Nobody talks about this one. A woodpecker taps on the same tree, over and over, and the film just lets you sit with it, no music swelling to tell you what to feel, no plot twist waiting. Tadanari Okamoto's puppet animation moves like breath, like the actual speed of a living thing observing the world. You watch a small creature doing a small thing, and somehow that becomes enough. This is cinema built on the faith that you don't need to be moved, you need to be still.

A thief comes up with a scheme to rob a whole city, and his method is an odd one: he teaches woodpeckers to tap on buttons for him. Tadanari Okamoto brings the story to the screen as a puppet-animated film, with the thief and his birds rendered as puppets. The quiet slice of life film centers on this unusual plan and the birds at its heart.