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Movie | 07-28-17 | |
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Movie | 08-11-17 | |
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Short movie produced by the first generation animator Kitayama Seitarou. Based on the Japanese fairy tale Hanasaka Jiijii, also called Hanasaka Jiisan.
| Movie | 08-26-17 |
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Mukuzou goes fishing but fastens the fishing line to a car which ends in failure.
| Movie | 09-09-17 |
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This advertising film was already described as one of three films presented by the Ministry of Communications on 11 August 1917 to encourage the use of postal saving accounts. (Source: Litten, Frederi...read more.
| Movie | 10-07-17 |
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An animated adaptation of the folktale of Bunbuku Chagama.
| Movie | 10-10-17 |
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This is a short film made in the fall of 1917. It is about a girl asking for rice.
| Movie | 10-18-17 |
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Movie | 10-20-17 | |
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Urashima Tarou is based on a well-known Japanese folk tale about an honest fisherman who is invited to an underwater castle after saving a sea turtle on a beach from bullies. (Source: forum.bcdb.com)...read more.
| Movie | 02-01-18 |
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A film by Kitayama Kiyotaro, follows a snowman who came to life in a fairytale like setting.
| Movie | 02-15-18 |
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Movie | 02-28-18 | |
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An early anime telling the story of Momotarou and his adventures defeating demons.
| Movie | 03-01-18 |
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Movie | 03-16-18 | |
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Based on the tale Kobutori-jiisan about an honest old man who encounters a band of tengu, mythical bird-like creatures making merry and joins their dancing. They liked his dancing a lot that they remo...read more.
| Movie | 03-19-18 |
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The story of a couple who prays to God for a child, even if he would only be the size of a thumb.
| Movie | 03-20-18 |
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In this tale an ant and a pigeon help each other.
| Movie | 07-18-18 |
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Movie | 08-04-18 | |
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A short film by Seitarou Kitayama to promote oral hygiene.
| Movie | ??-??-23 |
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A retelling of the classic Aesop Fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. (Source: AniDB)
| Movie | ??-??-24 |
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Movie | ??-??-24 | |
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An early Noburou Oofuji film, it was artificially coloured in the senshoku (tinting) method, where the developed film was immersed in dye baths.
| Movie | ??-??-24 |
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Movie | ??-??-24 | |
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Movie | ??-??-24 | |
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One of the first examples of the tale is Hakuzan Kimura's Dreamy Urashima (Nonkinatousan Ryugu Mairi, 1925), in which a lazy man wakes up from his sleep and heads off to the seaside to spend the day f...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-25 |
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Classical animation created by Kouuchi Junichi. (Source: AniDB)
| Movie | ??-??-25 |
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Once upon a time, there was a lord in Shinano Province who hated old men. In accordance with the rules of the province, a person was exiled to an island when they turned 60 years old. On the night of...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-25 |
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An early silhouette animated film by Hidehiko Okuda, Hakusan Kimura and Tomu Uchida. The original story is a Buddhist tale of a young lady who saved a crab (a spiritual being according to Japanese Bud...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-25 |
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"Industrious farmer Tasuke makes the necessary sacrifices to advance his station in life from a farmer to a store-owner. Based on a well-known kabuki tale Shiobara Tasuke ichitai-ki (The Life Story of...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-25 |
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Classical animation directed by Yamamoto Sanae.
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Classical animation created by Junichi Kouchi.
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Classical animation created by Junichi Kouchi.
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A short film based on the classic novel Journey to the West.
| Movie | ??-??-26 |
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The oldest recovered film by Noburou Oofuji that combines paper cutout animation with live action shots. (Source: animation.filmarchives.jp)
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A short film directed by Takeo Ueno (上野武夫).
| Movie | ??-??-26 |
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Eating a fish of frying, making flies in food due to improper circumstances, doing washing in the river, etc, the terrible venom spreads unexpectedly. In order to prevent it, it is essential to disinf...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-26 |
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A series of animations and quotes depicting the political ideologies of Shinpei Goto, a cabinet member in the Taisho period.
| Movie | ??-??-26 |
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In order to win the hand of a princess, a man must defeat an evil dragon and claim its treasured magic stone. Upon his return, Baghdad has been invaded and he must use the stone to defeat his new enem...read more.
| Movie | 10-06-26 |
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Lost film by Oofuji Noburou that was remade in 1952.
| Movie | ??-??-27 |
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A somewhat historical tale about a famous Japanese businessman who made his fortune by shipping oranges from the farmlands to the capital city of Edo.
| Movie | 02-11-27 |
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A father crab Kanisuke and his son Kanitaro sow persimmon seeds in their garden that they got from Sarukichi the monkey. A large sprout begins to grow, and it turns into a tree which then bears a lot...read more.
| Movie | 05-??-27 |
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Movie | 05-??-27 | |
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Based on the Urashima Taro tale, the story is about how the Octopus lost its skeleton. (Source: AniDB)
| Movie | 11-02-27 |
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Short film from 1928 about a samurai fighting demons.
| Movie | ??-??-28 |
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An old couple finds a child in a fruit.
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Short patriotic war short film by Hakusan Kimura.
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This is the country of fish. There are enemies other than whales. (Source: Japanese Animated Film Classics)
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Movie | 04-27-28 | |
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A short film about a man who rescues a tanuki. When the tanuki transforms himself into a teapot, he is given to a temple as a gift. Once inside the temple, the tanuki reverts to his true form and caus...read more.
| Movie | 07-??-28 |
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A short movie produced by Yasuji Murata. Based on the Japanese fairy tale Hanasaka Jiijii, also called Hanasaka Jiisan. A kind old man and his wife dig up the ground where their dog is barking, and fi...read more.
| Movie | 07-??-28 |