Anime like Tsumiki no Ie

rain town

Studio: Kyoto Seika University
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Hiroyasu Ishida's graduation project at Kyoto Seika University.

Tags: Urban , No Dialogue , Robots , Dystopian , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Iyashikei

Furiko

Also known as Pendulum.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Romance , Slice of Life

A short called "Furiko" (or "Pendulum"), that was featured on Japanese variety show.

The anime was drawn by the Japanese comedian Tekken (鉄拳), who named himself after the fighting game.



Tags: No Dialogue , Time Manipulation , Achromatic , Family Life , Primarily Adult Cast

Shashinkan

Studio: Studio Colorido
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

The story takes place before WWII at a photo studio on top of a hill. Many people visit this studio to have their photos taken. One day, a couple comes, but the wife is so shy that she always lowers her head. The owner of the studio tries all kinds of tricks to get her to smile and eventually succeeds. One year later, the couple comes again, but this time they bring their daughter along. She always looks grumpy, and again, the owner has to try everything to get her to smile. Thus starts a long-running relationship between the girl and the owner, and time passes to years and then decades...

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

Sennen Joyuu

Also known as Millennium Actress.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Genco , WOWOW , KLOCKWORX , Kadokawa Shoten , Bandai Visual , Techno Sound , Chaos Union
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

Millennium Actress blurs the lines between the past and the present, and truth and fiction, when a documentary filmmaker fulfills his quest to find the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, and learn why she mysteriously vanished at the height of her brilliant career. When Chiyoko grants the filmmaker’s request, he, in turn, presents her with a token – a key she had lost and thought was gone forever. The filmmaker could not have imagined that the key would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life, but also his own.



Note: The film received an early premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival on July 28, 2001.

Tags: Acting , Biographical , Meta , Historical , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Unrequited Love , Work , Time Skip , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , War , Filmmaking , Snowscape , Denpa , Anachronism , Fugitive , Swordplay , Age Gap

Aru Tabibito no Nikki

Studio: Robot
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy

Follow Tortov as he journeys through very surreal, magical, picturesque landscapes, meeting interesting characters and circumstances on the way. Accompanied by his long-legged pig friend, Tortov takes us on an on-going adventure of peaceful contemplation.



Tags: Episodic , No Dialogue , Iyashikei , Male Protagonist , Animals , Slapstick

Byeori Binnaneun Bame

Also known as The Starry Night.

Studio: VCRWORKS
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

The Starry Night tells about the love that becomes clearer as time goes by, through the process of organizing his own life, loving an old lover.



Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , No Dialogue , Coastal , Elderly Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Foreign

Golden Time

Also known as Golden Time.

Studio: Robot
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy

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

Katasumi no Uroko

Also known as Scutes on my mind.

Studio: Geidai Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

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?

Graduate Work 2015 by Megumi Ishitani, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.



Tags: Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Animals , Dinosaurs

1001 Nights

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Romance

Presented in the form of a feverish love dream, 1001 Nights (based on Amano's book of artwork) is the first performance of the groundbreaking "Filmharmonic" series, which presents new orchestral works by film composers in tandem with short films made by A-list directors. 1001 Nights is the series's only animated work, and plans originally called for the film to be completely computer animated.

Tags: Fairy Tale , Mythology , Foreign , No Dialogue , Nudity , Demons , Classic Literature , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Historical , Dragons , CGI

Kujira no Chouyaku

Also known as Glassy Ocean.

Studio: Bandai Visual , Ai ga areba Daijobu , Tamura Shigeru Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy

Time has come to a standstill. A whale appears from a glassy ocean and spends half a day soaring gracefully across the skies. What makes this works extraordinary is the artist's decision to use the transparency and visual bulk of 3D computer graphics only for the un-moving ocean and glaciers. The people, whale, and ships are all hand-drawn, and with this contrast, he invites the viewer into a different world. This is a poem written in animation, the creation of a true fantasy. This project was a considerable under taking, and the results are marvelous.



Tags: Time Manipulation , Elderly Protagonist , Iyashikei , Achronological Order , CGI , Ships