SAMANSA Adds Four Short Films For Third Week Of August
The weekly lineup keeps SAMANSA's catalog fresh, pairing an Academy Award-nominated animation with lesser-known genre work to keep the service's promise of variety for its 490-yen monthly subscription.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
SAMANSA Inc. began distributing four short films on its SAMANSA service on Friday, August 21, 2026. The lineup spans comedy, drama, and horror, ranging from past problematic comedies that made staff laugh to Academy Award-nominated animations that swept theaters. The service offers over 500 short films for 490 yen per month.
The four films land on SAMANSA with runtimes from just over three minutes to roughly fourteen. "Oppai Zipangu" is a three-minute sword-fighting action animation from director Seiji Hashimoto set in the land of Mount Fuji. "Retire Plan," directed by John Kelly, follows a middle-aged man envisioning his post-retirement life.
The other two entries lean darker. Alden Ehrenreich directs "The Sun Sets on My Brother's Sunday," about a struggling musician brother who schemes against his sibling's film premiere. Lena Tsodykovskaya's "Storm" is a sealed-room horror piece about a couple sensing unseen gazes in the dark.
- Oppai Zipangu: Three-minute sword-fighting animation directed by Seiji Hashimoto
- Retire Plan: A middle-aged man's expanding vision of post-retirement life, directed by John Kelly
- The Sun Sets on My Brother's Sunday: A struggling musician schemes against his brother's film premiere, directed by Alden Ehrenreich
- Storm: Sealed-room horror about a couple sensing unseen gazes, directed by Lena Tsodykovskaya
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