Onohana

Featuring stirring imagery cycling through abstraction and quivering permanence, Onohana’s (Ouch, Chou Chou and such a good place to die, JC 2016) characteristically stunning animation was produced in collaboration with visitors to her past exhibitions in Shinjuku, Tokyo and Morioka, Tohoku, tracing her original illustrations. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

The two of them, all alone at home. All alone with her father's corpse. Memories, ideals, and reality all sink beneath the muck. Everyone is alone. Everyone is in solitude.

A touching saga of a cabbage and pea’s friendship across bullying and interdimensional travel.

I want to leave home,” a pet fish told a boy one day. The boy reluctantly takes the fish out to the sea to ‘keep his promise,’ as it says. Their recollections on the way became slightly discrepant.

Forms shift like a landscape of memory in this enchanting work featuring music by Tatsuki Tsushima. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

A grand collision of Mizue’s signature visual music forms and Onohana’s mesmerizing impressionistic illustrations, featuring music by Twoth.

Featuring stirring imagery cycling through abstraction and quivering permanence, Onohana’s (Ouch, Chou Chou and such a good place to die, JC 2016) characteristically stunning animation was produced in collaboration with visitors to her past exhibitions in Shinjuku, Tokyo and Morioka, Tohoku, tracing her original illustrations. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

The two of them, all alone at home. All alone with her father's corpse. Memories, ideals, and reality all sink beneath the muck. Everyone is alone. Everyone is in solitude.

A touching saga of a cabbage and pea’s friendship across bullying and interdimensional travel.

A touching saga of a cabbage and pea’s friendship across bullying and interdimensional travel.

I want to leave home,” a pet fish told a boy one day. The boy reluctantly takes the fish out to the sea to ‘keep his promise,’ as it says. Their recollections on the way became slightly discrepant.

Forms shift like a landscape of memory in this enchanting work featuring music by Tatsuki Tsushima. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

A grand collision of Mizue’s signature visual music forms and Onohana’s mesmerizing impressionistic illustrations, featuring music by Twoth.

An animation of landscapes fluidly changing shapes.

A short film spelling Tokyo in hiragana.