Osamu Tezuka Movies

The animation was produced for the Tezuka Osamu Manga Museum, thus it features scenes from the "life and nature" of Tezuka Osamu's childhood, themes...

A series of short animated segments, without dialog, explore major characters of modern society, such as the plastic surgeon, the fashion-obsessed...

When Kai was still young, his father set out for space. For the next ten years, Kai stood on the beach, remembering the father who never returned,...

This is a pilot film for an animated TV program based on "Son-goku the Monkey." In order to get an idea of the reaction of children, its main...

A puppy, Poko, jumps out of a refrigerator and takes a boy, Misuke, to an ice world full of adventure through the refrigerator. In the ice world,...

The film begins with the Phoenix retelling the tales and hopes of Astro Boy. Many of the visual being directly taken from the 1980s TV series as it...

This is the fourth original animated piece for the Tezuka Osamu Animation theatre that takes up Tezuka Osamu's message of "Saving our Fragile Earth"...

A wandering samurai finds a straw dummy with a magical sword, which makes him overwhelmingly powerful but begins to drive him mad.

A daring low-budget take on Osamu Tezuka's "The Firebird," a monumental work in the history of manga.

In a convenient world where vending machines offer just about everything, the hero procures whatever he needs from machines on his journey to see the...

This is the story of a friendship between a boy named Taro and the mysterious Wonder-kun, using "the first dream of the New Year" as a motif. Guided...

A sailor is desperate for fresh water to drink while adrift on a raft in the sea.

This work was submitted in a special animation competition as part of a PR project for a power company, but was unfortunately not adopted. The reason...

The Phoenix asks us why humans choose war as a means of solving problems, while it looks back on the history of Kyoto and ponders on the riot at...

A man is sitting in a dark room, looking anxious, while his tomcat explains the man why he needs some privacy.

A boy with supernatural powers is recruited to help Prince Norman in fighting against space invaders from the Planet Guerdan.

Wonder 3 pilot episode (entitled The Amazing Three in the United States). In the pilot a few characters looked slightly different. Bokko's appearance...

Abandoned as a child, Zuku has become a brigand to survive. One night after committing a robbery, he is approached by a strange little girl who...

An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.

The creation of Earth and Mankind. And how God changed his mind.