Two Japanese survivors of the Khmer Rouge massacres in Cambodia vow to find a sanctuary, even if they have to build it themselves. Returning to Japan, they take seemingly opposite paths: one becomes a politician, the other a gangster. As Asami and Hojo wor...

Six months later, Takamachi Nanoha and Fate Testarossa have been exchanging video mails to tell each other of their situations on Earth and in the Time-Space Administration Bureau respectively. However, on the night Fate returns, Nanoha and her friends com...

After the destruction of Nibelheim at the hands of Sephiroth, Zack Fair and Cloud Strife are on the run from Shinra Inc. As they make their way back to Midgar, they recall the horrible events that happened at Nibelheim, fighting for survival against Shinra...

They say it exists in the place deeper than any sea and darker than any darkness. It is a dark place where ominous things gather. No one knows where it is, but everybody believes it and is afraid of it. Krichevskoy, the king of devils, died. The news of th...

The network covers the whole globe, and the development of the information network reaches its acme. In this age, there are two developed worlds; the "real world" and "wired" — the virtual network world. Souma Tooru belongs to a group of hackers called Ste...

On a cold and stormy night, Akagi Shigeru crawled out of the ocean, stumbled into a dingy waterfront Mahjong parlor and into a rough Mahjong game. Nangou was heavily in debt and had been offered a chance to gamble it away by the yakuza. If that did not wor...

Ichijou Daisuke is a new teacher at Kisaragi Academy, an all female school, and he is assigned to be a job counselor. To find the appropriate job for students, he role-plays with the girl students who wear various uniforms such as a nurse, a shrine maiden,...

It is around the fifth century in Europe. Teodora and Helena were daughters of the royal family of Burgund. Burgund had been known as a brave country, but they were defeated by Melven, and Teodora and Helena were captured by them. Melven soldiers raped the...

Weed, a dog, happens to hear that he is the son of Gin, the great leader of Ou. Gin lead the dogs of Ou to victory in a fight against the monstrous bear Akakabuto. Weed starts his journey to find his father, and meets both friends and enemies on his way.

In the year 2048, people are raving about a fighting race called "Immortal Grand Prix", or IGPX in short, which is faster and more exciting than any of the existing motor sports. The phenomenon is so big that an entire city was built for the racing industr...

Cannone is a violin that entrances people. Ceillia is a violin that was created by the angels that seals Cannone. Akio became a teacher for St. Cecillia Academy. He found Cannone sealed in the torture room under the chapel, he was fascinated by it's power....

The story of Mr. Araiwa and his family. He is a model employee in a large enterprise, but becomes a completely different character at home. He is very keen on cooking and lets pass no occasion to cook delicious dishes for his wife, who is frequently occupi...

Japanese society, in the opinion of Pusu-o, "satisfies all the urges of hunger, but not the urges of the loins." Then again, Pusu-o is scrawny, awkward and hardly the handsomest guy in town. More to the point, in matters of a romantic nature, Pusu-o condu...

The world we live in is called Earthside in this story. There are the other worlds called Nosfertia, Heavenstia, and Eternalia. When Darknoids from Nosfertia begun invasion to Earthside, Heavenstia sent 3 Animanoids (beast-humans) to prevent it. The lead c...

Enjouji and Ranmaru are a mostly-happy couple, but when Ranmaru finds lipstick on Enjouji, he becomes suspicious and leaves in a huff. Enjouji follows Ranmaru throughout the day. As they do so, the two men think about their past and their uncertain future....

Note: Jump Special Anime Festival piece that was later shown on TV Tokyo due to popular demand. * Based on the popular Shounen Jump manga by Akimoto Osamu, that began serialisation in 1976.

More movie mayhem for Ryoutsu. Released on DVD/VHS 2004/07/14

Taira Kappeita, or Capeta, was a 4th grader boy. He had lost his mother when he had been very little. Although he pretended to be tough in front of his father, actually he felt lonely. One day, his father brought junk parts home from his workplace and made...

Aru Tabibito no Nikki by Kunio Kato showes the surreal journey of a stranger, traveling on a Dali-like pig with giant legs and leading us in to an unconscious mixture of nightmare and dream. Strange things happen to a traveller. Illustrative drawing on pap...

