Very short movie from 1936 about a war between monkeys and Octopuses..
Chûzô Aochi, Hôbun Ito
Japan

Is it worth your time? If you enjoy cinematic oddities and pre-war experimentation, you will find this fascinating. If you need a coherent plot or, you know, realism, you should probably skip this. It is a tiny, weird fragment of film history. I honestly don't know what I expected when I hit play. Monkeys fighting oct...
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"Is it worth your time? If you enjoy cinematic oddities and pre-war experimentation, you will find this fascinating. If you need a coherent plot or, you know, realism, you should probably skip this. It is a tiny, weird fragment of film history. I honestly don't know what I expected when I hit play. Monkeys fighting octopuses? It feels like something a bored animator cooked up after a very long, strange night. 🐒🐙 The effects are exactly what you’d expect from 1936. They’re clunky. The octopuse..."


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