20 Short Animation Films by 20 Millennials from Japan [Doors Open 2019]

20 Short Animation Films by 20 Millennials from Japan [Doors Open 2019]

A diverse and lively compilation of animation techniques and fascinating stories created by a new generation of 20 animators from the Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation 東京藝術大学大学院映像研究科アニメーション専攻. These 20 beautiful short films can also be viewed online here which were selected from the Geidai (Tokyo University of the Arts) channel here Geidai Animation Channel where there are over 200 more animation films to enjoy.

YANOYA [00:38 min.] 2011

Direction, Animation: Shishi Yamazaki
Music: Akiko Yano

Kuchao/A GUM BOY [03:48 min.] 2013

The primary schoolboy “Kuchao” is the most hated person in his class. Even if everyone fly balloons, only he doesn’t part with his. After school, he springs out of the class at full speed.

Direction, Animation & Editing: Masaki Okuda
Music: Daisuke Matsuoka
Song: Yushiro Kuramochi
Sound Design: Kyohei Takahashi

PAMON [09:46 min.] 2014

PAMON are magical and mysterious creatures who can move the hair on their head however they wish, and communicate using their chest hair. This tale takes a peek at an ordinary day for the PAMON.

Director: Kazushige TOMA
Music: Shota KOWASHI
Sound effects: Yu HASHIMOTO, Wakana KUROIWA
Producer: Yuichi ITO

The Cloudy Dog Talk About… [03:30 min.] 2013

Dogs are 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.

Direction, Animation: Asami Ike

I am alone walking on the straight road [5:53 min.] 2014

Director Masanori Okamoto tried to symbolize the emotion of loneliness with the motif of the poet, Taneda Santoka, who has broken the haiku form. Cut-out method depicts subtle face expressions of the man who is slightly drunk in the mountain in the course of his trip.

Direction, Animation: Masanori OKAMOTO
Music: Ayako SATO
Sound Design: Yuto MISAWA

Oh Dear [1:48 min.] 2014

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.

Direction, Animation: Megumi Ishitami
Music: Masashi Nukata
Sound Design: Misaki Hasuno

Googuri Googuri [08:23 min.] 2010

This is a story of a girl’s imagination.”Googuri Googuri” 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 other times like a tree, at other times like an ocean;a warm and comfortable place. So that, her thoughts take wing into her imagination endlessly. People are made to imagine. The things we have seen, the smells we have smelled, our thoughts, and everything we have experienced extending and expanding within the infinite inside ourselves. It is the only reality.

Director: Yoshiko MISUMI
Music: Natsuko YOKOYAMA
Sound Design: Takuji OE
Producer: Koji YAMAMURA

Will Hatching Day Come? [03:28 min.] 2015

This is a story of a little girl who believes she can hatch an
egg one day if she keeps it warm.

Director: KIATCHOKECHAIKUL CHAYANIT
Music: Soyoka HAYASHI
Sound Design: Manami NODA
Producer: Mitsuko OKAMOTO