Keita Kurosaka

Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional ...  (more)

A woman strives to engineer a dream-food that can put a stop to the famine that has lain waste to a dystopian, near future Tokyo.  (more)

A flash of light splits the darkness, revealing a mysterious image. The images are rapidly replaced with sharp noise that combines wave-like repetitiveness and explosiveness, and the flicker effect that it brings makes the viewer away from reality.  (more)

A donut-shaped image floating in the center of the screen begins to move like a living creature. The colors and patterns are constantly changing, gradually gaining strength, and eventually leading to an explosive radial movement.  (more)

The story begins with a parody of a familiar folklore about a rabbit and an earthworm chasing after each other, but the warm atmosphere changes completely to a succession of surreal images, and the story dismantles.  (more)

A man who had diarrhea after eating an expired potato salad wanders into a strange personal space.  (more)

Haruko, a girl with psychic powers who can communicate with inorganic matter, wakes up one morning to the call of someone, and as she is invited, she arrives at an abandoned apartment building from the 30s of the Showa era, where countless "mononoke" have lived.  (more)

A work produced with the theme of the number "4" as an event for the 4th Into Animation, an independent screening by the Japan Animation Association.  (more)

Abstract horror short about a girl's face.  (more)

One might think that beautiful pictures, a compelling story, and brilliant movement are the three essential elements of a good animated film. The word "anima" from which animation is derived, as we all know, means "to breathe life into". And "life" means "limited ...  (more)

In a certain fishing village, a memorial service is held to burn abandoned boats, and old fishing boats that have finished their duty have a dream on the verge of death. Deep-sea fish galloping through the alleys, fishermen pulling long ropes, ghosts of screaming ...  (more)

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.  (more)

Once again animator Keita Kurosaka was enlisted to create a hand drawn music video, that in many regards is much less shocking and grotesque than the previous collaboration, the infamous "Agitated Screams of Maggots".  (more)

The “living wall” reshapes itself into various forms like a large fallen tree to a dying monster. This metamorphosis evokes a fascinating sense of freedom though imagination, assisted by the detailed yet unrestrained paint strokes and faint vocal echos  (more)

Abstract lines drawn with pencils start to move with their own will.  (more)

Countless dwarves appeared from the omelet that the skinhead man tried to eat. They infiltrate the man's brain and finally explode his head. Short animation by Keita Kurosaka for MTV Japan.  (more)

One morning, Papa transforms into a giant insect in the futon, emerges instantly in front of the astonished family, breaks through the window and flies into the sky. Short animation by Keita Kurosaka for MTV Japan.  (more)

A solemn painting by 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt suddenly roars, transforming and deconstructing.  (more)

In front of a train station in the suburbs, a man chopping dried fish, chicken bones, and logs. When the man strikes with his machete, the entire scene begins to rotate. As if it had been put through a juicer, it was broken down into small pieces and eventually put ...  (more)

Fragments of images emerge from the empty space, and before you know it, a heavy wall surface is built. If you break through it, a flood of light will overflow.  (more)