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Ani*Kuri15

Studio: GONZO , Gainax , Production I.G , MADHOUSE , Horipro , Studio 4°C , CoMix Wave , Satelight
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy

15 one-minute shorts created by various people from Japan's animation industry. The title of the collection, Ani*Kuri15, is abbreviated from the words "anime" and "creators".

Season One
1) Shinji Kimura - Attack of Higashimachi Ni Chome/Attack of Higashimachi 2nd Burough
2) Akemi Hayashi - Namida no Mukou/From the Other Side of the Tears
3) Yasufumi Soejima - Hyotoko/Blaze Man
4) Osamu Kobayashi - Sancha Blues/The Aromatic Tea Blues
5) Shinjiro Nishimi - Uchujin Raikou Hiroshi no Baai/Invasion from Space - Hiroshi's Case

Season Two
6) Mamoru Oshii - Project Mermaid
7) Kazuto Nakazawa - "yurururu" ~Nichijou Hen~
8) Range Murata and Tatsuya Yabuta - Gyrosopter
9) Tobira Oda and Yasuyuki Shimizu - Sport Captain Episode No.18: Assassin Descended from the Mountain Hunt!!
10) Atsushi Takeuchi - Wandaba Kiss

Season Three
11) Makoto Shinkai - Neko no Shuukai/A Gathering of Cats
12) Mahiro Maeda - Onmitsu Hime
13) Michael Arias - Okkakekko
14) Shouji Kawamori - Project Omega
15) Satoshi Kon - Ohayou/Good Morning

Tags: Anthology , Robots , Meta , CGI , Henshin , Flash , Historical , Nudity , Slapstick , Animals , Drawing , Work , Aliens , Episodic , Stop Motion , Kids

Michi

Studio: Tomoyasu Murata Company
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

The My Road series - Scarlet Road (2002), White Road (2003), Indigo Road (2006), and the most recent instalment Lemon Road (2008) - can be read as meditations on loss and mourning. These poetic films tell their story through motif, character expression, music and montage and require repeated viewing for one to absorb the subtly evoked layers of meaning.



Tags: Stop Motion , Philosophy , No Dialogue , Rehabilitation , Puppetry , Male Protagonist , Rural , Episodic , Iyashikei

Visions of Frank

Also known as Visions of Frank.

Status: Finished
Genres:

A series of 9 animated shorts based on the Frank comics by Jim Woodring, featuring computer/CGI, traditional cel, stop-motion, and even sand painting techniques. Contributing animators and musicians include COCOA, Eri Yoshimura, Naomi Nagata, TAMAPRO/DROP, Taruto Fuyama, Masaki Maito, Kanako Kawagushi, Masaya Sakaue, Bill Frisell, Dame Darcy, and Woodring himself.

Tags: Stop Motion , No Dialogue

Nihon Animator Mihonichi

Also known as Japan Anima(tor)’s Exhibition.

Studio: Studio Khara
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Fantasy , Mecha , Music , Supernatural

Japan Anima(tor)'s Exhibition is the showcase of the animations produced by various directors with love and energy, which are planned from original projects, spin-off projects, promotional films, Music PV, and VJ Films etc...

Episodes:
01: The Dragon Dentist (Directed by Outarou Maijou)
02: HILL CLIMB GIRL (Directed by Azuma Tani)
03: ME!ME!ME! (Directed by Hibiki Yoshizaki)
04: Carnage (Directed by Akira Honma)
05: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko & Ichiro Itano: Collection of Key Animation Films (collection of key animation from 1979's Mobile Suit Gundam)
06: 20min Walk From Nishi-Ogikubo Station, 2 Bedrooms, Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, 2mos Deposit, No Pets Allowed (Directed by Takeshi Honda & Mahiro Maeda)
07: Until you come to me. (Directed by Tadashi Hiramatsu)
08: Tomorrow from there (Directed by Akemi Hayashi)
09: Denkou Choujin Gridman: boys invent great hero (Directed by Akira Amemiya)
10: YAMADELOID (Directed by Takashi Horiuchi & Masahiro Emoto)
11: POWER PLANT No. 33 (Directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura & Kengo Saito)
12: Evangelion: Another Impact (Confidential) (Directed by Shinji Aramaki)
13: Kanón (Directed by Mahiro Maeda)
14: SEX and VIOLENCE with MACHSPEED (Directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi)
15: Obake-Chan (Directed by Shigeto Koyama)
16: Tsukikage no Tokio (Directed by Takanobu Mizuno)
17: THREE FALLEN WITNESSES (Directed by Satoru Utsunomiya)
18: The Diary of Ochibi (Directed by Masashi Kawamura)
19: I can Friday by Day! (Directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki)
20A: ME!ME!ME! CHRONIC feat.daoko / TeddyLoid (Directed by Hibiki Yoshizaki, remix of short #3)
20B: (Making of) evangelion:Another Impact (Making of video of short #12)
21: ICONIC FIELD (Directed by Ikuto Yamashita)
22: IBUSEKI YORUNI (Directed by Tadashi Hiramatsu)
23: Memoirs of amorous gentlemen (Produced by Cork Inc.)
24: Rapid Rouge (Directed by Daisuke Onitsuka)
25: HAMMERHEAD (Directed by Otaro Maijo)
26: COMEDY SKIT 1989 (Directed by Kazuto Nakazawa)
27: BUBU & BUBULINA (Directed by Takashi Nakamura)
28: ENDLESS NIGHT (Directed by Sayo Yamamoto)
29: BUREAU OF PROTO SOCIETY (Directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura)
30: The Ultraman (Directed by Akitoshi Yokoyama)
31: GIRL (Directed by Hibiki Yoshizaki)
32: Neon Genesis IMPACTS. (Directed by Yuhei Sakuragi)
33: Ragnarok (Directed by Kazuyoshi Katayama)
34: Robot on the Road (Directed by Hiroyuki Okiura)
35: Cassette Girl (Directed by Hiroyasu Kobayashi)

Note: #20A and #20B (special) are counted as two separate episodes in the episode total.

Tags: Anthology , Nudity , Ero Guro , Episodic , Super Robot , Musical Theater , Gore , Surreal Comedy , Satire , Cycling , No Dialogue , Space , Guns , Military , Revenge , Swordplay , War , Magic , Disability , Henshin , Kaiju , Dragons , Cyberpunk , Real Robot , Samurai , Stop Motion , Dissociative Identities , Post-Apocalyptic , Noir

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

Kurumiwari Ningyou

Also known as Nutcracker Fantasy.

Studio: Sanrio , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

The young girl Clara visits her Aunt Gerda and Uncle Drosselmeyer. Her aunt tells her scary stories about the Ragman, a creepy and mysterious man who turns children into mice if they don't go to bed on time. The Ragman is always spying on sleeping children searching for more victims.
Just before Clara goes to bed her eccentric uncle gives her a wooden nutcracker doll. He's a bit embarrassed because the only part on the doll that's perfect is the heart, but Clara loves her new doll.
She falls asleep but wakes up hearing mice squeaking...

Tags: Stop Motion , Female Protagonist , Dancing , Magic , Ojou-sama , Puppetry