Anime catalog

Year to: 1965 Reset

Found: 418

★ 3.9

Hatanosuke Takes Down the Inazuma Gang

Hinomaru Hatanosuke: Inazuma-gumi Tobatsu no Maki

Movie · Action

Synopsis: Short film where the hero Hatanosuke battles with an evil gang of thieves.

★ 4.4

Fushigi na Kusuri

Movie · Slice of Life

Synopsis: Puppet animation by Tadanari Okamoto.

★ 4.0

The Bear Brothers

Kyoudai Koguma

Movie · Adventure

Synopsis: Spring—birds are singing, frogs are dancing. A cave mother tells the bear to play outside with his brother's son. But beware of scary humans. When a bear takes sumo and eats honey, the hunter shoots with a gun. Two people who saw the human for the first time finally arrive at the…

★ 4.0

Animated Revue "Spring"

Manga Revue Haru

Movie

Synopsis: A lighthearted anime about spring time. It was originally set to an elementary school song. The film features several vignettes.

★ 3.5

The Cat Purr Dance

Nyago Dance

Movie · Music

Synopsis: Several mice make a wreck of a home with their antics and dancing. The mice parents scold them for it. When the house cat comes home from a night of drinking, he convinces the mice to dance for him, at which point he spooks them by pretending to try and bite them.

★ 4.2

Dream of a Snowy Night

Yuki no Yoru no Yume

Movie · Drama

Synopsis: A young girl wanders outside on a snowy night, trying to find a place to stay.

★ 4.1

2nd Lieutenant Norakuro: Sunday Magic

Norakuro Shoui: Nichiyoubi no Kaijiken

Movie · Action

Synopsis: Norakuro's adventures in the Fierce Dog Brigade continue in this short film from the 1930s.

★ 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)

★ 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.

★ 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…

★ 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…

★ 4.5

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…

★ 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.

★ 4.3

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…

★ 4.0

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…

★ 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…