Tetsuya Nakashima is probably the one director in Japan who really gets me excited these days. He made several films before his KAMIKAZE GIRLS crossed over in the West, and his follow-up, MEMORIES OF MATSUKO, was probably the best movie released in 2007. Coming up this September is his kid's film, PACO AND THE MAGIC PICTURE BOOK, about a little girl with a traumatic brain injury living in a hospital surrounded by the imaginary friends who pop out of a storybook she's obsessed with. With an all-star cast (Anna Tsuchiya, Koji Yakusho) and a ton of CGI it's like a summer Disney blockbuster spiced up with some dark surrealism.

And now the first teaser for it is online, streaming on the official PACO site, or in easier-to-load form over on the YouTubes.

Anime News Network also reports that Nakashima will be supervising a series of six-minute Flash-animated shorts that will air on Japanese TV on Mondays between now and September when PACO is released in theaters. The shorts are all based on the stories in the magical picture book.

To tide you over, here's a link to Nakashima's deeply profound, sense-shattering short film, ROLLING BOMBER SPECIAL.

(More PACO information in English) 

(Thanks to logboy for sending this one in)