Soundtrack: Taku Izumi

Direction Masami Hata

Plot Chirin no Suzu, released outside of Japan as Ringing Bell, is an anime film released in 1978 by Sanrio. A baby lamb named Chirin is devastated when his mother is...

Direction Hideo Furusawa · Masahiro Sasaki

Plot TV Series (1980-1981). 49 episodes. Lalabelle is a 10-year-old witch from the land of magic. Biscus, an evil wizard goes to earth with stolen magic items to make a fortune....

Direction Kazui Nihonmatsu

Cast Eiji Okada · Shun'ya Wazaki · Itoko Harada · Peggy Neal

Plot The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Hideaki Esumi · Tomoko Hamakawa · Chieko Matsubara · Hosei Komatsu

Direction Yoji Kuri

Plot Short experimental animated film by Yoji Kuri.

Direction Shintarô Katsu · Eiichi Kudo · Kazuo Kuroki · Kazuo Mori

Cast Yoshio Harada · Yusaku Matsuda · Makoto Fujita · Masumi Harukawa

Plot TV series (1976).

Direction Hiroyuki Yano

Direction Shirô Moritani

Cast Yusuke Okada · Akira Nakao · Ayako Hosho · Akiko Kazami

Plot A high-schooler involved in turn-of-the-decade student movements works to escape his comfort zone and apply himself.

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Kei Yamamoto · Kazuo Harada · Tadashi Yokuchi

Direction Masami Hata · Toshio Hirata

Direction Masaharu Segawa

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Kie Nakai · Naoko Otani · Saburo Ishikura

Plot This is a sad and beautiful story about a father who is a popular comedian and a son who suffered by an incurable disease.

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Hiroshi Akiyama · Kiyoshi Atsumi · Junzaburo Ban · Manami Fuji

Direction Takeshi 'Ken' Matsumori · Masahiro Takase · Susumu Kodama · Yasuki Chiba

Cast Yosuke Natsuki · Yôko Fujiyama · Daisuke Kato · Yu Fujiki

Plot TV series (1965-1966). 41 episodes.

Direction Susumu Hani

Cast Masaru Doi · Takehiko Maeda · Naomi Sagara

Plot A rare commercial musical film directed by Hani Susumu that combines live action with animation; the film was not very successful at the box office, leaving Hani to go back...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Tetsuo Ishidate · Gin Maeda · Choichiro Kawarazaki · Hideki Hayashi

Plot Kinji Fukasaku (The Yakuza Papers) examines teenage life in post-WWII Japan in this riveting story of five kids who leave their small provincial towns to work in Tokyo.

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Koji Ishizaka · Yoshiko Kayama · Kôji Moritsugu

Direction Yoji Kuri

Plot The international version of Ni-hiki no Sanma that is colored, redrawn, and edited.