About Works: 1990's


Personal City
Personal City

Personal City

16mm/color/23min./1990

 

A man who eats expired food and gets diarrhea wanders into a strange personal space. This is an intricate drama of delusion spun through a variety of techniques including live action, still photo composition, clay animation and matte painting.

  • Image Forum Festival 1990: Invitation screening (Japan)
  • Melbourne International Film Festival 1991: Official Competition (Australia)
  • Berlin International Film Festival 1992: Official Selection (Germany)
  • Valencia International Film Festival 1992: Official Selection (Spain)
  • Retina International Film Festival 1993: Szigetvár Mayor's Prize (Hungary)
Haruko Adventure
Haruko Adventure

Haruko Adventure

16mm/B&W/14min./1991

 

Haruko, a girl with psychic powers who can communicate with inorganic objects, wakes up one morning to the sound of someone calling to her, and follows the invitation to an abandoned apartment building from the 1950s, where countless "monsters" have taken up residence. This is a science fiction horror and fantasy film with a faint longing for a girl and nostalgia for the city.

  • Image Forum Festival 1991: Invitation Screening (Japan)
  • London International Film Festival 1991: Official Selection (UK)
  • Kanagawa Film Competition 1994: Grand Prize (Japan)
Box Age
Box Age

Box Age

16mm/color/26min./1992

 

A man with a complex about women meets his ideal woman through many twists and turns. However, she is a fish. A humorous social satire on marriage.

  • Image Forum Festival 1992: Invited screening (Japan)
  • Brisden International Film Festival 1992: Programmed screening (Australia)
  • Vancouver Film Festival 1992: Programmed screening (Canada)
  • International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 1993: Official Competition (Germany)
  • Atlanta Film Festival 1994 Atlanta Film Festival 1994: Special Screening (USA)
Gramophone No.13
Gramophone No.13

Gramophone No.13

16mm/ B&W /20min./Silent/1993

 

A mad scientist attempts to create an ideal lover by placing shells found in food scraps into a machine called "Gramophone No. 13. This work is reminiscent of the expressionist films of the 1920s, which combined clay animation and live action.

  • Image Forum Festival 1993: Invitation Screening (Japan)
Atama
Atama

Atama

DV/ color / 30sec./ 1994

 

A skinhead man tries to eat an omelette. Then, countless dwarfs emerge from the omelette. They sneak into the man's brain and finally make his head explode. (Produced by MTV JAPAN)

  • World On Air
  • Hiroshima International Animation Festival 1994: Special Screening (Japan)
  • Annecy International Animation Festival 1995
  • Hiroshima International Animation Festival 1996: Official Competition Screening (Japan)
Flying Daddy
Flying Daddy

Flying Daddy

DV/ color /20sec./ 1997

 

One morning Papa turns into a giant bug in his bed. In front of the astonished family, Papa instantly hatches and flies away through the window into the sky. (Produced by MTV JAPAN)

  • World On Air
  • MTV Station ID Contest 1996: Excellence Award (Japan)
  • Seoul International Animation Festival: Official Selection (Korea)
  • Baden International Animation Festival: Official Selection (Switzerland)
  • Annecy International Animation Festival 1998: Best Sequence Award (France)
  • BDA International Design Award 1998: Bronze Prize (USA)
  • Ottawa International Animation Festival 1998: Best in Category (Canada)
  • Holland International Animation Festival 1998: Best Leader Award (Netherlands)
Dragon
Dragon

Dragon

DV/ color /40sec./ 1999

 

A manager sexually harasses a girl working at a fast food restaurant. The manager, who looks like an ugly monster. Enraged, the girl grows into a giant and crushes the manager with her foot. (Produced by VIBE)