Isamu Hirabayashi

Isamu Hirabayashi

53 (1972-06-25)
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Isamu Hirabayashi (平林勇) is a Japanese film director who directed the Shimajiro films Shimajiro and Fufu's Great Adventure 2013, Shimajiro and the Whale's Song 2014, Shimajiro and the Mother Tree 2015, Shimajiro in Bookend 2016, Shimajrio and the Rainbow Oasis 2017. He also made short films including Octopus 2015, Babin 2008 and Little Shimajiro 2016.

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Textism 2003 (5.8)

A bold and unsettling short film that combines mysteriously striking images, on-screen captions, and computer-generated speech narration.
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663114 2012 (5.2)

I am a 66-year cicada. There was a big earthquake. There was a big tsunami. There also was a big accident.
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Shell and Joint 2019 (6)

Nitobe and Sakamoto are childhood friends who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. The themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters’ lives.