Yokohama Cinema Shokai Movies

A baseball game between the rabbits and tanuki (raccoon dogs).

A picture-story showman is reading a story about a troublemaking tanuki on the street to children. A starving tanuki with nowhere to go plots to...

A Yasuji Murata version of the classic Japanese story Saru Kani Gassen.

A train conductor goes about his duty. All the characters are animals in human form. Hippo ladies in dresses try to jam into cars and other...

An old man with a huge lump on his face encounters a band of Tengu in the mountains.

Tsuburaya served both as director and cinematographer of this feature-length national policy documentary, supported by the naval ministry, which...

The story is based on the traditional, Japanese myth of Urashima Taro; in which a fisherman is transported from the seashore into a fantastic...

When a young princess is kidnapped by an evil toad, her salvation is in the hands of a brave villager.

The Larks' Moving Day. Early Japanese animation.

An adaptation of the The Ugly Duckling.

During the late Kamakura period, there lived a famous swordsmith known as Masamune whose renown as a swordsmith was so great that even long after his...

Once upon a time, the birds and the beasts fought each other in a war. It was a terrible conflict, and the clever bats would side with the birds when...

A movie about Hokushin Japan

Two girls were watching a street performer. The girls sang out loud and the performer brought them up front so that they could sing for the audience....

This very brief cartoon from Japan whose title translated means "The Monkey Fleet" and runs little more than a minute has the Asian monkeys battling...