Isamu Hirabayashi

Babin

Isamu Hirabayashi

Keisuke Horibe, Naoto Nojima

In the forest, a man is buried up to his waist and repeats an interminable and incomprehensible monologue. His seclusion is about to be disturbed by the arrival of a little boy.

Mountain

Isamu Hirabayashi

An overturned dung beetle confronts social exclusion and the promises of a benevolent mountain spirit in this delightful short pregnant with meaning. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

Shimajirō to Fufu no Daibōken: Sukue! Nanairo no Hana

Isamu Hirabayashi

Yuuichi Harada, Omi Minami

Shimajiro to Fufu no Daibōken: Sukue! Nanairo no Hana (しまじろうと フフの だいぼうけん ～すくえ！七色の花～?, Shimajiro and Fufu's Great Adventure: Save the Seven-Colored Flower!) is a 2013 Japanese children's live action/anime film. It's the first film to feature the character Shimajirō. The film is directed by Isamu Hirabayashi and was release on March 15, 2013.

Gekijouban Shimajirou no wao!: Shimajirou to ehon no kuni

Isamu Hirabayashi

Omi Minami, Miki Takahashi

This is the fourth movie starring a tiger boy named Shimajiro.

Doron

Isamu Hirabayashi

Naoto Nojima, Takashi Kobayashi

One day a man had a strange audition for the movie. But he couldn't make acting good.

Aramaki

Isamu Hirabayashi

Keisuke Horibe

A man, stacks of rocks, a forest.

Keshinomi

Isamu Hirabayashi

An old man and a grandson are walking in snow. A pregnant woman and a midwife are talking in the hospital.

劇場版しまじろうのわお! 『しまじろうと にじのオアシス』

Isamu Hirabayashi, Hiromi Takashima

키자키 유리아, Kanon Kimoto

Shimajiro and friends embark on a journey through the desert to help young Coco reunite with her mother after being separated in a fierce sandstorm.

SOLITON

Isamu Hirabayashi

Saoto Tomioka, Miki Ogawa

A man kills someone on the battlefield and rescues someone in the devastated district.

Matou

Isamu Hirabayashi

Karia Nomoto

The cycle of life, in reverse.

Octopus

Isamu Hirabayashi

Kanako Higashi, Mizuki Komatsu

Squid have 10 legs. Octopuses have 8 legs. Added together, that’s 18 legs.

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Isamu Hirabayashi

I am a 66-year cicada. There was a big earthquake. There was a big tsunami. There also was a big accident.

Textism

Isamu Hirabayashi

A bold and unsettling short film that combines mysteriously striking images, on-screen captions, and computer-generated speech narration.

Shikasha

Isamu Hirabayashi

Machiko Ono, Keisuke Horibe

A woman and her child get trapped underground while investigators look for them.

Shell and Joint

Isamu Hirabayashi

Mariko Tsutsui, Keisuke Horibe

Nitobe and Sakamoto are childhood friends who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. The themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters’ lives.

Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project

Yuki Saito, Isamu Hirabayashi

Sho Aoyagi, Sei Ashina

Six Stories based on Six Songs.