Movies: Atsushi Wada

A boy is doing his exercises with his dog....

Once we called the noble, profound and mysterious existence The Great. We have moved with the time, our thought and consciousness has changed. And yet what makes us still keep calling it The Great?...

The animated short is meant to increase the entertainment value and number of new fans for American football in Japan....

Everybody is excited to see the arrival of spring. This film tries to depict the excitement spring brings....

Everything is liquid in this world, like the mayonnaise....

A compendium of independent Japanese animation, featuring a wide range of experimental techniques from drawn animation to pixilation....

A haptic animation with comfortable noses....

A Japanese-produced animated film using Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons as its soundtrack. The four seasons all have separate animation directors. Its production was partly crowdfunded. The film premiered in Kitakyushu in 2017 along with a live perfor...

Initially shown off at the "GeGeGe no Kitarou Tribute Art Exhibition Kitarou EXPO", which was an art exhibition in Japan commemorating the 100th anniversary of mangaka Shigeru Mizuki's birth. The animation directed by Atsushi Wada was later released ...

The activities of cats, kobito, carp, and an uncle dressed as a woman on a swamp....

A worm in this river looks shiny to me....

How was this made? Why? For what purpose and using what materials? What is this anyway? There are lots of things we need to find out about....

Astonishing, mysterious, eccentric, adorable, melancholic, sensual and delightful - the Volume 2 of the weird and fascinating world of Japanese independent animation which has been flourishing and stronger than ever....

Based on a poem by Sakutaro Hagiwara. A child and an adult have different troubles....

The boys are rehearsing a dance for their traditional initiation ceremony into adulthood; their teacher instructs them. A girl observes the scene but is not allowed to join in. When one of the boys chases after a strange bird, she follows him without...

For whom does a girl keep rotating? A story of a weird relationship between a child and adults....

A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum....

Everybody wants to be fashionable and praised. So do grandmothers....

Dear Mr. Vivaldi, I apologise for setting your music to animation without your permission. But I wanted to depict “autumn” in my own way with various animals. Thank you for understanding. Yours sincerely, AW....

We try to enrich ourselves through prayer, faith and devotion to someone or something ‘other’. Similarly, we believe in the existence of ‘anomalies’, such as unknowable and uncontrollable monsters. But can such beliefs advance us?...