Bouncing Red Ball

Launched in September 14, 2007, Japan’s Kaguya (a.k.a. SELENE) successfully completed its mission of collecting data on the Earth’s satellite and was terminated by a controlled collision on the lunar surface on June 11, 2009.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), which supervised the mission, just released Kaguya’s final motion picture shots of the Moon’s surface [...]

memory is an independent animation film directed by Junichi Yamamoto (山GEん).
Set in a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by nuclear war, it tells the story of a damaged robot found by futuristic soldiers investigating a devastated area.
The humanoid appeared to be household robot, reminiscent of Asimo, and when the soldiers booted it up, they were able to [...]

A typical street in suburban Japan, lined on both sides with Sugi, silence broken only by bird calls. Female mannequins with foreign-sounding names skateboarding, hitting the pavement and disintegrating into undignified heaps.
The contrast couldn’t get more jarring than that.
Depending on your mood, this is either “upsetting, disorienting, dark, and mysterious” or “pretentious, incoherent and boring”. [...]

By non-Japanese artists that is.
The gaijin’s popular impression of Japan is that of a sprawling urban jungle of neon lights, imposing structures and narrow, winding streets populated by crushing throngs of people (and occasionally beset by gigantic creatures). There are plenty of these themes in the following videos.
Madonna’s cute video shows her cosplaying throughout; Elastica [...]