Dokkōdō Films
A one-man studio making animation that reads as 1988–1999 Japanese cel work.
Madhouse and Production I.G. register. Otomo, Kawajiri, Kon. Practical light only, heavy ink lines, grain and gate weave baked into the frame rather than filtered over it.
Every shot is keyframed by hand, start and end, before anything gets generated. Trained character models hold a face consistent across a sequence. Then motion passes, compositing, cutout edge cleanup shot by shot, grade and grain.
Generating is the fast part. The cleanup is where the work actually lives, and it is the part that decides whether a frame reads as cel or as slop.
I work in phases and nothing expensive starts until you have signed off on the look.
Indie game developers who need a trailer. Musicians and small labels who need a video. Channels and streamers who want 90s anime branding.
If you want a commercial for a local dentist, I am the wrong guy.
KIRISUTE 斬捨
End of the Sengoku era. A masterless samurai wanders the fog-drowned mountain passes and coastal roads seeking absolution for massacres he committed under a dishonorable lord — killings of villagers, not soldiers, carried out under kirisute-gomen. But the dead he made have risen as onryō, and they will not grant him the mercy of forgetting. His sword made the ghosts; his sword is all he has left to answer them with. Whether cutting them down again is penance or a second damnation is the question the teaser never answers.
SpineThe killing stroke he committed, match-cut to the killing stroke he must now offer the dead. Same motion, twenty years apart, opposite meaning.
THE LAST TAPE
Cosmic horror in the Kon / Magnetic Rose tradition. Two salvage workers, Mira Hoshino and Kaito Endō, board a derelict freighter that’s broadcasting an unfinished anime from 1997, and must escape before the ship finishes the episode using them as its ending. The Phantom is the protagonist of that unfinished episode, her red ribbon the only saturated red in the film; the ship itself is the antagonist. Nostalgia as a predator — the horror of wanting to stay inside something that isn’t real more than you want to stay alive.
TaglineYou can’t unwatch what watches you.
SENTENCE 刑
Tokyo, 1999, under emergency rule. Retired detective Kaneda Isao learns that Sagara Rei — a woman he put away on evidence he fabricated — is scheduled for a pay-per-view televised execution. He has twelve hours to stop a broadcast the entire city has already paid to watch. A guilt-driven race against the clock through a state that has turned punishment into entertainment.
SpineBuilt around the recurring verb 見る — to watch.
Send your runtime, your deadline, and one reference you want it to look like. I reply with a fixed quote and the screener in 48 hours.
studio@dokkodofilms.com