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A short film only screened at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka. The nine-minute short adapts a picture book by Rieko Nakagawa and Yuriko Yamawaki, the author and illustrator of two previous books that inspired Ghibli shorts (Sora Iro no Tane, The Whale Hunt). A boy named Yuji and his friend Gick, a rabbit, find a walking stick. To decide which of them will keep it, they try a foot race, a long jump and sumo wrestling, but each ends up in a tie. Out of ideas, the children go to Gick's Granny for help. Granny tells the children to go treasure hunting. Who will be the winner?

15 one-minute shorts created by various people from Japan's animation industry. The title of the collection, Ani*Kuri15, is abbreviated from the words "anime" and "creators". Season One 1) Shinji Kimura - Attack of Higashimachi Ni Chome/Attack of Higashimachi 2nd Burough 2) Akemi Hayashi - Namida no Mukou/From the Other Side of the Tears 3) Yasufumi Soejima - Hyotoko/Blaze Man 4) Osamu Kobayashi - Sancha Blues/The Aromatic Tea Blues 5) Shinjiro Nishimi - Uchujin Raikou Hiroshi no Baai/Invasion from Space - Hiroshi's Case Season Two 6) Mamoru Oshii - Project Mermaid 7) Kazuto Nakazawa - "yurururu" ~Nichijou Hen~ 8) Range Murata and Tatsuya Yabuta - Gyrosopter 9) Tobira Oda and Yasuyuki Shimizu - Sport Captain Episode No.18: Assassin Descended from the Mountain Hunt!! 10) Atsushi Takeuchi - Wandaba Kiss Season Three 11) Makoto Shinkai - Neko no Shuukai/A Gathering of Cats 12) Mahiro Maeda - Onmitsu Hime 13) Michael Arias - Okkakekko 14) Shouji Kawamori - Project Omega 15) Satoshi Kon - Ohayou/Good Morning

Short episodes included with the Blu-ray/DVD volumes.

Studio Ghibli animated Choujuu-Jinbutsu-Giga Emaki, the famous Japanese "Scrolls of Cartoons of Birds, Animals, and People" or "Choujuu Giga" for short, for a Marubeni Power commercial. The "Encounter" commercial promotes Plan G, a new electric power option that Marubeni Power is offering to homes as Japan deregulates its power industry. The plan derives its name from both "Ghibli" and "green." It promises to support the national trust for "Totoro's Forest," provide power for the Ghibli Museum, and promote conservation in general.