Chuzo Aochi

An adaptation of the The Ugly Duckling.

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 passengers pull jokes and cause havoc.

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

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

Tsuburaya served both as director and cinematographer of this feature-length national policy documentary, supported by the naval ministry, which creates a sketch of life among cadets aboard a naval training vessel on a voyage around Indochina, Malaya, Hawaii and the South Pacific islands. The film clearly outlines the economic motives behind Japan’s southward expansion, but also presents the music and dance traditions of various regions, in what has been termed “folklore through sound”.

Norakuro is now a corporal. On his day off-duty, he goes to eat chicken on the stick. On his way home, he falls into a slumber and dreams of fighting with the Monkey Corps, his enemy.

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 passing the term “Masamune” was used to describe any fine sword. Even today, the Masamune Prize is awarded to swordsmiths of outstanding skills in their craft. In Yasuji Murata’s cutout animation The Monkey Masamune a humble messenger is rewarded with the gift of a Masamune sword when he saves the life of a monkey and her child.

Momotaro takes to the ocean to fight a shark.

Private 2nd Class Norakuro is having the training for recruits, but makes so many mistakes.

The 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 back of a giant turtle.

Unknown/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 details are available.

A group of animals want to end the violence of the wolf.

A group of animals take part in Olympic sports.

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 octopuses as they both go underwater with the simian animals riding in submarines shooting their torpedo bullets at the sea creatures.

This early Japanese animation opens with a festival of sorts...

A 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 this should be accomplished, leading to disastrous results when the dim-witted father abandons common sense in an attempt to please everyone.

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

Norakuro keeps getting his allies and enemies mixed up during training.

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

Documentary on the development on trains, with animated sequences.