Anime catalog

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Found: 820

Kaiketsu Tamagon

TV short · 1972 · Adventure, Comedy

Synopsis: Tamagon is a cute monster who is fond of eggs. He acts as a counselor to those in trouble, asking only eggs in payment. He goes to work as soon as he has eaten his fee. However, despite his schemes, his service usually ends in total failure and he winds up being chased by his ira…

★ 6.2

Donkikko

TV · 1967 · Comedy

Synopsis: A comedy about the mischievous adventures of a young boy. Each episode contains 2 stories. (Source: AniDB)

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.

★ 4.3

Hong Gil-Dong

Movie · Adventure, Fantasy

Synopsis: A special boy is born on a day when hurricanes and wicked spirits struck medieval Korea. The citizens and family learn that the infant has super human strength and cunning intelligence. As the boy grows up, he makes a vow to his family, the emperor of Korea, and to the high deiti…

★ 3.8

Go-hiki no Kozaru-tachi

Movie

Synopsis: A short puppet animation movie by Tadahito Mochinaga.

Dokachin

TV · 1968 · Comedy

Synopsis: A tremendous explosion occurs in the middle of a time warp experiment and causes a caveman family to appear in the modern world. Since so many of the sights and sounds are strange to them, they wind up destroying things with their stone axes, thus setting off wild adventures. (So…

★ 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.

Dame Oyaji

TV · 1974 · Comedy

Synopsis: Dame Oyaji is the story of Damesuke Amano, a hapless office worker who faces a tremendous amount of bullying on the job and especially at home, where he has (contrary to traditional Japanese notions of family) absolutely no power or say in the runnings of the household whatsoever…

★ 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)

★ 5.0

The Little Mermaid

Ningyohime

Movie · Fantasy

Synopsis: A stop-motion film adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid.

★ 3.6

Go-hiki no Kobuta to Charleston

Music

Synopsis: A song for the Minna no Uta segment.

Ijiwaru Baa-san

TV · 1970 · Comedy, Slice of Life

Synopsis: Based on a 1966 manga by Sazae-san creator Hasegawa Machiko. This is another slice-of-everyday-life tale, centered around a spiteful old woman who causes trouble for neighbours with her constant bumbling and grumbling. (Source: ANN)

★ 4.4

Kikansha Yaemon: D51 no Daibouken

Movie · 1974 · Fantasy

Synopsis: Traditionally animated movie based on a bestseller picture book by Agawa Hiroyuki, illustrated by Okabe Fuyuhiko and published in 1959 by Iwanami Shoten Publishing.

★ 4.3

The Grateful Crane

Tsuru no Ongaeshi

Movie · Fantasy, Supernatural

Synopsis: A puppet animation movie by Kazuhiko Watanabe.

Kaminari Boy Pikkari★bee

TV · 1967 · Adventure, Comedy

Synopsis: A comedy about a mischievous boy. Each episode contains 2 stories. Based on a manga by Murotani Tsunezou. (Source: AniDB)

Oyama no Taishou

Music

Synopsis: A song adaptation of the children's game King of the Hill.

★ 4.1

Illusion City

Genei Toshi

Movie · Psychological

Synopsis: Taking inspiration from reticulated architecture of a real modern skyscraper - characterized by the deafening noise of city traffic - Shimamura succeeds in rendering the idea of urban alienation in the abstract. He goes from optical art to spatial concepts similar to the Escher s…

★ 4.0

Transparent Man

Toumei Ningen

Movie · Psychological

Synopsis: Independent animation by Shimamura Tatsuo.

★ 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.

★ 4.3

Donna Donna

Music · Slice of Life

Synopsis: A calf goes to a new home while memories of happiness flash by. This is a 1966 Japanese version of an old 1938 Yiddish folk song that was featured in NHK's Minna no Uta.