Anime catalog

Year to: 1966 Reset

Found: 454

★ 4.3

Momotarou

Movie · Drama

Synopsis: An early anime telling the story of Momotarou and his adventures defeating demons.

Mori no Ongakukai

Movie · 1953 · Comedy

Synopsis: 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 the wolf for poor manners.

★ 4.6

Marine Boy

Ganbare! Marine Kid

TV · 1966 · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: An expansion of the original Dolphin Ouji series. Character names were altered, (changing 'Dolphin Prince' to 'Marine Kid' and 'Neptuna' to 'Neptina'), characters were added and concepts expanded. In order to distance the new series from the original trial episodes, the series wa…

★ 3.9

Neko Funjatta

Music

Synopsis: A song for the Minna no Uta segment, it adapts "Flohwalzer" (Flea Waltz) is a simple German piano piece, often one of the first learned because its fingering is simple and it allows beginners to perform a piece that is harmonically and rhythmically pleasing. It has different name…

★ 4.4

Kinken Chochiku Shiobara Tasuke

Movie · Comedy, Drama

Synopsis: "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 Shiobara Tasuke), this parable about the virtues of hard work is based on a tru…

Onbu Obake

Movie · 1955 · Supernatural

Synopsis: Short movie by Ryuuichi Yokoyama.

★ 3.7

Chase

Tsuiseki

Movie · Psychological

Synopsis: Experimental animation by Manabe Hiroshi, member of the Animation Sannin no Kai pioneer group of independent animation.

★ 3.7

Clarinet Kowashichatta

Music

Synopsis: A Minna no Uta video for a song from Dark Ducks.

Dolphin Ouji

TV · 1965 · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: Produced as a short experimental trial series of only 3 episodes and filmed in black and white. Inspired in part by the novel "Deep Range" by Arthur C. Clarke, the tale of an undersea boy (Dolphin Prince) with a pet dolphin, who swam in a wetsuit with a built-in jetpack and stunn…

Chikara to Onna no Yononaka

Movie

Synopsis: The protagonist is a father of four children. His wife is 180 centimetres (5.9 ft) tall, and weighs 120 kilograms (260 lb) due to her incredibly large physique. Because he is constantly being henpecked at home, he becomes involved in an affair with a cute typist at his company an…

★ 4.0

Cai Mogu

Movie · Adventure

Synopsis: 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.

★ 3.8

Go-hiki no Kozaru-tachi

Movie

Synopsis: A short puppet animation movie by Tadahito Mochinaga.

★ 4.5

Issunboushi

Movie · Drama

Synopsis: The story of a couple who prays to God for a child, even if he would only be the size of a thumb.

★ 4.4

Tsuki no Miya no Oujo-sama

Movie

Synopsis: A young squirrel princess is kidnapped by an evil frog. A brave young squirrel from the village goes off in search of her and ends up fighting the evil frog in order to rescue his princess. (Source: AniDB)

★ 3.6

Go-hiki no Kobuta to Charleston

Music

Synopsis: A song for the Minna no Uta segment.

★ 4.3

The Grateful Crane

Tsuru no Ongaeshi

Movie · Fantasy, Supernatural

Synopsis: A puppet animation movie by Kazuhiko Watanabe.

★ 4.3

Marriage of a Mouse, Mouse's Wedding

Nezumi no Yomeiri

Movie · Comedy

Synopsis: A mouse father seeks the ideal strong husband for his beloved daughter. He goes to talk to the strongest elements. But even the Sun is block by Cloud, and Cloud is moved by Wind, and Wind can't even move the house by an inch no matter how much it blows. Will he ever find a suitab…

★ 3.8

Commotion at Ikedaya

Ikedaya Soudou

Movie

Synopsis: Independent film by Yanagihara Ryouhei, member of the Animation Sannin no Kai pioneer group of independent animation. It tells the story of the Ikedaya raid by the Shinsengumi from the point of view of the neighbors of the Ikedaya.

★ 3.8

Fushigina Taiko

Movie · 1957

Synopsis: A short movie based on the children's story by Momoko Ishii.

★ 4.0

The Development of the Train

Kisha no Hattatsu

Movie

Synopsis: An educational movie produced based on "The Development of the Train" in a pre-war elementary school Japanese reader (vol. 9). Animation and real-life images are used together to support children's understanding.