own multi-plane shooting table and adjusted the transmitted and reflected light using a lighting controller. This was done to blend the differences in the texture of the sand expressed by the lighting. Additionally, we utilized the sand's unpredictable nature - how it disappears without notice and reappears when touched - to create accidental images by vibrating the sand around the platform where it was placed. These images included motifs of human conversation, living creatures, life, the afterlife, and the universe. We moved these images through metamorphosis, like a game of word association.

title: The Spring Sea

overview: A scene inspired by the Seto Inland Sea is depicted in the style of a sumi-e painting, set to a violin version of the koto piece "HARU NO UMI (The Spring Sea)" by Japanese koto player and composer Miyagi Michio in 1929.

title: OCTOPOLIS - Prologue -

overview: Human-like creatures inhabit this planet. Their peaceful lives are senselessly destroyed by octopus suckers that appear out of the blue. Then comes a mysterious spaceship shaped like a chikuwa (fishcake tube). A new civilization - OCTOPOLIS - is about to emerge.

original_title: オクトポリス　-プロローグ-

title: Alien Human

overview: Alien Human asks us, “Is human the only species who can hurt each other psychologically?”  In Wen Pang’s animated reimagining of a comic series by Yuewei Wang, four short stories are pared down to four fleeting poems—Pearl, The Goldfish, Ocean and Hole. An audiovisual pleasure that will delight even those among us who think they don’t care for animation. The first moment the velvety narrator promises, “If you hold your breath long enough, I’ll take you to another world,” let yourself be transported.

title: REST

overview: When immersed in the contours swelling and waning in the forest of needles, the mundane world drifts away, and we only live to breathe.

title: Eri, The Cow

overview: One spring, Eri, a Holstein cow, falls in love with Sawa, a Jersey newcomer. Eri idolizes Sawa and longs to be close to her, to become one with her. To refine her intense feelings for Sawa, Eri subjects herself to ascetic practices and rituals of her own making. In a world where those who do not bear children are disposed of, Eri has fallen for someone who shares the same fate.

title: The Ant Tower

overview: Tomorrow, they'll finish building the most beautiful tower on this planet. I've never seen it, but I bet it's beautiful. I couldn't wait to see the new tower, so that night, I snuck out.

title: Chinatown, Whereabouts Unknown

overview: An animated documentary on intertwining memories and emotions experienced by the director in his hometown and current whereabouts.

title: Me and Me

overview: One morning, a woman leaves home for work like any other day. In another place, a loan shark is terrorizing a family. A cross-cutting of two incidents in two locations.

title: To the Moon and Back

overview: 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.

title: BLUE

overview: Something blue strays from the herd and ends up in someone’s house.

title: Methodology of Opening Jars

overview: What should one do if they encounter a jar that won’t open?

title: LOVE★STAR

overview: The star fell in love with the ocean, but this love was never reciprocated. So the star tried to discuss with friends. But no one can understand what is the star thinking about.

title: Haru no Umi

title: Haru no Umi

title: Haru no Umi

title: Red Peony of Night

title: Hand-Drawn: Documentary

title: Frank & Wendy

title: Film Adventurer Karel Zeman

title: Kipling Jr.

title: Mado Kara Tobidase

title: So I Picked Up the Worm

title: The Mouse and a Prism

title: Squishy Fish Eggs

title: Coping Mechanism

title: Conflicted

title: blink

title: Round Trip

title: Red

title: Brother

title: Amane Diary

title: Dear Viruses

title: A DOG

title: POP JUNKIE

title: MUNCH MUNCH

title: Iron Pulse

title: Long Live the Cat

title: WOKE

title: Representation of Light

title: Strangers in the Alley

title: I Am a Motif

title: Notre maison

title: The Big Tree in Front of the House

title: Strawberry Candy

title: My Hand, Her Hand

title: Empty Hands

original_title: おうさま・ひめ・ぶた・こじき

title: House Rattler

title: aaH / Hee

title: Spoon

title: Reinventing the Square Wheel

title: See ya, Mr. Banno!

