Tomoyasu Murata began his work producing puppet animations after being inspired by traditional Japanese puppet theatre, called Bunraku.

Murata employs puppet animation in an expressive way, allowing viewers to experience it with their eyes, ears, sense of touch and even through the air. He has consistently strived to express the idea of mujo (impermanence), which is a very beautiful concept to the Japanese.

In one of his early series entitled “Road”, Murata described the aspect of “absence”. Through small gestures of the puppets' hands and eyes, he expressed things that are not words, and are indeed impossible to put into words.

“Family Deck” is a series of stories that describe the everyday life of a family running a barbershop that used to be located in Murata’s neighborhood but no longer exists. Recreating the old town using miniature sets, Murata undertakes the challenge of recording the rapidly changing town. Employing an old barbershop that actually existed and adding his original family stories, Murata attempts to create a series of works that act as a container for storing memories.

After the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, Murata started to create new series based on the theme of traversing memories regarding life and death. He has so far completed three of his five planned puppet animations: “Okinamai / Forest This Flower Bloom”, “AMETSUCHI”, and “A Branch of a Pine Is Tied up”. In these series, Murata tries to portray the view of mujo(impermanence) through the themes of prayer, chronicling and faith.

村田朋泰受日本傳統木偶劇院「文樂」 (指專門演出人形淨瑠璃的劇場)的啓發開始製作木偶動畫。村田先生製作木偶動畫充滿強烈的表現力，能讓觀眾通過眼睛、耳朵、觸碰甚至空氣去感受。他一直致力去表達「無常」的概念，一個日本人認為極漂亮的概念。

村田先生在他早期的作品系列《道路》描繪了「缺席」的一面；他通過木偶的手和眼睛的一些小動作，表達出不是言語而且無法言喻的東西。《家庭本子》是一個故事系列，描述一家子經營一家理髮店的日常生活，這個家庭曾經是村田先生的鄰居，但那個社區已經不復存在。他用微型佈景道具重新製作出這個老區，並面對著要紀錄城鎮快速更新的挑戰。透過製作一家確實存在過的老理髮店並加添他個人的原生家族故事，村田先生嘗試創造一系列作品去作為裝載回憶的容器。

繼2011年東京大地震後，村田先生開始創作關於穿越生死記憶為主題的新系列。到目前為此，他已經完成了木偶動畫五步曲中的三件作品，作品為《沖繩/花朵盛開的森林》、《天地之間》以及《被綁的松樹枝》。在這個系列當中，他嘗試通過祈禱、編年史、信仰等主題置入無常的觀念。