The most important japanese animation films

[M Arnold]

>>I am trying to compile a list of the most important films to

>From what you say here, it seems like you should be taking a >historical 
>perspective, but the films you list are only relatively >recent.  This 
>replicates too much the recent take on Japanese >animation that ignores the 
>long history before 1970.

Just to add a quick note to this, I believe Animage magazine/Tokuma is about 
to publish their updated book listing of Japanese "anime" (whatever that 
means) films, TV series and video releases.  For a few years Animage 
packaged this as a free booklet with their March issue, but it seems this 
year they decided to sell it separately.  I don't know how far back the data 
goes, but I've had much better luck locating titles like "Sora Tobu 
Yuureisen" in Animage than in Pia's catalogs, for example.

Are there any better sources available?  I've seen a few recommendations on 
this list, but I've still had no luck tracking down any publications on 
pre-1970s Japanese anime/animation history.

Mike A
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