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Kanopy
75
51
6.8
/1207/
74
/18/
62
/37/
3.7
/3815/
100
/11/

Passion (2008)
A young couple's announcement of their engagement to their friends is followed by a series of interactions and conflicts that forces everyone to reflect on their lives.
poster
79
46
8.0
/635/
83
/57/
79
/20/
4.1
/11287/
7.1
/1399/

My Little Goat (2018)
A mother goat rescues her kids from the belly of a wolf, but where is her eldest son Toruku?
poster
59
27
6.1
/102/
59
/28/
55
/12/
3.7
/1519/
4.9
/6529/

00:08 (2014)
This piece takes 8 seconds, and creates intervals between the frames, and then makes them bigger. It's about expansion and enlargement, not the passage of time. 8 seconds becomes that much more luxuriant.
poster
54
22
6.6
/59/
70
/7/
60
/3/
3.5
/712/
35
/79/
24
/447/
5.8
/1210/

Woman Who Stole Fingers (2010)
One day, a boy who separated from his mother’s hand is deprived of his fingers. His fingers become a larva and part from his hand. The house. . . conceal[s] a relationship between the two from anyone. How does the boy who is deprived of his fingers grow up?
poster
56
22
5.5
/713/
49
/14/
60
/12/
3.1
/1592/

Beautiful New Bay Area Project (2013)
While inspecting a wharf, young Amano, president of an urban planning company, meets beautiful laborer Takako and falls in love at first sight. However, she does not return his affections, so he steals her ID card and goes on the run from the infuriated Takako.
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Hoopla
63
18
6.1
/269/
62
/14/
65
/15/
3.2
/949/

Our House (2017)
There are two worlds in this house. One where a mother and daughter reside, and another where two women reside. The two worlds begin to cross, gradually disrupting the lives of those involved. What will happen when everything connects?
poster
61
17
6.7
/38/
60
/8/
52
/2/
3.4
/549/
5.9
/469/

Candy.zip (2017)
Aoko is confident about the documents she creates at work, but doesn't get any positive feedback. Then, she witnesses her colleague secretly changing the documents she created. Aoko is turned into a piece of candy to keep her quiet…
poster
49
15
5.5
/13/
44
/7/
45
/2/
3.2
/955/
3.8
/550/

aaH / Hee (2014)
When the mind says aah, the body says hee. I dance around the confusion and the consensus, and my whole life is getting composed of these dances.
poster
59
13
6.2
/408/
53
/9/
54
/7/
3.4
/842/

The Depths (2011)
After a failed wedding shoot, Bae-hwan meets Ryu—a callboy tangled in a murder case—and offers him a way out.
poster
?
6.7
/12/

Killing the Violet (2023)
On a normal day, a stranger breaks into Sumire's apartment and assaults her. Sumire reacts incredibly calmly to the incident, but she still feels the dangers and uncertainties creeping upon her. All that seem to be peaceful and ordinary start to collapse. As everything slips toward the unexpected, Sumire starts writing again, and reinvestigating the relationships around her.
poster
?
7.1
/277/

Bye Bye, Marrano (2013)
Kazuomi Nara lost his job due to the bankruptcy of his company and Shiori, his fiancé, is pregnant. Running away from reality, he steals a car and ends up in a field with four strangers, Joe, Marco, Santa and Tokie. An old man who can't ride a bike, a con artist, a virgin and a shop keeper. As confused as he is, Kazuomi decides to stay with these four strangers.
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70
/2/

MORE (2012)
Yuri, Moeko, and Ai are best friends from high school. Though their twenties were about to end, they believed their eternal world would remain forever. In spite of their will, some misfortunate events such as love, betrayal, memory, regret, and one book with its secret exam their friendship. Those girls get lost in the unveiled story, which is filled with meeting and parting. Scattered life = scattered story will move on any further? A little journey begins now.
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?
100
/1/

A Boy Inside the Boy (2011)
The story is told through the eyes of a boy, how he wanders between reality and dream. His daily life is transformed to a surreal world through the unique sensitivity of boyhood.
poster
?
2.8
/17/

Sheep in the Night (2010)
A real estate agent, Shinji Sawaguchi finds a fallen meteorite by accident. On the next day, his missing sister Shiori shows up for the first time in ten years. Shinji can't help being agitated by her sudden return. On the other hand, unusual events start happening in his life, and her threatening melody spreads in the town. Including Shinji's fiancé Maki, the development of characters centers around Shiori's mysterious presence felt. Shiori's identity is hidden, and Shinji gets involved in a peculiar situation.
poster
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15
/1/

