The Story of Yanagawa's Canals

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...

The walls of video rental shops in Japan are lined with hundreds upon hundreds of animation DVDs, but experimental and art animation on DVD are rare....

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

Women getting onto a rickshaw.

By following the lives of five Japanese individuals this documentary explores the problem of depression in Japan and how the marketing of...

Burger Beard is a pirate who is in search of the final page of a magical book that makes any evil plan he writes in it come true, which happens to be...

Student Yuki has never seen one of the giant monsters she always hears about on the news and that threaten her city. But when she meets the lethargic...

This Traveltalk series short looks at pre-World War II Tokyo, highlighting the influences of Western culture.

This documentary film follows farmers and activists fighting together to stop the Indiana Enterprise Center, a mega-sized industrial park planned...

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and...

A documentary exploring what it means to be Japanese.

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.