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Animals gather to compete in Olympic games. This animation was inspired by the 1928 Olympic Games held in Amsterdam.
| Movie | 09-04-28 |
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Anime short from 1929.
| Movie | ??-??-29 |
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An adaptation of Aesop's fable The Ant and the Grasshopper but with a slight change. We have a diligent family ants versus a drunken lazy frog, a bourgeois butterfly and grasshopper couple. As winter...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-29 |
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Movie | 02-16-29 | |
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A man has a strange adventure on a hill as he returns from the village festival.
| Movie | 03-12-29 |
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A combination of live action, traditional animation, and stop motion animation. A father buys his son a toy train, which he loves. When the boy goes to sleep, the train comes to life and crawls into t...read more.
| Movie | 06-18-29 |
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In Kobu-Tori, an old man with a lump growing on his face takes refuge in a hollow tree during a thunderstorm. When he awakens, he finds the forest populated by mythic creatures. He dances with the spr...read more.
| Movie | 10-14-29 |
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Short movie from 1930 about a soldier traveling a great distance to deliver a letter. Along the way he receives a sword from a monkey.
| Movie | ??-??-30 |
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A man and his young son travel through the countryside to take their donkey to a horse auction. Unfortunately every person they pass has a different opinion on how this should be accomplished, leading...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-30 |
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Once upon a time, the birds and the beasts fought each other in a war. It was a terrible conflict, and the clever bats would side with the birds when the birds were looking victorious, and then they w...read more.
| Movie | 01-??-30 |
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Movie from 1930 about a baseball game between rabbits and tanuki.
| Movie | 03-??-30 |
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The sun rises, but snow begins to fall immediately. Two rabbits wearing skis emerge from two houses covered in snow. The two rabbits go to wake Tanuko, the sleepy raccoon dog, and invite him to go ski...read more.
| Movie | 03-07-30 |
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Tale of the chimney sweep, Peroo.
| Movie | 04-13-30 |
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A film about traveling artists arriving from Mishima and Odawara.
| Movie | 05-20-30 |
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A few minutes long black and white anime which shows the traditional Japanese harvest festival, featuring a song by Eiko Hirai.
| Movie | 10-14-30 |
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Short movie from 1931.
| Movie | ??-??-31 |
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Short movie from 1931.
| Movie | ??-??-31 |
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Urashima Taro 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)
| Movie | ??-??-31 |
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Short movie from 1931.
| Movie | ??-??-31 |
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A short movie from 1931 about a mouse stealing a butterfly's wings and her journey to get them back.
| Movie | ??-??-31 |
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A pre-second world war anime from 1931 about the daily life of a Japanese girl named Chameko.
| Movie | ??-??-31 |
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A man in love with a noble lady tries to get close to her with the help of a cat and a dog.
| Movie | ??-??-31 |
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A story of three little bears going on an adventure to find the lost little duck.
| Movie | ??-??-31 |
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Village animals are at a loss what to do about the tyrannical wolf. The clever monkey proposes an idea. (Source: Japanese Animated Film Classics)
| Movie | ??-??-31 |
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A candy man performs for some children in the same manner that tanuki did in folklore.
| Movie | ??-??-31 |
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Two girls were watching a street performer. The girls sang out loud and the performer brought them up front so that they could sing for the audience.
| Movie | ??-??-31 |
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A lighthearted anime about spring time. It was originally set to an elementary school song. The film features several vignettes.
| Movie | ??-??-31 |
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When copper wire is wrapped around an iron rod and connected to a battery, it becomes an electromagnet. A science teaching material movie that explains the principle and structure of electric bells an...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-31 |
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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 t...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-31 |
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A short movie from 1929 about four children who dream of having a pet cat. Their wishes are answered when they encounter a black cat who proceeds to sing them a song about how he and his tabby brother...read more.
| Movie | 01-??-31 |
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One of the first films of Kenzou Masaoka about a baby raised by monkeys on an island.
| Movie | 02-10-31 |
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The chrysanthemum crest opens as the song progresses, and reveals the creation gods Izanagi and Izanami on the Ama no Ukihashi (heavenly bridge). They thrust the Ama no Nuboko (heavenly spear) into th...read more.
| Movie | 05-01-31 |
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A story about a tanuki.
| Movie | 05-28-31 |
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Momotaro has been requested to fight off the Wild Eagle enemy which has suddenly appeared. He takes to the skies in his airplane, accompanied by a dog, a monkey , and a pheasant, and heads for an isla...read more.
| Movie | 10-01-31 |
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Movie | 12-22-31 | |
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Short movie from 1932.
| Movie | ??-??-32 |
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Short movie from 1932.
| Movie | ??-??-32 |
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Spring—birds are singing, frogs are dancing. A cave mother tells the bear to play outside with his brother's son. But beware of scary humans. When a bear takes sumo and eats honey, the hunter shoots w...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-32 |
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A lazy pig Tonpei steals food from the monkeys Sarukichi and assaults some of them. After getting beat up, the pig talks to the lion king and lies to him about what happened. The lion comes to put the...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-32 |
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During a night of drinking Maru-san (Mr. Circle) and Sumi-san (Mr. Square) hear the armies parade of the world and talk to learn more about them on a global scale. In every aspect Japan's army was the...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-32 |
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Looking for Hanako's stolen shoes, black cat detective Felix starts to move.
| Movie | ??-??-32 |
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Four short vignettes in this early animated film. In the first, shadows pull away to reveal a puddle, and automobile and bicycle tires pass through it. In the second, cutout shadows of a variety of sh...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-32 |
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Four ducklings are already swimming in the pond within a few days of hatching. Their mother is sitting on the last and largest egg. The grandmother duck, who likes to chat, worries that it may be a tu...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-32 |
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Several mice make a wreck of a home with their antics and dancing. The mice parents scold them for it. When the house cat comes home from a night of drinking, he convinces the mice to dance for him, a...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-32 |
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The story begins in the Edo period with two foolish woman at the start of Kanda River's Kawabiraki, a festival marking the start of the boating season. A woman looking to be the daughter of a large sh...read more.
| Movie | ??-??-32 |
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Momotaro and his friends are asked to help defeat a giant shark.
| Movie | 01-26-32 |
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Short movie from 1932 about a man who flies a plane-taxi.
| Movie | 10-22-32 |