Taro's Toy Train

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 passengers pull jokes and cause havoc.

Our Baseball Game

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

Private 2nd Class Norakuro: The Training

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

The Larks' Moving Day

The Larks' Moving Day. Early Japanese animation.

Momotaro's Underwater Adventure

A early Japanese animation short.

Sanko and the Octopus: A Fight Over a Fortune

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

Princess of the Moon Palace

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

The Monkey Sword Masamune

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 passing the term “Masamune” was used to describe any fine sword. Even today, the Masamune Prize is awarded to swordsmiths of outstanding skills in their craft. In Yasuji Murata’s cutout animation The Monkey Masamune a humble messenger is rewarded with the gift of a Masamune sword when he saves the life of a monkey and her child.

Corporal Norakuro

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 with the Monkey Corps, his enemy.