Japanese Indie Animators

AIHARA Nobuhiro

Karma (カルマ, 1977)

Animation Scrap Diary + Live Painting Animactions!! (2004)

On the Passing of Nobuhiro Aihara (1944-2011)

ITO YUUICHI

http://www.i-toon.org/

https://www.instagram.com/knyacki814/

Harbor Tale (ハーバーテイル, 2011)

Blue Eyes -in Harbor Tale- (ブルーアイズ イン ハーバーテイル, 2014)

Film Talk with Yūichi Itō at Nippon Connection 2015

OKAMOTO Tadanari

A Wonderful Medicine (1965)

Home, My Home (1970)

Praise Be to Small Ills (1973)

The Water Seed (1975)

Are wa Dare? (1976)

The Restaurant of Many Orders (1991)

The Collected Works of Tadanari Okamoto

The Kawamoto + Okamoto Puppet Anime-Shows (1972-1980), Part I

The Kawamoto + Okamoto Puppet Anime-Shows (1972-1980), Part II

KAWAMOTO Kihachirō 
https://kawamotokihachiro.jp/

https://kawamoto-iida.com/

The Demon (1972)
To Shoot Without Shooting (1988)
Self Portrait (1988)
Briar Rose, or The Sleeping Beauty (1990)
Absolut Vodka CM (1997)
Winter Days (2003)

Living With Puppets: The World of Kihachirō Kawamoto (1999)

The Passing of a Puppet Master: Kihachiro Kawamoto, 1925-2010
VCinema Satoshi Kon / Kihachiro Kawamoto Memorial Episode
Post-Kawamoto: Puppet Animation in Japan
Iida City Kihachiro Kawamoto Puppet Museum
Kihachiro Kawamoto's Animated Shorts on DVD
Kihachiro Kawamoto: Animation and Puppet Master (book review)
The Noburo Ofuji Award

KINOSHITA RENZO & SAYOKO

https://asifa.jp/en/member/sayoko-kinoshita.html

https://asifa.jp/en/member/renzo-kinoshita.html

Renzo & Sayoko Kinoshita

Self Portrait (1989)

Pica-don (1978)

琉球王国 Made in Okinawa (2004)

MIZUE Mirai
https://vimeo.com/user5743956

Fantastic Cell (2003)
Timbre A-Z (2011)

Wonder (2014)

Mirai Mizue Works 2003-2010

Mirai Mizue debuts Modern No. 2 at the 68th Venice Film Festival

Help Kickstart Mirai Mizue’s WONDER 365 Animation Project

MURATA Tomoyasu
https://www.tomoyasu.net/

Nostalgia (2000)
A Memory (2001)
Mr. Children's Hero (2002)
Scarlet Road (2002)
White Road (2003)
Tokyo Loop (2005)
Indigo Road (2006)
Tomorrow (2007)
Lemon Road (2008)

Tomoyasu Murata (discovery 2006)

Black and White Room (2007)

More on Tomoyasu Murata (2008)

SHIROKI Saori 

https://vimeo.com/user9595136

The Funeral (2005)
MAGGOT (2007)

Woman who stole fingers (2010)

TANAAMI Keiichi

https://www.instagram.com/keiichitanaami_official/

https://nanzuka.com/en/artists/keiichi-tanaami

Animation Scrap Diary + Live Painting Animactions!! (2004)
A Portrait of Keiichi Tanaami (田名網敬一の肖像): 14 Films 1975-2009
Keiichi Tanaami’s Favourite Animation

WADA Atsushi
https://kankaku.jp/

Gentle Whistle, Bird, Stone (2005)
Day of Nose (2005)


 Atsushi Wada Works 2002-2010
Art of the Absurd: An Interview with Atsushi Wada (2010)

Atsushi Wada and World Animation at Image Forum (2010)

Anime Adapatations of Kenji Miyazawa (2011)

YAMAMURA Koji 
https://www.yamamura-animation.jp/

https://vimeo.com/yamamuraanimation

Perspectivenbox (1990)
Mt. Head (2002)
Pieces (2003)
The Old Crocodile (2005)
Tokyo Loop (2005)

Man and Whale (2007)
Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor (2007)
A Child's Metaphysics (2007)

Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor and Other Fantastic Films by Koji Yamamura

YANO Honami 

https://honamiyano.com/

A Bite of the Bone (骨嚙み, 2021)

YONESHO Maya

https://vimeo.com/user3071618

Winter Days (2003)

Maya Yonesho Profile (2008)

Tricky Women: Japanese Animation Today (2009)

Maya Yonesho’s Top 20 Animated Films (2012)

A Wild Patience - Indie Animated Shorts by Women (2016)