Thanks for the memories!

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

A funny and original gag-short directed by the Astroboy creator Osamu Tezuka in the eighties, being one of his most creative experimental animations.Even when the premise seems like something far too simple, it is how it is presented what this short work so well: "Jumping" takes a first person perspective in order to show what the main character of the short (A kid, apparently) finds as he starts to make higher and higher jumps, going to several different places, always with funny and surprising results.The animation of this short is pretty well done, having a unique and atypical visual style which is completely different to any other Japanese animation that I've seen before; having a completely different aesthetic of what is commonly associated with anime. There sceneries are particularly well done, having some of them details that could be appreciated after several viewings.This is a great example of experimental animation from the world, being highly imaginative, unpredictable and entertaining.

What an incredibly cool story!! Without any words and a simple plot, the film makers were able to make an incredibly compelling and exciting animated story. The film begins like either a dream or a world where you have Flubber in your shoes. As the unseen protagonist is bouncing down the road, a car quickly approaches and he/she jumps over it! Then, throughout the film, the person jumps higher and higher and higher. Because they include lots of cute little scenes, believe it or not, this does not become repetitive! For example, if you watch closely you can see C-3PO and R2-D2 in a very brief scene, a naked lady sunbathing, a man being captured by cannibals, a war and even a quick jump down into Hell!! It's so surreal and strange but you just can't stop watching. And, to make it even better, the animation quality is very good and the film bears up to repeated viewing. A wonderful and one of a kind short film.PS--Keep watching the final credits and you'll see them jumping as well!

Directed by Osama Tezuka, Jumping is one of the best entirely hand drawn animated shorts from the late '80s. After the title sequence with the credits quickly going up and down, we see point-of-view jumping shots going from the suburban neighborhood to some forests to some seascapes to over some tall city buildings to many war-torn areas to a giant mushroom cloud to hell twice with both times the devils trying to get you with their pitchfork to finally back to the beginning neighborhood where we hear a little child joyously crying, happy to be back in familiar terrain. Then the credits again jump as we fade to black...This short is most highly recommended to any animation fan. I first saw this in a VHS collection called The International Tournee of Animation, Volume 1 when I checked it out in the Jacksonville Public Library in the late '80s in that city's downtown area.

I remember seeing this on HBO between programs back in 1987. In that time, I experienced the general chaos that is our planet Earth. Definitely one of the most meaningful animated shorts ever made. My life really did change after watching that.