title: Through the Windows

title: My Dear

title: Psyche

title: Flower Bud

title: Indoor Days

title: The Cloudy Dog Talk About

title: The Man Who Ate an Apple

title: A Wind Egg

title: Recruit Rhapsody

title: My Dear Flesh

title: Cubic Centimeter

title: Kicking Rocks

title: Ream

title: USALULLABY

title: From a Stone

title: Maze King

title: Wild Wild Ham

title: It’s Time for Supper

title: See My World

title: Crossing Sight

title: The Yellow Ball

title: Flower and Steam

title: People who are Eating

title: If Everyone Looked the Same

title: Awaiting

title: Black Cat

title: Color Blots

title: Mount Head

title: Umbrella

title: Silence

title: man of many arms

title: CHARON Pluto’s lonesomeness

original_title: CHARON 冥王星の孤独

title: Our 2

title: Starting Over

title: Awakened Seed

title: mayumi

title: Red Forest

title: The Story of a Motorbike

title: Cosmopolite

title: South Forest

title: Nosferatu Maiden

title: yelp

title: There was a man

title: RINGING CITY

title: Squid Introspection

title: Self-Honest Me

title: The Death Vendor

title: Winter Days

title: Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor

title: The Old Crocodile

title: Dissipate

title: Pickle Plum Parade

title: Dozens of Norths

title: A Child's Metaphysics

title: Stained Smell

title: Before Dawn

title: Tokyo Loop

title: The Body in the Mind

title: Winter Star

title: Poo Down Hill Up

title: Bavel's Book

title: Aquatic

title: Perspektivenbox – Researcher's Research

original_title: 遠近法の箱 博士の捜し物

title: Kipling Jr.

title: Karo and Piyobupt: The Sandwiches

original_title: カロとピヨブプト サンドイッチ

title: Karo and Piyobupt: Imagination

original_title: カロとピヨブプト あめのひ

title: Kid's Castle

title: Pieces

title: Karo and Piyobupt: A House

original_title: カロとピヨブプト おうち

title: Japanese-English Pictionary

title: Your Choice!

title: 919

title: Muybridge's Strings

title: What's that smell?

title: Tracing Jake

title: Stay With Me

original_title: 湿らない 腐らないおいしく まろやか

title: The On-hold Music of Terror

title: The Elevator

title: Polar Bear Bears Boredom

original_title: ホッキョクグマすっごくひま

title: Pupa

title: A Pawn

title: Dozens of Norths

title: Dozens of Norths

title: Dozens of Norths

title: Dozens of Norths

title: Dozens of Norths

title: Dozens of Norths

title: Dozens of Norths

title: Hear the Snow Melt

title: That summer there were two of us

original_title: ミニミニポッケの大きな庭で

title: Where is my home?

title: Polar Bear Bears Boredom

original_title: ホッキョクグマすっごくひま

title: Polar Bear Bears Boredom

original_title: ホッキョクグマすっごくひま

title: Polar Bear Bears Boredom

original_title: ホッキョクグマすっごくひま

title: Polar Bear Bears Boredom

original_title: ホッキョクグマすっごくひま

title: Polar Bear Bears Boredom

original_title: ホッキョクグマすっごくひま

title: Flow of Life

title: Keep Forgetting

title: Are you here, Ser Brunetto?

title: My Milk Cup Cow

title: Boozy Woozy Wonderland

original_title: ワンダフル千鳥足 in ワンダーランド

title: Summer Sky Reverie

title: 四季

title: Behind Us

title: Mrs. KABAGOdZILLA

title: Crazy Little Thing

title: In a Pig's Eye

title: Natural History

title: The Hyuga Episode of Kojiki

title: A Bite of Bone

title: Exit My Room

title: 00:08

title: Everyday Sins

title: Tepid Bath

title: Moonlit Night and Opal

title: Fox Fears

title: Zdravstvuite!

title: Missing You

title: Water Dream

title: Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor

title: Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor

title: Satie's "Parade"

title: Five Fire Fish

title: Anthology with Cranes

title: Pieces

title: Nakamura Kazuyoshi - Jubilee

original_title: 中村一義 - 「ジュビリー」

title: Serenade

title: Zodiac One Third

title: Satie's "Parade"

title: Satie's "Parade"

title: Satie's "Parade"

title: Extremely Short

title: The House of Loss

title: Muybridge's Strings

title: Muybridge's Strings

title: Muybridge's Strings

title: My Inner Ear Quartet

title: Joy of Life

title: The Happy and Short Life of a Goldfish

title: Man & Whale

title: Dreams into Drawing

title: Freshwater

title: Heavenly Bodies' Score

title: At The Mouth of Summer

title: flower

title: Quest of the Battling Gods

title: In There

title: light of temptation

title: Memory Drawers

title: Serenade

title: The Red Bridge is Falling Down

title: WildAid 'Hankograph'

