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| Festival Year |
Festival Section |
| 2005 |
Light from the East: Celebrating Japanese Cinema
Shochiku 110 - Naruse 100 -- Prog. 8 |
| Film Title |
BAGUDA-JO NO TOZOKU |
| Alternative Title 1 |
[I LADRI DEL CASTELLO DI BAGHDAD] |
| Alternative Title 2 |
[BURGLARS OF “BAGHDAD” CASTLE] |
| Alternative Title 3 |
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| Country |
Japan |
| Release Date |
15 July 1926 |
| Production Co. |
Jiyu Eiga Kenkyu-jo |
| Director |
Noburo Ofuji |
| Format |
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Speed (fps) |
| 35mm |
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18 |
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| Footage |
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Time |
| 942 ft. |
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14' |
| Archive Source |
National Film Center, Tokyo |
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| Print Notes |
Didascalie in giapponese sottotitolate in inglese / Japanese intertitles, English subtitles. |
| Program Notes |
| Noburo Ofuji (1900-1961), one of the founders of the Japanese animation film, made this film in the early days of his career. While the cut-paper method was widely used at the time, Ofuji’s use of chiyogami (traditional Japanese paper) was innovative, and with this film Ofuji established a new genre, “chiyogami films”. Though making dolls by folding chiyogami was considered girls’ play rather than something for boys, Ofuji was familiar with chiyogami dolls as he had an older sister, and later commented that he realized a dream of moving the dolls by animating them on film. In fact, this film can be said to be partly three-dimensional animation, as folded paper objects appear in some scenes. Ofuji continued to produce one or two animation films with new techniques or materials by himself each year. His animation films Kujira (Whale; 1952) and Yureisen (The Ghost Ship; 1956), using shadow pictures of color cellophane, gained international acclaim. – FUMIKO TSUNEISHI |
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