Fukusuke

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Anime movie
title Fukusuke
Original title ふ く す け
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1957
Studio Otogi Pro
length 18 minutes
Rod
Director Yokoyama Ryuichi
production Yokoyama Ryuichi
music Hattori Ryōichi

Fukusuke ( Japanese ふ く す け , English also The Top-Heavy Frog , see Fukusuke doll ) is an anime short film by Studio Otogi Pro from 1957. It is based on the children's book of the same name by Yokoyama Ryūichi , who was involved in the film Directed by.

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The film tells the story of a young frog who soars into the sky and meets the god of thunder there. The story is told without dialogue.

Creation and publication

The 18-minute long film was made at Studio Otogi Pro and directed by Yokoyama Ryūichi . Since the studio did not have its own rooms, the implementation essentially took place in a room in the director's house. It was the first production since the studio was founded by Yokoyama in 1956. Yokoyama himself was little involved in the actual production and only specified which scenes should be animated. The until then little or no experience animators implement this independently. Yokoyama checked the result and usually confirmed it, even if it was not the planned length. The employees also referred to this way of working as "home work" or "improvisational jazz". When Maeda Hajime joined the team, who had already gained experience in animation during the Second World War, they introduced an orderly way of working with exposure sheets .

The film was a 35mm - Askania produces camera that was installed not movable for the recording of the individual images, but firmly. The material used was not only unused film, but also unexposed remains from other productions. The coloring was done experimentally with different types of color, since there was no experience with color films, and accordingly gave very changeable results.

The film was bought by Tōhō and shown in their cinemas from October 29, 1957. According to Shirakawa Daisaku , it ran as part of a double feature with a real film. It is therefore possible that most of its viewers did not go to the cinema for Fukusuke and the film did not make its money on its own. Nevertheless, according to Yokoyama's own statement , Fukusuke was the only film that made him profit. The successful collaboration with Tōhō enabled the studio to make further productions after Fukusuke .

The anime was later recognized as particularly valuable by the Japanese Ministry of Education. On August 19, 2016, the film was shown again at the International Animation Festival Hiroshima.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Giannalberto Bendazzi : Animation: A World History: Volume II: The Birth of a style - The Three Markets . CRC Press, 2015, pp. 88 .
  2. ^ A b Stuart Galbraith: The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography . Scarecrow Press, 2008, pp. 139 .
  3. ↑ a b c Jonathan Clements : Anime - A History . Palgrave Macmillan 2013. pp. 88f, 92. ISBN 978-1-84457-390-5 .
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Yokoyama is the family name, Ryūichi the first name.