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A short based on the Brothers Grimm's fairy-tale Town Musicians of Bremen.

Recap of episodes 01-13 from the Panzer World Galient TV series.

Upcoming independent kaiju film produced by 3Y Co., Ltd. Based on Daiei's scrapped film Great Demon Beast Dagora.

A short film about professional wrestler, The Great Muta's, origin.

This is a story of PLUG and his friends, who live in the Zero Emission world, sharing energy each other, harmoniously.

A half-hour experimental film that shows Fukui moving towards cyberpunk imagery in a manner similar to Tsukamoto, featuring industrial locations, a malfunctioning cyborg/android and a hulking metallic ‘caterpillar’ that stalks characters.

A web-exclusive short film released a month prior to the premiere broadcast of Kamen Rider Ghost. Preceding his TV debut in the penultimate episode of Kamen Rider Drive, it features the first in the flesh appearance of Takeru Tenkuji following his debut as Ghost in Kamen Rider Drive: Surprise Future.

A sickly young Swiss girl named Muriel discovers that little people live out in the woods. One of these little folk, Wendy, befriends her - soon, buoyed by the mysterious healing power of Wendy's people, Muriel is following Wendy back out to the woods to have adventures.

Yuko dreams of a woman in a straw hat, an alternate herself who chose another path in her life

Minyoung is a university co-ed living in Seoul. One photograph left to her by her late grandmother brings Minyoung all the way to Japan. And wherever she goes, she finds the enchanting melody of Mozart. The dreams of the people she meets vibrates together with harmonic beauty…

A surrealistic montage set in motion by a tidal wave and incorporating a samurai battle.

A string of weird incidents occur in Kyoto. Elderly men die after their ocular nerves are burned when they peek into antique urns on the veranda at their homes. Part of "Operation: Mystery".

Highschooler Akino loves her schoolmate Okada, but Okada has a girlfriend called Nacchan. While Akino is busy being jealous of Nacchan to the point of becoming obsessed with her, she realizes that she is more fascinated by Nacchan than Okada.

Three short stories in Tokyo about people's death and how they see their life after death. In each story the main character experience death and they live another life that seems just like another day. Regretting their ignorance that caused pain to their beloved ones, each tries to find a clue to what went wrong in another life.

The short follows the dream of a young boy in which strange whale teleports him to a fantasy land where a happy cat named Pero (modeled after the character in the Nagagutsu wo Haita Neko anime that serves as Toei Animation's mascot) appears. The piece is entirely dialogueless.

Before Masaoka Kenzō became one of Japan’s main animation pioneers, he directed two live-action featurettes full of special effects, both considered lost. Until this abridged version of the children’s fairy tale Sea Palace was found, now restored by the Kobe Planet Film Archive with the support of IFFR. A sensation for animation lovers.

Nice to meet you, I’m Obake-chan.

Bully the Weasel and Scurry the Ermine live in Wild Wood, the dark forest outside of Willow Town. Both Bully and Scurry will try every trick to get Willow Town for themselves. However, our heroes, Ratty the Water Rat and his shy friend Mollie the Mole with the help of their other animal friends, are able to overcome any attempt to take Willow Town.

Studio Colorido's promotional video for BANDAI NAMCO Online's mobile RPG VALHAIT RISING.

Animation by Katomomo. Music by Kazune Yamagata.

A Japanese actress (Yuka) comes face to face with a slew of restless spirits when she signs on to star in a horror film -- the true story of a crazed professor's murderous rampage that left 11 victims, including his young daughter, in its wake. But the film being shot at the very site where the grisly killings took place. Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge) directs this darkly mesmerizing tale of crime, punishment and redemption.

A samurai suffers to achieve enlightenment while being forced by a Zen Buddhist.

A collection of 15 short episodes depicting the magic world of Phantasmagoria.

A boy who wanted to see his friend Primeape not angry, and tried various things while keeping an observation diary during his summer vacation. Despite failing many times, the boy finally finds an answer.

A girl starts running in a different direction from everyone else. If you have friends who run with you, you'll find the courage to keep running.

A re-edit of the 1968 Agon miniseries created by screenwriter Shinichi Sekizawa, who wrote the majority of the original Showa Godzilla films. It was released by Toho Video in the 1980's and on DVD in 2005.

A video version of the original Kamen Rider manga.

Kamen Rider Zero-One: Transformation Lesson is a web-exclusive special episode of Kamen Rider Zero-One.

A stop-motion animation about sisters doing chores. One of them falls into a well and gets transported to a wonderland trying to retrieve a pail. There she helps the various creatures in wonderland and receives rewards. Upon returning home the other sister is jealous and tries the same but is rude and helps no one out of her selfishness.

A tokusatsu magical girl film

Mew, the inferior witch living in an amusement park, is always jealous with happy human couples, despite of being succeeded to acquire the wonderful magic that tells her who loves whom.

A stop-motion adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's The Nightingale.

The grandfather's guitar starts to play by itself in response to the beautiful heart of the flower vendor's daughter. The guitar is broken by the people fighting over it. When the daughter's tears bring it back to life, the reconciled people begin to dance to the music of the guitar.

Suzunosuke continues his battle with the Skull Mask gang in a booby-trapped cave.

