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In order to win the hand of a princess, a man must defeat an evil dragon and claim its treasured magic stone. Upon his return, Baghdad has been invaded and he must use the stone to defeat his new enemy.

A bunch of kids and their pet dog accidentally discover the lair of villain Black Star, who is kidnapping the world's top scientists to develop a secret weapon. Will Golden Bat, the superhero the kids idolize, be able to rescue them?

An original anime DVD bundled with a limited edition of saxyun's 4th Yurumates manga volume. The bundled DVD contained the opening animation sequence for the television anime series and its first episode, as well as two unaired episodes. The limited edition also included an exclusive booklet.

Short pilot film for Riku ni Agatta Ningyo no Hanashi, a stop motion animation adaptation of Randall Jarrell's The Animal Family children's novel.

The story is a journey - a little boy wants to find a special place to burry his golden seed. During this trip, he learns about this world and the growth of his heart.

A short macabre animation.

In this third part of the series Enjouji and Ranmaru are a mostly-happy couple, but when Ranmaru finds lipstick on Enjouji, he becomes suspicious and leaves in a huff. Enjouji follows Ranmaru throughout the day. As they do so, the two men think about their past and their uncertain future.

Animated video for the video game Guilty Gear X, included in the extras of its sequel Guilty Gear X2.

A robot works at a factory repeating the same operation everyday. One day an unexpected visitor arrives and changes his routine.

One might think that beautiful pictures, a compelling story, and brilliant movement are the three essential elements of a good animated film. The word "anima" from which animation is derived, as we all know, means "to breathe life into". And "life" means "limited time" and that there could be an approach that does not include any of the aforementioned "three elements". The result of several years of exploring new methods was an "animated film" that eschews the so-called "animated" structure. This film aims to visualize "shifting consciousness" through a method of filming in which approximately 5,000 pencil drawings are constantly overlapped"

Female humanoid cockroaches do calisthenics (though resembling normal dancing more).

“You have read all the stories in the world, but can you tell me your story?” The city library is preparing to shut its doors. Confronted with the prospect of being shut down, Mia, an AI database and librarian, begins to question her existence and develop her first creative consciousness.

A short film by Tsuyoshi Muro.

In this Capsules showcase, we have to have someone fighting for the actual Red Capsule. This capsule is the key to a desirable world, no matter if it is colourful and vibrant, or only black and white. Everyone, even the underdogs, would fight for a different life. Director Fei Chen (story artist on KUNG FU PANDA 3 and 4), continues the search for the purpose of life.

The story of Dangonosuke, a boy samurai rescuing a woman from a villain, is told comically.

A stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's Thumbelina.

A group of friends gather at a mountain loge for a few days of skiing and relaxation. However, there are rumours that the mountain lodge is haunted by evil spirits, and soon eerie things begin to happen.

A short animated film by Furukawa Taku.

The film uses children's league members and revolutionary descendants to thwart the enemy's sneak attack on Xibaipo as the main plot line, telling a touching story that happened in this revolutionary holy place.

Mankind is managed by AI and birth is forbidden. Although AI’s threatening, illegal birth laws are no end of mankind’s desire. The parents and children would be killed if exposed by government.

Will I one day be separated from my beloved town and cat? Yon, a 8-year-old girl living in a condo, spends her days feeling uncertain and anxious about parting with her cat Kiku, and about keeping her confined in a small human home. One day, Yon and her mother visit a house in the woods to view a potential new home. That house once belonged to an old man and a cat named Namari... What does a comfortable home mean—for a family, for a cat, or even for a red mite? Set in Nagoya, this animation traces childhood memories of growing up with a cat, and through a variety of materials, depicts the thoughts of living creatures as they continue their search for a place to call home.

A woman pours milk from the top of the mountain. At the foot of the mountain a man milks and pours it into a tank. One evening his pigeon doesn’t come back as usual, and finally it brings back small miracle from a woman. 1st year work 2016, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation

A father and a teacher turning a boy, Rin, into a robot for better academic achievement. Rin and Si Qi decides to get out of the city by making a mechanic dragon.

After his father disappears and the rest of his family is sent to a notorious political prison camp in North Korea, a young boy must learn to survive the harsh conditions, find meaning in his perilous existence, and maybe even escape.

The story begins with a parody of a familiar folklore about a rabbit and an earthworm chasing after each other, but the warm atmosphere changes completely to a succession of surreal images, and the story dismantles.

Azusa Kawahara is the soccer team manager who is going out with Ikumi, one of the team members. Lately Ikumi has been busy after school and this is making Azusa uncomfortable.

The stair of steps appear checkerboard room. Conflict between a young man tries to fit the situation and the stickman ridicules him.

Have you or your partner ever had an experience where you missed your period or been “late”?

