An educational film about the importance of helping people starring the Ojarumaru cast.
King Kaniwa has robbed the flower's "preciousness" which gives life to all stars. Taabou stands up to rescue the desert star.
The stars have stopped moving! It's up to Taabou to find out what's causing them to freeze in time.
In a Buddhist heaven where saints fight over turf in the clouds, Nio-maru searches for the younger sister torn from him in an aircraft accident back in the human world.
(Source: The Anime Encyclopedia)
The life story of Jodou Shinshuu founder Shinran.
An educational film showing the importance of connectence between people even when you fail in certain aspects of your life.
Anime adaptation of the manga "Udauda Yatteru Hima wa Nee!" by Hideyuki Yonehara, serialized in Weekly Shounen Champion.
Shinken Seminar Koukou Kouza is Benesse's correspondence course that helps middle school students get into their high schools of choice. The story follows a middle school boy named Shouta as he strives to get in the right high school, despite the appearance of a rival.
After the death of his elder brother, Ginjiro Yamazaki appoints himself his parents' protector. After transferring to a new school, he gets into a lot of fights.
(Source: The Anime Encyclopedia)
This animated film is comprised of five themes chosen from Tezuka Osamu's collection of essays "Essay in Idleness of Insects" in which he had compiled studies on insects. Although this collection contains mainly academic studies, it also includes records of insect observation that lead to literary conclusions with mysterious or mythical imagery.
The five essays are done in different animation techniques, and each episode is followed by a scene with the boy Tezuka Osamu and a swallow-tailed butterfly called "Oomurasaki." The film depicts the boy Tezuka Osamu desperately chasing Oomurasaki with his butterfly net, together with what he saw in his dreams. This work was screened at the show "Tezuka Osamu: Images of the Past and Future".
(Source: tezukaosamu.net)
Long ago, there lived a young man named Yosuke in the village of Shiiba in Hyuuga.
"I want enough money and possessions to live a luxurious life without having to work"
Yohei abandoned his job in his impoverished village, where only barnyard millet, oxtail millet and beans could be grown. He fled into the mountains, where one night he witnessed a strange sight.
A blue ogre clinging to a large cedar tree split its back, began to shed its skin and quickly transformed into a red ogre. Yosuke stole the shed skin, wore it and began committing crimes in the village.
However, when he tried to take off the skin, he couldn't get it off no matter what he did...
(Source: Official Website, translated)
An educational film about empathy in Japan. In the movie's example, uses a sci-fi twist to show how the hearts of others to the main character in certain situations.
An educational anime about that teaches how to self reflect and communicate with empathy towards others.