Noburô Ôfuji Movies

A war propaganda film by Oofuji Noburou.

A whale swallows women and men.

A Japanese equivalent of a Hollywood Screen Song.

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

Film about a ghost ship. There is no dialogue, just music and a choir.

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

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

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

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...

Short directed by Noburô Ôfuji.

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...

Directed by Noburô Ôfuji.

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

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

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 short Japanese animation film from 1934.

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

A man in love with a noble lady tries to get close to her with the help of cats.

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...