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Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone (1989)
6.7/10on IMDb
Released
About 42 minutes. Garlic Jr. takes Gohan in the course of his hunt for the Dragon Balls. The first Dragon Ball Z movie puts a rescue up front and gets to its big supernatural showdown quickly, with less setup than the later movies need.
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Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor (2007)
7.3/10on IMDb
Released
About 21 minutes. A country doctor goes out on a night call in Koji Yamamura’s Kafka adaptation. Figures stretch and the weather seems to join in, so choose it for a waking nightmare with an unsettling sense of humor.
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Mount Head (2002)
6.8/10on IMDb
Released
About 10 minutes. A miser swallows cherry pits rather than throw them away and ends up with something growing on his head. The traditional tale gets much of its edge from the calm storytelling voice accompanying each strange turn.
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Our War Game (2000)
7.7/10on IMDb
Released
About 40 minutes. A newly arrived Digimon begins spreading across the internet, and the kids scramble to reach one another from different places. Choose this separate Japanese film when a fast story about a new technology getting out of hand sounds appealing.
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The Old Crocodile (2005)
6.6/10on IMDb
Released
About 13 minutes. An old crocodile sets off looking for company and turns a new friendship into a test of his appetite. Pick this when you want something that looks like a simple illustrated fable and has a nastier sense of consequence.
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Muybridge's Strings (2011)
7.2/10on IMDb
Released
About 13 minutes. Images of motion photographer Eadweard Muybridge cross paths with a mother watching her child grow. The visual patterns and music give you a lot to absorb if you like animation that asks you to make the connections.
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The Portrait Studio (2013)
7.4/10on IMDb
Released
About 17 minutes. A photographer on a hill works through changes in his country while trying to make an unhappy young customer smile. Choose it for a relationship you get to see change through snapshots and repeated gestures.
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Bobby's Girl (1985)
6.1/10on IMDb
Released
About 44 minutes. A boy more at ease on his motorcycle than at school starts writing to a girl his age. Pick this older coming-of-age story if you want an animated drama about small plans and the exhilaration of getting out on the road.
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Rain in the Sunshine (2013)
6.3/10on IMDb
Released
About 18 minutes. A shy schoolboy’s longing sends him on a rush through streets and traffic, with real life giving way to pieces of fantasy. It’s an energetic small story about unspoken affection, with no series to catch up on.
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Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn (1995)
7.6/10on IMDb
Released
51 minutes. A disruption in the afterlife forces Goku and Vegeta to face Janemba. It’s a good short choice for elastic fight animation and for seeing what Goku and Vegeta do when their usual habit of fighting separately stops working.
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Typhoon Noruda (2015)
5.7/10on IMDb
Released
About 27 minutes. Two boys quarrel just as a storm cuts their school off and brings a mysterious girl within reach. Choose it when the ordinary school setting and a sudden turn toward science fiction sound good together.
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A Japanese Boy Who Draws (2018)
Released
About 20 minutes. A young man looks back on his urge to draw, and the film keeps changing styles as his early influences and relationships come into view. It’s personal and playful about the difference between imagining yourself an artist and doing the work.
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Rain Town (2011)
7.0/10on IMDb
Released
About 10 minutes. A small girl walks through a rain-filled, almost abandoned town and meets a weathered robot. Its muted colors and sparing movement make it a quiet choice when you want a place to linger after the story ends.
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Fumiko's Confession (2009)
6.1/10on IMDb
Released
About two minutes. Fumiko makes her confession and then takes a wildly exaggerated downhill route through the aftermath. It’s a tiny burst of physical comedy, with barely time to take in one image before the next gag arrives.
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She and Her Cat (1999)
7.3/10on IMDb
Released
About five minutes. A cat describes life with the woman who takes him in. Choose Makoto Shinkai’s original short if you want a small black-and-white portrait of companionship. The later Everything Flows adaptation is a separate work.
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Someone's Gaze (2013)
7.2/10on IMDb
Released
About seven minutes. A young woman who lives on her own goes through an ordinary evening as memories and a family cat draw her thoughts back home. The tiny shifts in perspective suit a viewer who wants restrained domestic drama.
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One Piece: The Movie (2000)
6.8/10on IMDb
Released
About 51 minutes. Luffy and his crew search for an old pirate’s treasure and have to reckon with another crew that wants it. Pick this 2000 film for a short outing in the series’ early visual style, with a single destination and a complete caper.
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Combustible (2012)
Released
About 13 minutes. In an Edo-period city, a young woman and a firefighter are caught up in a blaze. Katsuhiro Otomo’s short makes the movement of smoke and bodies part of the period setting. It was also collected in Short Peace.
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Pikachu's Vacation (1998)
6.2/10on IMDb
Released
About 22 minutes. Pikachu and other Pokémon get a day together while their trainers stay mostly out of the way. An escalating playground rivalry gives this 1998 theatrical short an easy story to follow without sitting through a longer battle.
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Hal (2013)
6.6/10on IMDb
Released
About an hour. In a near-future Kyoto, a robot helps a young woman face a loss. It’s a gentler place to start than the unsettling science fiction picks, with a mystery about memory threading through the romance.
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The Golden Bird (1987)
7.3/10on IMDb
Released
About 52 minutes. A prince leaves his own kingdom to find a golden bird in a brightly colored fairy-tale world. Try it for a complete older fantasy with clear obstacles and stranger imagery than a straightforward adaptation might suggest.
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