This one asks you to slow your pulse down to its speed, and if you can, it pays you back. It's a Tadanari Okamoto short, which means every frame is handmade patience from a man who treated a ten-minute film like a life's work, and it does not care that you came in expecting spectacle. The source is a folktale retold by Matsutani Miyoko, so the shape is old, the kind of story that was worn smooth by mouths long before anyone pointed a camera at it. Kishida Kyoko narrates, and her voice does most of the heavy lifting, dry and unhurried, letting silences sit where a lesser production would pile on score. Nobody talks about this one, which is the usual fate of Okamoto's catalogue outside of a small, stubborn crowd. Watch it once with the lights off and no phone. That's the whole ask.

Mizu no Tane is a short film from Okamoto Tadanari that adapts a traditional folk tale, working from the version retold by Matsutani Miyoko. Kishida Kyouko narrates the film and carries the old story from start to finish. It is a brief, single-part work rooted in folklore rather than an original tale.