Mittsu no Hanashi

This series is an anthology of old Japanese tales.

A series of short comedic parodies on Japanese folklore.

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 animated films of well-known Japanese folk tales, including the stories of Taro Maegami, The Riceball Family, The Master of Catching Stars, Thunder is the Bridegroom, and The Elephant's Sneeze. Shown as part of the children's variety program, Tondeke Gutchonpa.