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The first full cel-animated short. A group of tanukis investigate a temple and cause mischief. (Source: AniDB)
| Movie | 03-19-35 |
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Movie | 03-26-35 | |
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Dreaming of rising up in the world, Chibisuke the little bonze travels to the city, where he becomes a retainer to a Cabinet minister, who takes a liking to Chibisuke who dances for him in his palm. O...read more.
| Movie | 05-08-35 |
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When a poor, yet honest, man rescues an old man who has fallen off a log bridge, the little people of the forest give him a "Mortar of Treasures" that will grant any item that a person desires. The ma...read more.
| Movie | 09-12-35 |
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Movie | 09-16-35 | |
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Ninja Fireball Boy, a young rascal whose adventures are depicted in a continually morphing, highly inventive style, faces various adversaries and creatures such as bats and spiders. (Source: IMDB)
| Movie | 11-09-35 |
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The short is the third Hana Yori Dango short about Dangonosuke the samurai boy. In the story, Dangonosuke rescues a woman captured by bandits. (Source: ANN)
| Movie | 11-20-35 |
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Very short movie from 1936 about a war between monkeys and Octopuses.
| Movie | ??-??-36 |
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A 1936 movie short about Taro a young man and his adventures against various creatures from different legends.
| Movie | ??-??-36 |
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A short morality/folktale film about an old couple that learn the virtue of not being greedy.
| Movie | ??-??-36 |
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A short film about frogs and a fish trying to eat them all.
| Movie | ??-??-36 |
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The hero Taro attempts to rescue a kidnapped girl from a bandit. Short film from 1936.
| Movie | ??-??-36 |
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A boy competes in various events during the Olympic games. Short film from 1936.
| Movie | ??-??-36 |
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The mischievous Chinkoroheibei visits the underwater realm of the fish king where he tries to steal the king's treasure box.
| Movie | ??-??-36 |
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A country of peaceful frogs is attacked by a country of devils. The film is meant for crisis awareness as Japan was on the brink of war with China at the time. Unfortunately, both countries did end up...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-36 |
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A man loses his hook whilst fishing and goes to retrieve it.
| Movie | ??-??-36 |
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An unemployed man picks up a flyer which happens to be a notice asking for investors to put up capital for raising a sunken ship. The sum is 10 yen each. To the man, who cannot even scrape together en...read more.
| Movie | 06-06-36 |
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A seven minute long short-movie directed by Kon Ichikawa in 1936.
| Movie | 11-??-36 |
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Short film about a princess being kidnapped.
| Movie | ??-??-37 |
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Movie | 10-27-37 | |
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A wandering swordsman arrives in a village and saves the citizens from bandits' attack.
| Movie | ??-??-38 |
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Short movie by Noburou Oofuji.
| Movie | 04-20-38 |
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A boy works hard to please his lord and gain advancement. Short film from 1938.
| Movie | 12-05-38 |
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The animals are having a swimming contest. The strutting Saru-kun, a monkey, can't bring himself to admit that he cannot swim, and puts himself forward as a contestant. He dives right in, but immediat...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-39 |
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Crabs ban together to get right of an ape in their peach tree after it keeps stealing their food and hitting them with the fruits to the point where one gets severely injured.
| Movie | ??-??-39 |
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A short film based on the Kachikachi Yama folktale.
| Movie | ??-??-39 |
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Benkei tai Ushiwaka is a short animated Japanese film made in 1939 by Kenzō Masaoka. It is based on the legendary encounter between Saitō Musashibō Benkei, who was collecting swords for the Buddha, an...read more.
| Movie | 07-??-39 |
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Ducks get into a conflict with frogs and start a war.
| Movie | ??-??-40 |
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A 10-minute film based on the folktale of the same name. The screenplay was done by Masaoka Kenzo.
| Movie | 01-05-40 |
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Butterfly, a faithful Japanese wife, waits patiently in Nagasaki for the return of her American husband, Pinkerton. She sees the Stars and Stripes fluttering atop an approaching ship and rightly surmi...read more.
| Movie | 05-16-40 |
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A young man in a leotard leads a group of animals in a sumo wrestling match. The bear is the final victor of all the animals, but then loses when he must face Kintaro.
| Movie | 09-19-40 |
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Ari-chan, an ant child, finds a violin in a sand pit and steals it to play with it.
| Movie | ??-??-41 |
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The Neighborhood Community (Tonari-gumi) was the smallest unit of population which was the national mobilization program established by the Japanese government during the World War II. This was to reg...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-41 |
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Spring, the fox is in the middle of a party. Workers' family of raccoon dogs reveal their field work during the hot summer and harvest autumn. A fox who stupidly hunts the Raccoon dumplings carrying t...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-41 |
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Tang Sanzang and his three protectors—Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing—are journeying far to the west when they encounter "Fire Mountain." The flames of Fire Mountain are so ferocious that no man...read more.
| Movie | 01-01-41 |
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A baby kangaroo's family and friends try to save him from a bad old wolf. Short film from 1940.
| Movie | 02-??-41 |
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Monkeys battle polar bears in air combat. Short film from 1942.
| Movie | ??-??-42 |
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This is the Animal Village within the forest. The Monkey Family with many children, the Bear Family, the Raccoon Family and many other animal families live happily together in this village. One night,...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-42 |
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Woodland animal citizens learn how to extinguish different types of incendiary bombs and help fight back against an enemy air force of wolves.
| Movie | ??-??-42 |
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The first film of the Fuku-chan trilogy. Based on a popular newspaper comic strip at the time, Fuku-chan was re-invented for propaganda use.
| Movie | 03-15-42 |
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A war propaganda film which begins with Roosevelt and Churchill in a secret meeting preparing their spy plans. Western spies in fancy suits and top hats parachute into Japan, disturbing innocent farme...read more.
| Movie | 07-16-42 |
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Momotaro sends a sneak aircraft attack to sink the ships of Demon Island, using his animal companions as crew members and pilots.
| Movie | 03-25-43 |
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A spider attempts to lure a ladybug into his web. When she manages to escape and hide in a tulip, a storm comes that batters the spider, while the ladybug remains safe.
| Movie | 04-15-43 |
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The second film of the Fuku-chan triology. Based on a popular newspaper comic strip at the time, Fuku-chan was re-invented for propaganda use. In this one Fuku-chan tries to rally up the fighting spir...read more.
| Movie | 07-01-43 |
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A war propaganda film by Oofuji Noburou.
| Movie | 11-26-43 |
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Fuku-chan was one of the most popular newspaper comic strip boy-characters in Japan at the time. The film portrays a submarine attack on an enemy cargo ship. Though this, too, was to boost patriotism,...read more.
| Movie | 11-09-44 |
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A monkey, a dog, a pheasant, and a bear travel southward after resting in their villages at the foot of Mt. Fuji. A squadron flies to Onigashima under the command of Momotarou. Parachutes blossom in t...read more.
| Movie | 04-12-45 |
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A western occupation propaganda film in which a boy repairs a western style doll that comes to life and uses a magic pen to rebuild his bleak and war torn world into a happy place resembling western c...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-46 |
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A visually artistic animation with no real story. It follows a pair of butterflies as they drift past various beautiful depictions of people and animals. (Source: AniDB)
| Movie | ??-??-46 |
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An adaptation of the classic tale of the spider silk, where a man sentenced in Hell tries to escape by climbing a string of spider silk hanging from above.
| Movie | ??-??-46 |