Nobody talks about this one. A stop-motion short where an old man's casual confession, that he used to be a pirate, spirals into absolute visual chaos, every frame packed with handmade detail that makes you believe someone genuinely built this joke out of clay and love. Tadanari Okamoto's puppet work transforms a simple premise into something that moves like comedy should: sudden, tactile, impossible to predict. It costs seven minutes. It's worth finding.

Ojii-chan ga Kaizoku Datta Koro, whose title translates to When Grandpa Was a Pirate, is a comedy film made with puppet animation. The puppet animation is the work of Tadanari Okamoto.