Movies

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

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

Short film about a princess being kidnapped.

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

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

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 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 Japanese equivalent of a Hollywood Screen Song.

A film about traveling artists arriving from Mishima and Odawara.

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

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

An animated black-and-white short by Noburô Ôfuji.

In front of a girl with the traditional Japanese hairstyle, a small man on a desk says, "women descended from tobacco." The girl laughs at him and...

Short directed by Noburô Ôfuji.

A war propaganda film by Oofuji Noburou.

The story of Three Brave Frogs.

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....

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

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

A man has a strange adventure on a hill as he returns from the village festival.