
Born in Tokyo in 1959. While studying oil painting at Musashino Art University, he joined the animation club "Mysterious Magic Lantern Society" and began creating films. In 1980, he joined the independent film screening group "Animation 80" upon its establishment and has been submitting works every year since then. His works have been exhibited at numerous festivals, including the "Torino International Film Festival" (1986, Turin, Italy), the "Shanghai Animation Festival" (1988, Shanghai, China), and "The Evolution of Animation" (1988, O Museum). His unique worldview blends elegance and grotesqueness, and he continues to explore a wide range of expressive techniques, including two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and live-action animation.

Born in Tokyo in 1959. While studying oil painting at Musashino Art University, he joined the animation club "Mysterious Magic Lantern Society" and began creating films. In 1980, he joined the independent film screening group "Animation 80" upon its establishment and has been submitting works every year since then. His works have been exhibited at numerous festivals, including the "Torino International Film Festival" (1986, Turin, Italy), the "Shanghai Animation Festival" (1988, Shanghai, China), and "The Evolution of Animation" (1988, O Museum). His unique worldview blends elegance and grotesqueness, and he continues to explore a wide range of expressive techniques, including two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and live-action animation.
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7.6Mickey, Minnie, Horace Horsecollar, and Clarabelle Cow go on a musical wagon ride until Peg-Leg Pete tries to run them off the road.
6.8Ordered to teach a martial arts class of rambunctious bunny kittens, Po tells stories of each of the Furious Five's pasts.
7.6Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seeking vengeance, Kubo is forced to go on a quest to solve the mystery of his fallen samurai father and his mystical weaponry, as well as discover his own magical powers.
7.5Before computer graphics, special effects wizardry, and out-of-this world technology, the magic of animation flowed from the pencils of two of the greatest animators The Walt Disney Company ever produced -- Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. Frank and Ollie, the talent behind BAMBI, PINOCCHIO, LADY AND THE TRAMP, THE JUNGLE BOOK, and others, set the standard for such modern-day hits as THE LION KING. It was their creative genius that helped make Disney synonymous with brilliant animation, magnificent music, and emotional storytelling. Take a journey with these extraordinary artists as they share secrets, insights, and the inspiration behind some of the greatest animated movies the world has ever known!
7.1An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.
7.0Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.
6.7This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely bee reveals Ferdinand's ferocious side via pained howls and wild stomping. This lands him in the bull-fighting arena amidst characters based on Walt's animators with a matador reportedly modeled after Walt himself.
6.1In 2015, Christopher Nolan curated a selection of short films by the surrealist animators the Quay Brothers to be distributed as a touring 35mm presentation. The three films—"In Absentia" (2000), "The Comb" (1991) and "Street of Crocodiles" (1986)—were accompanied by this brief portrait of the brothers at work in their London studio.
6.9Mike discovers that being the top-ranking laugh collector at Monsters, Inc. has its benefits – in particular, earning enough money to buy a six-wheel-drive car that's loaded with gadgets. That new-car smell doesn't last long enough, however, as Sulley jump-starts an ill-fated road test that teaches Mike the true meaning of buyer's remorse.
7.2Short film to a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off, she dons a dress from the shadow of a bell and becomes a dandelion, ants crawl out of a hand and become Frenchmen riding bicycles. Not to mention the turtles with faces on their backs that collide to form a ballerina, or the bizarre baseball game.
7.4Tells the early history of how conflict began between the humans and machines. Part 1 of 2.
6.5The Simpsons host a Disney+ Day party and everyone is on the list… except Homer. With friends from across the service and music fit for a Disney Princess, Plusaversary is Springfield's event of the year.
6.8A silent figure known as The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.
6.9Mickey and gang must stop hundreds of old film reel versions of Mickey from wreaking havoc all over town.
6.7A documentary filmmaker interviews the now-famous Trevor Slattery from behind bars.
6.5Stan and Ollie play bumbling circus performers who inadvertently drive the circus into bankruptcy. The circus can't pay them their wages so they are given a gorilla and a flea circus as payment. Bedlam ensues.
6.9A group of dated appliances, finding themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to seek out their eight year old 'master'.
7.0GrandPat travels through alternate dimensions and timelines to get home.
7.4After it's discovered that a teacher at South Park Elementary has an OnlyFans page, Randy is compelled to take a closer look at the seedy underbelly of the world of online influencers.
6.5Po and the Furious Five uncover the legend of three of kung fu's greatest heroes: Master Thundering Rhino, Master Storming Ox, and Master Croc.