Kenji Miyazawa

A hunter who lives in the mountain knows the bears well. She apologizes to each bear every time she kills one, but she has to, for it is how she makes her living. One evening, she comes across a bear and when she is about to kill it, the bear speaks to her.

A girl moves from the city and goes to school in the country due to some circumstances in her father's job. Her new schoolmates keep her at a distance. There is a boy she'd like to get to know better, but she worries about how he might treat her and doesn't try to get closer. She begins to hate life in the countryside and longs to return to the city, but she ends up meeting a real god of wind.

The stars in the sky seem to maintain the remote, eternal order which earthbound souls can hardly hope to attain, as it would take exceptional energy to transform oneself from an earthly creature into a brightly shining star. However, the ugly nighthawk who had experienced great hardship being despised by fellow birds managed to convert that hardship into enormous energy to fly up to heaven, and in the end could glow as the nighthawk star. A short made by Ryu Kato celebrating Kenji Miyazawa's 80+ years of fairy tales based on the story of the same name. (Source: The World of Kenji Miyazawa)

아름다운 이하토브 숲에서 태어난 고양이 부도리는 부모님과 여동생 네리와 함께 행복하게 살고 있다. 그러던 어느 날, 갑작스런 천재지변으로 부모님은 사라지고, 여동생 네리도 홀연히 나타난 수수께끼의 남자를 따라 사라진다. 마을로 내려온 부도리는 붉은 수염, 펜넨 소장, 구보 박사, 비단 공장주 등 다양한 안내자들을 만나며 씩씩하게 성장해간다. 하지만 또 다시 자연재해가 발생하고, 사랑하는 이들을 더 이상 잃고 싶지 않은 부도리는 큰 결심을 하게 되는데… 과연 부도리는 여동생을 되찾고, 이하토브를 구할 수 있을까?

보이는 것은 설원의 새하얀 세계, 인간이 없는 산속에서 혼자 사는 남자, 카키우치 료이치! 일상의 모든 속물을 버리고 굶지 않기 위해 짐승을 죽여, 먹고, 자고, 한없이 독서하고 오로지 고독과 마주하는 날들.. 사회와 격절 된 장소에서 유일하게 그가 사는 의미.. 그것은 규제와 묶인 일본 사회의 시스템을 부수는 것 그래서 그 사명을 다하기 위해 폭탄을 만들어 온갖 기관과 기업에 보내고 있다. 그리고 드디어 최후의 위업을 달성하려고 한 밤! 자살한 형! 유키가 나탄난다. 그것은 남자의 알려지지 않은 과거를 폭로하고 운명도 생각지 못한 결말로 향하게 하는 것이었다.

Steel-worker Saito Tetsuo, driven by an unexplained anxiety, steals bike after bike to move away from his hometown to Tokyo. Through snow-storms and empty landscapes, the breathtaking photography allows us to look deep into the mindscape of a man searching for an answer - although the question itself is never quite articulated.

The Night of Taneyamagahara is an anime short film directed by Kazuo Oga and released by Studio Ghibli. A DVD version was released for Japan on July 7, 2006.

The Night of Taneyamagahara is an anime short film directed by Kazuo Oga and released by Studio Ghibli. A DVD version was released for Japan on July 7, 2006.

Welcome aboard the fantasy train in the stars! "Fantasy Railroad in the Stars" is a fantastic journey of a boy, Giovanni, in a dreamscape created into a colourful full-dome CG animation picture with inspiring background music. Based on the famous Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru story written by Kenji Miyazawa in the early 20th century, Kagaya, a digital fine artist, has breathed new life into the unique imaginary world using creativity and precise astronomical knowledge. The starry sky is depicted as the Celestial Field made up of a river, a field of silver grasses, flowers, birds, survey towers, railway signals and more. Across this amazing beautiful scenery, the Celestial Railroad runs along the Milky Way. It is a fantasy world in full colour, but designed with scientific accuracy.

Based on the story by Kenji Miyazawa in which two hunters get lost in the woods and discover a strange restaurant which makes a number of increasingly strenuous demands.

