90s Animation  90年代アニメーション  Into Animation 8    I first discovered independent Japanese animation while living in Tokyo in the mid-2000s, an...

Resonance – A Selection of Japanese Animated Shorts Sunday, 29 May 2022, 14:45 Naxos Cinema Frankfurt am Main https://db.nipponconnection.co...

When a loved one passes away in Japan, their remains are ceremonially cremated.  After the cremation, the remaining remnants of bone ( 骨/ ho...

  The pandemic has forced long periods of sameness upon us. These recent indie animated sorts challenge us to break free from lockdown apat...

  To mark the release of his latest independent work Parallax (2021), the animator Hayato NOVE (野辺 ハヤト) is having a solo exhibition next w...

Tomoyasu Murata (村田朋泰) has made his early independent film White Road (白の路 / Shiro no michi , 2003) available on YouTube for the first ti...

The World of Ryōji Yamada / 山田遼志の世界   http://ryojiyamada.com/   https://vimeo.com/ryojiyamada In the “before times”, when we were s...

Hayato Nove (野辺ハヤト, b. 1971) is a graphic designer and illustrator by profession. Along with his web designer wife Tomoko Nobe (野辺智子...

Kōji Yamamura’s Archives / 山村浩二作品アーカイブ http://www.yamamura-animation.jp/archive_index.html https://vimeo.com/yamamuraanimation ...

With so many people in the world being housebound at the moment due to the covid-19 epidemic, I thought I would put together some playl...

This year’s graduating animation class at the Tokyo University of Arts (Geidai) Graduate School of Film and New Media chose “neo” ...