Japan’s oldest animation films
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Loading ...Two of Japan’s oldest animation films, a folk tale and a comedy about a samurai warrior, have been recovered more than 90 years after they premiered, the National Museum of Modern Art said last week.
The two films, which had been only known in historical documents were found last year in an antique market in the western city of Osaka.
This picture above released from the museum shows a scene of Japan’s oldest animation film. The two-minute silent films were forerunners of Japan’s “Anime” industry, which has developed into one of the country’s major cultural exports nearly a hundred year later.
One of the animations, entitled “Namakura-gatana” (”An Obtuse Sword”), which premiered in 1917, is believed to be the oldest Japanese animation film still in existence. A comedy, the film relates the story of a samurai warrior who is tricked into buying a dull-edged sword. He tries to attack passers-by so as to examine the sword, but lower-class townspeople fight back and knock him down.
The other film, which premiered in 1918, depicts a famous Japanese folk tale “Urashima Taro” about a fisherman who is invited to an underwater castle after saving a sea turtle on a beach. (Source: yahoo news)
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