Kaikoku Taro Shin nihon tou banzai
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A Haunted House
this is an odd-looking samurai cartoon for the era, as if the producers had been looking at early Schlesinger cartoons and had decided that Bosko was a good cartoon model and Foxy -- who had appeared in just two of the early Merrie Melodies -- would make models.
Taro enters a haunted house and encounters what seem to be simply-drawn variations of Japanese spirits. The animation is not typical of Japanese animation of the period, being more of the squish-and-flow movement and less like the articulated movement of other Japanese cartoons. Most of the bloodshed takes place behind a screen as the hero moves through the house; that may be typical of theatrical representation of the era. Although the techniques and humor are crude and childish, to the modern American viewer, this cartoon is clearly an experiment in taking foreign techniques and applying them to home products.
Taro enters a haunted house and encounters what seem to be simply-drawn variations of Japanese spirits. The animation is not typical of Japanese animation of the period, being more of the squish-and-flow movement and less like the articulated movement of other Japanese cartoons. Most of the bloodshed takes place behind a screen as the hero moves through the house; that may be typical of theatrical representation of the era. Although the techniques and humor are crude and childish, to the modern American viewer, this cartoon is clearly an experiment in taking foreign techniques and applying them to home products.
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- boblipton
- Oct 2, 2013
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