Nobuhiro Aihara Movies

Psychedelic animation that impresses with eyeballs and other motifs.

Animations overlaid on a rough grained photo of the Japanese mountain countryside. The physical painting of Japanese lacquer directly onto the film...

A tense abstract animation with delicate line drawing. Contemporary musician Nakamura Shigenobu is in charge of the music used in the work.

Originally titled Stone No. 2, this is considered a seminal work of Japanese independent animation. Stones, houses and the surrounding natural...

An abstract animation with a motif of a dragonfly, and a complex multi-exposure landscape of a field and a woman's naked body overlap.

A photograph of Aihara’s grandmother, overlapped with a tranquil documentary style animation of her life ending at her funeral scene.

'There is a fusuma (paper sliding door) work based on the Hannya Shingyo (Prajna-paramita Hrdaya Sutram) by woodblock print artist Shikou Munakata....

The human hand transformed through various animation techniques.

A documentary style animation of an apiarist at work in combination with scenes of a seaside village, overlapped with images of a boy trying to...

Regarded as a creative extension of Stone (1975), animation unfolds on drawing paper placed on a field and farm.

A turning point toward abstraction in Aihara’s career, this work was originally created for the “100 Feet Film Festival”.

Animation of a devil floating in air, Aihara created both a black and white and color version of this work by painting directly on the film.

This animated documentary is derived from footage shot at the site of the Sanrizuka struggle opposing the construction of Narita Airport. In addition...

Images of the sea and clouds seen from the top of the mountain, the candles of the Tibetan temple, etc., and a chaotic psychedelic animation are...

Project an abstract animation with an apple motif on various places of an old rural house and re-shoot it.

Vivid, chromatic animation.

A colorful psychedelic animation developed by drawing motifs of each part of the ear and body.

This is Aihara’s earliest surviving work. Motifs of psychedelic culture and the anti-war movement are directly scratched and painted on...

An animation that combines the motion of abstract lines and the motif of an apple.

Abstract forms animated in drawings.