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: No Dialogue , Animals

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 , Mythology , Tragedy , Religion , Cosmic Horror , Angels , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Amnesia , No Dialogue , Coming of Age , Survival , Foreign , Fairy Tale , Tanks , Cultivation , Body Horror

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

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

Cello Hiki no Gauche

Also known as Gauche the Cellist.

Studio: Oh! Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Music

The story concerns Gauche, a professional cellist. During rehearsals for a performance, he is scolded by the conductor because his playing is not good enough. His timing is off and he seems to have no "feel" for the music.

Gauche returns to his lonely cottage and starts practicing. Then a cat enters who tricks him into understanding the inner meaning of the music. The importance of practice is shown by a cuckoo, rhythm by a badger and tenderness by a mouse. In four days he learns the true meaning and feeling of music and develops into a great musician.

Laced with popular classical music this special combines fun and inspiration for all ages and audiences.



Tags: Musical Theater , Rural , Animals , Classic Literature , Male Protagonist , Historical , Classical Music , Kids , Urban Fantasy , Anthropomorphism , Slapstick

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 , Religion , Gods , Primarily Adult Cast , Amnesia , Travel , Adoption , Agriculture , Unrequited Love , Environmental , Heterosexual , Calligraphy , Horticulture

Ginga no Uo: URSA minor BLUE

Studio: Ai ga areba Daijobu , Tamura Shigeru Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy

Urey is a boy who lives in a laboratory in a lake with an old man. One day they find a strange star in the Little Dipper. The stars are disappearing and the Little Dipper changes into a fish shape. To save stars, they begin to sail across the Milky Way to the place where the strange fish lives.



Tags: Iyashikei , Astronomy , Fishing , Mythology , Male Protagonist , Magic , Elderly Protagonist , Ships , Robots , CGI

Kataku

Studio: Video Market
Status: Finished
Genres: Supernatural

Many years ago, a young woman named Unai-Otome lived in the village of Ikuta. As she was beautiful it was no surprise that she had two suitors, both deeply in love with her. The girl was torn apart over which one to choose. In her desperation she chose a third option - taking her own life. Although her intentions were absolutely pure, not even in death did she find the solace she desired. Many decades later, a pilgrim walking by her grave meets a beautiful young woman and her story once again rises from the depths of time.... With a plot based on a classic play of Noh traditional theatre, the film presents the peak of Kawamoto’s mastery thanks to its expert mediation of the absurdity of the human condition.

Source: http://www.kviff.com/en/film-archive-detail/20050895-house-of-flames/

Tags: Afterlife , Historical , Demons , Puppetry , Stop Motion