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1918 Japanese film
Urashima Tarō
Directed bySeitaro Kitayama
Based onUrashima Tarō
Release date
  • February 1918 (1918-02)
CountryJapan
LanguageSilent
External videos
video icon A restored version of the unrelated film that was found at the flea market, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Urashima Tarō (浦島太郎) is a Japanese animated 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.

References

  1. "Japan finds films by early "anime" pioneers". Reuters. 27 March 2008. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
  2. Frederick S. Litten. "Some remarks on the first Japanese animation films in 1917" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-01-02.
  3. "Two Nine-Decade-Old Anime Films Discovered (Updated)". Anime News Network. 2008-03-27. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  4. Watanabe, Yasushi (July 2017). 北山清太郎制作『浦島太郎』の新資料発見について (PDF). NFC Newsletter (in Japanese) (132). National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo: 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-09-05. Retrieved 2019-07-10.

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