 | MOVIE #1,378 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 02.16.24 A mentally challenged samurai purchases a presumably dull sword. There's no sound and very few intertitles in this 4-minute short animation from 1917 Japan, but it's a fun little artifact. The animation style is choppy but is otherwise rendered in a cartoonish way that looks timeless. The logline is very funny: “ a samurai buys a dull sword from a merchant. He's quickly defeated by his intended victims due to his cheap sort and clumsiness.” 7/10 |
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The Dull Sword (Japanese: なまくら刀, Hepburn: Namakura Gatana) is a Japanese animated short film produced by Jun'ichi Kōuchi in 1917. It was rediscovered by an antique shop employee in Osaka in March 2008. This film is a 4-minute silent short that tells a story about a foolish rōnin's purchase of a dull-edged sword and subsequent attempts at tsujigiri. It is among the very earliest examples of anime. It was released on June 30, 1917.
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