Better back then - Recommendations

• Web (1 ep)
• 2017

TAIYO KIKAKU Co., Ltd., a commercial production company based in Tokyo, Japan, was founded on February 5th, 1968, and proudly celebrates its 49th anniversary with the release of a paper craft stop-motion animation short to celebrate this milestone. The sun-shaped corporate logo symbolizing the company’s name is beautifully animated in a white setting, depicting the whole process of filmmaking from pre-production to post-production. The film is crafted entirely out of paper by director Ayako Hiroki, a member of “TECARAT,” a division of TAIYO KIKAKU.

• Other (1 ep)
• 2016

A weather forecast background video that follows a teeny tiny old man as he embarks on a journey, wherever his feet and the wind take him. Using stop-motion photography on location, it is an experimental work that explores the coexistence of the sense of speed of location shooting with the precision of animation shooting.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2005

A TV show that is so unclear to whom and where it is broadcast. A strange room where the recording and editing is taking place. A middle-aged gentleman like a wax figure sits on a turntable and grabs the microphone as the director signals him to do so. A reading about the mysterious genre "Ficfyon" has begun. 'What the heck did we not have time for?' The monologue of a man sitting in the audience and continuing to talk about his story will soon move into Ficfyon prophecies about the 2000s.

• Other (1 ep)

Little thinks- use a visual poem to tells we can see things differently when we see things from different angles, find the fun in every moment, Find the good in every person.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2011

There is an elderly woman who has run a store in a Japanese town for sixty years. She marries into the Imamura Store and cares for the shop by herself, as she lived each day as the present.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2014

After a conflict between humans and clones, the clones have been driven far below, to the lower levels of the city. Now, 1,200 years later, humans are sending a research pod down below to study the clones' habitat.

• Web (1 ep)
• 2012

A small surprise is given to a boy on the morning of the first snow.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1970

It’s nearing the end of the scheduled program at a popular dog track, but before the final race of the day there’s a special performance. Enter the ringmaster who promptly attaches fish on sticks to the dogs’ collars and sets them off to race. Unfortunately, the canines just run in circles attempting to grab the tasty morsel, much to the anger of the crowd. As the hounds scramble around in a hunger-driven frenzy and the crowd begin to boo, the ringmaster insists they calm down before proceeding to inform the audience that the way they chase after money is no better than how the dogs chase the fish. With everyone’s anger growing, can the ringmaster’s message get through as the race attempts to continue as normal?

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2019

In Chinese New Year holidays, finding the coin inside the dumplings means having a blessed year ahead. A young woman loses a jar on her journey to a new country, which contains the lucky coins she has been collecting growing up. Her new life begins with a search to find the coin.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2018

A man remembers his childhood memory of growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China. How would his life have been if things had gone differently?