Anime catalog

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Found: 1,046

★ 4.1

The Octopus Bone

Tako no Hone

Movie · Fantasy

Synopsis: Based on the Urashima Taro tale, the story is about how the Octopus lost its skeleton. (Source: AniDB)

★ 5.0

Attack No.1: Namida no Kaiten Receive

Movie · 1970 · Drama, Sports

Synopsis: The 2nd Attack No.1 recap film. This covers episode 7-14 of the original TV series.

★ 6.4

Shounen Tokugawa Ieyasu

TV · 1975 · Drama

Synopsis: A historical tale of the early life of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who would eventually become shogun and establish the Edo Period in Japan. (Source: AniDB)

★ 4.0

Taro's Early Training Days

Hinomaru Tarou: Musha Shugyou no Maki

Movie · Action

Synopsis: The hero Taro attempts to rescue a kidnapped girl from a bandit. Short film from 1936.

★ 4.9

Attack No.1: Namida no Sekai Senshuken

Movie · 1970 · Drama, Sports

Synopsis: The third Attack No.1 recap film. This covers the championship arc in New York where the All Japan team plays against the Soviet Union.

★ 3.9

The Hare in Inaba

Inaba no Kuni no Usagi-san

Movie · Adventure

Synopsis: Usagi-san was washed away by some large waves. He cheats a crocodiles to get home. When he does, he was so dirty that his friends abandoned him because he was unrecognizable.

★ 4.3

Muku no Ki no Hanashi

Movie

Synopsis: Short animated film by Maruyama Shouji from 1947.

★ 4.4

Imokawa Mukuzo-san Genkanban no Maki

Movie · Comedy

Synopsis: The third professionally produced Japanese animation film (made by Japanese animation pioneer Shimokawa Hekoten) to be shown in a cinema, in this case, in the Asakusa Kinema Kurabu, a theater in Tokyo managed directly by the film company Tenkatsu (Tennen-shoku Katsudou Shashin).

★ 3.8

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…

★ 4.9

The Stingiest Man in Town

Machi Ichiban no Kechinbou

Special · 1978 · Music, Mystery, Supernatural

Synopsis: Based on the novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. (Source: AniDB)

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.

★ 5.8

Temple the Balloonist

Fuusen Shoujo Temple-chan

TV · 1977 · Adventure, Fantasy, Music

Synopsis: When a little girl who loves music sneaks aboard a balloon, she soon finds herself far from home. She meets other children who also love music and agree to help her find her way back home. (Source: AniDB)

★ 4.9

Panda no Daibouken

Movie · 1973 · Adventure

Synopsis: Panda no Daibouken, a 1973 Toei Animation production aimed at children, follows the adventures of a young panda. Being born into royalty but having failed a rite of passage, the young Panda is exiled from his land. He goes on a journey of self discovery, meeting many friends alon…

★ 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…

★ 4.5

World Famous Fairy Tale Series

Sekai Meisaku Douwa: Manga Series

Special · 1975 · Fantasy

Synopsis: Another of Toei's World Famous Fairy Tale series consisting of 20 stories, 10 minutes each. (Source: AniDB)