Tag: Mochinaga
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1944: MOCHINAGA SUBMERGES
One film from this year is watchable. It was the directorial debut of MOCHINAGA Tadahito. Geijutsu Eigasha hired MOCHINAGA in 1941, to build Japan’s first multiplane camera for SEO Mitsuyo.
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1943: HISTORY AND SEO
By the first week of February 1943, Japan had left Guadalcanal for good. Throughout this year, Japan’s armed forces suffered loss after loss, and by September had established a new naval perimeter.
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1941: NIKKATSU AND THE ANTS
Japan enters World War II proper, Mickey Mouse strikes a terrible propaganda blow, and the last of the original Japanese animation studios closes.