Claymation adaptation of Kenji Miyazawa's short tale about a pair of hunters that, after getting lost on the mountains, find themselves looking for a meal at the mysterious Wildcat House restaurant. Faced with endless corridors and doors, and many signs asking them to do a series of confusing actions, the gentlemen start questioning what kind of place the restaurant might actually be behind all these doors.

Set in the beginning of the 20th century Japan, the film follows the bright and eccentric Kenji from his late student years through his adulthood. Kenji suffers the tragedy of being an artist whose art isn't recognized during his lifetime. Based on the life of the author Kenji Miyazawa, the film depicts his brief but intense existence.

A short anime based on Kenji Miyazawa's fairytale "Twin Stars" where Chunse Doji and Boze Doji live in the Milky Way.

A young boy named Gusukō lives in the countryside with his parents and little sister. A string of droughts and other natural disasters tear the family apart, and Gusukō is forced to leave home and seek his fortunes on his own. Driven by a desire to improve the quality of life of his poor countrymen, he eventually joins a group of scientists called the Ihatov Volcano Department; he takes part in scientific projects to fight the natural disasters that drove him from his home.

A short film based on a story by Japanese writer Kenji Miyazawa in which two young British hunters get lost in the woods and discover a strange restaurant. Are the hunters about to discover how it feels to be hunted?

Karin has lived alone in a secluded mountain village with her consumptive mother since her father died. Her worried grandfather advises her to send her mother to a sanatorium and be adopted by him, although she refuses to accept. On the Buddhist All Soul’s Day Festival in August, a messenger from her grandfather pays a sudden visit to her house.

The Acorns and the Wildcat is a unique short film in picture-book format from the creator of Night on the Galactic Railroad and Gauche the Cellist. Unusually for an anime, a narrator reads Kenji's story aloud while the action is played out on the screen by a succession of warm and evocative illustrations brought to life by subtle touches of animation. If the film feels somehow familiar yet you can't put your finger on the reason why, it's probably the sumptuously minimalist animation by Yasuhiro Nagura, who was the animation director of Mamoru Oshii's artsy 1986 feature Angel's Egg. That, and Kenji's wildcat is said to have been the inspiration for Miyazaki's Panda/Totoro creature. The idea of reading Kenji's story aloud instead of playing it out as a drama is quite refreshing, and Kenji's magical language and narrative style are entirely sufficient to sustain interest. Combined with the spacey music and breathtaking art, the result is a pleasantly unassuming little gem of a film.

A foreign transfer student from the city arrives one day in a Japanese country town. Enchanted by his air of mystery, his classmates nickname him "Matasaburou the Wind Imp" after a local legend. Eventually they become friends and spend many days playing in the countryside. One windy day, Matasaburou returns to the city, leaving his classmates to speculate that he really was Matasaburou the Wind Imp and that he flew away on the wind.

병든 어머니를 모시고 단둘이 살고 있는 소년 조반니. 그는 고기잡이 나간 뒤 돌아오지 않는 아버지 때문에 친구들에게 놀림을 당하기 일쑤다. 은하수 축제의 날, 자신을 놀리는 친구들 때문에 슬픔에 잠겨 언덕에 앉아 있던 조반니는 신비로운 기차에 올라타게 된다. 기차 객실 안에서 칸파넬라를 만나게 된 조반니, 그들은 은하 여행을 시작한다. 그러나 어느새 조반니와 칸파넬라에게 이별의 순간이 찾아오는데…

작은 오케스트라의 첼리스트인 고슈는 동물들로부터 그의 음악을 연주해 줄 것을 부탁받는데...

작은 오케스트라의 첼리스트인 고슈는 동물들로부터 그의 음악을 연주해 줄 것을 부탁받는데...

A Miyazawa Kenji story adapted as a puppet animation from Gakken in 1963

Based on the story by Kenji Miyazawa in which two hunters get lost in the woods and discover a strange restaurant which makes a number of increasingly strenuous demands.

Saburō Takada transfers from a city to a very small school. The village children suspect that Saburō is actually Matasaburō, the wind sprite.

A young prince and a minister's son go on a quest to find the greatest jewel the world has ever seen. An adaptation of Kenji Miyazawa's short story with the same title.