Note: This film contains no dialogue, only music and a choir.

Reportedly the first Japanese animation filmed in 35mm.

When the Sun begins to decay, the Galaxy Boy Troop is formed and heads to the ends of the Universe to find a way to restore the Sun's power. Along the way they must fight against evil forces that oppose them. The series contains a mix of puppets and animat...

The story of a gang leader and all the trouble and fights his gang gets into. Each 10 minute episode ran Monday through Saturday.

A kids adventure and comedy series. Each 5 minute episode aired Monday through Saturday in a continuing story which completed at the end of the week.

The third film based on the Flash-animated Himitsukessha Taka no Tsume gag comedy television shorts.

Inoue Konoha, a second-year high school boy who suffers a trauma, is one day partly forced to join the literary club by the club president Amano Tooko. Tooko, a high school senior who calls herself the Literary Girl, is actually a spectre that devours stor...

A short 5 minute anime, broadcasted daily, which aired unrelated short stories.

14 year old Amano Ichigo is a clumsy girl who dreams of becoming a pastry chef. She draws closer to fulfilling her dream when she enrolls in the St. Mary Academy culinary school and meets a tiny "spirit of sweets". * Based on Matsumoto Natsumi's shoujo man...

Sai Akuto aims to become part of his country's highest order of magicians and contribute to society as one of its clergy. On the day he is admitted into the Constan Magical Academy, his aptitude test predicts the following though: "Future Occupation... Dev...

Gena is a crocodile who lives a lonely life in the city until he receives a box of oranges. Inside the crate he finds a strange little creature whom he names Cheburashka. They have many adventures as Cheburashka makes friends and little by little discovers...

Fujii Touya, a college student, is dating a rising idol singer named Morikawa Yuki. There are numerous challenges to the couple's relationship from the other people at Fujii's college, Morikawa's work, and elsewhere.

A goofy comedy series with various stories featuring the same set of characters.

A science fiction action series about the future battles between a planetary police force and an international crime syndicate.

Black and white feature film about the birth and history of animation.

Panda Kopanda: Amefuri Circus no Maki is a sequel to Panda! Go Panda! following a year later and this time the rather understanding zoo has allowed PaPanda and his son to continue visiting Mimiko. One day two strangers belonging to the circus enter Mimiko'...

Black and white feature film about the history of animation.

Dan Bashin is a young boy who dreams of winning the Battle Spirits Trading Card Game tournaments. One day, while following after a strange girl he met at the championships, he is transported to another world in which Battle Spirits materialize and do battl...

Poron is an alien child who comes in a flying saucer from the distant reaches of space to Earth. There, he soon encounters the native life-forms, although as a new arrival, he is unaware that he has ignored humans, and instead befriends a rabbit, a bear, a...

The adventures of a witless boy who finds a time machine hidden in a cave near his house. The 5 minutes episodes aired during the morning television show "Ohayo Kodomo"

The first anime feature produced by Sanrio (actual production was started in 1975). This is a colorful, painstakingly animated musical about a boy and his pet white elephant who one day drift onto a peaceful island which soon finds itself caught between tw...

* Based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

* An adaptation of the original Nutcracker story by E.T.A. Hoffmann. The film uses many elements of the original story and is not based on the popular ballet.

A boy from the farm with amazing running speed is asked to join a newly formed national soccer team and discovers a natural talent for the game. The movie is inspired by Japan's hosting of the world soccer championships that year.

An orphan girl receives a scholarship for a prestigious school from an anonymous benefactor who she refers to as Daddy Long Legs. Note: This TV special is unrelated to the 1990's series.

* A Japanese Drama of the Absurd, based on the Noh play Motomezuka - the Seeker's Mound. Long ago, a young woman named Unai-Otome lived in the village of Ikuta.She had two suitors, both of whom loved her very much. Unai-Otome was torn apart, not knowing wh...

The head monk orders a young acolyte to guard a beautiful cherry tree in the monastery garden while he goes out. But the older man underestimates his colleague's fondness for sake. As it so happens, a samurai warrior and his servant decide to have a picnic...

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 a...

Surreal cutout (kiri-gami) animation following a young girl's physical journey, which is also an inner voyage through which she will learn all the pain and joy of life. She travels to an anonymous Western city, a bizarre dreamscape cluttered with elements...

"Yoru no okite" takes us to the sky (or to hell) to accompany the delirium of a man who is assassinated.

"Wake up" combines pen and puppet animation to tell its story.

The protagonist sets out on a journey in a world which starts at The Gate of Confusion. To complete his travels, he must meet various strange characters to relieve himself of his burdens and set himself free.

On her fifteenth birthday the princess finds a diary written by her mother when she was young. The diary tells of her mother, the Queen's secret, early love. The Princess goes into the forest to meet her mother's former lover. When she looks into his eyes...

On a sunny spring day, the road to the shrines of Kumano are crowded with pilgrims traveling to the shrines. Among the pilgrims are an elderly monk and his young acolyte. As the evening comes, they stop to ask for a room at a lodge along the way. The mistr...

The film "To Shoot without Shooting" is based upon the short story "Meijin-den" (The Story of a Master) by Japanese author Atsutshi Nakajima (1909-1942) The hero of this story derived from Chinese tradition is Ji Chang an adapt in archery who in the end fo...

The Media Factory mascot character franchise revolves around a male rabbit that transforms into Usaru-san by wearing a monkey costume and eating bananas. The title "Usaru-san" is a portmanteau of "usagi" (rabbit) and "saru" (monkey).

The romantic comedy centres on the student council head named Ayuzawa Misaki, who despises the mostly male, slovenly population at her school, which was once an all-boys school. However, Misaki's quite handsome schoolmate, Usui Takumi, just discovered her...

Hino Akiharu, an ordinary high school student, unfortunately looks like a juvenile delinquent. He enrols into an academy that was once a school for upper-class ladies, and he is placed in the school's newly established servant training department. The stud...

To confirm that birds descend from dinosaurs, Dorami and her friends from the 22nd century use a time machine to go millions of years back in time.

Birdy, or Shion Arita, gets a new assignment in Kobe where Sayaka Nakasugi live now. Tsutomu Senkawa is worried about her, so Birdy decides to pay her a visit. However, they are not the only one interested in Nakasugi. * Based on a shounen manga by Yuuki M...

After suffering yet another scolding from his parents, Nobita begins to suspect that they are not really his father and mother. Along with Doraemon, he decides to go back in time to the day of his birth in order to discover the truth. ~ translated from the...

* Adaptation of Monchi Kaori's "campus school romance" boy-love manga Seitokaichou ni Chuukoku (Hey! Class President).

* Adaptation of Adachi Tetsu's Baka-Kyoudai (Idiotic Siblings) manga. The story centers on a sister and her twin brother who live carefree lives in Tokyo's lower-class neighbourhoods and have heartwarming encounters with the local people. Note: It received...

The musical love-story continues between Noda Megumi, the talented yet distracted (almost childish) piano player, and Chiaki Shinichi, the prodigious, always focused on advancing forward, orchesta conductor. How love will finally find its way for these two...