Kimio Yabuki

The Jungle Book: An Animated Classic

Watch Rudyard Kipling's world famous novel, The Jungle Book, come alive in this high quality entertaining animated feature for your kids and family. Join young Mowgli, and his animal friends Bagheera and Baloo, on their adventures in the wilderness.

Release Date:2013-11-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

A Challenge

An educational short film about bullying.

Release Date:1999-05-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Weird Volunteers

A film produced and paid for by Kitakyushu City's Board of Education and Council for the Promotion of Outcast Issue Awareness. The story follows two second-year junior high girls who discover an old lady collapsed outside her home in rural Japan. After assisting her back inside, the two hear the old lady's harrowing life story and discover that she is illiterate. Shocked by this, the girls vow to volunteer their time to teach the old woman to read and write each day.

Release Date:1993-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Little Twins: How Our Summer Flew Past

The twins build a hut by the river and spend their summer days there. One day, as the summer draws to a close, the children decide to stay in the cabin alone until...

Release Date:1992-08-08

Department:Production

Job:Producer

The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli

Jungle Book Shōnen Mowgli is an anime adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's original collection of stories, The Jungle Book. It aired in 1989, and consists of a total of 52 episodes. The series, a compromise between the original Mowgli stories and the Walt Disney version, received international acclaim and was aired in different countries around the world.

Release Date:1989-10-02

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:27

Space Family Carlvinson

After hitting a passing spaceship and causing it to crash, a troupe of aliens and robots rescue the only survivor. It is a human baby named Corona that they decide to raise on their own, using the data they retrieved from the computer to mimic the life she would have had on Earth.

Release Date:1988-12-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer

Rainbow Brite, and her magical horse Starlite, must stop an evil princess and her underlings from taking over the planet Spectra. When they meet Orin, the wise Sprite tries to make the two children get along and work together to stop the evil Princess. Orin tells them that they can only destroy her by combining their own powers against her. Getting in the way of their mission is the sinister Murky Dismal and his bumbling assistant Lurky who, as usual, are lavishing in the new gloom created by the darkening of Spectra, as well as trying to steal Rainbow's magical color belt.

Release Date:1985-11-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:34

The Kabocha Wine - Nita's Love Story

Nita, a dog that lives in Sunshine Academy's student dormitory, brings home with him a puppy that suspiciously looks like him—this sends everyone into an uproar as it is eventually concluded that Nita likely had a puppy with somebody else. Elle, Shunsuke, and the others collaborate with one another to take care of it, but a delinquent biker boy named Takizawa uses this opportunity to trick Elle into joining him on his yacht for nefarious purposes. Shunsuke & the others, having realized this, rush in to save Elle from Takizawa before it's too late.

Release Date:1984-07-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Doctor Mambo & Kaitou Jibako: Uchuu yori Ai wo Komete

The dashing Dr. Mambo and his unlikely sidekick, Jibako the thief, help Princess Laura, former ruler of Eden, to regain her birthright from the usurping president Capo.

Release Date:1983-09-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

I Am A Dog: Don Matsugorou's Life

Mr. Matsuzawa is a novelist who lives in Chiba Prefecture. Only his daughter Kazuko knows that the family dog, Don Matsugorou, can talk. Don is wounded in a fight with the neighbors' dog, King, a nouveau-riche mongrel with ideas above his station. At the vet, however, he falls in love with a little patchwork puppy called Chotaro.

Release Date:1983-02-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The♥Kabocha Wine

Shunsuke Aoba has just transferred to a new school and can’t wait to attend. Excitedly, he sprints to the school but, upon arrival, finds that no one is there. Unfortunately, Shunsuke didn’t know that his first day was a holiday, of all things. However, it seems that he is not the only one on campus. As he is about to eat his lunch, he meets a student named Natsumi. Shunsuke gives her some of his food, and the two strike up a conversation. Natsumi was born as a so-called SL girl, a particularly tall girl. She herself accepts her specialness but is rejected by many of her classmates. How will Shunsuke react to this? Will their initial friendship continue?

