Drama Anime
A.LI.CE
Alice, the youngest person ever to be sent into space, is the only survivor when her flight crashes back to earth. Not only is she the only survivor, but she learns that she has been mysteriously catapulted 30 years to the future, where a mysterious dictator known as Nero rules the world with and iron fist and has sent his soldiers to capture, or kill her.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Kaze no You ni
Sanpei is a boy beekeeper and the sole survivor of an accident that killed his entire family. Sanpei meets Chiyo, a girl who gets stung by a bee, and starts a new life in her village. Eventually, Sanpei cultivates the land that the villagers had abandoned, and then disappears. In the land now filled with flowers, Chiyo waits, believing Sanpei will return.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Pattenrai!! Minami no Shima no Mizu Monogatari
The film was directed by Noboru Ishiguro (The Super Dimension Fortress Macross) and is based on the true story of Yoichi Hatta (1886-1942), a civil engineer who traveled to Japanese-ruled Taiwan in 1910 to build a complex irrigation system in the barren southwest. Hatta manages to overcome the initial doubts of local farmers, but a tragic tunnel accident eventually halts the project and shakes his confidence.
(Source: AniDB)
Takarajima Memorial: Yuunagi to Yobareta Otoko
A short story during Jim's adventure at sea. He encounters a man at a bar who told a tail about a one-legged man. Thinking it's Silver who the man is referring too, Jim later asked him for details. The man told Jim that, near the coast Maratoran, Silver left the ship they were on went to the island on a small boat. Jim, who couldn't go at the time, left for Maratoran six years later. He met Silver's wife and son there.
Patchin shite! Obaa-chan
The story takes place in Kanazawa and tells the story of Yasue, an old woman who suddenly became very ill, her whole body paralyzed. She is told by her doctor she only has two weeks to live...
Emerald no Oka
Music video directed by Kouhei Yoshino for the song Emerald no Oka by Japanese pop duo moumoon in their fifth full-length album "LOVE before we DIE". A short version of the music video was released on the avex YouTube channel, with the full version later being included on DVD and Blu-ray along with the release of the album. It was later uploaded to moumoon's official YouTube channel.
Ikedaya Soudou
Independent film by Yanagihara Ryouhei, member of the Animation Sannin no Kai pioneer group of independent animation. It tells the story of the Ikedaya raid by the Shinsengumi from the point of view of the neighbors of the Ikedaya.
Chiisai Sensuikan ni Koi o Shita Dekasugiru Kujira no Hanashi
The third film in Shin-Ei's series of annual WWII themed anime television movies for children "Sensou Douwa" (war story).
Taiman Blues: Ladies-hen - Mayumi
Fifteen-year-old Mayumi has to move to the rough end of Osaka when her parents split and remarry. She meets Noriko, who helps her settle into her new life. Through Noriko's job at a petrol station, they got to know Big Bear and his biker gang, and eventually get into their own gang of girls racers.
(Source: The Anime Encyclopedia)
Soliton no Akuma
In the future, tensions are rising between Japan and China. The jewel of humankind is the new Ocean Techno Polis, a man-made city which floats above the sea. One day, a mysterious catastrophe destroys a Taiwanese submarine followed by the entire city of Ocean Techno Polis. One of the engineers of Ocean Techno Polis, Kurase, must race to rescue his family. Along the way, he must deal with a Japanese navy trying to keep their own secrets under wraps, and discover why Ocean Techno Polis sank to the bottom of the sea. Based on the 1995 novel by Katsufumi Umehara.
Kankara Sanshin
A film about the Battle of Okinawa during the last days of World War II.
During the World War II island hopping campaign there was a fierce battle on Okinawa that devastated the population and ravaged the land and left a mark on the populace of the Okinawan people forever. After the war Okinawa was under the control of the United Stated Military. Without any goods and extreme scarcity of Natural resources the Okinawans were in a desperate day to day survival for the basic needs of life. The Okinawans however, despite their dire situation used song and dance to lighten their spirit and make the best of the situation.
But with the loss of almost everything of value on island due to constant shelling bombing and fighting between the Japanese and American all the regular sanshin (an Okinawan musical instrument and precursor of the Japanese shamisen) had become very scarce and hard to find. The American were supplying the Okinawans with powdered milk among other items to help keep starvation low. And from those cans of food they would find a way to bring music back to the people again.
(Source: AniDB)
Inochi
An official music video for the musician Hiwa. It was also shown later at the 2015 Kyoto International Art and Film Festival.