The story of the Gunparade series takes place in an alternate reality. By the end of World War II, in 1945, an alien race called the Genju suddenly descended upon the war-torn Earth to take it over. Suddenly, the world has a much bigger thing to worry abou...

Nikumaru, meaning meatball in Japanese, is a seventeen-year-old student at Ninja High School, a special school for the training of ninja. He is short and chubby, but he possesses a super technique known as the "kamikaze", where he stirs up a whirlwind with...

Sakata Gintoki is a samurai living in an era when samurais are no longer needed. To add to his troubles, oppressive aliens have moved in to invade. Gintoki lives with Kagura and Shimura Shinpachi, taking on odd jobs to make the world a better place... and...

The scene is set with a poster on a street corner, a girl who cherishes her teddy bear, a street lamp and a playful moth that is drawn to the lamp. These creatures and inanimate objects, each with their own dramas, get involved in a war and the story ends...

This is an omnibus animated work unfolding along with a famous work of classical music, like a Tezuka Osamu version of "Fantasia." It consists of ten episodes inspired by Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" Suite. ://en.tezuka.co.jp/anime/sakuhin/ea/e...

This is an animated version of Yanase Takashi's picture book featuring the friendship between a mother dog, Muku-muku, who lost her puppy, and the baby lion Buru-buru, who lost her mother. Although Tezuka Osamu planned to create an entire musical animated...

As a boy skips down a street, his stride becomes bigger and bigger, and he then jumps over towns, a forest, the sea, going higher and further. Finally he reaches a country in wartime. This work is very interesting in that the boy's jump turns to a god's ju...

Tezuka Osamu told us through this story that imagination, the power to fantasize, is a wonderful wing given to humans, who cannot fly. He proceeds to accuse our controlled educational system of robbing us of this natural wing. Around the time of this produ...

Tezuka Osamu founded Mushi Production, an animation studio, with his personal assets. This work was shown at its first exhibition, together with the first episode of Astro Boy. This short film, which was made in a hurry to meet the exhibition date, looks l...

This is a short, privately produced animated film. While elucidating the mystery and fuzziness as well as merits and demerits of memory in idealizing reality, the story develops into a tale of destruction of human beings, turning the existence of the earth...

A man adrift on the sea finds three drops of water on his raft's mast. He desperately tries to get at these drops to quench his thirst, but they will not fall into his mouth. This is a simple animation with a gag theme, just like the chasing in Tom and Jer...

This is a short film parodying the Hollywood major film "The Creation" directed by John Houston, with deformed pictures used in a picture-story show. This film has the look of a tongue-in-cheek production, done on a small budget by animators who wanted to...

A scene from an American animated piece called "Dudley Do Right" shows a scene in which a queen is tied to a railroad track with ropes and shouting, "Help!" This image was often used in serial action films of the silent comedy period. In this short film, a...

Hyakkimaru a paper cutout artist is a die-hard fan of Tezuka Osamu. He declined all other offers to take part in this short animation project. The story is about a haunted sword called "muramasa," which was found stuck in a wara-ningyo (straw figure). The...

The main character, Suguru, was at the depths of despair; he was dumped by his lover, and failed in the entrance exams. He moved to a new apartment to engage in studying for the entrance exam next year. However, he found that his new room was above an erot...

Coult, the prince of the kingdom of Loon, is living a happy life with his father King Stephan and many retainers. He is cheerful, bright, tender-hearted, and gifted by the god Aganade Coult's mother Guaratia-the daughter of Aganade-married King Stephan How...

Taro "Dokaben" Yamada, who was a judoist while at junior high, enters Meikun High School and is talked into joining the baseball club. He displays his superb athletic abilities in baseball and becomes well-known as a hard hitter. He and his unique teammate...

Twenty thousand years before the creation of mankind, two tribes-Plazmans and Sazorions-came to the earth. The bellicose Sazorions tried to conquer the peaceful Plazmans using the dreadful power of the Scorpio in outer space. Twenty thousand years later-at...

One day a native American boy named Lan meets two little bears at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, where he lives with his father. Lan names the brother bear Jacky and the sister bear Jill. As Lan plays with the two bears, they become good friends. However t...

Teppei, brought up by his father in the mountains, is an energetic boy who is as tough as weeds and acts as free as a bird. His life changes completely when he enrolls in high school, the first school he has ever attended. Despite his eccentric behavior an...

