Tag: Cel
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1937 – THE BEGINNING OF THE END
There are only three pieces of animation from Japan in 1937 that have made it to the present day. But I’m still very happy with what I can talk about.
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1936: YAMAMOTO, ASHIDA AND MABO
Even when the Ministry of Education had been sending work to YAMAMOTO Sanae, he was never the most prolific animation creator.
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1936: MURATA’S END
On February 26th 1936, a group of young military officers, convinced that their brand of ultranationalism was correct and losing the internal struggle for the ear of the Emperor, attempted to overthrow the Japanese government; a coup d’etat.
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1935: ENTER SEO MITSUYO
SEO Mitsuyo begins a career that will survive the war, even though it’s not entirely clear how he managed it.
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1935: ALMOST EVERYONE
Today, JO Studio works on a shoestring, Masaoka throws in the towel, a skiving fuel store owner keeps going, and Murata runs out of steam.
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1933: MURATA THE INEVITABLE FREIGHT TRAIN
MURATA Yasuji’s work has been dominating this blog since the company was founded, and this year will be no different.
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1933: MASAOKA, OFUJI, AND TEAM GODZILLA
MASAOKA was the first Japanese director to make a talking animated picture. Unless he wasn’t and it was OFUJI instead. Elsewhere, Godzilla’s owners shake a claw or two.
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1933: HISTORY AND THREE DIRECTORS
If I’m going to be completely fair to the Japanese government, which is not a happy sentence fragment, they were still working to keep their citizens safe in 1933.
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1932: OGINO, OFUJI & THE UNKNOWNS
OGINO Shigeji was a skiving fuel store owner, someone’s whose name is lost was working for the Japanese War Department, and TEIZO Kato was making science fiction. They all directed cartoons from 1932.
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1932: CONTEXT, YAMAMOTO & KIMURA
By 1932, only three of the nine men who had served as Prime Minister since 1917 were still alive, and two of those six deaths had been assassinations. I’ll get back to cartoons as soon as I can.