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Browse 433 movies from Tokyo University of the Arts
There is a strange museum somewhere in the world. The museum is called HARAPEKO MUSEUM, or Hungry Museum. There are many kinds of colourful foods exhibited. At night they wake up in their frames and start to move freely. .
Mar 2012
How to make this mysterious cake? The ingredients include blue eggs, cookie flowers, pillow stuffing and much more.
Mar 2021
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.
Nov 2008
This is an introduction to a long-term and world-wide power outage's consequences.
Mar 2017
Visualization of the phenomenon one has when one seeks some inspiration. A female protagonist. . . goes on an imaginary trip to generate some ideas. She creates some new ideas with the elements found on that trip.
She wears a white mask to keep her sadness hidden from others. How can she free herself from the darkness of her mind?
Two punks standing on a riverbank. A strange man in a golfer's outfit. A strange confrontation unfolds in a quiet landscape. Soon, the fate of the punks takes an unexpected turn with the cry of "Faaawww!" The fate of them takes an unexpected turn.
Jan 2022
In a mysterious pet market world, a girl who loves small animals lives alone. Her life is all about her pets, but little does she know that she has lost her sense of self in this world.
Jun 2023
Heartbroken, I bought a bottle of wine and drank it walking home. A tipsy journey reconstructed using the Japanese traditional storytelling method "rakugo."
Feb 2019
Deep down in the forest there lived flower fairies in flower gardens, waking up with the sunrise, eating sweets, and chatting with each other. One day they had a visit from his and then. . .
Jan 2013
After a failed wedding shoot, Bae-hwan meets Ryu—a callboy tangled in a murder case—and offers him a way out.
Mar 2011
A little Chinku thinks his father does not love him. And when he thinks [that] his grandfather, his only supporter, rejects his hand for help, Chinku feels betrayed. . . Chinku draws circles with a huge and heavy pencil, which the time to fly fast. . .
Jan 2011
The things are formed in the mind from the casual scenes of daily life. These imaginations accumulate and make an assembly of fantasy.
Mar 2015
Signs such as circles, points, and lines get together to make the shape of a ‘bear’. ‘The bear’ starts to walk to find the concrete places and comes across animals in the forest. We tend to find a story in the relationship between ‘The bear’ and other animals.
Mar 2014
Little by little, something has gone wrong with a career woman's personal life. But these little things are what fill the big hole in her heart.
A closed society, and idols created as numerical expressions of their own existence. Endless replications of the original data results in the loss of individuality, but emotional impulses begin to emerge.
There is a stone pillar that continues long and long. Climbers are climbing it. Each climber keeps climbing the stone pillar spending time. They are the symbols of accumulation.
Jan 2010
Her mother was hospitalized that summer. This day from Aki-chan's summer is tinged with sadness in the company of her trusted Ryukyu dog named Goyapochi.
A depressed and isolated mind is similar to the sense of floating in the water. Underwater as a man’s mindscape and the real occurrences at the beach are portrayed
The film is about the water cycle. Each of the rain drops transform. . . as they follow the cycle of nature, uniting with each other, parting, or being absorbed in the course of their journey