| 1. MOMO (PEACH) PROGRAM 2010 –MASAYA KAKEHI ON THE CUSP |
| - Thu. Mar 18, 7:00pm / Sat. Mar 20, 10:30pm |
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A soap opera about the opposing forces of love and hate played out entirely by fingers. |
Director: Masaya Kakehi - Japan - 2009
Fiction - 6min
Screenings: Sapporo Short Fest (2009 / Japan) |
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If you were granted additional time at the end of your life, what would you do? Syuichi is faced with this question. Accompanied by a soccer-style running commentary, he must accomplish one last task. |
Director: Masaya Kakehi - Japan - 2003
Fiction - 9min
Screenings: Vila Do Conde International Short Film Festival (2005 / Portugal), FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL (2006 / Italy) |
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Suicide jumper Yumiko discovers that she has been granted 44 minutes of overtime. Yet although she has been given this reprieve, her desire for suicide puzzlingly remains. Will she find something to live for, and will she find it in time? |
Director: Masaya Kakehi - Japan - 2005
Fiction - 14min
Screenings: Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards (2006 / China) |
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How is it possible that he is so popular? Many beautiful girls are seen coming out of Fujio’s room, even though he is the “ugly guy next door”. When Yuta notices cans labelled “Canned Beauties” in Fujio’s garbage, he is compelled to discover the secret. Starring Satoshi Tsumabuki. |
Director: Masaya Kakehi - Japan - 2005
Fiction - 23min
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This normal car feels he should be scrapped in order to help save the environment. But instead of going to the scrap yard, he mistakenly arrives at an unusual laboratory belonging to a scientist who is looking for someone just like him. |
Director: Masaya Kakehi - Japan - 2009
Fiction - 30min
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| 2. ICHIGO (STRAWBERRY) PROGRAM 2010 |
| - Fri. Mar 19, 7:00pm / Sun. Mar 21, 5:15pm |
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This is a new dictionary that explains words using movies. An "Advertising" + "Movie" experience. |
Director: Yuji Mitsuhashi - Japan - 2009
Experimental - 2min
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At first I made stop motion animations. And I displayed these photographs in my room and then photographed them again. Enjoy the connection between the world of my room and the world in the photographs. |
Director: Takeuchi Taijin - Japan - 2007
Animation - 4min
Screenings: BACA-JA 2009 –Grand Prix (2009 / Japan) |
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A tragic businessman is writing a suicide note in a park. An optimistic schoolgirl is sneaking a look at him. The two strangers will write out his note together. |
Director: Shoh Kataoka - Japan - 2009
Fiction - 13min
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Yumi is a girl who goes to a Japanese high school, but she is third-generation Korean Japanese. She starts to discover her identity when faced with the death of her grandmother. |
Director: Miwha Park - Japan - 2008
Fiction - 20min
Screenings: Nagano film festival – The grand prize (2008 / Japan), Kyoto international student film & video festival (2008 / Japan) |
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A couple's first date is brutally 'cut' short by an axe murderer. When the heroine tries to take refuge in a nearby house, she enters a world of horrors. Gore and black humour in clay animation by the winner of the TJSFF Audience Choice Award ’08. |
Director: Takena Nagao - Japan - 2006
Animation - 5min
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A man was playing piano on the street when his piano was burnt in an attack. Chika, an old woman, offers him a replacement. A melodic duet ensues. |
Director: Kotaro Wajima - Japan - 2009
Fiction - 29min
Screenings: Minatoza Screening (2009 / Japan), Tochigi Kuranomachikado Film Festival (2009 / Japan) |
| 3. MIKAN (ORANGE) PROGRAM 2010 |
| - Thu. Mar 18, 8:45pm / Sat. Mar 20, 8:45pm |
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This animation was made by 10 children in Osaka under the coaching of Belgian animator Sebastien Godard. With the theme of water pollution, the children made a story based on the Japanese folk tale Urashima Taro. The story, storyboards, drawings and narration are by the children. |
Director: Sebastien Godard - Japan/Belgium - 2008
Animation - 8min
Screenings: Sapporo International Short Film Festival (2009 / Japan), EARTH VISION - The Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival -Earth Vision Prize for Childrens Film (2010 / Japan) |
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Two parodies of TV commercials praising the charms of bowling. |
Director: Riichiro Mashima - Japan - 2005
Fiction - 3min
Screenings: International College Peace Film Festival (2009 / Korea), Sapporo International Short Film Festival (2007 / Japan) |
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A tiger who is very hard-working and kind meets a mischievous white rabbit. The rabbit heard that the tiger grows a special fruit that the rabbit LOVES to eat, and the rabbit comes up with a good plan... |
Director: Kaoru Furuko - Japan - 2009
Animation - 14min
Screenings: Sapporo International Short Film Festival (2009 / Japan) |
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A tragedy about a disenchanted married couple during their breakfast. Horror mixes with comedy. |
Director: Esuke Naito - Japan - 2008
Fiction - 5min
Screenings: Yokohama Visual Festival (2009 / Japan), Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (2008/ Japan) |
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Margaret from Poland and Toshiaki from Japan are a deaf couple who have two children. Now, they are forced to live separately because Toshiaki can only find a job in Japan. |
Director: Kei Ishikawa - Poland - 2006
Documentary - 13min
Screenings: Lodzia po Wisle Film Festival (2006 / Poland), Wakacyjne Kadry Film Festival (2006 / Poland) |
