Isamu Hirabayashi — Director (6)

Movie

Shimajiro and the Mother Tree (2015)
劇場版 しまじろうのわお ! しまじろうとおおきなき IMDb TMDB
other title: 호비와 엄마나무섬의 비밀 / 劇場版 しまじろうのわお ! しまじろうとおおきなき …
巧虎的妹妹小花,夢見一棵神祕的大樹在求救,卡歐先生告訴他們。這是生長在霧之島的天空樹,是維護森林的母親之樹。天空樹為什麼求救?霧之島遇到什麼危險了嗎?巧虎他們決定一同出發前往霧之島。在霧之島,巧虎他們遇見了守護天空樹的洛亞跟霧島族人,才發現原來有人在傷害天空樹,到底是誰呢?巧虎跟洛亞他們要如何克服困難,守護森林,搶救天空樹呢?

Movie

663114 (2011)
Douban
I am a 66-year-old cicada. There was a big earthquake. There was a big tsunami. There also was a big accident.

Movie

Shell and Joint (2019)
Shell and Joint Douban
other title: 壳与关节
Do people who try to kill themselves not want to live anymore? No, not at all, says the hotel employee in Shell and Joint, a woman who has made multiple attempts herself, including by jumping into a shark-infested sea. Deadly serious, she tells her colleague she blames it all on a bacteria that controls her mind. Short-film maker Hirabayashi Isamu's feature film debut is full of these offbeat conversations. He portrays various characters at a Japanese capsule hotel in a series of absurdist sketches. One moment puppetry insects philosophise about death, the next a bunch of men discuss erections in the sauna. Hirabayashi uses tight, static framing, making everything extra surreal, and masterfully forges it into a fascinating whole that examines the distinction between man and insect and the thin line between existence and non-existence.