Noburô Ôfuji is associated with: The Roots of Japanese Anime Until the End of WWII: 1930-1942
A rare glimpse of early Japanese sound anime and prewar Japanese culture, The Roots of Japanese Anime features the masterworks of such pioneers of Japanese animation as Noburo Ofuji, Yasuji Murata, and Kenzo Masaoka, in addition to Mitsuyo Seo's Momotaro's ...
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A re-edited, feature length compilation of the two parts of Ôfuji's The Great Sage Shakyamuni Buddha - the culmination of Noburô Ôfuji's monochrome silhouette films. After a portentous dream about a white elephant, the ancient Hindu princess Maya gives ...
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In 1955 Tadahito Mochinaga was asked to create commercials for Asahi beer, which he created using stop-motion, followed by the 1956 short film "Beer Mukashi Mukashi" (Beer, those were the days...), created specifically for theatres. With the help of Kikac ...
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Film about a ghost ship. There is no dialogue, just music and a choir. ...
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An early color animation which uses the color to help tell the story. Three butterflies save a bird that falls out of it's nest during a rainstorm. The butterflies decide to ask the flowers for cover, but the red rose will only help the red butterfly since ...
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An animated black-and-white short by Noburô Ôfuji. ...
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Created by Noburo Ofuji, who had been cartoon making since the 1920s, often with decorative paper cutouts. The character animation looks like it was done 15 years before, but a lot of the elements are highly original; design (those trees!), use of camera f ...
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Silhouette animation about an orphan, relating to Christmas. ...
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Chaos in the wild as fires break out and thread from a spider is the savior. ...
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The mischievous Chinkoroheibei visits the underwater realm of the fish king where he tries to steal the king's treasure box. ...
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The story of a gluttonous whale and the other aquatic creatures ...
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Very short animated film from Japan, using cut-outs in the style of Lotte Reiniger. ...
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A man in love with a noble lady tries to get close to her with the help of cats. ...
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A short documentary on the making of Noburo Ofuji's Katsura-hime. ...
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