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Motion Picture: The Kitsune vs. the Tanukis
A farmer walking in the woods is frightened away by a shapeshifting fox, who then disguises himself as a samurai and makes his way to a temple, haunted by a young shapeshifting tanuki whose various attempts to frighten the fox/samurai away fail. The young tanuki telephones his father, and they join forces against the samurai.
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Good concept, poorly executed.
An Exercise In Nonsense
It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
A clever Max Fleischer-esquire cartoon short from Toho studios, whose title roughly translates as "Moving Picture - Fox versus Tanuki (i.e., Raccoon-dogs) Pulling (pranks)".Comparable to Flip the frog, Betty Boop, or Felix the cat cartoons from about the same period, it has synced sound (including a nifty soundtrack with traditional Japanese instruments) and a lot of visual puns and interesting camera angles.The plot summary is as follows: A farmer walking in the woods is frightened away by a shapeshifting fox, who then disguises himself as a samurai and makes his way to a temple, haunted by a young shapeshifting tanuki whose various attempts to frighten the fox/samurai away fail. The young tanuki telephones his father, and they join forces against the samurai.
