Two animated adaptations of classic Japanese literary works.  

The Izu dancer : Mizuhara, a student from Tokyo, takes a few days off to travel through the countryside and happens upon a family of strolling players. He is quite taken with Kaoru, a young dancing girl who is part of this group. The feeling is mutual but their love is fleeting as Mizuhara must go back to school and Kaoru is just a strolling dancing girl.

The dancing girl : The time is the early 1900's; the city is Berlin. Toyotaro Ota has accepted a long term assignment for his government. Well educated and with talents in high demand, he makes a good living until he meets Elise. Elise, the daughter of a tailor, lives with her recently widowed mother and earns a meager living as a ballet dancer. She has been forced to borrow money from a local shark to supplement the family's income. Toyotaro and Elise are soon faced with a grave personal conflict that threatens to tear them apart--for Toyotaro must choose between his career and Elise.