title: Take Me Home

title: Heavenly Bodies' Score

title: Bath House of Whales

title: Lion Nanny's Journey

title: The Body Swap Center

title: Live or Let Live

title: Fluffiction

title: Namahage's Obon Homecoming

title: Mount Head

title: Mount Head

title: Mount Head

title: My Little Goat

title: Scripta volant

title: Bring Me Up

title: Woman Who Stole Fingers

title: Googuri Googuri

title: Getting Dressed

title: A Gum Boy

title: First Hand Memories

title: Typhoon No. 14

title: Shiosai-bound

title: On the way home

title: Notes on Monstropedia

title: Angel inside a box

title: A4 Microcosm

title: SIBLINGS

title: Bero Bero

original_title: わたしとあさみちゃんとベロベロおじさん

title: Dance to Life

original_title: 毎日は踊りたいことだらけ

title: 7 falls, 8 comebacks, 7 sports

title: Jinxes

title: Gals

title: Time Autobahn

title: The Pearl Remains

title: To day plus one

title: Sunset Flower Blooming

title: Spirits from the Night

title: From the Dolphin

title: AEON

title: RADIO WAVE

title: Cogito Wonderland

title: Milky Ways

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title: Spots Spots

title: The Grouse in Snow Mountain

title: My Frame

title: I’m Nothing

title: Our Little Pond

title: Extremely Short

title: Water Dream

title: Quick-Sand

title: The Spring Sea

title: OCTOPOLIS - Prologue -

original_title: オクトポリス　-プロローグ-

title: Alien Human

title: REST

title: Eri, The Cow

title: The Ant Tower

title: Chinatown, Whereabouts Unknown

title: Me and Me

title: To the Moon and Back

title: BLUE

title: Methodology of Opening Jars

title: LOVE★STAR

title: Haru no Umi

title: Haru no Umi

title: Haru no Umi


Andres Sandoval

Rosario Tijeras

overview: This is the story of the legendary Rosario Tijeras, the beautiful warrior from a slum who fell in love with Antonio and Emilio, two handsome and wealthy young men. Antonio, a young architect, desperately rushes the dying Rosario Tijeras to a nearby hospital. The beautiful Rosario has been shot four times by a hitman. While he waits for his beloved Rosario to be saved from her wounds, Antonio recalls how Rosario, a beautiful teenager, became the murderer Rosario Tijeras. And how he, a dashing young man, makes her his obsession. The woman of his dreams.

character: Antonio de Bedut

original_name: Rosario Tijeras

original_language: es

Mujeres asesinas

overview: The series tells of cases based on real events, which show how a woman is able to be at peace and end her suffering in the most lethal way, killing. In each episode, the protagonist tries to find a way to get rid of her problems, motivated by love, revenge, pain, desperation, resentment, contempt, hatred, beatings, addiction or frustration.

original_name: Mujeres asesinas

Novia para dos

overview: Margarita Vera is an architect who lives with Adrián Zea, a friendly but unpredictable man. But Antonio Ríos comes into his life, a man with the same eyes, the same way of walking and above all the same genes.

character: Nicolás Rugeles

original_name: Novia para dos

The Queen of Flow

overview: Seventeen years after being wrongly imprisoned, a talented songwriter seeks justice against the men who caused her downfall and killed her family.

character: Juan Camilo Mesa "Juancho"

original_name: La Reina del Flow

La Prepago

overview: La Prepago is about a woman living a double life: one as a beautiful university student with a normal love life from a traditional family; the other as a high-class escort who is paid for companionship and to satisfy the sexual appetites of men.

character: David Montero Echeverría

original_name: La Prepago

Corazones Blindados

character: Subteniente Raúl Ávila

original_name: Corazones Blindados

Leche

overview: A Colombian miniseries that takes place in a rural environment, and the plot takes place in a dairy farm, hence its name. In this setting, a love story unfolds that will move the hearts of Colombians.

character: Álvaro

original_name: Leche

Tempo final

overview: One real hour. An hour of suspense. An hour of life and death. After 60 minutes, nothing will be the same as before.

character: Esteban

original_name: Tiempo final

The Mafia Dolls

overview:
Las Muñecas De La Mafia is a 2009 Colombian telenovela produced by BE-TV and broadcast by Caracol TV. It's based on Juan Camilo Ferrand and Andres Lopez's book "Las Fantásticas". They also wrote the scripts for the television series. The telenovela will debut soon on the Telefutura Network. Series debuted on May 3, 2010 after the Vecinos finale. The show ended July 2010 in the U.S.

