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Japanese Nintendo artist and game designer Shigeru Miyamoto is pictured in London, on October 21, 2008.Carl De Souza—AFP/Getty Images  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Sep 12, 2014 12:22 AM UTC He’s created some of the most famous video games of all time, and now Shigeru Miyamoto [is doing some film work](http://2014.tiff-jp.net/news/en/?p=6931) — naturally, based off of Nintendo characters. Miyamoto, who’s been instrumental in creating franchises such as _The Legend of Zelda_ and _Donkey Kong_ and was a 2007 TIME 100 honoree, has produced _PIKMIN Short Movies_, a set of three 3-D short films that will premiere at the Tokyo International Film Festival this year, the festival announced Thursday. The miniature plant-animal hybrids known as Pikmin made their debut in a 2001 game for the Nintendo GameCube, and the series has grown to include two follow-ups, the most recent of which came out last year for Nintendo’s Wii U console. The film series follows the Pikmin and the alien astronaut Captain Olimar, the game’s main character who will work with his tiny friends to explore the world, hunt for treasure and… make natural juices out of natural ingredients. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3330675/shigeru-miyamoto-pikmin/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3330675/shigeru-miyamoto-pikmin/"},"headline":"The Creator of Super Mario Made a Bunch of Short Films","datePublished":"2014-09-12T00:22:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:08:48.759Z","description":"... about Pikmin, the weird plant creatures","url":"https://time.com/3330675/shigeru-miyamoto-pikmin/","keywords":["Video Games","movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt750a8a99b79034b1/6986a2f3d0b6f261b43060b5/shigeru-miyamoto.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt750a8a99b79034b1/6986a2f3d0b6f261b43060b5/shigeru-miyamoto.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Japanese Ninento artist and game designer Shigeru Miyamoto is pictured in London, on October 21, 2008.","caption":"Japanese Ninento artist and game designer Shigeru Miyamoto is pictured in London, on October 21, 2008.","creditText":"Carl De Souza—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/video-games/","name":"Video Games"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3330675/shigeru-miyamoto-pikmin/","name":"The Creator of Super Mario Made a Bunch of Short Films"}}]}] ```