The most important japanese animation films

[A.M. Nornes]

At 10:34 AM +0900 5/1/00, Aaron Gerow wrote:

> Momotaro--Umi no shinpei (1944)
> An amazing film, in terms of both animation and ideology.

There's a documentary on this film being broadcast on NHK tonight. Should be
interesting. I would also add Momotaro---Umi no washi, which is just as
fascinating.

Also, while Aaron points us back to the pre-1980s films to work against
narrow definitions of "anime," I'd also like to add television commercials
to the list. There is a lot of great animation in television commercials,
and most of it is by animators with an artistic bent. They're doing the
commercials to survive, and then their own artful animation on the side.
This is one of the only venues for non-cell animation these days. Some of
that sideline work is pretty experimental, and they are drawing on what they
learn from these experiments for the commercials. It's one of the most
pleasurable things on Japanese television if you're tuned to it.

Markus