Movies: Atsushi Wada

The boys are rehearsing a dance for their traditional initiation ceremony into adulthood; their teacher instructs them. A girl observes the scene but is not allowed to join in. When one of the boys chases after a strange bird, she follows him without...

A huge pig lies by a house. The family of the house go about their everyday life, pretending to ignore the pig’s existence....

A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum....

Everybody is excited to see the arrival of spring. This film tries to depict the excitement spring brings....

A haptic animation with comfortable noses....

A boy is doing his exercises with his dog....

Initially shown off at the "GeGeGe no Kitarou Tribute Art Exhibition Kitarou EXPO", which was an art exhibition in Japan commemorating the 100th anniversary of mangaka Shigeru Mizuki's birth. The animation directed by Atsushi Wada was later released ...

The series of shorts is based on Wada's "My Exercise" game about a curious boy who exercises with a dog. The boy encounters various creatures and tries to emulate them, with the valiant help of his dog....

Astonishing, mysterious, eccentric, adorable, melancholic, sensual and delightful - the Volume 2 of the weird and fascinating world of Japanese independent animation which has been flourishing and stronger than ever....

Once we called the noble, profound and mysterious existence The Great. We have moved with the time, our thought and consciousness has changed. And yet what makes us still keep calling it The Great?...

Based on a poem by Sakutaro Hagiwara. A child and an adult have different troubles....

For whom does a girl keep rotating? A story of a weird relationship between a child and adults....

We try to enrich ourselves through prayer, faith and devotion to someone or something ‘other’. Similarly, we believe in the existence of ‘anomalies’, such as unknowable and uncontrollable monsters. But can such beliefs advance us?...

A lot of wrong may happen, but no problem. A whistle, a bird, a stone, a human, they are gentle....

The animated short is meant to increase the entertainment value and number of new fans for American football in Japan....

A Japanese-produced animated film using Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons as its soundtrack. The four seasons all have separate animation directors. Its production was partly crowdfunded. The film premiered in Kitakyushu in 2017 along with a live perfor...

The activities of cats, kobito, carp, and an uncle dressed as a woman on a swamp....

Everybody wants to be fashionable and praised. So do grandmothers....

A clerk has his own duty. A clerk does his own work. This is what a clerk should do....

Everything is liquid in this world, like the mayonnaise....