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All movies seen on 04/27/2024

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Our Baseball Game (1930)

Directed by Yasuji Murata

Animation | Short | Sports

Overview

A baseball game between the rabbits and tanuki (raccoon dogs).

Length 9 minutes

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Discovered via Open Culture, an early example of Japanese animation. No subs but easy enough to follow along.

From Open Culture: “Like most silent Japanese movies, this film made use of a benshi – a performer who would stand by the movie screen and narrate the movie. In the old days, audiences were drawn to the benshi, not the movie. Akira Kurosawa’s elder brother was a popular benshi who, like a number of despondent benshis, committed suicide when the popularity of sound cinema rendered his job obsolete.”

https://www.openculture.com/2024/04/the-origins-of-anime-watch-early-japanese-animations-1917-to-1931.html

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