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Tora-chan and Miike and playing while their big sister prepares for her wedding. Just then a letter arrives; it's from Grandfather, who writes that he won't allow the wedding as long as he lives! Brid...read more.
| Movie | 02-??-48 |
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A 7-minute short film (monochrome) produced by Japanese cartoon film company under the request of the Fire Defense Agency to educate children on the importance of fire fighting. Original work is Eiich...read more.
| Movie | 02-01-48 |
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A commissioned movie by the Japanese National Railways for new-hires. It shows how a carefree station master almost causes an accident between two strains.
| Movie | 10-??-48 |
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A second commisioned movie by the Japanese National Railways for new-hires. This time it follows a carefree engineer's mistake while driving a train.
| Movie | 06-??-49 |
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Two animal baseball teams, The Foxes and The Rabbits, battle it out on the field for supremacy. Eventually, the star hitter for The Foxes finds himself up at bat and the final hope for his team's vict...read more.
| Movie | 09-??-49 |
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Movie | 10-??-49 | |
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A game of baseball featuring animals. One team is made up of gorillas, while the other is mixed animals. The gorilla team easily overpowers the other animals. (Source: AniDB)
| Movie | 12-??-49 |
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A retelling of part of the Gulliver's Travels adventures. A short film from 1950.
| Movie | ??-??-50 |
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Tora-chan and Miike are working on the side of a tuna steamship and manage to run afoul of the short-tempered captain. But the captain makes plenty of trouble on his own!
| Movie | ??-??-50 |
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A musical movie about a tiny village with tiny people. A tiny child fed a starving caterpillar his last rice cake. There was a race held soon after to determine who the king will be. The caterpillar h...read more.
| Movie | 12-??-50 |
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One of Oofuji's first films shot in colour.
| Movie | ??-??-51 |
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Movie | ??-??-51 | |
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Movie | 02-??-51 | |
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Heibei and his companions are involved in a fight against bandits.
| Movie | ??-??-52 |
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An adaptation of the classic Japanese folktale Urashima Tarou.
| Movie | ??-??-52 |
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Movie | ??-??-52 | |
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Remake of Oofuji's earlier film from the year 1927. (Source: AniDB)
| Movie | 12-??-52 |
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Two rabbits who are good friends go into the woods one day and find a big mushroom. Both rabbits want the mushroom, so they get into a argument about it.
| Movie | ??-??-53 |
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Movie | ??-??-53 | |
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During a concert in the forest, the big bad wolf begins to annoy the other animals with his foul smoking, noisy interruptions and destruction of the grounds. The other animals band together and eject...read more.
| Movie | 03-??-53 |
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Movie | 08-??-53 | |
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The beautiful girl Cinterrier (like the terrier version of Cinderella), was proposed to by many dogs. Who finally got her heart? (Source: ANIDO)
| Movie | ??-??-54 |
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The story is about a proud frog who likes to boast. The frog competes with other animals and boasts about being the best at different things—even flying.
| Movie | ??-??-54 |
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Movie | ??-??-54 | |
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The duckling's mother went to her mother's house and entrusted the duckling to the Mother Chicken's care. Mother Chicken's child, Xiao Hua, asks the duckling to play the "Eagle Catches the Chicks" gam...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-54 |
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Mama Rabbit is having difficulties in raising her little bunnies.
| Movie | 03-??-54 |
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A kappa village is devastated by a large storm during festival preparations. With no fish in the river, the village is weakened. Kawatarou and his girlfriend head the mountains to find anything to bri...read more.
| Movie | 04-??-54 |
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An early color animation which uses the color to help tell the story. Three butterflies save a bird that falls out of it's nest during a rainstorm. The butterflies decide to ask the flowers for cover,...read more.
| Movie | 10-??-54 |
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Movie | ??-??-55 | |
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A long time ago, there was a very beautiful bird with beautiful feathers and a sweet singing voice. Other birds admired her. As autumn approached, the birds were busy building nests and storing food t...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-55 |
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The little flower pig's food was snatched by a crow, so he follows the crow far away. However, the little pig who was left behind began crying because he couldn't find the little flower pig. The littl...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-55 |
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A stop motion puppet animation adapting a popular Chinese fairy tale about an old man and a wolf.
| Movie | ??-??-55 |
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Movie | ??-??-55 | |
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Movie | ??-??-55 | |
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A boy and a girl work on a farm. The boy takes a break to play the violin which the girl and farm animals love to hear. The farm owner was mean and smashed the boy's violin. In his sad state he encoun...read more.
| Movie | 10-??-55 |
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Movie | 12-26-55 | |
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After a victorious military campaign, a general returns home to glory and prosperity. The king rewards him and claims that all enemies will be intimidated by the general. From then on, the general no...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-56 |
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A short puppet animation movie by Tadahito Mochinaga.
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A short puppet animation movie by Tadahito Mochinaga.
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A short puppet animation movie by Tadahito Mochinaga.
| Movie | ??-??-56 |
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The little rabbit was playing hiding and seek with its mother, but the mother worried that the little rabbit would meet a wolf. The mother sang a song that described what a wolf looks like, and mimick...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-56 |
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A puppet stop motion animation adapted from a Chinese folk tale about a witty goat who hides in a cave from a tiger. The goat lies to the tiger that it is the king of the mountain and eats tigers, sca...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-56 |
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Movie | ??-??-56 | |
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Movie | ??-??-56 | |
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A careless lady goes home to see her ill mother, but she mistakenly packed a pillow as her baby and loses the pack in the way home. (Source: IMDb)
| Movie | ??-??-56 |
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Movie | ??-??-56 | |
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Film about a ghost ship. There is no dialogue, just music and a choir.
| Movie | 04-??-56 |
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On a winter's night a bear, a fox and a squirrel seek refuge from the cold. They are drawn by the hearths in the homes of two woodcutters. One man treats them poorly, while the other welcomes them. (S...read more.
| Movie | 07-01-56 |
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Little Black Sambo was screened at the first Vancouver International Film Festival in 1958, and won the Best Film award in the Films for Children section. (Source: AniDB)
| Movie | 11-??-56 |