Anime catalog

The Golden Flower

Kogane no Hana

Movie · Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Synopsis: A man has a strange adventure on a hill as he returns from the village festival.

Sarutobi Ecchan

Sarutobi Ecchan

TV · 1971 · Comedy, Mahou Shoujo

Synopsis: A strange girl transfers to Mitsuba Elementary School. At first glance, she is a normal student. However, she is a great athlete, and can talk to animals. According to her, she is the 33rd descendant of the great ninja, Sarutobi Sasuke. Furthermore, her dog, Puku, can talk. Becau…

The Amazing 3

Wonder 3

TV · 1965 · Action, Adventure, Comedy

Synopsis: Wonder 3 is an Osamu Tezuka manga and a black and white anime series. It involved the adventures of three agents from outer space who were sent to Earth to determine whether the planet, a potential threat to the universe, should be destroyed. The instrument of destruction is a de…

Benkei tai Ushiwaka

Benkei tai Ushiwaka

Movie · Action, Comedy

Synopsis: Benkei tai Ushiwaka is a short animated Japanese film made in 1939 by Kenzō Masaoka. It is based on the legendary encounter between Saitō Musashibō Benkei, who was collecting swords for the Buddha, and Minamoto no Yoshitsune, who was called Ushiwaka in his youth. (Source: Wikiped…

Anthropo-Cynical Farce

Kenju Giga

Movie · Psychological

Synopsis: A dog race is interrupted by a ringmaster, who attaches fish to the dog’s collars and makes them run in circles. The crowd is incensed, but the ringmaster insists that the audience is no better off than the dogs. In the end the ringmaster is assassinated and the race continues, b…

Au Fou!

Satsujinkyou Jidai

Movie · Comedy, Fantasy

Synopsis: Short experimental animation film from 1966 from pioneer Kuri Yoji. Two versions exist. The original monochrome version that is 13 min. And the edited international colour version that is 9 min.

Mabo as Tokichiro Kinoshita

Maabou no Kinoshita Toukichirou

Movie

Synopsis: A boy works hard to please his lord and gain advancement. Short film from 1938.

Olympic Games on Dankichi Island

Dankichi-jima no Olympic Taikai

Movie · Comedy, Sports

Synopsis: Short movie from 1932.

Mahou Tsukai Chappy

Mahou Tsukai Chappy

TV · 1972 · Mahou Shoujo

Synopsis: Chappy's story is much like Mahou Tsukai Sally (Little Witch Sally). Chappy becoming sick of the old customs of her people, left the Land of Magic for the human world. Soon her family sees how much she has in the other realm that they decided to join her new home. Chappy is known…

My Ski Trip

Oira no Ski

Movie · Comedy, Sports

Synopsis: The sun rises, but snow begins to fall immediately. Two rabbits wearing skis emerge from two houses covered in snow. The two rabbits go to wake Tanuko, the sleepy raccoon dog, and invite him to go skiing. Tanuko, who does not know how to ski, is apprehensive at first, but decides…

PONY METAL U-GAIM Promotion Film

PONY METAL U-GAIM Promotion Film

Special · Action, Mecha, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: This is a short little pilot film inserting Yuu Morisawa, the heroine of Creamy Mami, into the mecha world of Heavy Metal L-Gaim. After Yuu Morisawa is killed in a car accident, she is rebuilt as Pony Metal U-GAIM in a scenario à la Astroboy. Put to a high-energy Japanese pop son…

Apache Baseball Team

Apache Yakyuugun

TV · 1971 · Action, Sports

Synopsis: A former baseball star who suffered a career crippling injury takes over as coach of a team of misfits in a poor village high school. (Source: AniDB)

Fashion

Fashion

Movie · Comedy

Synopsis: Experimental anime from animation pioneer Yoji Kuri from 1960.

The Black Woodcutter and the White Woodcutter

Kuroi Kikori to Shiroi Kikori

Movie · 1956 · Fantasy

Synopsis: Within a wintry forest live two woodcutters: one clad in black and the other in white. While the black-clad woodcutter sees no consequences for exploiting the forest's resources as much as he can, the white-clad woodcutter strives to live in harmony with the forest creatures. As …

Ganso Tensai Bakabon

Ganso Tensai Bakabon

TV · 1975 · Comedy

Synopsis: A comedy about a former genius who has now become very eccentric and senile. His family deals with all the crazy problems he and his old friends cause around the neighborhood. (Source: AniDB)

Private Norakuro in Boot Camp

Norakuro Nitouhei: Kyouren no Maki

Movie · Action, Adventure

Synopsis: The Company and Regimental Commanders engage in an idle chit-chat, blithely ignorant of the troops forging ahead under the previous "Forward March" command. Norakuro and his fellow recruits march gamely forward, regardless of the obstacles that may lie in their way. However, a ho…

Kouya no Shounen Isamu

Kouya no Shounen Isamu

TV · 1973 · Action, Adventure

Synopsis: The adventures of Isamu, a young boy living in the Far West, searching for his real father.

Goliath the Super Fighter

Gowappa 5 Gordam

TV · 1976 · Action, Adventure, Mecha

Synopsis: Five youths from Edo City explore a strange rocky island and discover the mecha that Doctor Hoarai had been creating in order to resist the impending attack by a race of subterranean rock people. Doctor Hoarai was ridiculed by the scientific community for his predictions that suc…

Pelican Road: Club Caroucha

Pelican Road: Club Caroucha

OVA · 1986 · Comedy, Drama, Romance

Synopsis: High School boy Kenichi Watanabe is crazy about his MBX50 motorcycle. He and his buddies organize a motorcycle club, which they call Culture.

Galaxy Investigation 2100: Border Planet

Ginga Tansa 2100-nen Border Planet

Special · 1986 · Horror, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: This work was produced as the ninth special animated piece for the 24-hour television program by Tezuka Production, which took full charge of the original story, screenplay and director. Tezuka Osamu crafts a love story in the time when humans are expanding into space at the end …

Doraemon: It's Autumn!

Doraemon: It's Autumn!

Special · 1986 · Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Sweet Friday

Yasashii Kinyoubi

Movie · Psychological

Synopsis: An animation mixing hand-drawn and cut-out techniques depicting the daily rituals of weekday morning that is occasionally interrupted by flights of fantasy delivered in stroboscopic flashes. Showing scenes of brushing teeth and face washing, Tanaami describes the film to be like …

Call of the Wild

Kouya no Sakebigoe: Hoero Buck

Special · 1981 · Adventure, Drama

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Jack London. Buck, a half German Shepherd half Saint Bernard who's life is pretty peaceful and happy living with the Millers’ in California. However, one day he is tricked and sold off. He ends up in the snowy North where he has become a sled dog during the …

Tora-chan no Kankan Mushi

Tora-chan no Kankan Mushi

Movie · Drama

Synopsis: Tora-chan and Miike are working on the side of a tuna steamship and manage to run afoul of the short-tempered captain. But the captain makes plenty of trouble on his own!