Movies

Short film about a princess being kidnapped.

A short documentary on the making of Noburo Ofuji's Katsura-hime.

An early color animation which uses the color to help tell the story. Three butterflies save a bird that falls out of it's nest during a rainstorm....

In order to win the hand of a princess, a man must defeat an evil dragon and claim its treasured magic stone. Upon his return, Baghdad has been...

A film about traveling artists arriving from Mishima and Odawara.

The mischievous Chinkoroheibei visits the underwater realm of the fish king where he tries to steal the king's treasure box.

A re-edited, feature length compilation of the two parts of Ôfuji's The Great Sage Shakyamuni Buddha - the culmination of Noburô...

Created by Noburo Ofuji, who had been cartoon making since the 1920s, often with decorative paper cutouts. The character animation looks like it was...

Early Japanese anime. A stop-motion papercraft animation set to a song sung by Kikoku Inoue

The story of Three Brave Frogs.

A cut-out animation adaptation of the classic novel "Journey to the West."

A Japanese equivalent of a Hollywood Screen Song.

A black cat sings and dances, animated using cut-outs.

Directed by Noburô Ôfuji.

A somewhat historical tale about a famous Japanese businessman who made his fortune by shipping oranges from the farmlands to the capital city of Edo.

A war propaganda film by Oofuji Noburou.

A whale swallows women and men.

Chaos in the wild as fires break out and thread from a spider is the savior.

A short Japanese animation film from 1934.

Very short animated film from Japan, using cut-outs in the style of Lotte Reiniger.