Chuzo Aoji

Movies

The Monkey Fleet
Story
This very brief cartoon from Japan whose title translated means "The Monkey Fleet" and runs little more than a minute has the Asian monkeys battling octopuses as they both go underwater with the simian animals riding in submarines shooting their torpedo bullets at the sea creatures.
Corporal Norakuro
Story
Norakuro is now a corporal. On his day off-duty, he goes to eat chicken on the stick. On his way home, he falls into a slumber and dreams of fighting with the Monkey Corps, his enemy.
Private 2nd Class Norakuro: The Drill
Story
Norakuro keeps getting his allies and enemies mixed up during training.
The Larks' Moving Day
Story
The Larks' Moving Day. Early Japanese animation.
Private 2nd Class Norakuro: The Training
Story
Private 2nd Class Norakuro is having the training for recruits, but makes so many mistakes.
Sanko and the Octopus: A Fight Over a Fortune
Story
This early Japanese animation opens with a festival of sorts...
The Development of the Train
Editor
Documentary on the development on trains, with animated sequences.
Momotaro's Underwater Adventure
Story
A early Japanese animation short.
Taiiku day
Story
Sports Day at Animal Village. Japanese animation short.
Momotaro's Sky Adventure
Story
Very early animated short from Japan featuring a cast of anthropomorphic animals.
A Wolf is a Wolf
Screenplay
A group of animals want to end the violence of the wolf.
The Monkey Sword Masamune
Screenplay
During the late Kamakura period, there lived a famous swordsmith known as Masamune whose renown as a swordsmith was so great that even long after his passing the term “Masamune” was used to describe any fine sword. Even today, the Masamune Prize is awarded to swordsmiths of outstanding skills in their craft. In Yasuji Murata’s cutout animation The Monkey Masamune a humble messenger is rewarded with the gift of a Masamune sword when he saves the life of a monkey and her child.
The Donkey
Writer
A man and his young son travel through the countryside to take their donkey to a horse auction. Unfortunately every person they pass has a different opinion on how this should be accomplished, leading to disastrous results when the dim-witted father abandons common sense in an attempt to please everyone.
Our Baseball Game
Screenplay
A baseball game between the rabbits and tanuki (raccoon dogs).
Taro's Toy Train
Story
A train conductor goes about his duty. All the characters are animals in human form. Hippo ladies in dresses try to jam into cars and other passengers pull jokes and cause havoc.
Taro's Toy Train
Screenplay
A train conductor goes about his duty. All the characters are animals in human form. Hippo ladies in dresses try to jam into cars and other passengers pull jokes and cause havoc.
Two Worlds
Screenplay
An adaptation of Aesop's fable The Ant and the Grasshopper but with a slight change. We have a diligent family ants versus a drunken lazy frog, a bourgeois butterfly and grasshopper couple. As winter comes, the frog, butterfly, and grasshopper are ill and starving.
The Lump
Director
An old man with a huge lump on his face encounters a band of Tengu in the mountains.