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Ray is a young inventor living in the U.K. in the middle of the 19th century. Shortly before the first ever Great Exhibition a marvelous invention called the Steam Ball behind which a menacing power is hidden arrives at his door from his grandfather Lloid in the U.S. Meanwhile the nefarious OHara Foundation has sent men to aquire the Steam Ball so that they can use its power towards their...
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Ray is a young inventor living in the U.K. in the middle of the 19th century. Shortly before the first ever Great Exhibition a marvelous invention called the Steam Ball behind which a menacing power is hidden arrives at his door from his grandfather Lloid in the U.S. Meanwhile the nefarious OHara Foundation has sent men to aquire the Steam Ball so that they can use its power towards their...
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We are now in the early 18th century the Kyouhou era when the merchant culture was flourishing. In Yoshiwara the red light district of Edo there is a popular courtesan with good looks and character called Usugumo. She in fact is a daughter of a Christianized prostitute and a shogun named Yoshimune but the power struggle in these times doesnt allow her to be with her father. Her fate is...
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Dramatic story of the Yamazaki family during the year Showa 39 1964 the year that Tokyo hosted the Summer...
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Short Peace Opening Animation:The opening animation of the compilation movie Short Peace.Tsukumo:One night during the 18th century deep in the mountains a man loses his way and comes across a small shrine. As he enters the space transforms into a room of a different world.Hi no Youjin:The city of Edo the 18th century.Owaka the daughter of a merchant family and her childhood friend...
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The story surrounds a boy and a cow who have always lived their lives together. One winter a famine strikes their village. The villagers resolve to the cow but the boy secretly helped the cow escape. A few years ago the boy now grown-up and the cow meet...
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The story of the special revolves around the Sanada brothers in their youth. Nobuyuki and Yukimura swear to each other to protect the influential Sanada clan. However thinking of how to best continue the Sanada clan Yukimura makes a decision and meets with Mitsunari Ishida and Naoe Kanetsugu at the location he arrived at. On the other hand his elder brother Nobuyuki must worry about the...
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The story of the special revolves around the Sanada brothers in their youth. Nobuyuki and Yukimura swear to each other to protect the influential Sanada clan. However thinking of how to best continue the Sanada clan Yukimura makes a decision and meets with Mitsunari Ishida and Naoe Kanetsugu at the location he arrived at. On the other hand his elder brother Nobuyuki must worry about the...
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The story of the film is set after the conflict instigated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi ended but not before the Battle of Sekigahara determines who shall be the Shogun of...
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The story of the film is set after the conflict instigated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi ended but not before the Battle of Sekigahara determines who shall be the Shogun of...
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The time: 1814. The place: Edo now known as Tokyo.One of the highest populated cities in the world teeming with peasants samurai townsmen merchants nobles artists courtesans and perhaps even supernatural things.A much accomplished artist of his time and now in his mid-fifties Tetsuzo can boast clients from all over Japan and tirelessly works in the garbage-loaded chaos of his...
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The time: 1814. The place: Edo now known as Tokyo.One of the highest populated cities in the world teeming with peasants samurai townsmen merchants nobles artists courtesans and perhaps even supernatural things.A much accomplished artist of his time and now in his mid-fifties Tetsuzo can boast clients from all over Japan and tirelessly works in the garbage-loaded chaos of his...
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One hundred years after their deaths six legendary holy warriors are reborn to seek justice against the former comrade who betrayed them into the hands of an evil god! The six warriors search the feudal province of Edo questing for the last Saint Soldier Haohmaru and their sworn nemesis Shirou Amakusa. Will the followers of the divine light triumph over the forces of darkness or is history...
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One hundred years after their deaths six legendary holy warriors are reborn to seek justice against the former comrade who betrayed them into the hands of an evil god! The six warriors search the feudal province of Edo questing for the last Saint Soldier Haohmaru and their sworn nemesis Shirou Amakusa. Will the followers of the divine light triumph over the forces of darkness or is history...
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Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens Taro The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures focusing on Taro a young boy who has to make a voyage to a distant lake to save his mother who has been turned into a...