Release Date:1982-07-05

Department:Directing

Job:Series Director

Episode Count:95

Vote Count:5

Ikkyuu-san: It's Spring, Mischievous Princess!

Ikkyuu must help the princess once again when she falls ill after seeing a beautiful man at a plum blossom-viewing party.

Release Date:1981-03-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Swan Lake

The hero, Prince Siegfried, is out riding one day with his friends when he spies amidst swans on a lake a particularly eye-catching one with a crown on its head, the familiar Princess ...

Release Date:1981-03-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:20

Twelve Months

A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward. One greedy woman sends her stepdaughter, whom she does not like, to look for the flowers in a cold forest, knowing the task will be impossible for her. The girl almost freezes to death in the forest, but she is rescued by the spirits of the Twelve Months, who create spring around her. The girl is able to deliver the bouquet to the queen, but others want a share of the reward.

Release Date:1980-03-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:17

日本名作童話シリーズ 赤い鳥のこころ

Release Date:1979-02-05

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:26

Ikkyu-san and the Mischievous Princess

Ikkyuu must talk a tomboy into behaving in a more lady-like manner before her habit of calling herself by the boy's name Tsuyumaru and attacking shogun Yoshimitsu Ashikaga with a wooden sword gets her into trouble.

Release Date:1978-03-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Ikkyū-san

The mischievous adventures of a young Ikkyū during his stay at Ankoku Temple. He relies on his intelligence and wit to solve all types of problems, from distraught farmers to greedy merchants.

Release Date:1975-10-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:296

Vote Count:15

Shonen Tokugawa Ieyasu

Release Date:1975-04-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:20

The Little Judge from Hell

Dororon Enma-kun, also known as Satanikus!, is a Japanese horror-comedy anime and manga series created by Go Nagai. It's one of Nagai's most famous works in Japan, although not very well known in the rest of the world. In 2006, it would get a sequel/remake in Demon Prince Enma, which drops the comedy and becomes a full-fledged suspense-horror series. After the OVA was released, another manga version was released called Satanikus ENMA Kerberos by Eiji Toriyama. A remake entitled Dororon Enma-kun MeeraMera began airing in Japan in April 2011.

Release Date:1973-10-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:25

Vote Count:2

Ikiteirutte Subarashii!

A short based on the Brothers Grimm's fairy-tale Town Musicians of Bremen.

Release Date:1972-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Tiger Mask (1970)

Naoto Date, also known as Tiger Mask, betrayed the international villainous wrestler group "Tiger's Den" to which he belongs in order to protect the orphanage "Children's House", which can be said to be his parents' home. Tora no Ana, who is trying to punish him with death, sends the beastman gorillaman as the next assassin. Faced with a formidable foe who boasts superhuman strength, he once thought about using a foul technique to get through.

Release Date:1970-03-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots

His goal is to help the weak and defenseless, but his saving a mouse makes him the most wanted in all the land. On the run from incessant, dim-witted mice, Perro befriends a young miller's boy, Pierre; together, they decide to seek fame and fortune. When they cross paths with the lovely Princess Rosa, Perro determines to get Pierre hitched to Her Royal Highness.

Release Date:1969-03-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:28

The World of Hans Christian Andersen

Animated cartoon for children, based on various stories by Hans Christian Andersen.

Release Date:1968-03-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

Shounen Ninja Kaze no Fujimaru: Ma Boroshi Majutsu-dan

Kidnapped and rescued by a Ninja, Fujimaru has mastered martial arts over the years. Now he sets off on a journey to find his mother and also locate an old tome containing secret martial arts techniques.

Release Date:1965-03-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Shounen Ninja Kaze no Fujimaru: Nazo no Arabiya Ningyou

Kidnapped and rescued by a Ninja, Fujimaru has mastered martial arts over the years. Now he sets off on a journey to find his mother and also locate an old tome containing secret martial arts techniques.

Release Date:1964-06-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director