Kenji Iwaisawa

A gifted runner trains a determined but unskilled classmate, unaware he's creating a rival who will challenge him on the track for years to come.

Taro, who looks like a skull, doesn't stand out at school, but he is blessed with friends like Yasushi, who has a head that looks like the inside of a clam, and finds meaning in seemingly meaningless things as he goes about his daily life.

A bored trio of high school delinquents start a rock 'n' roll band together. They have no skill, money, or even a full set of drums, but are determined to jam out and impress their only friend.

This work was created at the "Ginza Shoeikai Art Festival" event held in June 2014 in Fussa City, Tokyo, as part of a workshop that allowed visitors to experience up-close the rotoscope animation technique. Visitors drew each piece by hand. The complete short film consists of those joined individual sketches.

Ogasawara was supposed to spend New Year's Eve quietly alone in the kotatsu, but he is at the mercy of Goto, a mysterious man who appears every year. Iwaizawa's first live-action work, which he took on when he was trying to figure out whether he could compete with animation.‏

Done with high school, a boy goes into exile in the mountains. His best friend, who hasn't found happiness in society, joins him.

A mysterious man, wearing a mask with eyes on it, is unable to go anywhere because he is plugged into an electrical outlet. He sits in an alleyway while various people visit him, curious about who he is and why he is there.

While comically depicting the fragility of the end of summer from the perspective of popsicles, this work conveys the smell of the Showa era and the atmosphere of downtown.

A child is watching a music video on his television screen.