
Okaasan, Nakanaide
An educational anime about the importance of life.
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An educational anime about the importance of life.

When a luxurious family touring train halts in a pitch black tunnel, an uninvited creature sneaks on board. (Source: IMDB)

An educational disaster safety video for kids featuring talking insects.

1 day before the end of WWII for Japan in September 1944 Sadamitsu, Tokushima was under one final air raid. Elementary school boys proceeded to carry out their evacuation policy and many became victims.

An educational film about marriage discrimination; how hard it is for a lower class person to marry into upper class.

An early stop motion doll film by Aki Kouno, inspired by Samuel Ullman's famous poem Youth.

An educational film about traffic safety.

When the night falls, Luke climbs up to the deserted lighthouse, where he tries to "light up" the memory buried underneath the glass curtain walls of the city's skyscrapers with the old and worn equipment there. (Source: IMDB)


An educational film highlighting the importance of how impressionable children are by their family members.

An educational disaster safety video for kids featuring Mii-chan the cat and Daiki-kun after their animal abuse issue from the previous educational short.

DVD collections that feature various stories with morals aimed at children. The DVDs come with supplementary reading as these videos are meant for a classroom setting.

A camel, on a quest to find his missing wife in the desert, faces the dilemma of chasing his treasure or continuing his journey. It's the story of how someone recognizes the most important thing in life amid chaos caused by dementia. (Source: IMDB)
An animation depicting the tragedy of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

An educational film about wheel-chair bound people in Japan.

An educational film about playground bullying.

In the middle of the forest stands an elephant with a cherry blossom tree growing from its back and a girl comes to tend it.

Satoshi is a popular boy thanks to his success in soccer. Kaori becomes jealous and spreads rumors that Satoshi was of low class birth. The school begins to shun Satoshi to the point that he stops playing soccer. When Kaori's house is damaged by a landslide Satoshi comes to help.

An educational film about the bystander effect and indifference in Japan. A mentality that "it's not happening to me, so it's not my problem" towards the discrimination of others, those suffering from disease, those displaced by the 2011 Touhoku earthquake, etc.



An educational film about how some religious beliefs and folklore and superstitions are in damaging in modern Japan.

In the summer of 1992, Dujung, an elementary student, goes to a farm in the suburbs with his parents. While his parents believe the expensive and rare specialty from the farm will strengthen their son’s body, Dujung suffers side effects. (Source: Vimeo)

Human beings as well as other creatures have a cruel heart. Everyone thinks that all they're doing is bullying insects. In this anime each individual is confronted with the bullying and asked about it; their replies show the ugliness of their own hearts.