Edo-period samurai Araki Mataemon and his brother-in-law Watanabe Kazuma seek revenge on Kawai Matagoro. Paper film produced using celuloid from...
A group of tanuki celebrate the moonrise while a rabbit on the face of the moon makes mochi in this nod to the folktale, “The Rabbit on the...
Momotaro was an Edo-era folk hero repurposed in the 1930s to align with Japan’s more nationalist viewpoint. Here, Momotaro seeks revenge...
A girl purchases some flowers and a fairy offers to enchant them. The girl follows the fairy’s instructions, and plants the flowers. The next...
Documentary footage of indigenous Pacific islanders.
Ponsuke laments over his inability to shapeshift. After helping some chickens, he discovers a book on shapeshifting. Based on the 1934...
Tonkichi flies through the sky on a plane but finds himself stranded on an island with different wildlife.
Ohei is brought to the lake where the kappa reside. The kappa king announces there will be a celebration for Ohei and the kappa celebrate with...
While on an evening walk, Ohei is ambushed by legendary bandits from Japanese history and mythology, such as the legendary Monk Sohei and a...
Sacchan inflates a balloon that turns into a living tanuki (raccoon dog). Based on the manga character by Suihō Tagawa.
Skiers enjoy a variety of slopes. Paper film, celuloid source unknown.
The Unbeatable Ohei helps a kappa whose head dish (“sara”) was stolen. Ohei defeats several bandits while the kappa reclaims its stolen...
Reffie goes to an observatory and notices that the face of the moon is sticking its tongue out at him. As revenge, Reffie crashes a rocket into the...
When a monkey samurai kills a crab samurai, the crab’s child takes revenge with the help of friends. Based on an Edo period folktale.
Several tanuki drum their bellies but one skinny tanuki cannot belly drum. He finds a pump, inflates himself, and flies away like a balloon...
A young boy named Reffie disregards a “No Fishing” sign, dives into the water, and fights an octopus.
Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War. Throughout his voyage, he is forced to...
After a harrowing plane crash, Special Forces officer James Belmont and his combat dog, Odin, find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan...
With his memories gone and his past a blur, ex-cop Steven Bay seeks treatment for his amnesia while working on an isolated farm. Instead, he's met...
Medical courier Bryan unwittingly finds himself fighting for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
A laid-off worker and his wife cross paths with a documentary filmmaker and her spouse and confront their hidden desires.
War reduced Japan to zero, and Godzilla plunged it into minus. Two years have passed since then, and the country has faced agonizing struggles to...
In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered...
A falsely accused war hero with nothing to lose leads police on an epic televised cross-country car chase, helped by members of his former Special...
