generAIdoscope Omnibus Film Produced Entirely With Generative AI Debuts on August 29
REAL COFFEE ENTERTAINMENT revealed the trailer video and the August 29 debut of generAIdoscope, a full-length original omnibus movie project completely made with generative AI, on Friday. The film will screen at the Uplink Kichijōji Cinema in Tokyo. The film was previously slated to screen in Japanese theaters in 2024. The film features three original stories directed by Hirotaka Adachi (who uses the pen name Otsuichi as a novelist), One Cut of the Dead cinematographer Takeshi Sone, and Hiroki Yamaguchi (Bloody Chainsaw Girl).REALCOFFEE ENTERTAINMENT previously stated that the original stories were written specially for the project, and that all the video, audio, and music in the film are created using generative AI.The three original stories included in the omnibus film project are:During the Age of Exploration, a sailor gets washed ashore on an island inhabited by monkeys. The monkeys become interested in the books the sailor brings as cargo, and start reading them. The monkeys instantly gain intelligence through reading the books and start wearing clothes, making basic tools, and eventually iron tools. The sailor then decides to use the monkeys to escape the island. Azusa Ishizuka is an eccentric girl who has a tendency to daydream. One day, she dreams she meets a female designer at a cafe. In the real world, the designer Azusa met is her dead mother. Wanting to meet her mother again in the real world, Azusa travels between her dreams and the real world to make her dream come true. The story recently won the Best Animation Award at the Seoul International AI Film Festival 2025. In a world in the distant future, Grandma Levit, a former magician, travels around a country with her cat and musical instrument, for just one purpose. She goes from a ruined city to a forest to a huge underground city, and eventually the purpose of her journey is revealed. The story was a selection for the Seoul International AI Film Festival 2025. Adachi uses the pen name Otsuichi for his novels such as Calling You, Goth, and his novel adaptation of loundraw's Summer Ghost anime film. Under his Hirotaka Adachi name, he wrote the screenplay for the Summer Ghost film, and the 2009 Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror film. Most recently, Netflix adapted Adachi's original story to a horror anime series, titled Exception, in 2022.Sone has been independently producing AI films since 2023. Sone directed the My Universe here 2023 AI film, and it was selected to screen at the Japanese Serbian Film Festival that same year. Yamaguchi started video production using generative AI in 2024. His short science-fiction film titled "IMPROVEMENT CYCLE" competed in the new "AI Film International Competition" of the 2024 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival. In July 2024, the AI short film won an award at the Gyeongsangbuk-do International AI Metaverse Film Festival in South Korea.The animated film adaptation of Rika Hirotsu's Shi ga Utsukushii Nante Dare ga Itta (Who Said Death Was Beautiful?) book by motion capture studio Eins, was made through a combination of motion capture technology and generative AI. The film premiered in Japan in December 2023.KaKa Creation and Frontier Works' Twins Hinahima anime project, which was made using AI, aired on television in Japan starting on March 29.Source: Press release
