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

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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