Chuzo Aochi

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

The Lump

1929

5.4 MovieDuring 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 passing the term...

The Monkey Sword Masamune

1930

5.7 MovieA 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 passengers pull jokes and...

Taro's Toy Train

1929

5.9 MovieVery early animated short from Japan featuring a cast of anthropomorphic animals.

Momotaro's Sky Adventure

1931

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

Yasuji Murata's Monkey and the Crabs

1927

5.7 MovieMomotaro takes to the ocean to fight a shark.

Umi no Momotaro

1932

6.3 MovieSports Day at Animal Village. Japanese animation short.

Taiiku day

1932

5.1 MovieA group of animals want to end the violence of the wolf.

A Wolf is a Wolf

1931

7.5 MovieAn adaptation of Aesop's fable The Ant and the Grasshopper but with a slight change. We have a diligent family ants versus a drunken lazy frog, a bourgeois butterfly...

Two Worlds

1929

6.8 MovieA group of animals take part in Olympic sports.

The Animal Olympics

1928

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

The Octopus' Bone

1927

6.5 MovieA man and his young son travel through the countryside to take their donkey to a horse auction. Unfortunately every person they pass has a different opinion on how...

The Donkey

1930

MovieAn adaptation of the The Ugly Duckling.

Ugly Duckling

1932

MovieUnknown/previously lost silent, pre-war Japanese film from a 35mm nitrate print, produced by the Yokohama Cinema Company and released sometime around 1930. No further...

Yearning for Snow and Rocks