The Dull Sword (1917)
- Original title
- なまくら刀
- Directed by
- Kōuchi Jun'ichi
- Genre
- anime, animated film, silent film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 4 min
- Rating
- 5.3 of 10 from 32 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A foolish samurai buys a defective blunt sword and then tries to test it on random people he meets on the street. The sword fails to cut anyone and only makes his targets angry at him.
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What happens
The Dull Sword (Japanese: なまくら刀, Hepburn: Namakura Gatana) is a Japanese animated short film produced by Jun'ichi Kōuchi and Senpan Maekawa in 1917. It was rediscovered by an antique shop employee in Osaka in March 2008. This film is a 4-minute silent short that tells a story about a foolish rōnin's purchase of a dull-edged sword and subsequent attempts at tsujigiri. It was released on June 30, 1917, and is among the very earliest examples of anime. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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