This cartoon is called Issun-boshi no Shusse (1929) on YouTube. It appears to feature an ancestor of S. Clay Wilson’s Checkered Demon. Searching for information on it I ran across this page refers to it as The Tiny One Makes it Big, and attributes it to the production company Nakano Mangasha. That page also is selling dvd’s that include a number of the old Japanese cartoons featured here recently, as well as many others, in their Japanese Anime Classic Collection [4-DVD box set].
That’s how it is. That’s how it goes. Kuro Nyago aka The Black Cat (1929) by Noburo Ofuji.
A particularly strange Flip the Frog cartoon in which our hero gets plastic surgery.
Babel fish translates the title of this short YouTube video (森ã®é‡Žçƒå›£ Mori No Yakyuudan (1934)) as Baseball Group of Forest. The cranking cat tail gag may have been lifted directly from Disney’s Steamboat Willie (where a goat is getting cranked)… although that gag was probably used in a lot of cartoons.
A monkey cowboy! Sora no Momotaro aka Momotaro’s Sky Adventure (1931) animated by Yasuji Murata.
Saru Masamune aka The Monkey Sword Masamune (1930) animated by Yasuji Murata.
Another mysterious old Japanese cartoon from YouTube… this one is titled 森ã®ãŠåŒ»è€…ã¨ç™½è¡£ã®å‹‡å£«, which Babel Fish translates as Doctor of Forest and Brave Warrior of Sanitary Gown. The cartoon part starts a quarter of the way in. I like how the Brave Warrior of Sanitary Gown seems to be saluting a monkey.
Monkeys vs. polar bears! Osaru no Sankichi: Totsugekitai aka Sankichi the Monkey in The Storm Troopers (1934) by Mitsuyo Seo.
Monkeys vs. octopi! Osaru no Kantai aka The Monkey Fleet (1936) animated by Manzo Miyashita.
I can’t tell you anything about this, other than I like it. The title on YouTube is ç ‚ç…™ã‚Šé«˜ç”°ã®ã‚°ãƒ©ã‚¦ãƒ³ãƒ‰, which Babel Fish translates as Sand Smoking Takeda’s Ground.