A rare glimpse of early Japanese sound anime and prewar Japanese culture, The Roots of Japanese Anime features the masterworks of such pioneers of Japanese animation as Noburo Ofuji, Yasuji Murata, and Kenzo Masaoka, in addition to Mitsuyo Seo’s Momotaro’s Sea Eagle, the notorious war cartoon billed as Japan’s first feature anime. These movies represent the brilliance and variety of anime, ranging from beautiful Japanese paper animation to powerful multiplane cel cartoons. They also evoke the fascinating complexity of Japan, a nation that is then both marching towards war, enlisting kids in militarist nationalism, yet also delighting in a mixture of modern popular culture, ancient folk tales, irreverent comedy, and the everyday life of prewar Japanese children.
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Afro Samurai avenged his father and found a life of peace. But the legendary master is forced back i...
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An Irish doctor survived the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki and was given a Samurai sword for the li...
Kido Tatsuhiko moved to Tokyo to attend an art school and start his new life. In his new room, there...
Kaleidoscopic one minute animation windfall from Jake Fried, like penetrating the third eye. Hand-d...
The unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse traveling together in the boy's search f...
Student Yuki has never seen one of the giant monsters she always hears about on the news and that th...
Summer, 2006. A 5th grader Ryuhei discovers a notebook entitled "Tokyo Exploring Records." It was a ...
A collection of newly restored short films from the imagination of Paul Grimault, an icon of French ...
A small bear cub, named Cap'n Cub, is the head of a troupe of like-minded animals fighting the Japan...
A traveler is confronted by spirits in an abandoned shrine; a story of honor and firefighting in anc...
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an...
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The haunting true story of a glove that’s been floating in space since 1968.
An unlikely crew – an astronaut, his intrepid daughter, and a quintet of sympathetic, albeit violent...
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