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| Festival Year |
Festival Section |
| 2011 |
The Birth of Anime: Pioneers of Japanese Animation |
| Film Title |
HYAKUNENGO NO ARUHI |
| Alternative Title 1 |
[Un giorno dopo cento anni] |
| Alternative Title 2 |
[A Day after a Hundred Years] |
| Alternative Title 3 |
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| Country |
Japan |
| Release Date |
1933 |
| Production Co. |
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| Director |
Shigeji Ogino |
| Format |
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Speed (fps) |
| 35mm |
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16 |
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| Footage |
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Time |
| 655 ft. |
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11' |
| Archive Source |
National Film Center, Tokyo |
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| Print Notes |
Didascalie in giapponese, sottotitoli in inglese / Japanese intertitles, with English subtitles. |
| Other Credits |
| anim., prod: Shigeji Ogino |
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| Program Notes |
| Described by Akira Tochigi as an “existentialist sci-fi animation”, this prophetic film features the filmmaker himself as the protagonist. He is killed in a world war in 1942, a decade after the film was made, but a descendant of his restores his spirit to life in 2032, in a Japan where Tokyo has been renamed “Central City”. The future capital’s visual resemblance to the urban milieu depicted by Fritz Lang in Metropolis (1927) is arguably another fairly accurate prophecy! This remarkable film concludes by sending its protagonist on an ill-fated trip to Mars. -- ALEXANDER JACOBY & JOHAN NORDSTRÖM |
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