It talks about the story of Brenda, Olivia, Violeta, Renata and Pamela. They get into trouble throughout the series because they get involved with some mafia guys from "El Carmen" in Colombia.They all have sad endings. Pamela immigrates, at the end of the story, to the United States of America to try to get away from trouble and be close to her father, who was a pilot and end up in jail because he was captured by DEA taking cocaine to U.S in a plain, and ends up as a maid but tells Brenda she is happy and having a great life. Olivia ends up in jail for having a fake wedding with a Braulio Bermudez and getting some of his properties. Violeta dies when the two mafia opposite sides were going to end a war that was going on in between them.Renata also dies because she was force by erick, to pay money she owe him, to carry drugs in her stomach to the United States and no one of her loved ones knew because she had no identification on her. Brenda ends up being pregnant by Braulio, she never saw him again, because he was taken to an US jail. This is a very exiting story to see and it shows how easy life is never a good choice, might be nice and easy at the beginning but some day all ends.

character: Nicolás "Nico" Pérez

original_name: Las muñecas de la mafia

Tres Milagros

overview: Three girls whom they call Milagros are born on the same day in very different and distant homes, but united by the same terrible destiny that announces death at the moment when the three of them and love meet.

character: Fernando Rendón

original_name: Tres Milagros

The Devil's Corner

overview: After her cop father is killed, a woman earns a spot in special forces and is soon tasked with taking down a drug dealer in a dangerous neighborhood.

character: Angelito Velasco

original_name: La Esquina Del Diablo

Sin retorno

character: Andrés

original_name: Sin retorno

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English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

Español

Andrés Sandoval

biography:
Andrés Mauricio Sandoval Mejía (18 de noviembre de 1981) es un actor, director y productor de cine y televisión colombiano. A lo largo de su carrera, ha sido reconocido con importantes distinciones, incluyendo nominaciones a los premios India Catalina y TVyNovelas, consolidándose como uno de los galanes y actores de carácter más destacados de su generación. Además de su faceta interpretativa, ha desarrollado una sólida labor como realizador audiovisual a través de su propia productora, enfocada en contenidos sociales y pedagógicos.

Comenzó su formación artística desde muy joven, participando en diversos talleres de actuación y producción antes de dar el salto a la televisión nacional. Obtuvo el reconocimiento masivo y el elogio de la crítica por su papel de "Juancho" en la exitosa serie de drama musical La reina del flow (2018-2021), producción ganadora del premio Emmy Internacional. Previamente, había demostrado su versatilidad en proyectos de gran impacto como Rosario Tijeras (2010), donde interpretó a Antonio Solano, y en la serie de suspenso Corazones blindados (2012), papel que le valió una nominación como Mejor Actor Protagónico.

A lo largo de su trayectoria, ha participado en producciones internacionales y locales de renombre como Las muñecas de la mafia (2009), Tres Milagros (2011) y La preparación (2024). En el ámbito cinematográfico, ha destacado no solo como actor en cintas como Saluda al diablo de mi parte (2011), sino también como director de cortometrajes que han circulado en festivales internacionales, como Zuly y Esmeralda. Comprometido con la transformación social, Sandoval ha dedicado gran parte de su vida personal y profesional a liderar proyectos de resocialización a través del arte en comunidades vulnerables de Colombia.

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iso_3166_1: MX

english_name: Spanish

biography: Es un actor colombiano. Es reconocido por participar en producciones como: Rosario Tijeras, Tres Milagros, Corazones blindados y La reina del flow 1 y 2.

iso_3166_1: ES

title: How to Succeed at Losing

overview: Miguel, a successful man, ends up in jail, unjustly accused of money laundering. His sentence completed, with empty pockets and nowhere to go, Miguel returns to his old neighborhood. There, he encounters his childhood friends, who continue playing futsal, never winning a match. Miguel decides to coach them, leading them to victory. On the way, he discovers the unexpected consequences of success.

character: Miguel Ortiz

original_title: Perder es ganar un poco

title: Greetings to the Devil

overview: A former guerrilla is reluctantly drawn into the vengeance scheme of one of his victims.

