"animation short"
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.
Social & External
The witch Yubaba from Spirited Away faces the viewer then laughs exaggeratedly, her mouth wide open. She spins around 180 degrees and a baby bird comes out of her hair, singing. The bird disappears in the hair of the witch who resumes her initial position and leaves with a great burst of laughter.
Pearl and Gadabout are now a flying doctor trio, caring for creatures including a mermaid, a unicorn and a sneezy lion. However when bad weather forces them to land at the palace, Pearl is locked up by her uncle, the king.
Follow a little toy clown, thrown away with a load of old discarded toys, as he goes on a journey to find a new loving home for himself and his friends.
A man is left alone in empty white space. He starts to create his own world with materials popped up out of nowhere and build a house and made animals. But there is a hole in this world and he wonders about it. In the meanwhile he learns there is the border where they can survive around the hole.
We are all living in a food chain. All of the living beings support each other as predator-prey relationship in the balance of nature. Yet there is a huge and ferocious bird. It is so brutal that all the creatures are afraid of it. . . Everything repeats itself, slightly changing form.
A girl is kept on the [move] by a witch and continues to peel potatoes. She is fed up and tries to escape in vain. She gets desperate and decides to beat the witch. . . what will she find? What is her intention? Can we undo what has been done?
Two high school students are playing in the ruins. They hear something from the darkness and one of them goes deep into a dark room where something suspicious is hiding and both of them have their hearts taken out. Later a boy and his sister drop by the ruins. . .
There is a family living in an air base town. I got a younger brother. Dad was only absent for work at the base and Mom was busy with the brother and little time for me. Out of loneliness and jealousy I [hid] brother’s charm. From that day, Dad stopped coming home. . .
It is the day of Grandpa’s wake. Grandma is a alone in her room looking at the album full of memories of him. ‘Are you sad, Grandma?’ asks the boy. She answers her grandson merrily with jokes. . . she falls asleep and in her dream she meets a man and makes him a promise. . .
The protagonist is with friends but bored with the conversation. His mind often slips away to his own imaginary world and comes back to them. . .
After losing a job at the company a man starts working part-time handing out balloons in a rabbit costume. He finds it comfortable to disguise himself in the costume, as nobody would recognize him. Finally, he decides to wear the costume all the time in his daily life. Then the costume becomes a part of his body and confines him inside. . .
An old man is trying to create a girl out of his memories. Little by little the doll is being made and given a physical body of machinery parts. The old man makes her as a pure creature, but she denies her identification. The doll demolishes herself, saying ‘This is not Me!
This woman has detached herself from the outside world. For her, it is daily work to feed her bird and to look at the town from her window. Because she doesn’t go out, she does not even put on clothes. However, this daily life has ended. She has run out of the cornflakes that she eats every day. As we get up in the morning and put on clothes, we are alive in a social system. Nobody understands whether it is the correct world. However, even if you escape from the system, the day you have to return will come.
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?
Almost everyone in a contemporary society is picked up and moved by someone or something like a ‘Sugoroku’. The first one which picks up is ‘Parents’. A hero grows up along a ‘Sugoroku’. This work describes. . . the process of his growth as he depends on his parents. . . One day he decides to cut off his relationship with his family.
It's a story about a frog, who is eager to make his companions stand as a line. He is the only one who wears an armlet, and has a little different skin color from the other frogs. This work focus on the relationship between "rulers" and "ruled ones", and describes the consequences of some unexpected events.
I tried to symbolize the emotion of loneliness with the motif of the poet, Taneda Santoka, who has broken the haiku form. Cutout method depicts subtle face expressions of the man who is slightly drunk in the mountain.
The film is set in China in the 1960s. An old woman cools herself in the garden. The sunset makes the sky orange. Sunset flower starts to bloom. The flower guides her to daydream. The woman dreams of her childhood memories and when she was young and beautiful.
At night, the child sees the sandy figure coming into his room. It lures his stuffed animal away from the shelf and they are gone beyond the hill. Following them to get his stuffed animal back, the child goes into the deep darkness of the night. . .
