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Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka
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Wikipedia article
is a 1933 anime short film by Kenz Masaoka and the first Japanese anime of any type to feature voiceovers. The film was released in black and white. There are no known prints of this film available, and it is considered a lost film.
'Chikara' was listed as one of the "Best of Best" by the 12th Japan Media Arts Festival.
Plot
The protagonist is a father of four children. His wife is tall, and weighs due to her incredibly large physique. Because he is constantly being henpecked at home, he becomes involved in an affair with a typist at his company and accidentally tells his wife about it while talking in his sleep. After obtaining additional evidence of the affair, she goes to confront both her husband and the typist at her husband's office.
Production
In 1927, 'The Jazz Singer' was released in the United States as the first talkie film, and Japanese film companies began working on creating them as well. Shochiku released in 1931, the first Japanese talkie. Due to the success of this film, the president of Shochiku, Shir Kido, commissioned Masaoka to make the first anime talkie, and he began working on it immediately.
Masaoka worked on the film for a little over a year and finally completed it in October 1932. The film was released in theaters the following year on 13 April 1933. At this time, the job of voice actor did not exist, so Shochiku used regular actors for the voice parts. Casting well-known stars, such as Roppa Furukawa and Ranko Sawa (of the Takarazuka Revue), helped make the film a success.
Staff
*Original Creator, Script: Tadao Ikeda
*Original Planning, Director: Kenz Masaoka
*Animation: Mitsuyo Seo, Seiichi Harada, Sabur Yamamoto
*Photography: Kakuzan Kimura
*Producer: Shir Kido
*Voiceover Director: Hiromasa Nomura
*Audio: Haruo Tsuchihashi
*Music Director: Masanori Imasawa
'Sources:'
Cast
*Main character: Roppa Furukawa
*Wife: Ranko Sawa
*Typist: Yko Murashima
*Tar: Akio Isono
*Jir: Hideo Mitsui
*Hanako: Fusako Fujita
*Toshiko: Yko Fujita
'Sources:'
See also
*List of lost films
References
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