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Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens Taro The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures focusing on Taro a young boy who has to make a voyage to a distant lake to save his mother who has been turned into a...
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Hiiragi Kyouichirou is a boy who travels from his provincial town to Tokyo to attend university. He carries with him his familys sword to protect himself. When he arrives in Tokyo he becomes swept up in a plot by the Imperial...
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Kayoko is a young girl in 1940 just starting first grade. Shes a bit of a crybaby which is no secret to those around her. She loves playing with friends and singing cute schoolyard chants and occasionally having fun with her three older brothers. Her mother is pregnant and so she looks forward to being a big sister only partially understanding the responsibility that might bring. Meanwhile...
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Urashima Taro is based on 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...
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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 mans greedy brother steals the mortar and determined to enjoy all the luxuries by himself climbs into a rowing boat and heads...
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Long ago in a little Viking Village called Flake young Wickie lives a happy life. His father Halvar is the chief of the Vikings and would have liked a son a little more courageous. So he and his team take Wicke along on their journeys to give him the experience hell need to be a real Viking. Yet somehow Halvar and his men end up trapped or hopelessly stuck somewhere in most cases and...
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Four additional short stories of the Steel Angels: Saki becomes a film actress Karinka goes on a blind date with Kamihito Kurumi practices the art of becoming a traditional Japanese woman and the rest of the Steel Angels engage in a contest to win Nakahitos...
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Four additional short stories of the Steel Angels: Saki becomes a film actress Karinka goes on a blind date with Kamihito Kurumi practices the art of becoming a traditional Japanese woman and the rest of the Steel Angels engage in a contest to win Nakahitos...
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The story takes place in old Tokyo the Tokyo of August-September 1923 Showa 12. At this moment in time the city is a mixture of extremes... past and present rich and poor good and bad. This is a city where we see both horsecarts and motorcars swords and pistols lords and businessmen. A wealthy woman from an upper-class family finds herself attracted to a handsome young man Taka. He and...
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A love story revolves around the 9th Princess of Western Liang as she journeys to the Central Plains to fulfill a marriage alliance with the Crown Prince. Having received overwhelming love and admiration as the 9th Princess Xiao Feng is forced to leave the life that she has known in order to become the Crown Princess. Her husband the black-bellied Crown Prince holds the highest position second...
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18-year-old Urano Suzu marries Hojo Shusaku and moves from Eba City to Kure City in Hiroshima Prefecture in the middle of the Pacific War. As Japan slides into a war it cannot get out of the townspeople go on with their “ordinary†lives. Supplies are short and family and friends get sent to the battlefield. Suzu and the Hojo family battle such anxieties as they try to live...
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Norizuki Gennojo a commander of the Shogunate’s troops sets out on a journey to train in swordplay. In that time Koka Yoami the father of his betrothed Chie receives a special mission and goes to Awa Tokushima to search for the secret records of Naruto in which a pledge to overthrow the shogunate is sealed with blood. He is never heard of again. 10 years later Gennojo returns to Edo...
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Set during the Joseon Dynasty period four people from different walks of life come together to make Prince Lee Geum the King and reform the Saheonbu. The four people are Lee Geum Yeo Ji Park Moon Soo and Dal Moon. Lee Geum is a prince but even though he is smart he is not recognized as a prince due to his mother being born in the lowest class. Yeo Ji is damo at the Saheonbu. She...
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Fate had never been kind to Ji Ning. Wracked by illnesses and infirm his entire life on Earth Ning knew early on that he would die as a teenager. What he didn’t know was that there really was such a thing as life after death and that the universe was a far larger place than he thought. A lucky twist of fate one of the few in Ning’s life meant that Ning was reborn into a world of...
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In a galaxy far away there is a kid without innate ability to practice internal techniques. So in order to gain the respect of his father he resolutely chooses to follow the more difficult and painful path of practicing external techniques. As the years go by he grows up but what really changes his life is a mysterious meteoric crystal stone – the Meteoric Tear. This stone fuses with...