Charlotte has been raised by her father, a former French nobleman, and is now living on a ranch in Quebec, Canada. Although motherless, Charlotte was a happy girl until her 12th birthday, surrounded by a loving father and many friendly animals. On that day...

The first female professional baseball player who strikes out sluggers with her magical pitch... The manager who makes every effort to amend the Baseball Regulations so that she can join the pros... The separated twin brothers who couldn't have met each ot...

When Sawatari Taka and his mother were heading home after having dinner, they were attacked by a motorcycle gang. However, they got saved by a mysterious young man. The next day, Sawatari learns that the young man is a professional racer who has the same f...

The Seiyo racing team enters the world-famous Safari Rally, led by Japanese hero Todoroki Gen and his French navigator Rov Row. Encyclopedia * Based on the car racing manga by Shintani Kaoru that serialised in Big Comic Superior from 1988 to 1990.

The first part of the adventure comes from a little while ago when Ash, Misty, Brock and their Pokemon went to stay in Professor's private lodge for a little winter break. In this part, Pikachu and other Pokemon meet up with several other Pokemon like Kang...

The winter holiday is back again! Pikachu and friends return for two all-new wild winter adventures. The first one is when these Pokemon friends begin the holidays with Christmas quarreling, and Chikorita is upset, can Pikachu restore good cheer? Then, on...

The third annual winter video release of Pokemon specials featuring Pikachu and his friends.

There was once an ogre (oni) mother who gave birth to human looking child. Instead of an ogre's horn, this child was born with a sword in hand called the Onigirimaru (Ogre Slayer). He has no name and is only refered to by the name of his sword. Though he a...

In a Buddhist heaven where saints fight over turf in the clouds, Niomaru searches for the younger sister torn from him in an aircraft accident back in the human world. Anime Encyclopedia * Based on the six volume manga by Motomiya Hiroshi, serialised in M...

Of incestuous love between the divine beings Deimos and Venus — the latter is aggravated by the former's adoration of the Earth girl Minako.

Marina, a lonely mermaid, is bored of underwater life. She wants legs. She goes to the sea witch. She is given a magic whistle that when blown, can turn her into a human or mermaid. The Prince and Marina fall in love but she can't stay with him until she c...

Corky, Angey, and Justin are playing hide and seek in the woods when a sudden storm appears and they come upon a house in the woods. They go inside and meet Professor Bumble and his Solar Ion Robot, SIR. They discover the house is a flying time machine and...

Five years ago, a tragedy befell a certain housing community in Machida. To the public, it was known as a bizarre cultist serial killing in which three hundred and eighty-two people were massacred, leaving only twelve survivors. Even now, the area is close...

16-year old Sakurano Tazusa is a Japanese figure ice-skater who considers herself to be worth $10 billion in beauty. While executing her moves in the Women's Figure Skating Grand Prix, she stumbled and landed badly, hence resulting in her loss in the compe...

The mega-corporate Daedalus Group is under attack by a small group of activists known as the Ghost of Icarus. While taking care of some of the victims of the bombing, Black Jack encounters Dr. Kiriko, also known as Death Incarnate, who just like him, asks...

Golion, a powerful sentient robot, abuses his great powers by attacking and killing creatures known as Deathblack Beastmen, boasting that no one could defeat him. A divine space being punishes Golion for his arrogance and abuse by seperating him into 5 dif...

Only three people remain of the Borgman project: Chuck Sweager, Ryo Hibiki, and Anice Farm. The adjustment to a moderately normal, everyday existence is not necessarily easy, but they've all done their best. Three years have passed, and all three of them h...

A history of Japan with the main characters as animals. Nihon Tanjo means "Birth of Japan".

This was shown on All Nippon Airways (ANA) domestic flights from August 1-31, 2004, and is titled "Pikachu's Summer Festival", the story is as follows: The Pokemon festival takes place today on the beach and all the Pokemon like Pikachu, Plusle and Minun h...

Parallel to our own world are six Mon Worlds where myriad monsters dwell. Mondo, along with his girlfriend Rokuna and her father, Professor Hiragi (a genius scientist), have found a means of traveling to those worlds...but it turns out they're not the only...

As a child, Haruka saw ghosts and spectres. She realized in her twelfth year, after observing a certain white haired, black cloaked man standing on the cross of a church, that what she was seeing were not ghosts. Soon after this first sighting, time stoppe...