Douglas Watches Every Anime

Tag: History

  • 1936: MURATA’S END

    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.

  • 1933: HISTORY AND THREE DIRECTORS

    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.

  • 1932: CONTEXT, YAMAMOTO & KIMURA

    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.

  • 1927-28: HISTORY NOTES AND OFUJI

    1927-28: HISTORY NOTES AND OFUJI

    OFUJI Noburo’s career was continuing to build momentum and garner respect, although unfortunately only one of his films from these two years survive.