A 1965 experimental film that moves like a dream someone forgot they were having. The puppets and masks aren't characters, they're questions about control, identity, and whether the person pulling the strings is any freer than the one being pulled. Shot in 35mm by Yoji Kuri himself, it has the weight of something made by hand, frame by frame, when animation was still a form of obsession rather than industry. The pacing refuses to rush you toward answers. It just watches you watching, and that stillness is where the real unease lives.

Kamen no Marionette-tachi is an animated film classed as psychological. It was shown at the first Sogetsu Animation Festival in 1965. The picture was produced on 35mm stock with animation gear that belonged to the animator Yoji Kuri.