Direction: Yoji Kuri

Direction Yoji Kuri

Plot A desolate landscape contains a series of surreal creatures, some humanoid while others completely alien. Their lives intermingle, with interactions ranging from docile and symbiotic to excruciatingly violent.

Direction Yoji Kuri

Direction Yoji Kuri

Plot A series of shorts pointing out the various ways that people meet their death through their own stupidity.

Direction Yoji Kuri

Direction Yoji Kuri

Plot Short experimental animated film by Yoji Kuri.

Direction Yoji Kuri

Plot Experimental anime from animation pioneer Yoji Kuri from 1960.

Direction Kotobuki Shiriagari · Taku Furukawa · Takashi Ito · Koji Yamamura

Plot Tokyo Loop is an animation anthology produced by ImageForum, a Japanese filmmakers’ collective/workshop (originally called The Underground Center when it was founded in 1971) to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of...

Direction Yoji Kuri

Plot Cut-out and cell collages to describe the running of trains in various perspectives.

Direction Yoji Kuri

Plot Short experimental animation from 1961 from animation pioneer Yoji Kuri.

Direction Yoji Kuri

Direction Yoji Kuri

Plot A short film by Kuri Youji. A man plants a flower and waits for it to bear fruit...

Direction Yoji Kuri

Direction Yoji Kuri

Cast Eizaburo Hara · Yutokutaishi Akiyama · Kazuko Katayama · Yuriko Kawakami

Plot A surrealistic short from minimalist cartoonist Kuri Yoji.

Direction Yoji Kuri

Direction Yoji Kuri

Direction Yoji Kuri

Cast Taro Okamoto · Akiko Hiroike · Shuntaro Tanikawa · Hiroko Nakajima

Plot Interesting conceptual film where people of various ages and professions are asked to sit on a chair for 15 minutes with nothing to do. We see how bored and uneasy...

Direction Yoji Kuri

Plot Satire on those who interrupt other peoples’ peace and quiet.

Direction Yoji Kuri

Plot A montage of scenes that describe how people can be as bad as animals.

Direction Yoji Kuri

Cast Yoko Ono

Plot This extraordinary animation—already a classic—projects a universe of bizarre and frustrated lusts, in which monsters, voyeurs, and misshapen objects engage in nightmarish and often sadomasochistic outrages amongst Freudian symbols of...

Direction Yoji Kuri

Plot A night in the life of an apartment building features interesting occurrences, as seen through its lit windows.