The Man Who Makes Tomorrow Trailer
Yôji Kuri was a Japanese cartoonist and independent filmmaker. He was the unofficial leader and most prolific of the "Animation Association of Three" collective who kick-started the renaissance of modern-styled, independently made, adult-aimed animation in early 1960s Japan.
Total trailers found: 34
23 December 2006
A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum.
31 December 1964
A short experimental anime about a woman desperately in love. Made by Yoji Kuri, a well-known Japanese indie animator.
01 January 1965
Short experimental animation film from 1966 from pioneer Kuri Yoji. A series of shorts pointing out the various ways that people meet their death through their own stupidity.
31 December 1964
An abstract animation about people and organs of the body in and out of drawers.
01 January 1960
The original black and white version that tells the story of a man and a woman who go by raft to a remote desert island with chickens and a dog.
01 January 1968
Remake of the 1960 film with the same name in color that tells the story of a man and a woman who go by raft to a remote desert island with chickens and a dog.
20 September 1965
Satire on those who interrupt other peoples' peace and quiet.
01 January 1973
An interview with artist Ushio Shinohara.
20 September 1968
A man is continually stalked by a small woman named Kemoko who is utterly in love with him.
27 November 2003
An animated film based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō.
14 September 1962
A montage of scenes that describe how people can be as bad as animals.
01 January 1972
A night when parasites of various green forms devour humans. A cruel food chain that never ceases, and an eternal repetition of life and death.
10 August 1961
Music video for the song "Punpun Polka" by Hiroshi Ashino that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.
20 September 1967
The original version is monochrome, but in 1967 it was remade in color as an international version. In the international version, the first and twelfth episodes and the fake commercials have been omitted.
01 January 1961
Here and There (1961) fuses live-action and animation and was screened at Three-Person Animation 2. Musique concrète and electronic sounds made by modulating everyday noises such as flush toilets are interspersed throughout the work.
31 December 1967
A small white box. Everything happens in that little world. A woman's face comes out from the side of the room and roars, birds peck at human flesh, trains run through, and a couple quarrel begins.
20 September 1963
Interesting conceptual film where people of various ages and professions are asked to sit on a chair for 15 minutes with nothing to do.
23 December 2006
Dog leavings become a growing problem for Tokyo and its residents.
20 September 1965
A night in the life of an apartment building features interesting occurrences, as seen through its lit windows.
01 January 1967
A short film by Kuri Youji. A man plants a flower and waits for it to bear fruit...
20 September 1969
The humble line has a life of its own. As it travels from one point to the next it can take whatever route it fancies.
20 September 1972
A work that incorporates live-action fast-forwarding, live-action stop-motion animation, and a few cel animations.
20 September 1961
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.
08 November 1977
A series of mini-stories satirising our world in the 20th Century.
20 September 1974
The train just runs. A collage of various images, including cel animation and drawing, animates smoke emitted from trains.
01 January 1964
A documentary about Kuri aired on television in 1964. The viewer is offered a charming insight into a day in Kuri’s life, following him as he sends his daughter off to school, works on various parts of the animation process in his studio, enjoys time with his family and finally boards a Japan Airlines aircraft.
01 January 1973
In this documentary made by Yoji Kuri, artist Sawako Gōda talks Kuri through the development of her best-known works and the origins of their distinctly Gothic sensibility, including her assemblages of junk and debris picked up in Tokyo and New York, her painted copies of antique foreign photographs, the quickly-produced painted eggs which became her signature, and the sculptures she made from a horse skeleton which she helped to flay herself.
