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The World's Most Famous Tales

Sekai Meisaku Douwa: Wow! Maerchen Oukoku

TV · 1995 · Fantasy

Synopsis: Based on Western tales from the usual suspects: 1001 Nights, C. Perrault, Beaumont, J. & W. Grimm, H. C. Andersen, C. Collodi, English fairytale, H. Pyle, L. Carrol, J. Swift, A. Dumas, E. T. A Hoffman, L. F. Baum, and J. Spyri. Only 21 stories were broadcast, with the last five …

★ 4.1

The Bear Dodger

Kuma ni Kuwarenu Otoko

Movie · Adventure, Music

Synopsis: Morality tale, musical, involving two boys who find themselves being pursued by bears in the forest. Short film from 1948.

★ 5.0

Ugokie Kori no Tatehiki

Movie · Comedy, Supernatural

Synopsis: Movie from 1933. Fox spirit turns into a samurai and picks on a racoon spirit. The racoon spirit gets his father and they team up against the fox spirit.

★ 3.2

Armageddon

Movie · 1996 · Sci-Fi

Synopsis: Four billion years ago, in the Andromeda Nebula, an ambitious project was launched. An ancient race of aliens, seeing that there was no other intelligent life in the Universe, set their massive supercomputers the task of seeding more races that could grow to sentience. The projec…

★ 4.5

BE-BOP Kaizokuban

OVA · Comedy

Synopsis: Based on a parody manga of Be-Bop Highschool.

★ 5.8

Futari Daka

TV · 1984 · Sports

Synopsis: Two motor-bike crazy young men meet on a track one day. One almost kills the other and after a while, they discover that they have the same first name. Since they are both excellent at racing, they very quickly become rivals ... but their passion and firstname is not the only thi…

★ 5.0

Miracle Shoujo Limit-chan

TV · 1973 · Comedy, Mahou Shoujo, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: As a result of a traffic accident, Limit-chan is reborn as a cyborg and is given three types of supernatural powers. However, there is a catch: if she uses too much of them, her life will come to an end. (Source: ANN)

★ 4.2

Will Power

Kokoro no Chikara

Movie · Adventure, Romance

Synopsis: A man in love with a noble lady tries to get close to her with the help of a cat and a dog.

★ 5.5

Fujiko Fujio A no Mumako

OVA · 1990 · Horror, Supernatural

Synopsis: Based on the horror novel by Fujio (A) Fujiko.

★ 5.4

Nanchatte Vampiyan

Special · Action, Comedy

Synopsis: A young boy ends up at a castle belonging to a vampire and his daughter.

★ 4.8

Two Worlds

Futatsu no Sekai

Movie · Fantasy

Synopsis: 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 comes, the frog, butterfly, and grasshopper are ill and starving.

★ 4.4

Mellow

OVA · 1993 · Action, Comedy, Ecchi

Synopsis: A story about a crossdressing teacher handling a delinquent class. Based on the same-name seinen manga by Rin Kasahara.

★ 6.2

Julie the Wild Rose

Nobara no Julie

TV · 1979 · Adventure, Drama, Music

Synopsis: Eleven-year-old Julie Braun lives in the lush green mountain pastures of Austria's Southern Tyrol. Her parents are killed by Italian soldiers, and she is sent to Vienna to live with her relatives, the Clementes. She befriends cousins Johan and Tanya but has trouble adjusting to l…

★ 5.0

Why is the Sea Water Salty?

Umi no Mizu wa Naze Karai

Movie

Synopsis: When a poor, yet honest, man rescues an old man who has fallen off a log bridge, the little people of the forest give him a "Mortar of Treasures" that will grant any item that a person desires. The man uses the mortar to become the richest person in the village. But the man's gre…

★ 5.3

On A Paper Crane: Tomoko's Adventure

Tsuru ni Notte: Tomoko no Bouken

Movie · 1993 · Drama

Synopsis: A young girl named Tomoko visits the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. There she has a mysterious meeting with Sadako, the little girl who was 2 years old when the U.S. dropped the bomb on her city during WWII and 11 when she died from the effects of radiation poisoning. Sadako takes Tom…

★ 4.1

The Lazy Fox

Namake Gitsune

Movie

Synopsis: Spring, the fox is in the middle of a party. Workers' family of raccoon dogs reveal their field work during the hot summer and harvest autumn. A fox who stupidly hunts the Raccoon dumplings carrying the harvest with perspiration, before the raccoon dog wears it, takes away the fo…

★ 4.4

Hyoei and Heibei's Tengu Hunt

Tengu Taiji

Movie · Comedy

Synopsis: A short film from 1934.

★ 5.0

The Flying House

Time Kyoshitsu: Tondera House no Daibouken

TV · 1982 · Adventure, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: The series began in the middle of a game of hide and seek, as a young boy named Justin Casey (Gen) finishes counting and begins searching for his friends Angela (usually called "Angie") and Corkey Roberts (Kanna and Tsukubo Natsuyama). As he searched for the brother and sister in…

★ 5.9

Doraemon: Treasure of the Shinugumi Mountain

Special · 1986 · Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

★ 5.3

Gorillaman

OVA · Comedy

Synopsis: A school comedy about a mute transfer student, Tadashi Iketo, who is constantly shuffled from school to school for his "violent nature," though he really is a mild-mannered boy constantly taunted into fights over his simian appearance. Based on a 1989 manga in Young Magazine by…

★ 4.2

Nonsense Story, Volume 1: Monkey Island

Nonsense Monogatari Dai Ippen: Sarugashima

Movie · Adventure

Synopsis: One of the first films of Kenzou Masaoka about a baby raised by monkeys on an island.

★ 4.4

Koiko no Mainichi

OVA · 1989 · Comedy, Drama, Ecchi

Synopsis: Based on the romance manga "Koiko no Mainichi " by George Akiyama, serialized in Weekly Manga Goraku. In a story that flits between serious drama and comedic farce, Shinjuku gangster Sabu and his young wife Koiko try to live a normal life, despite the interferences of gang politi…

★ 5.7

Coji-Coji

TV · 1997 · Comedy, Fantasy

Synopsis: The only thing that concerns Coji Coji is enjoying life and the wonders of nature. Coji Coji’s friends, on the other hand, are a varied bunch of colorful characters whose many idiosyncrasies have a tendency to create turmoil among one another. Coji Coji’s carefree ways and tenden…

★ 5.6

Doraemon: Haari no Yukue

Special · 1979 · Comedy, Fantasy

Synopsis: N/A