Noburô Ôfuji Movies

A Japanese equivalent of a Hollywood Screen Song.

In 1955 Tadahito Mochinaga was asked to create commercials for Asahi beer, which he created using stop-motion, followed by the 1956 short film "Beer...

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...

Silhouette animation about an orphan, relating to Christmas.

A war propaganda film by Oofuji Noburou.

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

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....

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.

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

Short directed by Noburô Ôfuji.

A whale swallows women and men.

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

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...

The story of a gluttonous whale and the other aquatic creatures

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

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

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

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