Masumi Takino Movies

A man witnesses a fatal traffic accident on his way home from work, and the victim is clearly killed on impact. A moment later, when the corpse...

Precocious tween Karin finds herself abandoned by her father in rural Japan. Living in a temple with her grandfather, she meets Anzu, a giant "ghost...

One spring, Eri, a Holstein cow, falls in love with Sawa, a Jersey newcomer. Eri idolizes Sawa and longs to be close to her, to become one with her....

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...

A certain girl Nene encounters asks her this question.

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

A motorbike yearns to return to its good old days. One day it takes a courageous leap to its own future.

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...

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

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

A series of original Pacalien shorts which aired during commercial breaks on Toonami.

Based on a Japanese folk belief called Womb Diving (“Tainai Kuguri” ) – the cycle of life and death as depicted through insects,...

One night, a lonely man who has lost his wife is lured out into the streets at night by a cat. There, he has various encounters and partings.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

This installation work is inspired by dreams experienced during a fever. The two-minute looping animation visualizes incoherent nightmares seen...

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.