Kakurenbo

Kakurenbo: Hide & Seek
Theatrical poster.
Directed by	Shuhei Morita
Written by	Shuhei Morita
Produced by	Shuhei Morita
Starring	Junko Takeuchi Akiko Kobayashi
Production company	YamatoWorks
Release date	March 2005 (2005-03)
Running time	25 minutes
Language	Japanese

Kakurenbo: Hide & Seek (カクレンボ, Kakurenbo, lit. "Hide and Seek") is a Japanese cel-shaded anime short film written and directed by Shuhei Morita.

The film entails a game of "Otokoyo" (オトコヨ, lit. Man Hunt), a version of hide and seek played by children, wearing fox masks, near the ruins of an abandoned old Kowloon-inspired city. The children who play this disappear, believed to be spirited away by demons. Kakurenbo follows Hikora, a boy who joins the game with hopes of finding his missing sister, Sorincha. The storyline is built on the idea that Tokyo is losing its natural aesthetic, which includes child's games such as hide and seek in order for industrial progress to ensue i.e. lighting the city of Tokyo costing innocence of childhood games.