Play Cards When You Die (2009)
Ichiro Sasaki, 35, is working for a small training school in Tokyo. Though his work and his life are rather dull, he at least gets along somewhat well with his young daughter. He recieves a phone call one day, informing him of the sudden death of one of his colleagues. Shortly after this shocking news, his wife who is now living apart cuts him down further by telling him, "You don't see anything." While walking in the night, Ichiro is struck by an idea: why don't we go there? He heads off holding his daughter's hand. And thus begins a strange little tale of an ordinary father and his daughter.
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4.0
/9/
50
/3/

from DARK (2007)
Under Professor Furuchi, Kawano has been engaged in the development of a new vaccine against the unidentified substance which fell from outer space. People infected with it begin to attack other human beings for blood. The one and only way to prevent the attacks of the infected people is getting vaccinated and becoming one of them. Kawano has volunatrily chosen to be infected for absorbing in the research. His girlfriend Taeko is worried about him and visits the laboratory. She tries to rescue Kawano in cooperation with his friend Sawamura, a medical practitioner in town: meanwhile, the mysterious black substance has started pouring down from the sky...
poster
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100
/1/

Maboroshi (2016)
A murder takes place in the town where Kenta Ochiai lives. The mutilated body is found by the riverside and Kenta, an elementary school boy, sees a crocodile swimming in the water. Being labeled as a liar in class, he decides to capture the creature with his friend. Was the body mutilated by the crocodile or the murderer? All connections lead to the riverside involving his teacher, parents and a girl practicing her trumpet across the river.
poster
?
6.3
/1287/

The Tender March (2011)
Personal animation of planted grass flights.
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?
20
/1/

Poo Down Hill Up (2022)
Bird poo fell in love with the hill but the hill is taken away high above the clouds. Poo is devastated. But then, a triangular telescope falls from the sky and it's showing what the hill is seeing.
poster
?
60
/1/

Winter Star (2022)
It's winter but my heart and the classroom are hot. Unexpectedly I got my hands on a star fruit, but I never told anyone about the taste.
poster
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40
/1/

Liminal Park (2022)
A dark dark amusement park. Gradually, the rides begin to move.
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?
30
/1/

Invisible (2022)
In the woods is a company where animals work. One worker, the chameleon, is hurt by the ridicule from his colleagues. Can they come to understand each other?
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?
80
/1/

HA・NA・KU・SO (2022)
Things are kind of crappy right now. In Japanese, we say "hanakuso (nose snot)" instead of crap, though. Here's a dose of hope and giggles.
poster
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40
/1/

3 Intestine Road, Fish Island (2022)
A story of a family of three consisting of a pig, fish and a tadpole that lives in the stomach of a big fish. Their lives are turned upside down when a fruit floats into their home.
poster
?
60
/1/

Poetics of the Garden (2022)
I try to remember what your hand felt like on my back when I was a child. And now I place my hand on yours, bent from pain. Like landscaped gardens are meant to evoke the four seasons and the cyclical wonders of nature, I gaze at you, hoping to find us one more time.
poster
?
70
/1/

Before Dawn (2022)
One cold and damp morning, two weasels were wandering the quiet streets. They get separated at one point but are reunited. Just then, bells and alarms began to ring through the city, and dawn came.
poster
?
70
/1/
50
/1/

919 (2022)
A man is walking along the beach. Then a demon, the man’s pain, appears and chases him. The pain is unbearable, coursing through his entire body. He somehow manages to get away, but eventually, he returns to the ocean even though he knows that the demon will appear again if he goes there.
poster
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60
/1/

Boogerly Love (2022)
Hanako always watches the other kids play but she is too timid to ask if she can join in. Then one day, Booger Gal rockets out of her and helps her nose into a new life.
poster
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50
/1/
70
/2/

nowhere (2022)
Even though I feel like I'm living in the now, here, I think I just end up being in nowhere all the time. And in the nowhere, I find the now and the here.
poster
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60
/1/

Stained Smell (2022)
The film expresses the sense of being left behind. It stems from the realities of my childhood and how they did not match up with what I was feeling back then.
poster
64
?
6.9
/19/
50
/6/
67
/2/
3.5
/265/

The House of Loss (2022)
The elderly at the nursing home have their heads shaved. The protagonist who works there sees them but can't read their expressions. However, from one instance, he finds himself looking closely at their faces.
poster
?
60
/1/

Fourth Period Swimming Class (2022)
The fourth-grade protagonist is going through physical and emotional changes and feels awkward as she can't help but compare herself to her friends. One day, she is blown away by her classmate Aya's swimming and realizes that she has feelings for her.
poster
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50
/2/

Elephant Love (2009)
A story of one man and four women. Tomoaki Chiba has been enjoying the single life since he divorced his childhood friend Chie some years ago. He's now dating a young girl named Ayano as well as an older woman, Makiko. One day his elder cousin Aiko returns after a long absence. She is the very first and last love for Tomoaki... This tragicomic romance depicts an eccentric but earnest love.
poster
?
2.6
/14/

Midorigawa (2008)
There are a boy and a girl: they're called names such as "fag" and "transman" by their classmates. Their real names are Mikio and Tokiko. One day, Tokiko moves and leaves the school. Ten years later, she comes back to the town and meets Mikio again. Their reunion re-starts their time, which had been at a standstill and the story goes toward the end of their past.
poster
?
2.5
/58/
35
/4/

