Time moves rapidly for Augusta, much to her detriment.
1985-01-01
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It is the day of Grandpa’s wake. Grandma is a alone in her room looking at the album full of memories of him. ‘Are you sad, Grandma?’ asks the boy. She answers her grandson merrily with jokes. . . she falls asleep and in her dream she meets a man and makes him a promise. . .
The protagonist is with friends but bored with the conversation. His mind often slips away to his own imaginary world and comes back to them. . .
The blue evolves. The blue rises toward the upper world. The blue becomes green and then yellow, which makes things unstable. So red circle appears to bring into balance between blue and yellow. These three colours unite into one, [rising] until the summit, over the boundary line, and becomes a white circle to a full stop. And then it returns to the first state.
After losing a job at the company a man starts working part-time handing out balloons in a rabbit costume. He finds it comfortable to disguise himself in the costume, as nobody would recognize him. Finally, he decides to wear the costume all the time in his daily life. Then the costume becomes a part of his body and confines him inside. . .
As dusk closed in, a streetlight in a park was turned on. Moths flew towards the light. Suddenly they stop the motion. Under the streetlight. . . playground equipment appears. . . A child strayed among them. . .
Watchmaker controls the time, but the mouse living in the watchmaker's workshop controls the clocks... This is a film about time and its ephemeral nature.
The Yotsuya Alphabet story tells of a girl caught in a surreal world with the use of Japanese characters. The story is about the girl who lives in the town called Yotsuya and wanders around the surreal world. Eventually she melts down and becomes a part of the Yotsuya town. Is the town real or only her imagination?
This woman has detached herself from the outside world. For her, it is daily work to feed her bird and to look at the town from her window. Because she doesn’t go out, she does not even put on clothes. However, this daily life has ended. She has run out of the cornflakes that she eats every day. As we get up in the morning and put on clothes, we are alive in a social system. Nobody understands whether it is the correct world. However, even if you escape from the system, the day you have to return will come.
One day, a boy who separated from his mother’s hand is deprived of his fingers. His fingers become a larva and part from his hand. The house. . . conceal[s] a relationship between the two from anyone. How does the boy who is deprived of his fingers grow up?
Almost everyone in a contemporary society is picked up and moved by someone or something like a ‘Sugoroku’. The first one which picks up is ‘Parents’. A hero grows up along a ‘Sugoroku’. This work describes. . . the process of his growth as he depends on his parents. . . One day he decides to cut off his relationship with his family.
It's a story about a frog, who is eager to make his companions stand as a line. He is the only one who wears an armlet, and has a little different skin color from the other frogs. This work focus on the relationship between "rulers" and "ruled ones", and describes the consequences of some unexpected events.
There is a stone pillar that continues long and long. Climbers are climbing it. Each climber keeps climbing the stone pillar spending time. They are the symbols of accumulation.
Story of a girl’s imagination. ‘Googuri Googuri’ is a made up word, a secret word shared by a girl and her grandfather. For the granddaughter, her grandfather is at times like a mountain, at times like a tree, at other times like an ocean, and her thoughts take wing into her imagination endlessly.
Short animation by Po Chou Chi about a grandson want to make his grandmom's wish come true
An elementary school student named Ismail believes that there is a power to a smile. One day, he meets a hot-blooded math teacher that is a skeptic of smiles.
James is about a 12-year-old boy growing up with a disability and the fantasy world he creates around it to face his tormentors at school and heal his fractured family.