Anime like Atama Yama

Inaka Isha

Also known as Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor.

Studio: Studio DEEN , Shouchiku
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

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.



Tags: Philosophy , Rural , Classic Literature , Historical , Medicine , Denpa

Kid's Castle

Studio: Whatever
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

A short film by Koji Yamamura.

Tags: No Dialogue , Kids

Senshokutai no Koibito

Also known as CHROMOSOME SWEETHEART.

Studio: Geidai Animation
Status: Finished
Genres:

An ex-couple in a café, a girl sucking on her girlfriend's hair, a running woman, a fleeing town, a little girl walking along the river. In this world, there are as many forms of love as there are people.

Graduate Work 2017 by Honami YANO, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.



Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Female Cast

Fushigi na Elevator

Also known as The Elevator.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy

One morning, a boy dashes out the door of his apartment carrying a school bag on his back. He jumps into the building elevator as on any other day; but today, it won't stop and just keeps on going down.When it finally stops with a jolt and the door opens, the boy finds himself in a world deep under the ground. There his adventure begins.



Tags: Isekai , No Dialogue

Ikuta no Kita

Also known as Dozens of Norths.

Studio: Yamamura Animation, Inc.
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy , Psychological

North is everywhere solitary. Here is all North. This is a record of the people I met in these Norths. However, my memory is fragmented and does not get the point at all. Now I'm starting to wonder my efforts came to nothing. I'm just getting the occasional recognition of the existence of the world through the dull pain changes shape little by little.

"The basis for the animated film “Dozens of Norths” is the series of cover illustrations and short texts that I made across 32 issues of the monthly literary magazine “Bungaku-Kai” (Published by Bungeishunju) from April 2012 to December 2014. In this work, by fantasizing about a fictional movie, I thought of each independent cover as a scene of one larger story and wrote a text for each illustration I made." - Yamamura Kouji

A joint production between 'Yamamura Animation' based in Japan, and 'Miyu Productions' based in France. The film had it's world premier at the '8th New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival' on 6 November 2021.

Tags: Dystopian , No Dialogue , Denpa