Movie Anime
Okuni no Tame ni
A short film depicting the exploits of a farmer deployed in the Russo-Japanese war during the siege of Port Arthur.
Mukashi Mukashi Momotarou
A stop motion film about the classic Japanese tale of Momotarou.
Ari to Hato (1959)
In this tale an ant and a pigeon help each other. Third remake of the Ari to Hato.
Shitakiri Suzume
This is a short film made in the fall of 1917. It is about a girl asking for rice.
Youkai Watch: Youkai Gakuen Y - Neko wa Hero ni Nareru ka
Set in Y-Academy, an elite school that only allows students with top class abilities to enter. The protagonist, Jiba Jinpei, and his unique friends take on the mysteries of the school as transforming heroes.
(Source: Yokai Watch Wiki)
Kanojo no Dokushinsha-tachi ni Yotte Hadaka ni Sareta Seifuku no Shoujo Kenkyuu
A surreal, pop-art depiction of a young girl losing her virginity.
(Source: IMDb)
Umi ni Ochita Tsuki no Hanashi
The moon that fell into the deep sea woke up in the darkness. An angler fish came there. The moon explained why he fell into the sea, but the angler fish did not hear the story because he was absorbed in fishing. Eating a fish, he went away. A shark came next. He tried to take the moon to the sky, but he got too tired partway and left the moon. Crabs came. They carried the moon to the beach, because they needed the light of a full moon to lay their eggs. When they finished laying their eggs, they went home. The moon left alone on the beach was washed away by the waves and returned into the sea. The moon rolled down a hill and fell on a turtle. It was a very old turtle who should know a lot. The moon asked him how to go back to the sky. The turtle asked a ray in the sand to take the moon with him. The ray took the moon with him and dropped the moon in the deepest sea. The moon sank deeper and deeper. There was a big fish in the bottom of the sea. Wrapped in particles of light coming out from the mouth of the big fish, the moon emerged on the surface of the sea and melted.
Did the moon return to the sky? This animation can be interpreted differently by different viewers. It can be interpreted, for example, as a story of the moon that fell into the sea whether in reality or in a dream, or as a story of an old moon that had to die for the birth of a new moon, or as a story of a soul heading for heaven. Whatever interpretation viewers make, the story conveys a positive message that we are all allowed to exist. Represented by this animation is a small world gently embracing us all -- transient existence...
(Source: YouTube)
Umi kara no Shisha
An independent anime project by Nosferatu.
The film was screened at the Mini-Cinema Tollywood in Shimo-Kitazawa, Setagaya, Tokyo starting Saturday, August 21, 2010.
(Source: AniDB)
Kanimanji Engi
A silhouette animation in which a religious young girl builds a Buddhist temple in honour of crabs that saved her from a big snake in human form.
Umi Da! Funade Da! Nikoniko, Pun
Attack No.1 (1970)
The first recap film of Attack No.1, it covers the first 6 episodes of the TV anime.
Kozue is a high school girl and an enthusiastic volleyball player. Her dream is to play on the Japanese national volleyball team. Over the course of the series she makes it from the school district league up to the Japanese volleyball finals, step by step until the international volleyball championship. But the faster and higher Kozue climbs, the more she is confronted with the dark side of success: too-high expectations, self-conceit, and envy.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Kindan no Mokushiroku Crystal Triangle
In times of olde, God gave mankind the ten commandments, and a message that has been lost to the centuries. In the present, Koichiro Kamishiro is a modern day Indiana Jones who scours (and often destroys) ruins for hints of the past, until one day he runs across a box filled with two crystal triangles. Having inadvertently run across the key to God's lost message, Kamishiro suddenly has a lot to deal with including assassination attempts by the KGB and the CIA, aliens hell-bent on destroying the Earth and the love of several women!
(Source: MAL)
Goichi Jisan
Children beg Old Man Goichi of the water mill to tell them a story. So he tells them the story of The Two Dogs while his rice cooks. In the story, a white dog and a black dog find a piece of meat on the road, but the two greedy dogs start fighting over the meat. When they get tired of fighting, they decide to divide the meat using a ruler and saw. But then they start fighting again saying one piece is bigger than the other. Then, they ask a wise monkey to settle the issue for them. Saying that it would measure the weights for them, the sly monkey eats a little of whichever piece was larger until he eats almost all of it. Seeing the now tiny pieces of meat placed in front of them, the two dogs start crying. After finishing the story, Old Man Goichi teaches the children that if you are greedy, you will come out on the losing side.
(Source: Japanese Animated Film Classics)
Yowai Mushi
Another clip from Tekken, denouncing the intimidation experienced by certain Japanese.