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Yuriko was a piano teacher in the peaceful residential area where she lives before her affluent life came to an end over a love affair. To restart her life, she starts working at a small bento (lunchbox) shop. But the rumours of her past prove difficult to escape. |
Director: Madoka Kumagai - Japan - 2009
Fiction - 30min
Screenings: Movies-High9 New Cinema Festival (2009 / Japan) |
| 4. RINGO (APPLE) PROGRAM 2010 -OPENART SPECIAL |
| - Fri. Mar 19, 8:45pm / Sat. Mar 20, 7:00pm |
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When the gaki (Japanese ghost) starts to play on his biwa, his world begins to change in an unexpected way. This animation is made from sumie (ink brush paintings) on washi (Calligraphy paper). |
Director: Reiko Yokosuka - Japan - 2005
Animation - 6min
Screenings: Locarno Film Festival (2009 / Switzerland), Holland Animation Film Festival (2009 / The Netherlands) |
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It was a house, just like one built out of toy blocks. Since the sea level was rising higher and higher, the house too was built higher and higher. This is a story of a grandpa living in the house with memories of life with his family. |
Director: Kunio Kato - Japan - 2008
Animation - 12min
Screenings: Academy Award® 2009 -Best Animated Short Film (2009 / USA), Annecy International Animated Film Festival -Annecy Cristal & Junior Jury Award (2008 / France) *Special invitation |
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This is a tale of a girl cat trying to create a puppet animation for the first time. She goes through thrills, excitement, and sometimes disappointment in the process. The story portrays the very first step that everyone in some way has experienced. |
Director: Tsuneo Goda - Japan - 2003
Animation - 5min
Screenings: Locarno Film Festival (2009 / Switzerland) |
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Music video from Cornelius's album "SENSUOUS." A ball escapes from its box. Sugar cubes and other objects follow its example and push their way through space. |
Director: Koichiro Tsujikawa - Japan - 2006
Animation - 4min
Screenings: Locarno Film Festival (2009 / Switzerland), Holland Animation Film Festival (2009 / The Netherlands) |
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A girl bought new clothes to go on a date with her boyfriend, but he doesn’t look like he appreciates them. Is this the beginning of a lovers’ quarrel? |
Director: Ryouichi Mori - Japan - 2009
Animation - 5min
Screenings: Locarno Film Festival (2009 / Switzerland), Holland Animation Film Festival (2009 / The Netherlands) |
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Things looking like cells drop one next to another. The cell next to me is you. When a star is born, everybody sings a song together. Drops looking like cells, one next to the other. The sound of a star as it is born. The sound of a star as it disappears. |
Director: Arisa Wakami - Japan - 2008
Animation - 5min
Screenings: Locarno Film Festival (2009 / Switzerland), Holland Animation Film Festival (2009 / The Netherlands) |
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Mitsuko is a poor wretch harassed by her mother-in-law. One day, a winged emissary appears and takes her to the Land of Freedom where everything is fine. Yes, in that world Mitsuko will feel really good…
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Director: Takashi Taniguchi - Japan - 2006
Animation - 7min
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About humans and high speed society. A caveman travels to the future a number of times, experiencing the advances in speed made by humankind over the centuries. |
Director: Taku Furukawa - Japan - 1980
Animation - 5min
Screenings: Locarno Film Festival (2009 / Switzerland), Holland Animation Film Festival (2009 / The Netherlands) |
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In the future, resources and energy have been drained from the earth. Amane is troubled by her parents’ divorce and the bullying at her school. She decides to leave home with Amanatsu, her robot best friend. |
Director: Toshihisa Yokoshima - Japan - 2009
Animation - 14min
Screenings: Locarno Film Festival (2009 / Switzerland), Holland Animation Film Festival (2009 / The Netherlands) |
| 5. BUDOU (GRAPE) PROGRAM 2010-TOKYO ONLYPIC SPECIAL |
| - Fri. Mar 19, 10:30pm / Sun. Mar 21, 7:00pm |
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Selected from the best of the award-winning Ski-Jumping Pairs series, this CG animation is beautiful and dynamic in its imitation of real-life ski jumps. |
Director: Riichiro Mashima - Japan 2002-2010
Animation - 10min
Screenings: Annecy International Animation Festival (2003 / France), International Short Film Festival Orberhausen (2002 / Germany /) |
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An imaginative parody of the media insanity surrounding the Olympic Games, this series of shorts is produced by Riichiro Mashima, creator of "Ski Jumping Pairs," and includes the work of 15 different directors. 8 are selected for this program.
The love of sport crosses generations, borders and language barriers. Sport can be called the most magnificent of mankind’s creations. However, there exist a number of wonderful sports that are as of yet unknown. Now at last there is a place for them: the incomparable sports festival known as the Onlypic Games. In Tokyo, athletes from 128 countries join together in celebration and competition.
- Opening Ceremony
Riichiro Mashima | 14min
- Hellmarathon Women
Takanobu Mizuno(KAMIKAZE DOUGA)| 9min
- Homeathlon
Tetsuro Kodama | 7min
- Doping Freestyle
Takashi Taniguchi | 6min
- Independence Men
Riichiro Mashima | 13min
- Humanism Men
Riichiro Mashima × Yuutaro Sawada | 12min
- Giant Sumo
Hiroyuki Nakao | 6min
- Closing Ceremony
Riichiro Mashima | 6min |
Director: - Japan - 2008
Animation
Screenings: Holland Animation Film Festival (2008 / The Netherlands), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2009 / The Netherlands) |
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