Masumi Takino Movies

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...

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 certain girl Nene encounters asks her this question.

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....

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...

The boys are rehearsing a dance for their traditional initiation ceremony into adulthood; their teacher instructs them. A girl observes the scene but...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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...