Along with graphic designer / ad-man Ryohei Yanagihara (柳原良平) and renowned book cover designer Hiroshi Manabe (真鍋博), Kuri formed the Animation Sannin no Kai (Animation Group of Three) in 1960. In doing so the three animators followed the footsteps of the 1950s Sannin no Kai composers (Yasushi Akutagawa, Ikuma Dan & Toshiro Mayuzumi) who banded together to stage performances of their avant-garde style of music. The Animation Group of Three showcased their work at three events: November 1960, December 1962, and April 1963. After 1964 this event expanded into a wider Animation Festival, that annually showcased the experimental fare of such artists as Taku Furukawa, Sadao Tsukioka, Goro Sugimoto, Keiichi Tanaami, and even Osamu Tezuka until 1971. Stamp Fantasy was introduced at the first Animation Group of Three screening on November 26, 1960 in the Sogetsu Art Center.

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The dead are transformed into photographs and loved by people. If you touch their cheeks in the phot...

Captain Hook steals Cubby's pet goldfish, Gilly. Screened as a 4-minute short film in front of inter...

A complex choreography of re-animated miniature soldiers moving to the exquisitely synchronised comm...

Desperate to escape her reality, a young woman discovers a program that immerses her in her own subc...

We are first presented a cobweb castle, filled with the haunting doubts of the young protagonist. Sp...

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Short animated film by Steven Subotnick based on childhood drawings of Hannah and Naomi Subotnick

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Two young boys run away from their mother’s protection and slack line on the danger of war to play m...

A mariner survives an attack from the dreaded pirates of the Black Freighter, but his struggle to re...

Wealthy but alone, a king spends his days obsessively polishing shiny objects throughout his opulent...

When the chaotically misfortunate Jenkins and the monotonously lucky Lou run into each other one mor...

Through a splendidly drawn and masterfully animated short, Ito Rina reasons on the troubled battle h...

The Cigarette and the Weed tells the story of a weed growing on a street corner, and a discarded cig...

A spoof of "Tom and Jerry" cartoons.