Movies: Folktale

A woman encounters a hitchhiker in the middle of the night while driving. From there, things spiral into absurdity, blurring the lines between what's real -and what isn't....

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

The 25 minute film tells the tale of an ailing elderly woman named Itako who encounters a fox named Okon. The story opens with Itako lying bedridden, as she has for a long time. Okon enters her home and Itako tells the fox that he is welcome to take...

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 avenging the death of his brother. Jinzo, who wants to win over a rich merchant, pours boiling water ...

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 discovers that a “terrifying creature” has kidnapped Uncle Joe. At that time, he met a hunter who of...

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 magic and belief imbibed by his grandmothers folk tales....

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....

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 who carries a curse. Ever since her first boyriend mysteriously drowned in the river, men around her ar...

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

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

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 infatuation, power and vengeance. The force of the roar reverberates as insanity erupts from total st...

Tom Davenport's realistic adaptation of an old Appalachian story. With nothing more than her plucky spirit and her pocket knife, a mountain girl outwits a witch and an ogre to save herself and her sisters. Part of the PBS series "From the Brothers Gr...

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 and the creatures that torment her....

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

Ghost story based on a legendary Thai folk tale....

The painter Kuwagata Keisai lived over 200 years ago. He created 'Ways to Sketch', a series of picture books illustrating humans and animals, all richly expressed. One day he was sketching out a carp, just at that moment he slept and he became a carp...