Masumi Takino Movies

Karin, 11 years old, is abandoned by her father at her grandfather's house, the monk of a small town in the Japanese countryside. Her grandfather...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

A polar bear who is very bored with various marine animals in the deep blue sea. It continues an ancient tradition of "Caricatures of Frolicking...

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

One day out of the blue Prof. Banno of came to school with his hair shaven. Students made fun of his bald head. Prof. Banno flew in a hot air...

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...

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

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...

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...

TV shows, manga, music, movies, plays, pop stars and cartoon characters. I watch videos on my phone with the TV blaring and music in the background....

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

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...

A girl is informed by her doctor that she is pregnant. Surprised by the unexpected announcement, falls into an anguish. The fleeting dream is a...

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

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.