Yasuji Murata

An old man with a huge lump on his face encounters a band of Tengu in the mountains.

A train conductor goes about his duty. All the characters are animals in human form. Hippo ladies in dresses try to jam into cars and other...

Once upon a time, the birds and the beasts fought each other in a war. It was a terrible conflict, and the clever bats would side with the birds when...

During the late Kamakura period, there lived a famous swordsmith known as Masamune whose renown as a swordsmith was so great that even long after his...

A baseball game between the rabbits and tanuki (raccoon dogs).

The Larks' Moving Day. Early Japanese animation.

This early Japanese animation opens with a festival of sorts...

A early Japanese animation short.

Norakuro keeps getting his allies and enemies mixed up during training.

Private 2nd Class Norakuro is having the training for recruits, but makes so many mistakes.

Norakuro is now a corporal. On his day off-duty, he goes to eat chicken on the stick. On his way home, he falls into a slumber and dreams of fighting...

Very early animated short from Japan featuring a cast of anthropomorphic animals.

Sports Day at Animal Village. Japanese animation short.

When a poor, yet honest, man rescues an old man who has fallen off a log bridge, the little people of the forest give him a "Mortar of Treasures"...

An unemployed man picks up a flyer which happens to be a notice asking for investors to put up capital for raising a sunken ship. The sum is 10 yen...

When a young princess is kidnapped by an evil toad, her salvation is in the hands of a brave villager.

A train conductor goes about his duty. All the characters are animals in human form. Hippo ladies in dresses try to jam into cars and other...

Short animated film by Yasuji Murata

Animated short features bunnies and tanuki having wacky hijinks while going skiing.

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

Adaptation of Japanese fairy tale Hanasaka Jiisan.

A group of animals take part in Olympic sports.

An adaptation of Aesop's fable The Ant and the Grasshopper but with a slight change. We have a diligent family ants versus a drunken lazy frog, a...

A man and his young son travel through the countryside to take their donkey to a horse auction. Unfortunately every person they pass has a different...

When copper wire is wrapped around an iron rod and connected to a battery, it becomes an electromagnet. A science teaching material movie that...

A group of animals want to end the violence of the wolf.

Haru is a Japanese word that means spring (season). A lighthearted anime about spring time. It was originally set to an elementary school song. The...

Two girls were watching a street performer. The girls sang out loud and the performer brought them up front so that they could sing for the audience....

A family of mice dance to entertain a cat that disrupted their festivities after returning home early. (Source: MyAnimeList.net)

Documentary on the development on trains, with animated sequences.

Documentary on the development on trains, with animated sequences.

Kintaro, gentle and strong, is popular in the forest. He eventually becomes a great samurai with the name Sakata no Kintoki.

A picture-story showman is reading a story about a troublemaking tanuki on the street to children. A starving tanuki with nowhere to go plots to...

The lazy Tompei is still asleep past 10 o'clock and even at 11 o'clock. He finally wakes up at 12 o'clock at the deafening sound of the angry clock....

An adaptation of the The Ugly Duckling.

The story is based on the traditional, Japanese myth of Urashima Taro; in which a fisherman is transported from the seashore into a fantastic...

A rare glimpse of early Japanese sound anime and prewar Japanese culture, The Roots of Japanese Anime features the masterworks of such pioneers of...