Tag: Cel
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1954: KAPPA, DOG AND BUTTERFLY
Japanese animation wasn’t quite at rock bottom in 1954, but it wasn’t far away.
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1949: THE FOX, THE LOST, THE HORROR
1949 is arguably the most important and difficult year in Japanese animation history.
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1948: MORINO, MASAOKA & OFUJI
This year, OFUJI Noburo got back into the studio to make “The Bear Dodger”.
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1947: MASAOKA’S POWERPLAY
The third film on the bill was Masoaka’s “Tora The Stray Cat”, and it had the most complicated credit list I’ve seen so far.
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1947: ARAI & TOHO
Toho Pictures started their in-house animation career in 1947, with a triple-header of new films at Tokyo’s Hibiya Cinema.
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1946: KUMAKAWA’S MAGIC PEN
OFUJI Noburo’s 1946 cartoon was the first animated version of any work by AKUTAGAWA Ryunosuke.
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1945: MOMOTARO: SACRED SAILORS
It’s time for the review I’ve been dreading, “Momotarō: Umi no Shinpei” / “Momotaro: Sacred Sailors”.
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1944: MOCHINAGA SUBMERGES
One film from this year is watchable. It was the directorial debut of MOCHINAGA Tadahito, known elsewhere as FANG Ming.
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1943: MASAOKA, OFUJI & THE LOST
The next animated film to come out in Japan baffled me, because I didn’t see how it could have been made.