Japan: Tama Gra Student Films

Tokyo University of Arts and Tama Arts University in Japan are internationally renowned as high-quality animation schools offering a specific curriculum. Animation teachers Koji Yamamura and Tatsutoshi Noruma and students from these academies present their films and outstanding projects by former students. Supported by the Japan Foundation.

Showing in this program

A Reflection of One’s Mind

Kohei Nakaya
Japan, 2014
5 min.

Anal Juke ~Anal Juice~

Sawako Kabuki
Japan, 2013
2 min.

Love sickness can lead to peculiar dreams. Everything revolves around defecating. A grating text set to pulsating music. Based on her own dream after breaking up with her boyfriend, Sawako Kabuki's (s)assy short is perhaps the best way of dealing with heartbreak.

Celebration & Chorale

Yukie Nakauchi
Japan, 2013
6 min.

Chu-Chu

Ryoko Tanaka
Japan, 2015
3 min.

Cuushe: Airy Me

Tatsutoshi Nomura
Japan, 2013
5 min.

A young girls turns into a butterfly after a injection at the hospital.

Garden

Shungo Suzuki
Japan, 2012
3 min.

Hairy Heaven

Minori Yamada
Japan, 2015
5 min.

I Can’t Breathe

Sayaka Kihata
Japan, 2015
5 min.

Love-Hate Relationship

Sarina Nihei
Japan, 2012
2 min.

Before moving to London to study at the Royal College of Art which led her to make the award-winning Small People with Hats, animation director Sarina Nihei graduated from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 2012 with Love-Hate Relationship, a short about a boy who tries to escape from real life and his mother who doesn't understand him.