Folktale Movies

Tang Bohu is smitten by the stunning beauty of Qiuxiang, the maid of Grand Tutor Hua, during his visit to a monastery in Suzhou. Stalking the maid,...

A collection of stories compiled from the English dub of the Madhouse anime series Manga Fairy Tales of the World.

How Death Came to Earth is a 14 minute cutout animation film by Ishu Patel produced in 1971 by the National Film Board of Canada. The film deals with...

Osen, a dance teacher who hates men, refuses to become the concubine of a rich merchant, but falls in love with the thief Sojiro, unaware that he is...

Classic kaidan ghost story set in the Edo period

An exuberant story about Askeladden, the hero of Norwegian traditional fairy tales, outwitting the good-natured troll.

A collection of stories compiled from the English dub of the Madhouse anime series Manga Fairy Tales of the World.

Wanting to destroy the Archer and marry his wife, the King comes up with tests for the hero.

The breeze we feel everywhere is an ancient drunk man destroying everything as he goes by, until he was turned into the wind.

The Queen's cat goes on an adventure in the countryside where he discovers that love, in its many forms, surrounds him.

Somewhere in the windy deserts of Rajasthan, a curious little boy from a family of nomadic musicians yearns to change his family’s fate through...

The story takes place in modern-day eastern Serbia, still fertile ground for various forms of superstition and prejudice. Zorica is a village girl...

a woman's spiritual journey in Ireland on All Hallow-Een

A stop-motion gothic folktale. A starving young boy eats a human toe that he finds in the ground. Later that night, something comes to his bedroom...

Ananse the Spider Man climbs up to the sky to buy stories from the Sky God in this folktale from Africa.

Tom Davenport's realistic adaptation of an old Appalachian story. With nothing more than her plucky spirit and her pocket knife, a mountain girl...

An old Hispanic folktale about a child-stealing witch becomes real in the life of a little girl who's caught between her parent's crumbling marriage...

There's a "silver lining in every cloud" as Donald O'Neary turns every misfortune his two neighbours can engineer into gold coins. Against the...

The painter Kuwagata Keisai lived over 200 years ago. He created 'Ways to Sketch', a series of picture books illustrating humans and animals, all...

Short animated version of the Chinese folktale, Nüwa Mends the Heavens