You watch stop-motion made from half-shaped relief puppets against real photographs of Fussa, and the strangeness of it, the texture, the deliberate artificiality, becomes inseparable from what the film is actually about. A pet egg that eats people grows bigger each night, and instead of horror, you get something quieter: a meditation on hunger, loneliness, and the moon reflected in bone. The animation isn't decoration. It's the entire point of being here.

A man keeps a strange egg as his pet, and it devours people: one victim is a woman drinking at a bar late in the evening, another an elderly violinist. With each passing day the egg swells in size. Then one night it finds nothing to eat, and the film turns to a poetic image of the moon and a skeleton. Yamamura Kouji created the short using half-relief puppet animation over photographic backdrops taken in Fussa, blending comedy with mystery.