
Masashi Amenomori
2021Twelve Months
Tetsuo Imazawa, Kimio Yabuki
Ai Kanzaki, Tokuko Sugiyama
A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward. One greedy woman sends her stepdaughter, whom she does not like, to look for the flowers in a cold forest, knowing the task will be impossible for her. The girl almost freezes to death in the forest, but she is rescued by the spirits of the Twelve Months, who create spring around her. The girl is able to deliver the bouquet to the queen, but others want a share of the reward.
Twelve Months
Gauche the Cellist
Bernhard Dircks, Isao Takahata
Hideki Sasaki, Fuyumi Shiraishi
Gauche is a diligent but mediocre cellist who plays for a small town orchestra and the local cinema in the early 20th century. He struggles during rehearsals and is often berated by his conductor during preparations for an upcoming performance of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony. Over the course of four nights, Gauche is visited at his mill house home by talking animals as he is practicing.
Gauche the Cellist
海底超特急 マリン・エクスプレス
Satoshi Dezaki
Kousei Tomita, Nachi Nozawa
The plot of Marine Express can be described in two parts. The first part focuses on the people boarding the train and the problems they encounter on it. The second part takes place after the train has stopped at its half-way point, an island that used to be home to an ancient civilization millennia ago and has its fair share of secrets.
Undersea Super Train: Marine Express
浮浪雲
Mori Masaki
Shingo Yamashiro, Chiyoko Kawashima
Retired samurai Kumosuke lives quietly, not to say idly, in Edo (old Tokyo) with his wife and two children, a young boy named Shinnosuke and an infant girl, Ohana. While he nominally runs a courier business to earn a living, he seems to spend most of his time smoking his pipe, drinking sake, and chasing women. The arrival of a Shinsengumi squad led by a young swordswman, Ichimonji Hyougo, disrupts this peaceful routine, forcing Kumosuke to defend himself.
Drifting Clouds
FUTURE WAR 198X年
Tomoharu Katsumata, Toshio Masuda
Masashi Amenomori, Yoshio Kaneuchi
An American scientist constructs a laser satellite with hopes of preventing any nuclear conflicts from occurring. However, after a fatal error from both the US and the USSR governments, war breaks out and humanity faces a new bloodshed.
Future War 198X
Dr.スランプ アラレちゃん ハロー!不思議島
Minoru Okazaki
Kenji Utsumi, Mami Koyama
Professor Senbei finds a videotape of his deceased father providing instructions on how to create a love potion. The main ingredient is a tear of the evil Gyaasuka Daimao who lives at the Wonder Island. To retrieve it, Senbei takes Arale and Gatchan on a wacky adventure.
Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: Hello! Wonder Island