A rare glimpse of early Japanese sound anime and prewar Japanese culture, The Roots of Japanese Anime features the masterworks of such pioneers of Japanese animation as Noburo Ofuji, Yasuji Murata, and Kenzo Masaoka, in addition to Mitsuyo Seo’s Momotaro’s Sea Eagle, the notorious war cartoon billed as Japan’s first feature anime. These movies represent the brilliance and variety of anime, ranging from beautiful Japanese paper animation to powerful multiplane cel cartoons. They also evoke the fascinating complexity of Japan, a nation that is then both marching towards war, enlisting kids in militarist nationalism, yet also delighting in a mixture of modern popular culture, ancient folk tales, irreverent comedy, and the everyday life of prewar Japanese children.
A giant monster sends a town's citizens into a panic, except for a girl named Yuki and her schoolmat...
Jubei is a masterless ninja who travels the land alone, lending his services to those with gold—or a...
Afro Samurai avenged his father and found a life of peace. But the legendary master is forced back i...
A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...
A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...
An elite superhuman agent must stop a foreign military unit from seizing control of an ancient artif...
Claé and Bruô, secret agents from enemy Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon, must overcome their differ...
The animals decide they must send a representative after the three wise men begin following the star...
A toon hating executive has a hare raising experience when he meets an out of work toon rabbit.
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A lonely fisherman drifts into haunted waters in search of food and finds much more than he bargaine...
In a dystopian world where touch is forbidden, Matta and Matto offer refuge to the lonely at Hotel V...
Pooh gets confused when Christopher Robin leaves him a note to say that he has gone back to school a...
To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and b...
A bored trio of high school delinquents start a rock 'n' roll band together. They have no skill, mon...
A young glassworker-in-training living with his pacifist father finds his apprenticeship upended by ...
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loo...
A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and ins...
Shiro Emiya is a young magus who attends Homurahara Academy in Fuyuki City. One day after cleaning t...
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