Urashima Tarō (1918)
- Original title
- 浦島太郎
- Directed by
- Seitarō Kitayama
- Genre
- cinematic fairy tale
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 2 min
- Rating
- 5.2 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A fisherman named Urashima Tarō rides a turtle to an underwater world. The film is based on a Japanese folk tale.
whimsicaldreamlikegentlemelancholicnostalgicsimplefolkloric
What happens
Urashima Tarō (浦島太郎) is a Japanese animated short 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. It premiered in February 1918, making it one of the earliest anime films. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Tsuki no miya no ôjosama (1934)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.