There once lived two brothers in a town. The elder lived alone. The younger lived with his parents. They did not get along well... They called each other occasionally. The elder one was impatient and emotional and did nothing but work... One day the elder brother’s face turned into a tomato...
The toys throw Ken and Barbie a Hawaiian vacation in Bonnie's room.
Naruto faces off against his old pupil Konohamaru in a tournament during the chuunin entrance exams.
By accident, Cedric (Goofy), replaces his master, Sir Loinsteak, in the armor just before the joust with champion Sir Cumference.
Mickey has been reading Alice in Wonderland, and falls asleep. He finds himself on the other side of the mirror, where the furniture is alive.
Minnie Mouse knits a sweater for Pluto. When she puts it on him, Pluto does whatever he can to try to get it off, eventually shrinking it to the perfect size for Figaro.
Tom ties up Spike and sneaks into the courtyard of the glamorous Toodles Galore with his bass, hoping to woo her with his song, much to the annoyance of a sleeping Jerry.
Donald is leading a scout troop consisting of his nephews on a hike in the woods. Donald isn't nearly the expert on the woods that he thinks he is, much to the amusement of the boys. In a bid for sympathy, he douses himself in catsup and fakes injury; the boys bandage him so thoroughly he can't see, and he stumbles into a pot of honey, and is soon getting all too much attention from a bear.
Monty Citymouse invites his cousin Abner Countrymouse for a visit and shows him the ways of the big city, including traps, eating quietly, and busy traffic.
The Big Bad Wolf torments Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs.
Goofy takes a lighthearted look at self defense through the ages: cavemen, knights, the age of chivalry, and finally boxing.
Mickey's going golfing, and Pluto is his caddy. Besides the usual caddy duties, Pluto runs to the ball and points to it. But when the ball lands in a gopher hole, Pluto's got another task: chase the gopher. They eventually chase each other through a number of holes in a knoll where Mickey is trying to putt out, causing the knoll to collapse.
Even though Mickey's evening started slow and lazy, things get moving in a hurry when Minnie calls from outside the big dance, wondering why he's late. Luckily his best pal Pluto is happy to help wrangle the uncooperative evening wear and help get him out the door...without the tickets
On an idyllic beach in the Pacific Northwest, curiosity gets the better of a young raccoon whose frustrated parent attempts to keep them both safe.
Donald steals Chip and Dale's nuts for his nut-butter shop, which is shaped like a giant walnut, Chip and Dale, roll and "shoot" Donald into a nearby lake.
A Pixar short about a lost-and-found box and the unseen monster within.
Donald needs a log for his fire. Unfortunately, the one he picks is occupied by a couple of chipmunks and their stash of acorns. When he cuts it down, Chip and Dale fall out, but their acorns stay behind, so they work at putting out Donald's fire and retrieving their stash. Donald, of course, takes this as calmly and cheerfully as you would expect.
When Day, a sunny fellow, encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods, sparks fly! Day and Night are frightened and suspicious of each other at first, and quickly get off on the wrong foot. But as they discover each other's unique qualities--and come to realize that each of them offers a different window onto the same world-the friendship helps both to gain a new perspective.
Schoolboy Donald is torn between his angel and devil sides, though in Donald's case, the devil side isn't hard to resist. But the smoking he's encouraged to do turns him green and gives him regrets, and when the good side shows up and kicks evil's butt, Donald cheers.
In an attempt to convince Minnie that he hasn't forgotten to buy her an anniversary present, Mickey Mouse ends up promising to take her to Hawaii. Funds being short, he applies for a job as lab assistant to the sinister Dr. Frankenollie, who happens to be searching for a donor to provide his monstrous creation with a brain.
Mickey's a shovel operator and laborer at a construction site; Minnie is delivering box lunches; Pete is the foreman. Mickey pays more attention to Minnie than to his work, and keeps having accidents (mostly involving the blueprints Pete is holding). Pete steals Mickey's lunch, so Minnie offers him one on the house. While he's eating, Pete kidnaps Minnie; Mickey fights him, but the tide turns when Minnie dumps a load of hot rivets into Pete's pants...
