Masumi Takino Movies

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...

A man witnesses a fatal traffic accident on his way home from work, and the victim is clearly killed on impact. A moment later, when the corpse...

A certain girl Nene encounters asks her this question.

Lark, a young city officer, is tasked with locating and arresting an unidentified vandal at a grimy, remote train station. During the search, Lark...

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

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...

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

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

One spring, Eri, a Holstein cow, falls in love with Sawa, a Jersey newcomer. Eri idolizes Sawa and longs to be close to her, to become one with her....

A little girl reflects on her last summer with her father at his funeral.

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...

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...

There once lived two brothers in a town. The elder lived alone. The younger lived with his parents. They did not get along well... They called each...

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...

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

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...

A motorbike yearns to return to its good old days. One day it takes a courageous leap to its own future.

This place is where my grand parents, my parents, and I once lived. Even though I lose my memories and feelings of it, it does exist there and keeps...

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...