Anime catalog

Year to: 1972 Reset

Found: 735

Electrical Telegraphy, Electric Bells and Telephones

Denshin Denrei Denwa

Movie

Synopsis: 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 and telephones by applying the principle of an electromagnet through a fusion of l…

★ 6.0

Harris no Kaze

TV · 1966 · Comedy

Synopsis: A boy known as a troublemaker transfers into a new school. (Source: AniDB)

★ 4.1

Chim Chim Cher-ee

Music · Slice of Life

Synopsis: The life of a chimney sweep in a song. This is the Japanese version of the 1964 Academy Award song Chim Chim Cher-ee that was originally sung by Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews in the movie 'Mary Poppins". Given the anime treatment by graphic artist and animator Tadanori Yokoo an…

★ 3.8

Fuku-chan no Sensuikan

Movie · Action

Synopsis: Fuku-chan was one of the most popular newspaper comic strip boy-characters in Japan at the time. The film portrays a submarine attack on an enemy cargo ship. Though this, too, was to boost patriotism, Japanese children particularly enjoyed the scenes in which the kitchen crew coo…

Kaizoku Ouji

TV · 1966 · Adventure

Synopsis: Kid was brought up on a small island which floats on the Carribean Sea. He lives a pleasant life with many animals as his companions. However, this changes when he learns that his dying father is not his real father. Before he passes away, his foster father reveals to Kid that hi…

★ 4.5

Prince Planet

Yuusei Shounen Papii

TV · 1965 · Action, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: Tells the story of a member of the Universal Peace Corps from the Planet Radion coming to Earth on a mission to determine if this world meets standards for membership in the Galactic Union of Worlds and assist its inhabitants during his stay. While on his mission Prince Planet ad…

★ 4.4

Hustle Punch

TV · 1965 · Comedy, Fantasy

Synopsis: The show centers around three hobos that live in a broken car on top of a junkyard: Punch, Touch, and Boom. Punch is a bear who is literally strong-headed: his head is as hard as a rock, and nothing can knock him down. Boom the weasel is an expert shot, using not a gun, but a sli…

★ 6.3

Adventure on the Gaboten Island

Bouken Gabotenjima

TV · 1967 · Adventure

Synopsis: Bouken Gabotenjima is about children who are shipwrecked on a desert island.

★ 4.2

Swim, Monkey, Swim!

Oyoge ya Oyoge

Movie · Sports

Synopsis: The animals are having a swimming contest. The strutting Saru-kun, a monkey, can't bring himself to admit that he cannot swim, and puts himself forward as a contestant. He dives right in, but immediately starts to sink. For some reason the bottom of the pool is littered with seaw…

★ 3.6

Armies of the World

Manga no Rekkoku Rikugun

Movie

Synopsis: 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 smallest.

★ 4.9

Attack No.1: Namida no Fushichou

Movie · 1971 · Drama, Sports

Synopsis: The fourth and final recap film of Attack No.1. Now set in high school the team competes at inter-high but tragedy strikes.

★ 4.3

Old Man Goichi

Goichi Jisan

Movie

Synopsis: 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 the road, but the two greedy dogs start fighting over the meat. When they get tir…

★ 4.2

Youkoso Uchuujin

Movie · Comedy

Synopsis: Stop motion animation of aliens on a guided tour around an amusement park. (Source: AniDB)

★ 4.0

Locus

Kiseki

Movie · Music

Synopsis: Experimental animation by Kuri Youji.

★ 4.4

The Sparrows' Lodge

Suzume no Oyado

Movie · Fantasy

Synopsis: A short morality/folktale film about an old couple that learn the virtue of not being greedy.

★ 4.0

Dangobei Torimonochou: Hirakee Goma no Maki

Movie · Adventure, Comedy

Synopsis: Heibei and his companions are involved in a fight against bandits.

★ 4.7

Jiaoao de Jiangjun

Movie · Drama

Synopsis: After a victorious military campaign, a general returns home to glory and prosperity. The king rewards him and claims that all enemies will be intimidated by the general. From then on, the general no longer practices martial arts. He eats, drinks, lives the glamorous life, and do…

★ 3.5

Commercial War

COMMERCIAL WAR

Movie

Synopsis: In a mixture of cut-out and hand-drawn animation techniques, Tanaami jumbles together symbols of American consumer culture –such as Coca Cola, Superman, Space Age astronauts and hamburgers– with occasional Japanese iconography, such as the squat toilet. The frenetic pace of the a…

★ 4.7

The Flower and the Mole

Hana to Mogura

Movie · Comedy

Synopsis: Hanako-chan, a flower loving person, encounters a mole in her garden and wonders what would happen if the moles could be trained to assist in gardening. Then her idea goes with the wind... (Source: AniDB)

★ 4.1

The Animal Neighborhood Community

Doubutsu Tonarigumi

Movie · Comedy

Synopsis: The Neighborhood Community (Tonari-gumi) was the smallest unit of population which was the national mobilization program established by the Japanese government during the World War II. This was to regulate rationing and thought control more efficiently. Each unit was consisted fr…

★ 3.8

Samurai

Movie · Drama, Romance

Synopsis: A short film by Kuri Youji.

★ 4.3

Mahou no Pen

Movie

Synopsis: A western occupation propaganda film in which a boy repairs a western style doll that comes to life and uses a magic pen to rebuild his bleak and war torn world into a happy place resembling western civilization. (Source: AniDB)

★ 4.3

Yoshichiro Salutes

Mangageki: Yoshichirou no Keirei

Movie · Drama

Synopsis: We should never forget our manners no matter how much we may excel in martial arts. Learn lessons from Yoshichiro's failure. (Source: Japanese Animated Film Classics)

★ 5.2

Adventure Boy Shadar

Bouken Shounen Shadar

TV short · 1967 · Adventure, Horror

Synopsis: When Earth is threatened by the invading Ghostar, a young boy with nerves of steel and the strength of 50 men appears from a cave on Mount Fuji. He is Shadar, a boy of unknown origin who, with his faithful dog, Pinboke, fights to save the world. (Source: The Anime Encyclopedia)