11-year-old Lisa has no time for toys; she's too busy taking care of her siblings and cooking for her mother. During the Christmas Eve blizzard, Lisa travels to Toyland in Wizard of Oz-like fashion and arrives just in time for a wedding. Young Mary Contrary is about to marry mean, old Barnaby Barnacle, despite the fact that she loves Jack Be Nimble. Lisa tries to stop this terrible wedding and, together with her new friends, discovers that Barnaby wants to take over Toyland. Lisa, Mary, Jack, and Georgie Porgie ask the Toymaster for help, but he can't help them as long as Lisa doesn't truly believe in toys.
Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Masterson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at will, David thinks she's a ghost, while Elizabeth is convinced she's alive.
When Joan’s husband dies, she is shocked to discover he had invented an elixir which makes the drinker look young again. Sharing it with her two friends, the three women paint the town red but soon discover that they are no longer equipped to be young in the modern world.
The East Sea Dragon Maiden, Aruo, wholeheartedly searches for her beloved. At any cost, she arrives by the side of the mortal Wang Sheng. Meanwhile, the fox demon Xiaoman, desiring the precious Spirit Leaf on the Dragon Maiden, schemes to break Wang Sheng's heart. In desperation, Aruo uses the Spirit Leaf to mend Wang Sheng's heart. Thus, a "heart-snatching" contest unfolds between the two women, with Wang Sheng at the center
Andy Chan, a workaholic, is given seven days by an angel to make a terminally ill woman happy for a second chance at life. He succeeds by loving her, but still dies, leaving her even more heartbroken. Now, the angel must help a suicidal prostitute save her business and find happiness, all while learning the true meaning of love and life.
A little-known adaptation of "Jack and the Beanstalk," directed by Koji Morimoto and produced at Studio 4°C in 1989 for the collection "Anime Video Art Collection," a series of animated shorts based on stories for children. Released only on VHS.
Original Cast, Reunite after 10 Years. A film originally shot as the official spoof comedy for The Graver Robbers’ Chronicles series, got some scenes reshot to add in and changed the film as the movie version of iPartment series.
The seven short films making up GENIUS PARTY couldn’t be more diverse, linked only by a high standard of quality and inspiration. Atsuko Fukushima’s intro piece is a fantastic abstraction to soak up with the eyes. Masaaki Yuasa, of MIND GAME and CAT SOUP fame, brings his distinctive and deceptively simple graphic style and dream-state logic to the table with “Happy Machine,” his spin on a child’s earliest year. Shinji Kimura’s spookier “Deathtic 4,” meanwhile, seems to tap into the creepier corners of a child’s imagination and open up a toybox full of dark delights. Hideki Futamura’s “Limit Cycle” conjures up a vision of virtual reality, while Yuji Fukuyama’s "Doorbell" and "Baby Blue" by Shinichiro Watanabe use understated realism for very surreal purposes. And Shoji Kawamori, with “Shanghai Dragon,” takes the tropes and conventions of traditional anime out for very fun joyride.
When troubled teen Lincoln is subjected to severe bullying, he accidentally conjures the vengeful ghost of Moira Karp. Once a teenage girl pushed to suicide, Moira is now an unstoppable force on a mission of gruesome retribution. But when she goes too far, Lincoln must prevent her from spiraling out of control.
Iris (Atsuko Okamoto) is determined to slay the person who killed her father - but an old and immortal enemy traps her first! Nursed to health by a kind and sexy sorceress and her brother, Iris recovers. When the sexy and villainous witch, Dakini, summons malicious spirits to threaten the village, Iris and her new friends must use all their powers to struggle against their common enemy.
A man attempts to commit suicide and, as a result, unexpectedly acquires the phenomenal ability to immediately answer any question. A modest and harmless individual, he becomes a target for all - from women to criminal bosses and even foreign special services. Some try to use him, others try to murder him, but the ordinary man keeps living according to the dictates of his own conscience.
The main theme is fear of death where our protagonist, Elira, chooses to embrace it in hopes of liberation, but when challenged by a spirit who prefers to stay in fear as a way to feel alive again, she wonders if there is any escape at all.