A pure hearted boy becomes friends with a dragon that people are afraid of.

Kandata was a thief in life so he suffers in hell because of it. But once before he died he helped a spider. One day a silk thread comes down from above and Kandata attempts to climb it in order to reach paradise but...

An educational film on music theory aimed at elementary school-aged children.

An educational film on set theory targeted at elementary school-aged children.

Advance! Godzilland is a series of four educational OVAs released on VHS in 1994 and 1996 by Gakken. They use Godzilla and other kaiju to teach children about hiragana, counting, addition, and subtraction.<gr><gr>

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Legend has it that before the tunnel (Ao no Doumon) was built, people had to climb over the cliffs through which the tunnel is built to reach an important local shrine. The path was very dangerous and people regularly fell to their deaths. During the Edo period, a Buddhist monk named Zenkai, who had committed a murder in his earlier life, decided to build a safe passage for worshipers in order to atone for his crime. Beginning at the age of 49, he dedicated 30 years of his life to digging the 185 metre tunnel by hand, using only a hammer and chisel.
 
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An educational film about town planning and factoring the opinion of the elderly as they have lived there the longest.

The series stars a cat with a lack of energy who speaks while lying down, yet has a thorough personality. He thinks various things and has fun watching humans.

One day, when a hunter tried to catch many ducks, they took him to a distant village....A puppet animated film based on a folk tale of the same name.

A modified version of The Little Red Hen folk tale. It stars a squirrel and the moral of the story (no work=no prize) is removed as the animals who didn't contribute at all to making the bread were allowed to eat it.

A short animated film based on the Aesop's Fable "The North Wind and the Sun."

A puppet animation adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale "The Elves and the Shoemaker."

An adaptation of the Kasa Jizou folktale where Jizou statues reward an elderly couple for giving them hats (kasa) to wear during the snowy weather.

A monkey helps rescue forest animals during a fire.

A guitar starts playing by itself in response to the beautiful heart of the flower seller's daughter. A puppet animation from Gakken Eigakyoku and winner of the 1959 Gold Prize at the Tokyo Educational Film Festival.

Omusubi Kororin is a japanese folk tale of an honest old man whose rice ball rolls into a hole; a hole that leads to a village of kind field mice

Puppet animated film based on the Aesop fable of the same name.

A Miyazawa Kenji story adapted as a puppet animation.

Gauche is having trouble perfecting his piece for his performance in 10 days when he hears a knock on his door...

A Matsue Jinbo production of the classic "White Elephant" story where a kind white elephant is tricked into helping a human who leads others back so the elephant would be captured.

An adaptation of the classic Japanese "Red Oni, Blue Oni" tale.

A red Oni wants to become friends with the villagers but is finding it hard because a blue Oni is terrorizing them.

Based on a Norwegian fable. Hans was making bread and North Wind was blowing all the flour out of his bowl. He decides to visit the North Wind in his castle to ask him to stop and for compensation. North Wind gives him a tablecloth that summons delicious food on top of it. Unbeknownst to him, Hans was swindled out of his tablecloth by a local innkeeper. He returns to North Wind and gets a sheep that drops gold coins. The innkeeper swindles him again. Hans returns a 3rd time and gets a scepter, this time booby-trapped by North Wind to figure out who has been stealing Hans' gifts. The innkeeper gets his punishment when he tries to swindle the scepter and Hans gets to keep his 3 fantastical items and returns home to his mother.

Long, long ago there were two brothers, named Umihiko and Yamahiko. The older brother, Umihiko, made his living catching fish in the sea. The younger brother, Yamahiko, made his living hunting birds and animals in the mountains.
 
One day Yamahiko said to Umihiko, "Why don't we exchange my bow and arrows for your fishing tackle, and trade places?" After bothering him enough Umihiko agreed. The next day proved treacherous as they were unskilled. Umihiko hurt his arm and Yamahiko lost the fishing hook. Umihiko was extremely angered that Yamahiko's trade caused him to loose his prized hook, so even when his arm heals he'd never be able to fish again the same. Yamahiko strives to right his wrongs.

A stop-motion adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's The Nightingale.