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 member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

A toon hating executive has a hare raising experience when he meets an out of work toon rabbit.

This collection of 11 short films produced by Illumination includes: From the "Despicable Me" franch...

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loo...

It is Christmas Eve. Max is excited. Because he has wished for something very special – but only qui...

A lonely fisherman drifts into haunted waters in search of food and finds much more than he bargaine...
A windows cleaner is struggling to keep the building he is assigned to free from any dirt.

Jubei is a masterless ninja who travels the land alone, lending his services to those with gold—or a...

A struggling artist going through a creative block rendering his mind void of inspiration.

Making of documentary for Disney's animated feature 101 Dalmatians

Summer, 2006. A 5th grader Ryuhei discovers a notebook entitled "Tokyo Exploring Records." It was a ...

In their last year of high school, two girls in the brass band club perform a song inspired by a fai...

A socially awkward girl uses the local swimming pool as a wormhole into fantasy. She dives underwate...

Pooh gets confused when Christopher Robin leaves him a note to say that he has gone back to school a...

The stunning princess desires an inextinguishable fair of love as proof of true feelings. Brave suit...

Afro Samurai avenged his father and found a life of peace. But the legendary master is forced back i...

Animation Entertainment proudly presents an all new collection of short films from award winning com...

To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and b...

Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who m...