桃太郎 海の神兵 9/9

[gachapin21st]

ディズニーのフィルムからここまで製作した私達の御先祖があるか­らこそ、今の日本と日本のアニメーションがあるのだと思います。­左・右の方々も、気にいる気に入らないは別として、一度ご鑑賞を­お勧めしたいと思います。

[ono760]

作画どすげえ

[Strategichan425]

Film made in 1944-45 and the movie director believed that Japan still had a chance to defeat the entire Western hemisphere.

Never before has Axis propaganda been so humorous. >:D

[kyokuuseikenjuritsu]

このアニメが戦後の日本人にあまり知られていないのは左翼の陰謀­だと思う。

[alexwilligs99]

no blood,no gore: 5:00

[TheSuperJapaneseRace]

banzai!

we win!

[1Thunderfire]

Seems strange doesn't it that some of the names on the map are in English?

[Outmind01]

This is scary.. Especially the British guy.

[DonMeaker]

@425jeonsa You note the next generation was being trained for America. The subservient locals early on were being taught Japanese...Japan claimed they invaded Korea to protect Japan, invaded Manchuria to protect Korea, invaded China to protect Manchuria, and had to invade Indo-China to protect China.

[SwedxSimon02]

TALL CARD PLAYING STRETCHY-FACED AMERICANS WITH LOTS OF HAND GESTURES GRRRRR

[mihanich]

wow, i dont expect japanese voice actors to talk english well in modern anime but... back in 40's that japanese voice actor had a good english accent.

good job.

[petr79]

@mihanich I think they hired a tortured English speaking POW for this.

[AGSAGB1945]

山下将軍は別に恫喝したわけではなかったそうだヨ。通訳にイライ­ラして、「イエスか、ノーかと聞け」と言っただけなそうな。

[Norrington516]

Well the rabbit analogy would definitely work out for Singapore - Sir Arthur Percival (due to his looks and caution) earned 'rabbit' as a nickname while the commander of the Indian corps was nicknamed 'piggy' Heath.

[16DDHhyuga]

ヒドイ時代があったもんだなぁ・・・

[cutemedli7]

so the japanese are animals and the british are cowardly demons

lmao

propaganda

[JrFLYnnIV]

I'm pretty sure this surrendering scene is parodying the British surender at Singapore, where when the British and Japanese commanders sat down to discuss peace terms the British commander refused to say the words "I agree to unconditional surrender" until the last moment. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

[65573494]

飛行機に乗って、パラシュートで降りていく所の演出が素晴らしい­。

[DarkwingDork]

Yeah! Woo-hoo, let's kill some white people! :P It's so easy!

Ah, the nativity of the Japanese...

[onehundreddollars]

@DarkwingDork What does a Japanese Christmas display have to do with any of this?

[AquariaSpirit]

Those American troops have the most annoying voices ever.

[Pac1fic0]

Definitely would like to see English subtitles on this movie.

[Carbonite2008]

And now-cute anthropomorphic animals murduring thousands.

[animefareast]

It's amazing to see this historic anime for the first time. Awesome but at the same time mornfull to know how the Japanese drove themselves to near anihillation through such sick propaganda.

Never again.

[Aqnde]

@animefareast It's not like the Japanese were the only ones doing propaganda cartoons.

[Soundwave85]

Lol, we won.

[AndreLeCoz]

wow animation was better back then. lol

[Jh5kRadio]

Canada?

[Silencebound]

I have seen this film in it's 35mm version when shown in Tokyo, Japan, about 15 years ago. I tried unsuccessfully to acquire this film on DVD until YouTube achieved this wonderful animation masterpiece. 9-parts divided video is very bad presentation, so why not to re-uploaded it here again without any interrupted video time ? There's other many full-length movies already uploaded here as long as 2 hours without interruption, like that was of several Indian movies . . .

[Silencebound]

I have seen this film in it's 35mm version when shown in Tokyo, Japan, about 15 years ago. I tried unsuccessfully to acquire this film on DVD until YouTube achieved this wonder materpiece. 9-parts divided video is very bad presentation, so why not to re-uploaded it here again without any interrupted video time ? There's other many full-length movies already uploaded here as long as 2 hours without interruption, like that was of several Indian movies . . .

[Silencebound]

I have seen this film in it's 35mm version when released in Tokyo, Japan, about 15 years ago. I tried unsuccessfully to acquire this film on DVD until YouTube achieved this wonder materpiece. 9-parts divided video is very bad presentation, so why not to re-uploaded it here again without any interrupted video time ? There's other many full-length movies already uploaded here as long as 2 hours without interruption, like that was of several Indian movies . . .

