Kyoji Kobayashi

Osamu Tezuka is going to a 21st Century new year's party with all the characters he made. One thing leads to another and he ends up missing! It's up to his most popular characters to find out what happened to him and get him back safely before the rest of the guests show up.

니혼TV의 명물 엔터테인먼트 방송 “사랑은 지구를 구한다”에 삽입되기 위해서 만들어진 TV용 장편 애니메이션으로, 전체적으로 보면 초기의 손오공 작품과 선을 달리하는 멋을 보여주는데 이것은 역시 시대와 금전의 차이다. 전통성과 가벼운 재미를 보여주는 작품으로 영상부터 사운드까지 상당히 공을 들여 만든 작품이다.

Hyuma Hoshi dreams of becoming a top baseball star like his father, a 3rd baseman who was injured in World War II and forced to retire. Hoshi joins the wildly popular Giants team and soon realizes the difficulty of managing high expectations. From the grueling training to his rivalry with Hanagata of the Hanshin Tigers, Hoshi will need some pitching magic to make it in the big leagues.

Bander is a 17-year-old boy from Earth who lives on a distant planet, which is populated by human shape-shifters who feed off of vegetables and animal tails. Violence soon breaks out, as invaders launch an attack on Bander's new planet. This was Japan's first 2-hour animated film for television. The program received high ratings when broadcast as part of a set of 24-hour TV programs called "Ai wa Chikyu wo Sukuu" on Nippon Television. After a long gap since his last animated film for television, this work fully reflects Osamu Tezuka's desire to achieve theatrical quality with this production.

Captain Gomes uses a flying battleship to battle the giant robot Daitetsujin 17. Theatrically-released abridgement of Episode 15 of the TV series.

Young orphan Saburo uses a special helmet to command the Iron Robot 17 against the forces of the renegade computer Brain. Theatrical release re-edited from the first two episodes of the TV series, which actually preceded the original broadcast of the second episode.

"Become the brightest star in the Giants' constellation!" Hyuma was told by his father, Ittetsu. Ittetsu entrusted his child, Hyuma, with a dream he couldn't fulfill. Despite rebelling against his father, Hyuma plays in Koshien through his eternal rival, Mitsuru Hanagata, and his encounter with his partner, Sota Ban.

A Day in TOKYO in 1968, Nostalgic bygone era. Planned by Japan National Tourism Organization. Produced by Koga Production. This film was produced to explain Tokyo for foreign tourists.