Plots(1)
Seven short films from different directors. Atsuko Fukushima's intro piece is a fantastic abstraction to soak up with the eyes. Masaaki Yuasa, of Mind Game and Cat Soup fame, brings his distinctive and deceptively simple graphic style and dream-state logic to the table with Happy Machine, his spin on a child's earliest year. Shinji Kimura's spookier Deathtic 4, meanwhile, seems to tap into the creepier corners of a child's imagination and open up a toybox full of dark delights. Hideki Futamura's Limit Cycle conjures up a vision of virtual reality, while Yuji Fukuyama's Doorbell and Baby Blue by Shinichiro Watanabe use understated realism for very surreal purposes. And Shoji Kawamori, with Shanghai Dragon, takes the tropes and conventions of traditional anime out for very fun joyride. (Anime Ltd)
(more)Cast
![Rinko Kikuchi](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/276/276004_e5e896.jpg)
Rinko Kikuchi
Japan
Best movies:
By Player (2000)
Babel (2006)
Survive Style 5+ (2004)
![Yūya Yagira](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/169/242/169242153_0h6c2p.jpg)
Yūya Yagira
Japan
Best movies:
Nobody Knows (2004)
Asakusa Kid (2021)
Genius Party (2007)
岩井七世
Japan
Best movies:
In This Corner of the World (2016)
The Eternal Zero (2013)
Genius Party (2007)