Anime Database

Elemi

Elemi, known as a responsible hard worker, is one of many utility poles servicing a small city. One day during...

Chuumon no Ooi Ryouriten (1991)

A short film based on a story by Japanese writer Kenji Miyazawa. Two young British hunters get lost in the woo...

The Old Crocodile

A very old crocodile, so old that he had witnessed the building of the pyramids, was suffering from rheumatism...

Kudan

As oppose to the mythological creature Minotaur, a monsters of western culture, a Japanese monster Kudan has a...

Typhoon Noruda

On the eve of a junior high school's cultural festival, Typhoon No. 8 slowly approaches the isolated Okinawan...

Okon Joururi

The 25 minute film tells the tale of an ailing elderly woman named Itako who encounters a fox named Okon. The...

The Moon That Fell into the Sea

The moon that fell into the deep sea woke up in the darkness. An angler fish came there. The moon explained wh...

Muybridge's Strings

The destiny of photographer Eadweard Muybridge and that of a Japanese mother clash poetically in this explorat...

Briar-Rose or The Sleeping Beauty

An alternate retelling of the classic Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. The story begins in the same way as the orig...

Pictures at an Exhibition

A series of short animated segments, without dialog, explore major characters of modern society, such as the p...

Oni

One morning, two brothers living in a hut with their mother set out for the mountains to set traps for deer. T...

Wander in the Dark

It's a story about a life trying to find its name and identity. Through the journey of stray animals, we see t...

Winter Days

Dojoji Temple

Based on an ancient legend, Dojoji Temple tells the story of a young priest who finds himself the object of in...

The Book of the Dead

When a young noblewoman, Iratsume, falls into a trance after copying Buddhist sutras and walks to a remote tem...

Candy.zip

Aoko is confident about the documents she creates at work, but doesn't get any positive feedback. Then, she wi...

Crazy Little Thing

The two of them, all alone at home. All alone with her father's corpse. Memories, ideals, and reality all sink...

Minikui Ahiru no Ko

An stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of The Ugly Duckling Hans Christian Andersen story.

The Spirits of Cairn

The Spirits of Cairn imagines a state of limbo which is the destination of those who die in childhood. The pro...

The Wings of Rean

Because his friends fired a rocket into the US Army camp, Suzuki was wanted by the US Army and the police. Whi...

A Poet's Life

A worker is fired from a factory for demanding a wage increase. His mother, worn thin by poverty, is caught in...

Birthday Boy

Korean War, 1951. Little Manuk is playing on the streets of his village and dreaming of life at the front wher...

Tarepanda

A panda rolling around to music.

Towards the Rainbow

Film by Okamoto Tadanari, winner of the Ōfuji Noburō Award in 1977 for the 32nd Mainichi Film Awards in recogn...