Noburô Ôfuji Movies

A Japanese equivalent of a Hollywood Screen Song.

A black cat sings and dances, animated using cut-outs.

Early Japanese anime. A stop-motion papercraft animation set to a song sung by Kikoku Inoue

Very short animated film from Japan, using cut-outs in the style of Lotte Reiniger.

Film about a ghost ship. There is no dialogue, just music and a choir.

Chaos in the wild as fires break out and thread from a spider is the savior.

A re-edited, feature length compilation of the two parts of Ôfuji's The Great Sage Shakyamuni Buddha - the culmination of Noburô...

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...

In 1955 Tadahito Mochinaga was asked to create commercials for Asahi beer, which he created using stop-motion, followed by the 1956 short film "Beer...

A somewhat historical tale about a famous Japanese businessman who made his fortune by shipping oranges from the farmlands to the capital city of Edo.

A cut-out animation adaptation of the classic novel "Journey to the West."

In front of a girl with the traditional Japanese hairstyle, a small man on a desk says, "women descended from tobacco." The girl laughs at him and...

A short documentary on the making of Noburo Ofuji's Katsura-hime.

Created by Noburo Ofuji, who had been cartoon making since the 1920s, often with decorative paper cutouts. The character animation looks like it was...

Silhouette animation about an orphan, relating to Christmas.

The mischievous Chinkoroheibei visits the underwater realm of the fish king where he tries to steal the king's treasure box.

A whale swallows women and men.

A man in love with a noble lady tries to get close to her with the help of cats.

Short film about a princess being kidnapped.