Historical Anime
Kyouryuu Wakusei
First show in the Virtual Trilogy, a mix of anime & live action shots. The story is about the TV Warriors who enter a virtual simulation of the past and encounter Dinosaur-humanity.
Hayabusa: Back to the Earth - Kikan
CG anime about a satellite's journey back to Earth.
Kyokujitsu no Kantai
In Kyokujitsu no Kantai, Japan builds up on its success in the earlier series by expanding its blue-water capabilities to reach the Atlantic Ocean, challenging the Kriegsmarine in the process. Nazi Germany also launches a surgical strike on the White House and the Japanese fleet repels a German invasion of Britain.
Kuzuryuugawa to Shounen
An educational film about the Kuzuryuu River in Japan. It starts out in the Meiji Era where the villages along it kept getting plagued by floods. The villagers prayed for it to stop but it did nothing. A young boy who lost his childhood friend to the floods grows up into a man and decides to take matters into his own hands. He starts constructing an embankment which leads to a village-wide project which spread to other villages along the river.
Kushimitama Samurai
The blind samurai Haku can perceive that which cannot be seen by the eye. But he does not try to see the world that the eye can see. 'This world is the full of darkness' Attacked by thief in the dead of night, he lost both his parents and his sight. From that day on his faith in the world was gone.
(Source: IMDb)
Kuroi Ame ni Utarete
Black rain, which contained plenty of radioactivity, poured into Hiroshima just after the bombing. The effects of the death ash extend to the second and third generations and still cast the shadow of death behind the living witnesses.
(Source: Official Site)
Kuro ga Ita Natsu
Japan, summer of 1945. Nobuko, an elementary school girl, saves a little cat from crows. She desparately wants to keep the cat in her home. It is the time everyone suffers shortage of food, so naturally her parents don't like the idea. But Nobuko manages to convince them. She names the cat Kuro (black). Kuro eventually brings laughter to the family. However, the war situation becomes worse and worse...
(Source: sazuma.com)
Yamiyo no Jidaigeki
Tensho 10 (1582) during the Warring States period. Akechi Mitsuhide heads to Saigoku for the reinforcement of Hideyoshi Hashiba at the behest of Nobunaga Oda, and meets the ghost of Shuten-doji, a demon who was once exterminated by his ancestors, at Oenosaka on the way.
Yamiyo no Jidaigeki (OVA)
A direct sequel that was put straight to video. The Ear of Jinsuke, about a wandering swordsman saving a damsel in distress from evil spirits. Prints from the Fall of the Bakufu, features a tomboy from a woodcut works charged with making a print of the young warrior Okita Soji.
(Source: Anime Encyclopedia)
Akadou Suzunosuke
A young swordsman finds himself involved in a plot to overthrow the shogunate.
(Source: AniDB)
Yishu Xueyuan
In the 1990s, a group of students on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts are pursuing their studies and preparing to face the world. China is opening up to the West and the students’ lives are a tangle of love stories and friendships, artistic research, ideals and ambitions brought about by new influences. Caught between tradition and modernity, they have to decide who they want to become.
(Source: Berlin International Film Festival)
Hikawa Maru Monogatari
Hirayama Jirou has lost his mother in the Great Kanto Earthquake and now runs a soba stall with his father. He decides to join the crew of the famous ocean liner Hikawa Maru and finds work cooking in the ship's galley. Through his eyes, the film explores the ship's 85-year history.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Himeyuri
The 30-minute film centers around a group of high school nurses called Himeyuri who served during the Battle of Okinawa during World War II.
The Himeyuri Alumnae Incorporated Foundation, which runs the Himeyuri Peace Museum in Okinawa, produced the film with the aim to convey the experiences of those high school nurses, many of whom lost their lives during the battle, to children.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Yoshimune
It is the end of the Edo Era, a flourishing period when stylish civilians, samurai and old-fashioned farmers live peacefully together.
However, if you take a closer look at their lives, you'll notice that it is actually a parallel world in which modern conveniences, such as cellular phones, personal computers, microwave ovens, motorcycles, subways, and so on, exist. If you enter a night club, you'll find young people dancing to blaring trance music. However, you will also find that they wear kimonos, that the darkness is illuminated by candles, and that the stage is covered by tatami mats! While the people reflect the fashions and manners of the Edo Era, they reside within a strange world where the "present" and the "past" coexist.
Welcome to the Yoshimune world that no one has ever seen!
(Source: AnimeNfo)
