Anime like Golden Time

What is Golden Time about?

Status: Finished

In Japan's economic bubble years during the 1980s, a long-serving furniture-style television set made in the 1960s is abandoned at a junkyard. It attempts to escape from its new surroundings.

Background:
A theatrically-released short film from production company ROBOT, makers of La Maison en Petits Cubes which won the Best Animated Short Film category at the 2009 Academy Awards. Winner of an Excellence Award in the animation division of the 2013 Japan Media Arts Festival.

Tags: No Dialogue

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Shashinkan

Studio: Studio Colorido
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

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Tags: Photography , Historical , Time Skip , No Dialogue , Coming of Age , Tragedy

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Tsumiki no Ie

Also known as La Maison en Petits Cubes.

Studio: Oh! Production , Robot
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

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Also known as The Story of a Motorbike.

Studio: Geidai Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

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1st year work 2017, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.

Tags: Motorcycles

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