Mitsuko, is struggling to overcome a badly broken heart. Musician Keisuke is a ghost who is unable to rest in peace.

A short film by Furukawa Taku.

Satellite-city resident Yayoi feels like her days spent on the train commuting to school are filled with emptiness. One day she encounters a ghost-like guy and Zaningen's music, and her boring life starts to change.

A female musician lives in a traditionally built Japanese house. There are spirits running around the house that she cannot see. The spirits are delivering smells that they collect around the house to a being inside the water of the bath tub.

A visitor shows up in the middle of the night at the countryside house that Miyako shares with her father. Miyako goes to wake up her father, but the creature enters the house. Miyako stands frozen.

A 14-year-old boy, Tasaki, is fed up with his depressing life in a rural town. He wastes time with his friend, Eda, who’s all talk and no deed, and also suffers from bullying by a classmate, Takiguchi. He feels happier only when having a chat with a pretty girl, Sakura. One day, he hears about an old tank left decayed deep in the lake. Driven by the idea that the tank can break through his days, Tasaki sets off on the quest. It’s an internal journey where he faces with himself in puberty.

A dare goes awry when a young girl and her friends explore a “haunted” staircase at their school!

Tomoo connects with Haruko, a beautiful and stylish girl on SNS, and they decide to go on a date. Makoto stops him from going on a date with Haruko, but...

Animation by Katomomo. Music by Kazune Yamagata.

A retired frog samurai wants nothing more than to be left alone and spend his remaining years in peace on the golf course. But when he unwillingly becomes the protector of a baby turtle he must draw his club for one more round. An animated amphibious adventure for golfers of all ages.

Yoko, a 5-year-old girl, on a walk with her father finds an abandoned Western-style building with a beautiful garden, into which an elderly woman is moving. Yoko is attracted to the noisy grandmother, although she is afraid. Eventually Yoko falls ill with diphtheria and spends her time in the hospital. One night she is guided by a girl, who looks into the mysterious world of her grandmother's memory. The memories of 5-year-old Yoko and her 70-year-old grandmother overlap. Yoko experiences an adventure in her grandmother's time that was neither her dream nor reality.

Adapted from the Brothers Grimm fairytale.

Carefree, coquettish, and capricious, Tamala is the cutest girl-cat in dystopian Cat Tokyo, year 2030—or at any other point in the time/space continuum. She has randomly invited herself along on her detective friend Michelangelo’s missing-person investigation. It seems the case is one of seven sudden vanishings in an astronomical pattern across Cat Japan that occurred at the exact same moment one night. Their search leads ever deeper into a mystery with ancient, occult roots and apocalyptic implications—and threads leading to Tamala herself. Shadowed by a covert agent of the Catty & Co. consortium, she may in fact be the greatest enigma. Indolent ingénue? Megacorporate mascot? Mythic messiah, or manifestation of cosmic malevolence? Anyhow, wow—she sure is a great dancer!

A man gets one arm of a woman who he fell in love, just one night. After that a man has a tragic nightmare because of one arm. The background of this story is 1960's in Japan. It was the last period that Japonism and specific moral had remained in ordinary people and their life after world war II.

A dutiful young fisherboy sets out to catch his grandfather's favorite fish, which leads him into an extraordinary encounter with a magic pot.

The Japanese art of bunraku puppetry dramatizes the existential crisis of a despondent denizen of a Kaiju-infested region of Japan; a rigorous theatrical tradition soaked in profound absurdism.

A girl made of unmelted snow has fallen in love with the dragon who brings spring. A story of changing seasons and thawing hearts.

Kirihara's life was full of lies and loneliness. He was a picture book writer with a brilliant past that his first book hit a bestseller, but one day allegations of plagiarism of his first book emerged. The truth of the case was about to be revealed by a reporter who relentlessly chased after him. Around that time, he reunited with his mother, who had abandoned himself at an early age, but she was hospitalized unconscious. Despaired by his life, Kirihara jumps off the roof of the building and tries to commit suicide without improving his divorced relationship with his wife and son. A girl appears there to help him. The moment he thought "Who?!", Kirihara became the girl! Kirihara, who became the girl, witnesses him falling. Immediately after that, something even more mysterious happens. The time was back five days ago. This is how the mysterious five days of "Two Kirihara", a girl and a picture book writer, begins...

A Yasuji Murata version of the classic Japanese story Saru Kani Gassen.

A special of Higanjima X included in the Blu-ray.

The Orcoro Circus is a band of people who have come together to bring joy to people's faces. Julio, a young boy in the Orcoro circus, wants to be a professional and famous Monster Breeder. One day after a performance a mysterious beautiful girl with special powers by the name of Nayuta came to force her way into the circus troop.

The first stage adaptation of the "Togabito no Kokuin" light novels. A dark fantasy romance between a vampire and Jack the Ripper.

A Bosko-cloned samurai battles traditional monsters and demons.

Recombination day, which is a day where all apartments mysteriously float into the sky and relocate themselves, hits a town. Two men are walking outside when the recombination begins.

“ONAN is a work about desire (masturbation) which has no object but itself. The appearance of the large egg objectifies the man's desires. After colliding with the other (a girl), the hero falls down while still holding the egg, thus caricaturing the desire of the hero.” —Takahiko Iimura (takaiimura.com)