A series of silent vignettes that dissect modern life with surgical precision, each one a small catastrophe of human vanity. Fashion obsession becomes grotesque, gossip spreads like a disease, progress reveals itself as a costume people wear. Osamu Tezuka made this in 1966 and it still feels like he's watching you from behind the screen, taking notes on every way civilization pretends to move forward while staying exactly the same.

A parade of modern social types passes through this wordless animated comedy, told in short segments set to Mussorgsky's classical suite Pictures at an Exhibition. A plastic surgeon, a woman obsessed with fashion and a spreader of rumors are among the figures sketched in its ten episodes. The omnibus film uses music and images in place of dialogue, and the vignettes build toward a closing remark on the progress of civilization.