[Krieger69]

wow these cute little bears and bunnies ain't fucking around when its about killing allies x'D

[King1N]

hohoho oh my.

[aeris2001]

Thanks for posting this film, glad i got to see it :)

[codigo616]

こんにちは私の名前はエドガー、このアニメはされて最適です最初­の

いつものように最初の1つをお勧めします

について

[ft2465]

この落下傘の場面でこんな美しい音楽をつけるとは・・勇ましい音­楽が流れそうなのに・・検閲も厳しかったと思うのに敗戦濃厚の時­代によく軍が許可したと思います。

[TROLLERSDELIGHT]

.....How the hell were the kids supposed to understand this rave party?!

[kenchouji]

こんなに素晴らしいアニメが日本で全く知られてないのが不思議だ­。

[osbely]

stamp on the american flag will you?!!

[kaktuzz]

times, they have changed

[1RedshirtXLG]

its funny. this is how Hollywood portrays our military.

[Dooldeen]

The ending is just......XD

Actually comparing this to the American propaganda cartoons, this is quite moderate, specially after watching Donald ducks Her Fuhrer`s face

[56LC]

@Dooldeen, actually one of most realistic scenes is the surrender one. The Allies 's surrender was very close to the one depicted here. I love this old classic Japanese Wartime cartoon.

[ffejgib]

the americans sound like PORKY PIG!!!!!

XD

[HConstantine]

Oddly enough, they are supposed to be Dutch.

[mumu241]

よくうｐしてくれた

[ffejgib]

I'm a HUGE anime fan, even though my grandfather fought against Japan during the war.

[I2edNinja]

I'm glad they lost in real life.

[hosono001]

ドッドッドッ、重機がうなる！

さて、英語訳のテロップが入ってないが、当時はどう理解したのだ­ろう？

[audipinas]

This flim represents how to ''liberate'' Asia from the Allied Powers with the help of Japan. The Philippines are the one of the Asia Pacific countries that become a colony of Japan, believe we give independence with the help of U.S

[CommunistPenguin1]

Someone please translate.

[thebluedragon07]

to bad for the kids that have watch, when they hear, that it didn't go as it did in the film.

[Domebuddy]

Thats pretty good english from a 1940's japanese anime, ive heard MUCH worst english from animes within the last 20 years.

[HConstantine]

Perhaps it was a POW.

[dkupke]

The violent turn at the end is utterly jarring-a total 180 from the previously childish and almost innocent tone. Went from glorifying the army to glorifying war itself. The part at the end with the children pretending to be paratroopers and jumping onto the map of the USA is downright surreal when you consider this film was completed only a few weeks before the A bombs were dropped.

[BrianTotse]

1:33 DERP!

[pinpono843]

マレーの虎、山下将軍とパーシバルとの会見がベースになってる。　イエスかノーか・・・　イギリスはマレー半島でひどいことしたから国際的にも支配地を回­復できなかったな。

[martianmister]

6:12 I see Bluto!

6:19 General De Gaulle, what are you doing in British Army?

9:23 Poor Mexicans...

[jetsam50000]

Jesus, I thought they were gonna break into dance while killing everyone.

[Akirameerkat]

an amazing film, I think its the only WW2 japanese propaganda that I have ever found before.since the US troops destroyed most others, but there is also a hidden measage in this film of dreams and hope..

[vawlkee]

I have news for you....There were very few animated propaganda films made by Japan.

Most were crude and poorly done like Momotaro.

As for the US troops "destroying" them, that's hard to say.

Try lookimng up "Fuku-chan and the Submariene". Good luck.

This film has obviously been altered and updated. Japanese recording capability was crude at the time and many of the sound effects are contemporary.

Tell me, why are there no subtitles when the Brits are surrendering? There would have been!

[Akirameerkat]

who know...I guess because the whites were talking in english. Japanese recordings weren't so bad, I have found some original song recording, I just wish that our people were able to sing better back then.

[dkupke]

I seem to recall reading part of why so few copies of these films survive is because animators had to wash and re-use the cells. Celluloid was an important ingredient of gunpowder.

[dkupke]

I also recall reading about this particular piece-there is no record at the studio of who performed the voices for the Birts in the end, but there is a long standing myth it was British war prisoners.

[iluvpeachforever1234]

this video makes me want to be peta...

[Slayerofdevils]

Watching this to Onslaught's Demoniac makes this a pretty disturbing video.

[Thehatedtruth]

Never has the brutalities of war been so... cute.

