Anime like Shashinkan

Tsumiki no Ie

Also known as La Maison en Petits Cubes.

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

An old man lives in a town that has become submerged in water. As the water level rises, he's forced to build additional levels onto his home with bricks (cubes) in order to stay above water. One day he accidentally drops his favorite pipe into the lower levels of his home, and decides to rent scuba diving equipment in order to go searching for it. As he descends through his sunken home, the old man recalls memories of the past in each room.



Tags: No Dialogue , Environmental , Dystopian , Elderly Protagonist , Scuba Diving , Post-Apocalyptic , Achronological Order , Coming of Age , Fishing , Male Protagonist , Cosmic Horror , Ships , Family Life , Tragedy , Marriage , Photography

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

Muybridge no Ito

Also known as Muybridge's Strings.

Studio: Yamamura Animation, Inc. , NHK
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

The destiny of photographer Eadweard Muybridge and that of a Japanese mother clash poetically in this exploration of the irrepressible human desire to make time stand still.

Co-production from NHK and the National Film Board of Canada.

Tags: Historical

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

Hinata no Aoshigure

Studio: Studio Colorido
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Romance

Hinata is very good at drawing and falls in love with his classmate, Shigure; however, Hinata is not good at talking to people, so he keeps his feelings in his imagination and drawings. Then, Shigure's family decides to move to another town. On the day of their move, Hinata says to himself, "I must tell her my feelings!" and starts to chase after the train which is taking Shigure away.

Tags: Slapstick , School , Primarily Child Cast , Trains , Surreal Comedy , Animals , Heterosexual , Drawing , Time Skip

Poretto no Isu

Studio: Studio Colorido
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

noitaminA's 10th anniversary commemoration short special.

Tags: Coming of Age , No Dialogue , Rural , School , Primarily Child Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist

Omoi no Kakera

Studio: Gaina
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Hina Satou is a 13-year-old who loves figure skating and lives in a port town in Miyagi Prefecture. After losing her mother in the 2011 earthquake, she and her father are currently living in temporary housing. With sad memories of the earthquake and memories of a gentle mother, the cheerful Hina continues to move toward her dreams.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Ice Skating , School , Tragedy , School Club , Family Life , Photography , CGI

Matsugae wo Musubi

Studio: Tomoyasu Murata Company
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

"The Pine's Branches" is the latest work in Murata Tomoyasu's series "Journey through memories of life and death,” which he began following the Tohoku earthquake in 2011.

Tags: Stop Motion , Tragedy , Rural , Family Life , Female Protagonist , Twins , Time Skip

rain town

Studio: Kyoto Seika University
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sci-Fi

Hiroyasu Ishida's graduation project at Kyoto Seika University.

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

Bihada Ichizoku

Studio: Omnibus Japan , Sony Music Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama

There is a World Beautiful-Skin Competition (WBC) to which the 3 billion women of the world aspire. Carrying on the 300-year legacy of the competition are the twin Bihada sisters, Sara and Saki.

Tags: Twins , Female Protagonist , Parody , Fashion , Makeup , Estranged Family , Work , Advertisement , CGI