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Show FiltersChirri & Chirra, The Snowy Day
Twin sisters, Chirri and Chirra, go out for a bike ride when it starts snowing and end up going on a cool, magical journey through the woods. The girls find an ice cavern where they join the animals for some sweet treats, a game of marbles, soaking in a hot spring, and a comfortable rest in an igloo that is just the right size.
Ghosts for breakfast
One night, a young boy and his father investigate their frightened neighbors' report of ghosts on a nearby farm
Abby’s birds
Abby moves to a new house in a new neighborhood, and her new neighbor Mrs. Tanaka teaches her to make origami birds
Circus day in Japan
A Japanese brother and sister take a train from the farm where they live into the city to go to their first circus, where they delight in the jugglers, the trapeze artists, and the big white elephant
The sign painter
An assignment to paint a large billboard in the desert changes the life of an aspiring artist
Tree of cranes
A Japanese boy learns of Christmas when his mother decorates a pine tree with paper cranes
Mr. Hiroshi’s garden
While visiting her grandmother for the summer in Vancouver, Mary, a young girl from the prairies, befriends her neighbor Mr. Hiroshi, and helps him with his garden. When Mr. Hiroshi is interned because of his Japanese ancestry, Mary promises to take care of his garden
Fish for Jimmy
When brothers Taro and Jimmy and their mother are forced to move from their home in California to a Japanese internment camp in the wake of the 1941 Pearl Harbor bombing, Taro daringly escapes the camp to find fresh fish for his grieving brother
Tokyo friends / Tokyo no tomodachi
Labeled pictures and the story of an American girl living in Tokyo introduce the names of everyday objects in Japanese, romanized Japanese, and English, as well as the differences between American and Japanese customs.
The perfect sword
After a Japanese master swordmaker and his apprentice craft the perfect sword, they search high and low for someone worthy of it