高畑勋1981年作品，根据夏木悦已的漫画书改编的动画片

这部作品不是动画片，而是高畑勲和宫崎骏合作为环保问题而拍摄的纪录片，曾获得每日映画文化纪录电影奖。福冈县柳川市是日本有名的观光场所，有无数小河在城市中穿流而过。但近年来随着环境污染的加剧，很多小河都变成了死水，柳川的美丽风光正在渐渐逝去。为挽救这座观光城市，柳川市政府制定了疏通河道，限制排污和增加污水净化设施，以及强化管理体制、鼓励市民参加清扫活动的3点对策。
为配合这一计划的实施，提高人们对于公害问题的认识，高畑勲和宫崎骏合作制作了这部纪录片，以柳川优美的风光配以动听的音乐，向人们讲述了这座水城的历史，呼吁大家来维护风景名胜。本片虽然是纪录片，但仍然延续了高畑勲作品温馨舒缓的一贯特色，值得一看。

好吃懒做的龙子太郎（加藤淳也 配音）和奶奶（矢吹寿子 配音）住在贫穷的小村子里。一天，奶奶向太郎讲起了他的身世。太郎的母亲（吉永小百合 配音）怀孕时饥饿难忍，便打破禁令吃了村里的岩鱼，不料就此变成了龙。龙生下太郎后，留下宝珠作为母乳，并告诉奶奶等孩子长大后让他去北国的湖来找她，就此飞空而去。太郎即日启程，去北国找母亲。
在去的路上，太郎的青梅竹马的阿雅（富永みーな 配音）被黑鬼（北村和夫 配音）抓走，太郎打败黑鬼，救出了阿彩。一直被黑鬼骚扰的村人非常感激太郎，请他美餐了一顿。太郎吃着自己从来没吃过的喷香的米饭，流下了眼泪，他多么希望自己家乡的人们也能吃上这样的米饭啊。村人还将一面镜子和日行百里的马驹送给太郎作为谢礼，太郎将宝物转赠阿雅，让她先回家，自己继续踏上了旅途。太郎在山里遇到大雪，遭雪女袭击失去了意识，太郎能突破重重险阻找到母亲吗……

Gauche is a diligent but mediocre cellist who plays for a small town orchestra and the local cinema in the early 20th century. He struggles during rehearsals and is often berated by his conductor during preparations for an upcoming performance of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony. Over the course of four nights, Gauche is visited at his mill house home by talking animals as he is practicing.

It is 1907 on Prince Edward Island. An orphan, Anne Shirley is mistakenly sent there to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm. Anne must make learn to live with the Cuthberts, in school, and in the town of Avonlea to make sure she is never sent back to the orphanage again.

The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses and shopping malls. As it becomes harder to find food and shelter, they decide to band together and fight back. The Raccoons practice and perfect the ancient art of transformation until they are even able to appear as humans in hilarious circumstances.

In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.

The Yamadas are a typical middle class Japanese family in urban Tokyo and this film shows us a variety of episodes of their lives. With tales that range from the humorous to the heartbreaking, we see this family cope with life's little conflicts, problems, and joys in their own way.

In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthrals all who encounter her. But, ultimately, she must confront her fate.