Tag: Kimura
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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: 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.
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1927-1928: YAMAMOTO AND KIMURA
YAMAMOTO Sanae produces the earliest surviving animated tale of a key Japanese folk hero, and KIMURA Hakusan turns his hand to propaganda.
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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?