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Short film by Kurosaka Keita.

Short film by Yoriko Mizushiri about preparing and eating a piece of sushi.

Short film by Kurosaka Keita.

Space Shower TV Station ID directed by Takashi Ohashi, with music by Tomggg.

A collection of the best entries shown at the annual Inter-College Animation Festival from 2001 to 2006. For many animation students in Japan participating in the festival is a chance to start their professional careers. The entries include works made using various animation techniques, including CGI and stop-motion. Taku Furukawa, Katayama Masahiro and Kihune Tokumitsu can be found among the judges of the festival.

A minimalistic and fun animation displaying a face submerged in water. As different objects and situations show up, the face reacts using its mouth and different expressions. Soon, the face meets a companion. Before melting away.

Experimental animation by Manabe Hiroshi, member of the Animation Sannin no Kai pioneer group of independent animation.

A material, an origin, a meaning, a value. When you have a question on glasses, let's answer "Well, that's glasses". Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival Best Film of The Young Jury. (Source: Official website)

A psychedelic short film by Nobuhiro Aihara.

Furukawa Taku film.

Short film by Kurosaka Keita.

Official music video for the international multinational band The Hotpantz' song Nowhereland.

A bizarre short about a man who wakes up by a bunch of clocks only to act as a cuckoo clock for a room full of chickens at a bar.

Mizue set up a camera over a water tray with an illuminated white background (presumably an animation table) and experimented with the flow of aqueous ink over the surface of the water using stop motion animation techniques.

The theme came from the Japanese unique folklore, Red Uncleanness or defilement with blood. A girl, whose thinking pattern jumps at a leap without any train of thought, confines her various thoughts in the other side of the mirror and inside the sliding doors to go outside. (Source: Geidai Animation)

A short rotoscope film by Mika Seike.

Usagi is a two-and-a-half minute short-film produced by Team Silent. It features many Robbie the Rabbits of varying colors in a hospital-like setting as they walk around, wheel gurneys, and ride elevators. (Source: Silent Hill Wiki)

Deep within my dream, there comes a landscape in my shapeless eyes. The peaceful sight gradually distorts. When anxiety and upsurge stands behind us, the nightly liberation begins. (Source: YouTube)

A cavalcade of heretofore unheard-of critters, great and small, cute and hirsute. (Source: Fantasia Festival)

Big cities are glutted with information. Unconscious curiosity, hidden under apparent indifference, invites us into a noisy loop.

Saigo no Shudan's earliest work, it is a commercial for Adobe's Student and Teacher Edition software. Though it is unknown if Saigo no Shudan created it as an example for their portfolio or if Adobe actually paid for their animation services.

Film by Tanaami Keiichi.

Film by Takashi Ito.