Masumi Takino Movies

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...

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...

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...

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

The film is about a family, that runs a chicken farm. The boy hankers after birds and his little sister keeps an eye on him. The father loves eggs....

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....

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...

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

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

This work is based on 15 years of entries in the diary that I’ve kept since age eight. Through creating this work I was searching for freedom...

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.

On a summer day an strange man who teaches Russian at the beach took me to a town. The familiar town looked totally fresh from a different point of...

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

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 uncertainty, struggles, and joy of the moment upon becoming an adult. Between lullabies and songs I hum to myself. Between a man and myself. That...

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

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...

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.