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- A samurai buys a dull sword from a merchant. He is quickly defeated by his intended victims due to his cheap sword and clumsiness.
- An old man with a huge lump on his face encounters a band of Tengu in the mountains.
- A fisherman rides on a turtle finding a hidden undersea world.
- A farmer walking in the woods is frightened away by a shapeshifting fox, who then disguises himself as a samurai and makes his way to a temple, haunted by a young shapeshifting tanuki whose various attempts to frighten the fox/samurai away fail. The young tanuki telephones his father, and they join forces against the samurai.
- A short movie from 1929 about four children who dream of having a pet cat. Their wishes are answered when they encounter a black cat who proceeds to sing them a song about how he and his tabby brother are descended from tigers.
- A few minutes long black and white anime which shows the traditional Japanese harvest festival, featuring a song by Eiko Hirai.
- An old couple finds a child in a fruit.
- Short representing Japan's national anthem.
- Short movie from 1930 about a soldier traveling a great distance to deliver a letter. Along the way he receives a sword from a monkey.
- Short film from 1928 about a samurai fighting demons.
- Urashima Taro is a well-known Japanese folk tale about an honest fisherman who is invited to an underwater castle after saving a sea turtle on a beach from bullies.
- A boy gets a train set. He later dreams about working on the train as an conductor.
- Tanuki (raccoon dogs) and rabbits play baseball.
- He talks about a tiny young man who leaves his home in the countryside to try to live in the city, where he comes across a demon that torments a young woman and to protect her she will have to challenge that demon.
- The story is about the sakura flowers.
- Musical animated Short Film about the daily life of a Japanese girl named Chameko. Since she gets up until she goes to sleep, we will follow through fun songs the different activities that occupy her time, from brushing teeth to attend class, to the films she watches in the movies, her favorite pastime.
- Black-and-white propaganda film. Japanese folklore characters vs. evil Mickey Mouse-like creatures.
- A young samurai accepts a job to clear out a haunted castle, only to find it inhabited by beautiful women. The women are secretly a group of tanuki that try to divert the young warrior from his mission.
- In this short we see another adventure of Momotaro, this time he is called to fight a terrible shark, so Momotaro and his team accept the mission, only this time the Pheasant can not go because he can not swim.
- Momotaro has been requested to fight off the Wild Eagle enemy which has suddenly appeared. He takes to the skies in his airplane, accompanied by a dog, a monkey , and a pheasant, and heads for an island some 10,000 kilometers away. One of the island people promises to prepare the two refuels that the plane requires during its flight to the island. The first refuel will be found on a giant tortoise shell, and the second is a refuel station especially positioned on the back of a whale which will come to surface. Momotaro's plane is attacked by the Wild Eagle out of the blue as it approaches the island, but after an exciting dogfight in the air, he successfully fights off the enemy.
- This anime shows a mission commanded by the Lord of the Rats to bring food, but a cat is watching the mice, so the Lord of the Rats orders them to kill the Cat so that the mission is successful.
- The Fierce Canine Army has been given the day off, but Norakuro has no home to return to. After he goes to a yakitori (fried chicken) shop for a drink, he goes to the park to take a short nap. Just then, soldiers from the Mountain Monkey Army, who have stolen some secret documents, make their appearances and Norakuro goes after them in hot pursuit. When the Mountain Monkey troops appear to have made their escape in a hot air balloon, Norakuro, as a last desperate measure, climbs into a tube designed for launching fireworks and blasts himself right into the balloon. He retrieves the stolen documents, but the plot unfolds in an unexpected manner.
- Once upon a time, the birds and the beasts fought each other in a war. It was a terrible conflict, and the clever bats would side with the birds when the birds were looking victorious, and then they would become allies of the beasts when that side was winning battles. At last the war came to an end, the two parties reached an amicable settlement, and a great party of friendship was held. But when it came to the turn of the bats to perform in the program, their fence-straddling tactics were exposed, and everyone refused to associate with them. Since that time, the bats have been too ashamed to show their faces during the day, coming out only at night to flit silently around.
- A monkey participates in a tournament of sumo fighting a pelican, a rabbit, a goat, a pig and a bear.
- It's about tanukis singing and dancing.
- Very short movie from 1936 about a war between monkeys and Octopuses.
- It shows the Olympic Games on Dankichi Island, where humans and animals compete against each other, in the categories: relay race, tug-of-war and tree-changing race. Who will be the champion?
- A short movie from 1931 in which a butterfly is in love with a mouse who does not return her affections.
- A 1936 movie short about Taro a young man and his adventures against various creatures from different legends.
- It tells the story of a lark family living in the field, before the farmer decides to tinker with the crop. Other animals in the area have already changed and Father Lark knows that while the farmer does not do the work himself, without asking for help from neighbors or relatives, he and his family still have time to stay on the land without fear.
- A young boy lives with his grandmother in a city where people use small airplanes to get from place to place. He drives a taxi plane, and during one of his travels he bumps into a bird that has been shot by the boy's latest customer. The bird, as well as a hungry bear he meets next, offer him a reward for his help. Men cause many problems for animals - is there a way to help them stay out of trouble?
- The Company and Regimental Commanders engage in an idle chit-chat, blithely ignorant of the troops forging ahead under the previous "Forward March" command. Norakuro and his fellow recruits march gamely forward, regardless of the obstacles that may lie in their way. However, a horse stable looms up ahead.
- Short movie from 1934 about a war between monkeys and bears.
- A short story about a young ninja.
- A boy works hard to please his lord and gain advancement.
- When a poor, yet honest, man rescues an old man who has fallen off a log bridge, the little people of the forest give him a "Mortar of Treasures" that will grant any item that a person desires. The man uses the mortar to become the richest person in the village. But the man's greedy brother steals the mortar and, determined to enjoy all the luxuries by himself, climbs into a rowing boat and heads for an isolated island. On the way, however, he asks for salt from the mortar, but then cannot figure out how to stop it. Finally, the boat sinks under the weight of all the salt, and the mortar sinks to the bottom of the sea where it is pouring out salt to this day.
- Norakuro keeps getting his allies and enemies mixed up while on training maneuvers. What he had thought to be a successfully eliminated enemy tank turns out to be the tank carrying the Regimental Commander.
- A lively day of sports has arrived. For plenty of animals this means rousing competitions of skill and stamina. Monkeys swing from their hands and tails on the high bar; bears and even a hippo dive from high above into a tiny pool; and kangaroos and pigs box it out in the ring. From acrobatics to one-on-one combat, there's plenty of fun to be had in sports.
- A young man has a strange adventure on a hill as he returns from the village festival where he has performed as an actor: a giant snake frightens villagers, but the farmer finds out that the monster is vulnerable to nicotine. He achieved convincing other neighbors to the attack and end with her. In the mountains he will find a Buddha who will beg help and thanks to which he will become rich.
- A cute and comical tale involving goblin-like creatures from Japanese folklore called "tengu".
- A Japanese businessman makes his fortune by shipping oranges from the farmlands to the capital city of Edo.