Hashire Melos! is the title of two Japanese animated films. The first was directed by Tomoharu Katsumata and released on Japanese television on February 7, 1981. It was either 68 or 87 minutes long, and its official title did not include the exclamation mark on the end. The second, with the exclamation mark, was a 107-minute remake of the first and was released on July 25, 1992. It featured direction and screenplay by Masaaki Osumi, music by Kazumasa Oda, art by Hiroyuki Okiura and Satoshi Kon, and background art by Hiroshi Ohno. Both were produced by Toei Company Ltd. Visual 80, and both were based on the original short story written by Osamu Dazai in 1940.

Shooom, a baby owl, hatches just as a storm turns the bayou surrounding her tree upside down. No soo...

Two years have passed since the final battle with Sephiroth. Though Midgar, city of mako, city of pr...

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan...

Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of hi...

Satomi and Yasunori are filled with happy expectations for their newborn baby Orine while driving ho...

After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last stro...

As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forc...

Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must jou...

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a...

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physical...

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psy...

The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—does just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawye...

In Japan, the vampire-hunter Saya, who is a powerful original, is sent by her liaison with the gover...

Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafirista...

What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our hist...

To rescue a famous criminal from imprisonment, Lupin and his team infiltrate the Kingdom of Dorrente...

Johnny Minotaur is a lyrical explosion of taboos: incest, intergenerational desire, pansexuality and...

Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, w...

The Third World War (2099–2126) devastated part of the Earth. Former nations are reforming while new...

Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he's not sure if it's love — or i...