Noburô Ôfuji Movies

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

A Japanese equivalent of a Hollywood Screen Song.

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

An early color animation which uses the color to help tell the story. Three butterflies save a bird that falls out of it's nest during a rainstorm....

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

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.

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...

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

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

Silhouette animation about an orphan, relating to Christmas.

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

A film about traveling artists arriving from Mishima and Odawara.

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

Short film about a princess being kidnapped.

Directed by Noburô Ôfuji.

A man has a strange adventure on a hill as he returns from the village festival.

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...

An animated black-and-white short by Noburô Ôfuji.

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

"Chiyogami Manga: The Fate of the Dumplings" is unusual for a cartoon film in that it uses music from Kabuki.