Tag: 1917-1931
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1927-28: THE MOUSE AND MURATA
MURATA Yasuji was promoted to producer, and asked to helm the “Athena Library Series”, an assortment of animated fairytales, fables and folklore cartoons.
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1924-1926: KŌUCHI & OFUJI
Only one of the three pillars of the original 1917 Japanese animation boom was still in the industry by 1924. But his apprentice would change Japanese animation permanently.
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1924-1926: YAMAMOTO SANAE
As a young adult, Yamamoto’s family wanted him to return to their kimono-selling business. Instead, he kept running away to art school.
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1924-26: KIMURA HAKUSAN
Following the wrecking of the entire Japanese animation industry in the Great Kanto Earthquake, how did Japanese animation come back, and who was responsible?