Gu Hongyuan is burdened with the shackles of a storage ring. He pretends to be loser while practicing in seclusion on Yunxiao Peak. He is forced to guide his junior Tang Ning and becomes involved in the dispute over the secret realm. The Xuantian School allies with Bai Li and Yu Sheng, and steps into a dangerous place for spiritual stones and the Hunyuan Contract. Facing the resurgent and violent Bai Ze, he breaks the shackles of the ring and breaks through to the Nascent Soul stage. He returns with the Hunyuan Contract, but the dark aura seeping from the depths of the mural indicates that a greater crisis is brewing.

The third compilation OVA of Initial D. This time it features every race from Fifth Stage and Final Stage. Although it follows the same format as the two previous Battle Stages, this OVA doesn't include any conversation nor any new races.

Five special police officers, equipped with nanotechnology, travel to Earth's volcanic island to investigate an energy vanishing event and encounter an unexpected alien attack.

A twist on the classic tale of Snow White which has been fused with the tale of the Frog Prince in this animated feature length film.

I turned my gaze to the various events in daily life and made this filmic diary in a manner as if confessing my feelings. Of course, since I was making the film, I wanted to depict these feelings and events with tricky techniques. I used various methods to shoot photographs of a relative's wedding, the landscape I see from window of my house, commemorative travel photographs and the like frame-by-frame.

Goldfish born in Tenjinnuma, a famous goldfish production area, were auctioned off and sold to Yokota Gumi. The goldfish scooped by elementary school student Mitsui at the night store scooping goldfish will be kept at his house. For a while, the goldfish attracted attention as a pet of the Mitsui brothers and sisters, but on that Christmas, the green turtle took its place and was sent to his sister, Kana's friend, Sacchan's house. Sachi-chan is a kind child and loved to name the goldfish Hiroshi, but one day in August, a forgotten goldfish left in the garden for cleaning was exposed to too much direct sunlight, Close the whole life without missing. 1 year old and 2 months. She cried and buried the goldfish in her grave, but a week later she forgot.

Chaotic world of a chaotic mind. The forbidden site. Music to be played according to your likes.

The human eye, a well-known psychedelic motif, is multiplied and sharpened in Keiichi Tanaami's film trip 4 Eyes. Using his experience designing nightclubs, Tanaami projects two copies of the same film with a slight delay, so that it appears as if the ghost is losing consciousness. (IFFR)

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

The bridge as the channel between worlds: between the living and the dead, between male and female, between sacred and profane.

Animated film adapting Akimi Ozawa's story of the same name. Not to be confused with the other two anime adaptations made in the 1990s.

In a remote village, a boy struggles under the suffocating grip of his dictatorial father. As he desperately seeks freedom, he soon realises that escape is not as simple as it seems.

Short animation by Yoji Kuri

The guard accompanies the wolf to Little Red Riding Hood, but leaves without giving her the farewell letter. Back home, memories of Little Red Riding Hood fill the village, intensifying his loneliness and sense of regret.

An experimental animated short film by Yoriko Mizushiri.

Norman and the boy decide to go on an adventure to see the stars filling the sky as shooting stars will reach the town soon. What they don’t know is it will get too cloudy to see anything up there. It’s about their small and yet heartwarming journey.

In 1998, Kang Chin-Ho (康進和) directed Kavalan (少年噶瑪蘭), funded by PTS and filmed by Wang Film Productions, the theme is an aborigine tale handed down in the Kabalan Plain, describing the protagonist transcending space and time to return to the plain in olden times. The art design was not bad but due to a lack of understanding of Taiwanese aborigine culture, the animation was not well valued by the aborigines.

The hand is born into the universe, which in turn creates new universes and more hands. New lives and worlds are created with these hands and universes, which proliferate as they continually conflict and harmonize with each other.

Video with footage not seen in the OVA and scenes taken from the manga, as well as a slightly different version of the OVA ending sequence, and the ending credits for the image videos.

After waking up in a capsule, Han Tae-il mistakenly believes he has arrived on a new star, Sirius, and begins to explore. Saving Woo yang-yang and Woo ari, who reveals to him that the star is Earth. Tae-il is a member of the Sirius expedition and begins to confront Queen Hwanma, who wants to rule the planet...

Regarded as a creative extension of Stone (1975), animation unfolds on drawing paper placed on a field and farm.

Abstract short film by Kojirou Shishido featuring seaweed and sea urchins.

3D IMAX movie, shown only at the Suntory Museum in Osaka.

Kongjui, who had been living alone with her father, welcomes a stepmother and a stepsister called Patchui into her life. When her father is out, the stepmother and Patchui make her do all the housework and the stepmother believes all of Patchui's lies and beats Kongjui mercilessly. When talks of marriage between Kongjui and the son of a respectable family come out one day, the stepmother does everything in her power to get Patchui married to the young man. Unaware of her stepmother's plans, Kongjui runs into the young man in the woods and the two fall in love.