Stop Motion
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Home Alone
A Handmade Animated Cat! Stop and Look at Me for just 4 minutes! It's the first time for the Cat to be all by itself at home.…
Fantasy
Kihachiro Kawamoto's Self-Portrait
A stop motion short film by Kihachiro Kawamoto. This short film humorously shows what happens when the artist creates a being that insists on 'creating' the artist.
Comedy
Fuyu no Yoru no Ohanashi
Stop motion animation about a day in the forest with its cute inhabitants.
Slice of Life
Television
A man with his cat finds himself in a bizarre situation involving a television. A stop motion animation from the creator of Kotatsu Neko.
Comedy
Born By Myself
A dark surreal film of several creatures metamorphorphing inside a room. A stop motion animation film from the minds of Kobayashi Masahide and Keita Funamoto of The…
Psychological
Metropolitan Museum
A young girl wakes up inside the Metropolitan Museum and spends an enchanting night with its denizens. Sung by Taeko Onuki for NHK's Minna no Uta. Stop…
Fantasy
Kaijuu no Ballad
Across an arid landscape, a group of cute 'monsters' cross each other's path. This was featured in NHK's Minna no Uta segment.
Comedy · Fantasy
Domo TV
A co-production between Nickelodeon and NHK featuring the stop-motion character Domo-kun, aired both in the US and Japan.
55Comedy · Slice of Life
The Restaurant of Many Orders
The oldest anime adaptation of a famous short story by Japanese writer Kenji Miyazawa. Two young British hunters get lost in the woods and discover a strange…
Supernatural
The Life Of Ants
Yūko Asano’s stop motion animation, The Life of Ants/Ari no seikatsu (14mins, 1994) meditates on prevailing gendered power dynamics through a beautifully and meticulously crafted world of…
Fantasy