Music video for Nakaura Yuri’s “Seishun Ojiisan” Created using a combination of cut-paper and collage techniques

Method: Stop motion I created this piece while sharing backgrounds and characters with Moji Tsuchiya, each of us imitating the other’s characters. Tsuchiya created the basic storyboard, and we worked out the overall feel of the film by sharing the footage as it was completed. There is a Go scene in the video, and it felt like we were making it while watching each other’s moves, as though I were playing Go with Tsuchiya.

Description: “Scuffin” refers to the lines etched into a bottle through repeated use. A returnable bottle requires the extra step of being returned in order to be used again. This is the story of a bottle journeying around the earth, marked with “scuffin” as proof that someone returned it. A web movie for Pocari Sweat’s returnable bottle. The scenes in which the bottle glows were filmed by shining projector light onto cut-paper artwork.

Two people decide to go to the home of a friend who says they live in Guragura. The journey is long, and the bus does not reach Butsumisaki until nightfall. An animated film made using paper-cutout animation

A boy who has forgotten that he is a bird and lives in the city has a long, long dream on a train heading to a construction site. This work was produced as a music video for SE SO NEON, a band based in South Korea.