Tag: Momotaro

March 22, 2018 · 0 comments

One of things we love to do here at Anime Ltd. is give people the opportunity to be able to see films that they may not have necessarily had the chance to see otherwise. If you look through our catalogue of titles there are some wonderful yet very unique films. Today however is a very special example […]

March 9, 2018 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp. Momotaro, Sacred Sailors, a bizarre piece of wartime propaganda targeted at children, coming to UK Blu-ray over 70 years since its original theatrical release in April 1945. Sacred Sailors is a monumental work in the evolution of Japanese animation, and a testament to the dark days of modern history, funded by the […]

January 9, 2018 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Hikari Hori’s new book Promiscuous Media: Film and Visual Culture in Imperial Japan 1926-1945, examines the first phase of the Showa Era, from the enthronement of Emperor Hirohito through to the end of World War Two. She offers an enthralling narrative of Japan’s first mass-media sovereign, but also the theories and critical […]

April 9, 2017 · 1 comment

By Jasper Sharp. At the end of February, the National Film Center of Tokyo opened its ‘Japanese Animated Film Classics’ online archive to celebrate this year’s centenary of Japanese animation. The site, which features 64 films from the pre-war and wartime period, features many films with English subtitles. It is a wonderful initiative from the […]

September 19, 2016 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Japan’s first animated feature was a masterpiece of propaganda film-making, uncompromising in the bile it directed at the enemy, romantic in its evocation of home and hearth and of imperial Japan’s Pan-Asian aspirations, and still unsettling today in its depiction of the mindset of the Japanese military. Its survival to reach modern […]