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| Festival Year |
Festival Section |
| 2011 |
The Birth of Anime: Pioneers of Japanese Animation |
| Film Title |
KANIMANJI ENGI |
| Alternative Title 1 |
[Il racconto del tempio dei granchi] |
| Alternative Title 2 |
[The Tale of Crab Temple] |
| Alternative Title 3 |
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| Country |
Japan |
| Release Date |
1924 |
| Production Co. |
Asahi Kinema Gomei-sha |
| Director |
Hidehiko Okuda |
| Format |
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Speed (fps) |
| 35mm |
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24 |
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| Footage |
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Time |
| 983 ft. |
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11' |
| Archive Source |
National Film Center, Tokyo |
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| Print Notes |
Didascalie in giapponese, con sottotitoli in inglese / Japanese intertitles, with English subtitles |
| Other Credits |
| anim: Hidehiko Okuda, Tomu Uchida, Hakuzan Kimura |
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| Program Notes |
| This charming animation is a religious fable focusing on a girl who builds a Buddhist temple in order to give thanks to the crabs that saved her from a snake in human form. It is most notable historically for the participation as one of its three directors of Tomu Uchida (1898-1970), who would become one of Japan’s outstanding commercial filmmakers during the following four and a half decades, working in a variety of genres, from literary adaptation to social satire, but most notably on period films such as Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (Chiyari Fuji, 1955). His Policeman (Keisatsukan, 1933) was screened at Pordenone in 2001. Co-director Hakuzan Kimura, whose dates are unknown, studied animation at Kitayama Eiga Seisaku-sho, and went on to work mainly for Asahi Kinema. The most notorious moment of his career occurred in 1932, when he made the independently produced Summer Boat (Suzumi-bune), a pornographic animation reminiscent of the sexually explicit ukiyo-e paintings known as shunga. In consequence, he was arrested, and the film was confiscated by the police. -- ALEXANDER JACOBY & JOHAN NORDSTRÖM |
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