original_title: Saluda al diablo de mi parte

title: The Owner

overview: The film follows a backpack on a journey around the world, intersecting the lives of dozens of fascinating characters along the way. The story progresses, we learn details about the mysterious man to whom the bag belongs.

character: Gánster

original_title: The Owner

original_language: en

job: Director

title: Train Station

overview: When a mysterious train accident forces a man to change his plans, he is confronted with a series of choices. Each decision he makes leads to a different scenario, each one filmed by a different director with a different cast.

department: Directing

original_title: Train Station

place_of_birth: Bogotá, Colombia

title: How to Succeed at Losing

media_type: movie

title: Greetings to the Devil

title: The Owner

Rosario Tijeras

media_type: tv

title: Train Station


Stefan Matousch

Inspector Rex

overview: After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger.

character: Dr. Clemens

original_name: Kommissar Rex

original_language: de

Stockinger

overview:
Stockinger is an Austrian-made police television drama, with fourteen 45-minute episodes first aired from 1996 to 1997.

The series is a spin-off from the popular Austrian television drama Inspector Rex, and focuses on Ernst Stockinger, one of the original members of the Homicide division or Mordkommission in German.

Stockinger leaves the series to return to Salzburg where his wife has inherited a dental practice from her late father . He is appointed a Bezirksinspektor at the Landes Gendarmerie, sharing an office with District Inspector Antonella Simoni.

Unlike the members of the team in 'Rex', who appear to be self-directed and are seldom seen to answer to senior management, Stockinger reports to Dr Brunner, a philosophising burecratic senior police inspector.

Stockinger is portrayed as a clumsy, almost Inspector Clouseau-like character, driving a clapped-out 1973 VW Variant, but single-minded when following up clues.

character: Herr Faulhuber

original_name: Stockinger

Vienna Crime Squad

overview: SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series.

character: Wirt

original_name: SOKO Donau

character: Käptn Otto

character: Werner Dolezal

Sisi

overview: Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph falls in love with young Elisabeth. It's love at first sight but Franz Joseph's mother Sophie doesn't approve of the relationship.

original_name: Sisi

Murder in the Mountains

overview: SOKO Kitzbühel is an Austrian television series produced by ORF and ZDF. It is a spin-off of the German crime series SOKO 5113. It is set in the renowned Tyrolean tourist centre of Kitzbühel. The production company "beo-Film" has produced the show since 2001. The German abbreviation SOKO stands for Sonderkommission, "special commission", a task force with specific duties.

character: Rudolf Holztrattner

original_name: SOKO Kitzbühel

Deutsch

Stefan Matousch

biography: Stefan Matousch (* 1948 in Salzburg; † 23. Juni 2018 in Linz) war ein österreichischer Schauspieler, der überwiegend in Deutschland und Österreich an Theatern wirkte und in Berlin ein Theater gründete.

iso_639_1: de

iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

iso_3166_1: CH

title: The Reason Why

overview: Think of a really nice person, a friend of yours, someone who could never hurt a fly. Imagine finding out that he is supposed to have killed someone. You're told that he has shot a person in a bar, for no obvious reason. He has already confessed. He says the murder was planned. He expects a life sentence. He even longs for it. He wants to pay for his crime. The psychiatrist cannot see any mental illness. People around him don't think him to be evil. They like him. They want to help him and protect him from himself. And they all ask the same question: Why....?

character: Assessor

original_title: Darum

title: Breathing

overview: Through his work at a morgue, an incarcerated young man trying to build a new life starts to come to terms with the crime he committed.

character: Gerhard Schorn

original_title: Atmen

title: Ein Sommer in Kroatien

character: Stipe

original_title: Ein Sommer in Kroatien

title: Alles Glück dieser Erde

overview: To their big surprise, the capable waitress Gundula Kirchner receives from the estate owner Xaver Schönborn the offer to manage his stud as managing director. Gundula, who has some qualifications, seizes the opportunity and has the business under control after only a short time. But Xavers spoiled daughter Helen and especially the ambitious, but incompetent son-in-law René try by all means to drive the dedicated Gundula from the court. No one, least of all Gundula herself, suspects that Xaver is really her father.

