WW2 Imperial Japanese Anime

After watching Brad's new video of Sarah watching "Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips", I asked myself a question.
"What's the name of the first motion-length anime ever made?"
It was the Imperial Japanese propaganda film "Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors".
The animation was influenced by Disney's "Fantasia".
During the American occupation of Japan, the film was confiscated and burnt.
It was known to be lost until one surviving negative was discovered in a warehouse in 1983.
It was re-released in 1984 and is still available on VHS in Japan.
This proves that during harsh times like war, there will always be some kind of propaganda on both sides of the battle.

It's always fascinating to watch WW2 propaganda movies. Just to watch the distorted views different parts of the world have of each other, based on lack of information, the policy of the country and the political situation (war-time). Ive seen many of the american propaganda movies, but never japanese ones. So i will give this a watch, when i get the time (it's running time is too long for casual view).

Speaking of japanese movies, i would love to see the 1933 japanese remake of King Kong:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasei_Kingu_Kongu

But im afraid it is lost forever.

jaltesorensen wrote:

Speaking of japanese movies, i would love to see the 1933 japanese remake of King Kong:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasei_Kingu_Kongu

But im afraid it is lost forever.

There's a rumor saying that the Japanese King Kong remake was unknowingly destroyed by us Americans when we dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

I hope that there will be another negitive hidden away somewhere.

Otaku4Life wrote:

jaltesorensen wrote:

Speaking of japanese movies, i would love to see the 1933 japanese remake of King Kong:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasei_Kingu_Kongu

But im afraid it is lost forever.

There's a rumor saying that the Japanese King Kong remake was unknowingly destroyed by us Americans when we dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

I hope that there will be another negitive hidden away somewhere.

More likely it was destroyed in a raid on Tokyo, assuming it ever actually existed at all; there are some flm historians who don't believe the movie was ever made in the first place, owing to the lack of documentation about it. I think the evidence it ever existed are a couple of stills and an obscure newspaper advertisement.

Either way, finding a copy of Japanese King Kong is even less likely than finding a copy of London After Midnight.

There's also some critically acclaimed pre-WW2 propoganda films according to Wikipedia such as "Triumph of the Will" from Nazi Germany and "The Battleship Potemkin" from the Soviet Union.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_movies#Propaganda

Disney aslo had some classic WW2 anti-war propaganda films such as "Der Feuher's Face", "Education For Death", "Reason & Emotion" and others.

Don't forget Russian Rhapsody.

Of all the WW2 cartoons made by Warner Bros, this is my favorite out of the bunch.

I have been interested in that film a while, I remember reading that the director just died two years ago. It's pretty unbelievable that someone as innovative, I suppose (there's probably a better word), had evaded the limelight almost completely in this age of anime popularity.

There's a torrent of it if anyone else is like me, and hates watching things on youtube.

I've always loved the idea of propaganda cartoons
The idea of taking something silly like bugs bunny and having him murder the entire fleet just tickles me.
I mean just imagine if you went to the movies now and saw mickey mouse spelunking only to fine Taliban members in an underground caves