Noburô Ôfuji Movies

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

A Japanese equivalent of a Hollywood Screen Song.

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

A short Japanese animation film from 1934.

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

Silhouette animation about an orphan, relating to Christmas.

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

A war propaganda film by Oofuji Noburou.

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

A whale swallows women and men.

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.