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EARLY ANIME PIONEER WORKS FOUND IN ANTIQUE STORE IN OSAKA |
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Thursday, 27 March 2008 |
Tokyo’s National Film Center said that early anime pioneers Junichi Kouchi and Seitaro Kitayama works were found in an antique store in Osaka, Japan in good condition. Considered to be the “fathers of anime” by the film center, Junichi Kouchi’s two-minute silent film “Nakamura Katana” was released in 1917, and Seitaro Kitayama’s Urashima Taro was release the following year after U.S. and European animated cartoons were introduced in Japan around 1914.
SOURCE: Reuters
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