character: Henry

original_title: Alles Glück dieser Erde

title: Die Freischwimmerin

overview: After a violent incident, Martha Müller is disillusioned with the teaching profession and decides that she does not want to get involved so much as a teacher. At her new school in Vienna, however, she is immediately confronted with a problem Ilayda. The 17-year-old Turkish student lives in Vienna with her very well integrated family. But she decided to wear a headscarf after her father's death. However, this distinguishes her more and more from her class.

original_title: Die Freischwimmerin

title: Treibjagd im Dorf

overview: A terrible accident occurs while 13-year-old Franzi is doing target practice in the quarry . A bullet misses its target and hits his grandfather, old farmer Anton Wolf. While Anton falls into a coma , the true remainCircumstances of the fact unknown for the time being . Instead , the rumor spread in the village that Franzi 's father Franz was the shooter, especially since there were constant arguments between father and son about running the farm . A real drive hunt in the village begins .

character: Huberbauer

original_title: Treibjagd im Dorf

title: Hidden Reserves

overview: The insurance salesman Vincent Baumann, a cold-blooded careerist and minion of a merciless system, becomes a victim of the very corporations he is representing. Degraded to a henchman he grimly struggles to get back on the job market. He fights to climb the social ladder. In the process he realizes that there are other values than income and success. He decides against his previous ideology and for another human being, for Lisa Sokulowa. They don’t have a future. But they celebrate a small triumph against the dominance of the ruling system.

character: Vizedirektor

original_title: Stille Reserven

title: Ein Geheimnis im Dorf - Schwester und Bruder

overview: Irene, the mayor of a Styrian community, also helps her mother and stepfather in their small department store and takes touching care of her 17-year-old brother. But when Paul Berger, an innovative cook, wants to take over the old village inn, wounds of the past break open and a dark secret slowly comes to light...

title: Die Fremde und das Dorf

overview: In the tranquil Styrian highlands, the waves rise when an Italian earthquake victim threatens to expose a dark family secret. Highly dramatic, enthralling and high-carat busy. Right down to the supporting roles, Austrian celebrities can be found in this modern Heimat film, which tells of the imponderables of love.

original_title: Die Fremde und das Dorf

title: Oma wider Willen

overview: A new collaboration between director Sigi Rothemund (Siggi Götz) and writer Erich Tomek.

character: Betriebsrat Wurm

original_title: Oma wider Willen

title: Glücksbringer

overview: Agnes, the proud managing director of a renowned Viennese jewelery business, has been happily married to the jeweler Leo Wieland for 17 years. He designs for her the exclusive collections and proves her despite the obvious age difference - Leo is a lot younger than his wife - every day his great love. But everything changes when Agnes receives a devastating diagnosis from her doctor: lung cancer. By chance, the couple will one day get to know little Max and his attractive mother Vera. In the terminally ill Agnes matures a plan: Vera would be a perfect partner for Leo.

character: Portier

original_title: Glücksbringer

title: Die Hüttenwirtin

overview: Advertising manager Sandra has been living in Berlin for some time. When she inherits a Tyrolean mountain hut from her father, she travels back to her old home for the first time to sell the traditional excursion restaurant. Contrary to expectations, she realizes her true destiny and reopens the "Hüttenwirt". However, the unscrupulous mayor Xaver Riemer, who has wanted to take over the hut for years, does everything he can to thwart her ambitious plans. Sandra receives support from, of all people, Xaver's son Markus, the love of her youth.

character: Gerhard Embacher

original_title: Die Hüttenwirtin

title: Schatten der Erinnerung

overview: Geologist Lena receives the news that her father Gottfried, who abandoned her eight years ago, is terminally ill. With a heavy heart, she travels back to her home village in the mountains with her young daughter. A journey into a difficult past, as Lena is not only confronted with Gottfried's rejection, but also with her former great love Anton, whom she has never been able to forget and who is now married to the enterprising and scheming Magda. But this is not the only problem: Lena discovers that her village is threatened by a landslide as a result of massive environmental destruction.

character: Beamter

original_title: Schatten der Erinnerung

title: Falsche Liebe

character: Bruno

original_title: Falsche Liebe

place_of_birth: Salzburg, Austria

title: The Reason Why

title: Breathing

title: Ein Sommer in Kroatien

title: Alles Glück dieser Erde

title: Die Freischwimmerin

title: Falsche Liebe

title: Glücksbringer

title: Schatten der Erinnerung

title: Oma wider Willen

title: Die Hüttenwirtin

title: Treibjagd im Dorf

title: Hidden Reserves

title: Die Fremde und das Dorf