Rabbit on the Moon (2007)
Sanae is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her mother and six-year-old sister. She has not recently been able to be open with her fisherman grandfather. Sanae is awoken by the sound of hard rain one night. As she dozes, the rain changes into the flow of the river and she finds herself lying in a fishing boat when she opens her eyes. She hears, from far away, the strains of a harmonica which her grandpa loves... Next morning Sanae is informed that her grandfather has passed away. Frictions are revealed between Sanae and those around her. In her confused state, she runs out of the house leaving for the river where her grandpa's boat is moored...
poster
?
2.7
/150/

A Letter from Elsewhere (2008)
Yoshinaga, a real-estate agent, has a young female customer one day. She asks him to take her to the apartment where she used to live. When he plays a videotape left in that cavant room which shows some signs of its ex-resident, Yoshinaga gets lost in another fantastic world. After a while, Yoshinaga and the girl come back to their respective daily lives... A pop, colorful, yet at times a heartaching road movie, which leads to elsewhere.
poster
?
2.0
/65/

Drop Anchor (2008)
Motherless boy Yujin is shunned by people around him because of his weird behavior. Only Naomi, his sister-in-law, knows Yujin's secret extraordinary ability. They have feelings for each other; however, Yujin's ability turns out to be a cursed, harmful one. He leaves home with Naomi... This unique science fiction film portrays their desperate love story spanning ten years.
poster
?
3.3
/555/

My First Love (2013)
A sensitive account of adolescent love, wherein a young man falls in love with a beautiful but older woman living next door, thereby plunging into a whirlwind of changing emotions that are heightened by her capriciousness, and leading to a truly heart-rending revelation.
poster
?
3.3
/429/

A Light in the Distance (2015)
Mado wakes up in the morning finding all the people disappeared. Hearing a strong typhoon might strike, everyone has escaped the disaster. She checks her school, but no one is there. She meets her classmate, Fujii, unexpectedly. Fujii asks Mado to find a shelter together. He doesn't want to leave her alone. Both start looking around to see if anyone's left behind: An empty theatre, a movie is still running on the screen. A young girl stands by a desolated pool. A strip show theater with a retired stripper. An old man brushes his shoe in a bowling center continuously. Both guys search everywhere. And finally in the heavy rain, they find shelter in a factory. This is a factory where Mado's father had died in.
poster
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40
/1/

Solaris (2007)
Shot while the director was still in college, the film is a remake of the Russian film of the same name. The man's dead ex who had committed suicide appears in front of him. The ghost has a cross-like scar on her wrist.
poster
?
5.0
/52/

The Sin (2007)
A housewife was killed by a falling fire extinguisher, which a boy of seven years dropped from the top floor of an apartment. The offender, however, was not accused because he was too young. Ten years later, a series of murders occur, which target young girls only. It is the boy accused of killing the housewife who comes up in the couse of investigation, while the son of the murdered mother is the witness of a new murder. When the two families of the offender and of the victim meet again, two opposite morals conflict with each other – one is to crack down on the sin beyond the law and another is to disapprove the retaliation.
poster
?
67
/4/

YANOYA (2011)
"YANOYA" project of Akiko Yano and Tokyo University of the Arts
poster
?
2.8
/549/

Reveries (2015)
Kazuya Naruse, an obedient programer falls for a girl "Rumi", whom he gets to know through chat rooms. Naruse lost himself in this love, as if he lives in another world. Rumi has a mentally ill husband. Spending time with these two, the illusion of love in Naruse gradually changes to uneasiness and insanity.
poster
45
?
6.0
/535/
100
/1/
30
/2/

Kanagawa University of the Arts Visual Concept Planning Department (2013)
Akira Okuda worked as an assistant at the Visual Concept Planning Department of Kanagawa University of Arts, accomplishing his work aimlessly without passion. Sorrounded by students who continually caused problems and professors who cared only about their position in the university. One day, three students attempted to steal film equipment from the vault. Fearing the news would reach the university office, the professors ordered Akira to cover up the attempted theft. But, little did he know more was about to happen...
poster
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40
/1/

Out of Sight, Out of Mind (2019)
SOS... SOS... A black and white TV falls in love with the girl sending out the distress signal. He rushes up the mountain of trash and off to the moon he goes where the crying girl awaits. If only she could see him beyond the screen.
poster
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5.8
/9/
73
/3/

Pupa (2019)
How long has it been since she lost control of her body? She is completely tapped out and finds herself wishing that she could just shed her body.
poster
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80
/2/

Text Complex (2019)
The protagonist hates the Japanese hiragana letter "hee." Just the sight of it bothers her. But one day, she finds herself in a parallel world where the same syllabary lives a spectacular life.
poster
73
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90
/1/
5.6
/173/

Hear the Snow Melt (2019)
A girl made of unmelted snow has fallen in love with the dragon who brings spring. A story of changing seasons and thawing hearts.


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