Zakka Films

西倉喜代治

While there is not much detailed information on Nishikura, he directed, in addition to Chameko’s Day, the animated work The Little Rabbit of the Forest (Mori no kousagi) for the All Kinema Company in 1936. He also was the cinematographer on Kenzo Masaoka’s masterful Tora, the Abandoned Kitten, made immediately after the war in 1947.

Total running time: Approx. 92 minutes. / monochrome

8 classic masterworks of early Japanese anime, featuring legendary heroes battling mountain demons and raccoon samurai, a notorious bombing of Pearl Harbor by cute animals, and many more gems by the true pioneers of anime.