Anime like Shanshui Qing

Lu Ling

Studio: Shanghai Animation Film Studio
Status: Finished
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An old man and his granddaughter found a wounded fawn while searching for Chinese medicinal herbs in the mountains. Under the girl's careful care, the fawn gradually recovered and became an inseparable friend with the girl...



Tags: Animals , No Dialogue

Xiao Kedou Zhao Mama

Also known as Where Is Mother.

Studio: Shanghai Animation Film Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure

A group of lost tadpoles search for their mother.

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Tenshi no Tamago

Also known as Angel's Egg.

Studio: Studio Gallop , Studio DEEN , Studio Hibari , Tokuma Shoten
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Psychological

In a desolate and dark world full of shadows, lives one little girl who seems to do nothing but collect water in jars and protect a large egg she carries everywhere. A mysterious man enters her life... and they discuss the world around them.



Tags: Philosophy , Dystopian , Lost Civilization , Post-Apocalyptic , Religion , Mythology , Tragedy , Cosmic Horror , Female Protagonist , Angels , Amnesia , Coming of Age , Survival , Urban Fantasy , Fairy Tale , Foreign , Tanks , Cultivation , Body Horror , No Dialogue

Mu Di

Studio: Shanghai Animation Film Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Music

The story is about a relationship between a cow herding boy with an extraordinary flute playing ability and his buffalo companion. The boy dreams that he loses the buffalo, and when the buffalo won't move from his hiding place, the boy uses a flute melody to bring him back.

Tags: Kids , Musical Theater , Rural

Doujouji

Studio: Kadokawa Pictures Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Supernatural

Based on an ancient legend, Dojoji Temple tells the story of a young priest who finds himself the object of intense infatuation and lust from a young woman. As he rebuffs her advances she becomes more and more desperate eventually turning herself into a gigantic serpent. The priest is hidden under the bell of the temple but the woman's passion is so intense that escape is impossible.

A short animation from filmaker Kihachiro Kawamoto. This film utilizes both stop motion and standard animation techniques.

Tags: No Dialogue , Religion , Historical , Stop Motion , Puppetry , Mythology , Dragons , Demons

Kaguya-hime no Monogatari

Also known as The Tale of The Princess Kaguya.

Studio: Studio Ghibli
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

Okina is a bamboo cutter in ancient rural Japan. One day in the forest, he finds a tiny baby in the folds of a bamboo shoot. He brings the creature home to his wife Ounaa and they decide to keep her and raise her as a princess. She is clearly not of this world. Kaguya grows at an unnatural rate, soon maturing into an uncommonly beautiful young woman. Since Okina has now also found a cache of gold and treasure in the forest, every suitor wants Kaguya. But this is not a fairy tale of courtship and marriage.



Tags: Philosophy , Classic Literature , Tragedy , Fairy Tale , Female Protagonist , Historical , Family Life , Rural , Gods , Religion , Primarily Adult Cast , Amnesia , Travel , Adoption , Heterosexual , Agriculture , Unrequited Love , Environmental , Calligraphy

Michi

Studio: Tomoyasu Murata Company
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

The My Road series - Scarlet Road (2002), White Road (2003), Indigo Road (2006), and the most recent instalment Lemon Road (2008) - can be read as meditations on loss and mourning. These poetic films tell their story through motif, character expression, music and montage and require repeated viewing for one to absorb the subtly evoked layers of meaning.



Tags: Philosophy , Stop Motion , No Dialogue , Rehabilitation , Puppetry , Rural , Male Protagonist , Episodic