i'm watching this for kawajiri but i watched and reviewed all three sections. the tldr is that this is incredible and you should watch it. it isn't even 50 minutes long! 3 perfect short films! what more could you want!

labyrinth labyrinthos - rintaro

this one looks super neat, it's not like anything i can think of. the character animation is kind of in between 'what if a 60s anime got late 80s ova money' and 'what if an early 2000s western cartoon got late 80s ova money' while the backgrounds feel like if the detailed paintings from a children's storybook (specifically what comes to mind is the version of the velveteen rabbit i had as a kid) started moving, all mixed with german expressionism. it moves with the same dream logic as a storybook as well, in some very fun spooky ways. the army of dancing clock men chanting her name show up about 10 seconds after they just barely avoid getting crushed by a trolley full of glowing red skeletons. i loved this one, this is what animation has been about since the very beginning

the running man - yoshiaki kawajiri #3

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO!!!! this is the shit i'm here for! 15 minutes of perfect vibes, cyberpunk death races driving a guy insane as he's haunted by the ghosts of all the racers he's killed over the years. this is a classic horror short story. love his psychic powers slowly growing out of control until they kill him as he's freaking out about the ghosts, love the way each car crash is lovingly rendered in more and more sick detail as the short goes on, ending with his own crash which is the longest and most detailed of them all. the gnarly kawajiri animation is perfect for this, this is exactly what i want from him. incredible images, this alone would justify me watching all his stuff regardless of the quality of any of his other works

construction cancellation circus - katsuhiro otomo