Japan Animation Film Classics
Co-hosted with National Film Center, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Co-hosted with National Film Center, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
National Film Center, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, is now progressing a program of digitalizing Japanese early animated cartoons. As the result of this program, almost 100 classical Japanese animated films will be put online. This collection includes rare films by famous animators like Noburo Ofuji and Mitsuyo Seo as well as unique films by unknown animators. In this program, you can watch the digitalized films ahead of the online release along with a talk by Hitomi Matsuyama from the National Film Center, who will explain the aim of the project and the historical importance of these films.
Screening
Tengu Taiji (Goblins Put to Flight)
Furo Oyamano(Noburo Ofuji), Japan, 1934, 8min
Manga: Tekki Kitaraba (When Enemy Planes Come)
Sanae Yamamoto, Japan, 1942, 9min
Sora no Arawashi: Sensen Manga (Fighters in the Sky, A Frontline Animated Film)
Noburo Ofuji, Japan, 1938, 8min
Manga: Ameya Tanuki (Cartoon: The Candy Man’s Raccoon Dog Dance)
Unknown, Japan, 1931, 4min
Nonki na Tosan Yamazaki Kaido (Care-free Dad in Yamazaki Path)
Unknown, Japan, 1926, 3min
Kaikoku Taro: Shin Nihon Tou Banzai (Taro’s Island: Long Live New Japan)
Hiromasa Suzuki, Japan, 1937, 8min
Wanizame to Shirousagi (The Sharks and the White Hare)[excerpt]
Unknown, Japan, Unknown, 8min
Manga no Rekkyou Rikugun (Armies of the World)[excerpt]
Unknown, Japan, 1932, 28min
Manga: Imo to Heitai (Spuds & Soldiers) [excerpt]
Yoshitaro Kataoka, Japan, 1942, 11min
GUEST
Hitomi Mathuyama
National Film Center, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
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