Masumi Takino Movies

Precocious tween Karin finds herself abandoned by her father in rural Japan. Living in a temple with her grandfather, she meets Anzu, a giant "ghost...

Hideo Suzuki is a 35-year-old mangaka assistant, whose life seem to be stuck around his exhausting but low-paying job, unfulfilled dreams, strange...

A little girl reflects on her last summer with her father at his funeral.

The boys are rehearsing a dance for their traditional initiation ceremony into adulthood; their teacher instructs them. A girl observes the scene but...

A series of original Pacalien shorts which aired during commercial breaks on Toonami.

An apple comes out of a man’s mouth. The man’s life goes backward, as video player is reversed. Many kinds of food accelerated to come...

When I was a kid, my big brother became obsessed with the 90s Japanese subculture of teenage guys who were known as "Gyaru-o." His odd appearance...

Once we called the noble, profound and mysterious existence The Great. We have moved with the time, our thought and consciousness has changed. And...

An animated short exploring group dynamics. How do we define ourselves when we are all equal? Who is steering the crowd? What if it is heading in the...

No doubt negative enery is going to accumulate in my body today, tomorrow and the day after. When that happens, I'll have my own way of release.

How to make this mysterious cake? The ingredients include blue eggs, cookie flowers, pillow stuffing and much more.

The scutes glisten in the corner of her mind and she starts to dig her memories up. What was like the museum director she encountered when she was...

One day is presented by shiritori, a word game of last and first. A chain of images in one line evolves the story of this game.

The film is about a family, that runs a chicken farm. The boy hankers after birds and his little sister keeps an eye on him. The father loves eggs....

This work is a missive to the life form we call viruses in the hope that we can coexist. The relationship between humans and viruses is poetically...

This installation work is inspired by dreams experienced during a fever. The two-minute looping animation visualizes incoherent nightmares seen...

This place is where my grand parents, my parents, and I once lived. Even though I lose my memories and feelings of it, it does exist there and keeps...

On various forms expanded in all directions and a dance by a man in tights.

There once lived two brothers in a town. The elder lived alone. The younger lived with his parents. They did not get along well... They called each...

A motorbike yearns to return to its good old days. One day it takes a courageous leap to its own future.