Masumi Takino Movies
- 2016
I Am a Hero
I Am a Hero7.3852016HD
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...
- 2024
Ghost Cat Anzu
Ghost Cat Anzu6.82024HD
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...
- 2021
Coping Mechanism
Coping Mechanism02021HD
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.
- 2012
The Man Who Ate an Apple
The Man Who Ate an Apple02012HD
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...
- 2022
Bird in the Peninsula
Bird in the Peninsula42022HD
The boys are rehearsing a dance for their traditional initiation ceremony into adulthood; their teacher instructs them. A girl observes the scene but...
- 2021
MUNCH MUNCH
MUNCH MUNCH02021HD
How to make this mysterious cake? The ingredients include blue eggs, cookie flowers, pillow stuffing and much more.
- 2021
In My Room
In My Room02021HD
This installation work is inspired by dreams experienced during a fever. The two-minute looping animation visualizes incoherent nightmares seen...
- 2011
Fleeting Dream
Fleeting Dream02011HD
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...
- 2021
Brother
Brother102021HD
When I was a kid, my big brother became obsessed with the 90s Japanese subculture of teenage guys who were known as "Gyaru-o." His odd appearance...
- 2019
Kids
Kids3.82019HD
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...
- 2014
Reinventing the Square Wheel
Reinventing the Square Wheel02014HD
On various forms expanded in all directions and a dance by a man in tights.
- 2021
Dear Viruses
Dear Viruses02021HD
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...
- 2021
Polar Bear Bears Boredom
Polar Bear Bears Boredom72021HD
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...
- 2012
The Great Rabbit
The Great Rabbit52012HD
Once we called the noble, profound and mysterious existence The Great. We have moved with the time, our thought and consciousness has changed. And...
- 2021
A Bite of Bone
A Bite of Bone02021HD
A little girl reflects on her last summer with her father at his funeral.
- 2015
Scutes on my mind
Scutes on my mind82015HD
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...
- 2012
A Wind Egg
A Wind Egg02012HD
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....
- 2014
Flower Bud
Flower Bud02014HD
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...
- 2015
Zdravstvuite!
Zdravstvuite!02015HD
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...
- 2021
Amane Diary
Amane Diary02021HD
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...