The first full cel-animated short. A group of tanukis investigate a temple and cause mischief.
Kenzô Masaoka, Saburo Enomoto
Japan
Is it worth your time? If you're a animation nerd, absolutely. If you want a modern, polished story, you’re going to be bored out of your mind. It’s barely a few minutes long, but those minutes feel like a time capsule from a world where drawing on celluloid was still a black magic trick. The whole thing has this fran...
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"Is it worth your time? If you're a animation nerd, absolutely. If you want a modern, polished story, you’re going to be bored out of your mind. It’s barely a few minutes long, but those minutes feel like a time capsule from a world where drawing on celluloid was still a black magic trick. The whole thing has this frantic, jumpy energy. You can tell Kenzô Masaoka was pushing the medium to see how much movement he could actually squeeze onto the screen at once. Sometimes the tanukis move in ways ..."
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