Folktale Movies

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

Young prince meets a talking frog who turns out to be a beautiful but cursed princess. To remove the curse, he must go on a quest to find and...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

Classic kaidan ghost story set in the Edo period

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

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

Joe, a high school boy, travels to the South. To reveal the truth about a mysterious death thirty years ago. Until, on the night of the halo moon, he...

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

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

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

A record in moving images of a timeless dimension, the tragedy takes place in a dark void where the voiceless ones enact their drama in a theatre of...

Oscar is a man whose sorrow echoes at the river. He laments the death of his wife by disproving an urban legend, and he is ready for whatever crosses...

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

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...