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I was watching a film on TCM last night called "Grave of the Fireflies", which I enjoyed very much. I discovered Japanese anime' rather late in life, and haven't seen too many films, but later I recalled watching an animated film from Japan many (many, many) years ago when I was a kid.
The only thing I can recall about this film is that there was a monkey (monkey king?), and a white Akita dog - both of whom could talk, of course.
Does this sound familiar to anyone out there?
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Was the monkey Sun Wukong? Here's a list of modern stuff he's been portrayed in. The anime sounds familiar to me, but only very vaguely; sorry I can't be more help than that.
Did you like "Grave of the Fireflies"? It's on my Netflix queue. It looked like it might be kinda depressing.
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Grave of the Fireflies is excellent. I'd recommend it to anyone whether they like anime or not. And yes, have some tissues nearby 'cause it is a very sad film (but done in a really good way).
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Yeah, back in college - late 80's - a friend was really into anime, and was getting laser discs (like giant DVDs, for you younger folk, back when CDs were just getting started) from Japan; our circle of friends would get together occasionally and watch his latest aquisitions. Grave of the Fireflies was one; I watched it twice back then - have a copy on tape in my house now - but have never watched it since; it is very good, but very depressing. And I've never heard it in English, or seen it subtitled; I'd probably get *really* depressed if I got the full story....
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Thanks, Landmammal. Your wikipedia link jogged a memory, and I found the film: Alakazam the Great!. Supposedly it is one of the first examples of Japanese animation? Maybe someone can verify that.
No white dog. Maybe that was another movie.
Yes, I loved "Grave of the Fireflies". Very beautiful. A very bleak story though. Robert Osborne said it was based on a true story?
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Grave of the Fireflies is what I call Schindler's List-good; it's beautifully made and moving, but I have no desire to ever watch it again.
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quote:The first anime is reported to be in 1918, called Momotaro.
The Anime News Network has a little page about it in their encyclopedia. There are a couple of links to more pages about the movie there.
I'm kind of interested in that one now, too!
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quote:Originally posted by Horse Chestnut: Supposedly it is one of the first examples of Japanese animation? Maybe someone can verify that.
That particular version is not one of the first but the same story has been made many times, the first of which was one of the earliest Japanese animations:
quote:Legend of Son Goku The very first anime interpretation of the Journey to the West. It was released in 1926 and used cut-out figures animated with stop motion.
The linked page describes all of the anime versions of the story, including some that started out as versions of the same story but morphed into something completely different, such as Dragonball, which still uses many of the same character names.
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