The sad and happy times of a young girl and her bear doll, a young mouse named Kanku-boya and his family, a sycamore tree, an old lamp post, a hoodlum moth and an alleyway full of posters come to life.
A cat gives harsh criticism to his owner for making everything more complicated than it needs to be, as humans usually do.
A series of tips on how to improve one's memory with the use of visual gags.
In a fictional place where using the imagination is banned, a boy saves a fish, which surprises everyone by turning into a mermaid. The boy is arrested for imagining this "nonsense", and is robbed of his imagination as punishment.
A man trapped on a raft in the middle of the ocean is in desperate need of water. Luckily for him, a few drops of rain water are about to fall from the raft's mast. Comedy ensues as the thirsty man attempts to drink the few small drops of water.
A series of short animated segments, without dialog, explore major characters of modern society, such as the plastic surgeon, the fashion-obsessed woman, the rumor-monger, and others, leading to a concluding comment on the progress of civilization.
The irrelevent retelling of the first book of the bible. When God created Earth, he created Eve instead of Adam first. Which effects how the future of humanity looks like in the end result.
A boy walks down the street and as he goes along his strides increase. Eventually he leaps over towns, forests, and oceans, seeing many things and surprising many people along the way.
In this homage to the classic American western, a cowboy faces off against a sinister, moustached villian in an attempt to save his kidnapped girlfriend.
In a convenient world where vending machines offer just about everything, the hero procures whatever he needs from machines on his journey to see the creator. The story is very simple: he tries to make a replacement purchase of the earth. But the creator declines his request, saying simply that there's no such thing as a brand new earth.
A wandering samurai finds a straw dummy with a magical sword, which makes him overwhelmingly powerful but begins to drive him mad.
This extremely brief film was Osamu Tezuka's answer to a challenge presented to the leaders of the international animation community to create animated self-portraits.