Osamu Tezuka

An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.

This extremely brief film was Osamu Tezuka’s answer to a challenge presented to the leaders of the international animation community to ...

A tranquil forest and all of its residents must face the destruction of man. A squirrel, born and raised in the forest, fights to defend his home ...

In a convenient world where vending machines offer just about everything, the hero procures whatever he needs from machines on his journey to see ...

A wandering samurai finds a straw dummy with a magical sword, which makes him overwhelmingly powerful but begins to drive him mad.

Tezuka Osamu crafts a love story in the time when humans are expanding into space at the end of the 21st century, employing an omnibus form ...

After losing his parents, a young bear named Yamataro is chained as an attraction of a small kiosk near a train station. There he is encouraged ...

A cowboy seeks to rescue, then woo, a damsel in distress. But he is constantly thwarted by the scratches, breaks, and other imperfections present ...

Akira is a lonely middle school boy, ignored by his classmates and bullied by his teacher. He falls in love with the image of a girl on a coffee ...

In 1984 the Japanese government approved gene recombination experiments. Baggy is Tezuka’s response. A cute kitten escapes a lab, and is ...

A boy walks down the street and as he goes along his strides increase. Eventually he leaps over towns, forests, and oceans, seeing many things ...

Some time ago, Shunsaku Ban witnessed his friend’s murder during a random robbery attempt, and decided to become a guardian for the man’s infant ...

A lonely kid who lives in the countryside meets a strange boy who has a ragged umbrella over his head and there is always rain pouring over him. ...

The story concerns four animals fighting to expel war from the earth. Though based on the “Band of Bremen (Die Bremer ...

When Unico, a young unicorn, is banished from his family by a pantheon of manipulative gods, his powers of joy and happiness are tested as he ...

Phoenix 2772 starts with twelve minutes without dialogue, much like a silent film, recalling the birth and education of Godo. In this brave new ...