Urashima Tarō (film)

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	A restored version of the unrelated film that was found at the flea market, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Urashima Tarō
Urashima Tarō
Directed by	Seitaro Kitayama
Based on	Urashima Tarō
Release date	February 1918;
Country	Japan
Language	Silent

Urashima Tarō (浦島太郎) is a Japanese animated film produced by Seitaro Kitayama in 1918. The film is an adaptation of a folk tale Urashima Tarō about a fisherman traveling to an underwater world on a turtle.^[1] It premiered in February 1918,^[2] making it one of the earliest anime films.^[3]

It is a lost film; it was thought to have been discovered at a flea market at the Shitennō-ji temple in Osaka in 2007, but the discovered film later turned out to be another unknown work because a plot description and a series of stills of the 1918 film that differed considerably from the discovered film were found in a contemporary magazine.^[4]

References

^ "Japan finds films by early "anime" pioneers". Reuters. 27 March 2008. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
^ Frederick S. Litten. "Some remarks on the first Japanese animation films in 1917" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-01-02.
^ "Two Nine-Decade-Old Anime Films Discovered (Updated)". Anime News Network. 2008-03-27. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
^ Watanabe, Yasushi (July 2017). 北山清太郎制作『浦島太郎』の新資料発見について (PDF). NFC Newsletter (in Japanese) (132). National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo: 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-09-05. Retrieved 2019-07-10.

External links

Urashima Tarō (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
Urashima Tarō at IMDb

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[1] "Japan finds films by early "anime" pioneers". Reuters. 27 March 2008. Retrieved 6 July 2013.

[litten-2] Frederick S. Litten. "Some remarks on the first Japanese animation films in 1917" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-01-02.

[3] "Two Nine-Decade-Old Anime Films Discovered (Updated)". Anime News Network. 2008-03-27. Retrieved 29 June 2019.

[4] Watanabe, Yasushi (July 2017). 北山清太郎制作『浦島太郎』の新資料発見について (PDF). NFC Newsletter (in Japanese) (132). National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo: 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-09-05. Retrieved 2019-07-10.

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