Best moment has to be at 4:32 Where that little killer monkey head rises out of the bushes for an ambush.

[GimmeYourCookies]

hehe the end was adorable.

[thebluedragon07]

sad thing is they really doubted everything about American's

[DemoraX]

all the singing rabbits could'nt stop the A bomb.

[vawlkee]

I couldn't have put it better if I'd tried!

Seriously, your comment says it all!

[rc5924]

Wow that was freaking amazing. The rabbit bites the pin out of a grenade. The bear grabs an mg out of a bunker. Animals stab the hell out of a APC crew... jesus. IS there any like real WWII anime hopefully made some time AFTER the war, and about the Germans or Russians or European front?

[NoOne3234]

Sequel: British get sent to forced labor camps. Peach boy get's hung for war crimes after Japanese surrender.

Isn't self righteous belief in your own ethnic superiority a great thing.

[maoqiao]

You tell it to british and americans. Because japanese actually made Racial equality proposal in Paris Peace Conference, 1919. And Great Britain, USA and especially Australia did not let it through. USA had his own racists laws those days (coons and others were good only during war times), Australia had "White Australia" policy then, and how british used to behavie in Africa, Asia etc is well known. Who is blaming WHO???

[maoqiao]

Rape of Nanjing... All I can say: It is war. Do not understand me wrong, I`m sorry for all those people who died during the war. But the is only one thin which counts during the war - OUrs and THEIRS

[NoOne3234]

You do realize that there is more than one system of Romanizing Chinese. Nanking is a legitimate way to spell it in English...

Now about your statement "It is war": Let's use the analogy of a bar. A guy is relaxing and having a beer. A man walks in, breaks a bottle, and stabs him with it. Afterwards, he turns to the horrified barkeep and says, "This was a bar fight. I did what I needed to do to defend myself." This is more or less what happened in East Asia.

[NoOne3234]

Any statement that the Japanese were not responsible for the atrocities they committed in a war they started is BS.

[maoqiao]

Sorry, but I do not understand Your analogy about bar. Britain, USA , Netherllands and Russia were not just sitting and drinking costumers in Asia in the beginning of WW2. Have you heard about americans in in Fillipines. They killed also people there only because the ere THEM not us..... WAR is shit.... It makes us all animals. There is no winners in war... only survivers.

[Bluehawk2008]

@NoOne3234

That's easy, when you deny that it happened.

[maoqiao]

Because there is no war wich have/had human face. There is no war in history were soldiers fought only by regulations and rules. Allies acted actually as brutal as axis soldiers during WW2, but who will judge the winners. There are lot of info about that, but I will not quote them here. No need for that. Japanese killed chinese and coreans because they belonged to those nationalities. They killed them because there was war and they were enemies. There is no such a thing as civilised war.

[thejordanbinderman]

i think this is based on the raid on singapore except they traveled by land . anotehr evidence is that the general that surrendered looks like the british general and there accents i forgot the generals name

[ajsb1986]

Wiki Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors. "The film is about the surprise maneuver on Sulawesi island, depicting parachute troops' actions. The whole movie also depicts how Japan "liberates Asia", as proclaimed by the Government at the time."

[classof101]

its a shame it's not subbed, it would be interesting to know what was being said (as a curiosity) although I think the translation of 6.10 - 8.00 rough says:

All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.

You have no chance to survive. Make your time.

Ha ha ha ha.

[mattbent10]

Uh, actually... probably not that far from the truth :)

[Elvuz]

Man! The anatomic structures are very poor but the natural effects, landscapes and weather details.. and even the aeuroplanes... this is all great! How thrilling! This film fascinates me. I'd like to see complete translations what they say and sing...

[chiha4000]

訓練を見学したスタッフが落下傘を見て素直に「綺麗だなぁ」と思­ったであろう心情がそのまま伝わってきますね。クライマックスの­降下シーンの音楽が勇ましいマーチじゃないところに、当時の日本­人の美意識が感じられます。

[moriryon08283]

戦争はなくしたほうがいい。絶対に。

このアニメを観て戦時下に生き抜く耐え抜く力を見せつけられまし­た。感動。

[videolung]

Dialogue from my proposed imaginary feature MOMOTARO VS. BUGS BUNNY

Rabbit paratrooper - "But you are a rabbit like us! Help us overthrow Western colonialism in East Asia!"

Bugs Bunny - "Ehhh....what's up your Co-Prosperity Sphere, Doc?" (hands soldiers a lit stick of dynamite disguised as a carrot)

The Allied soldiers could all be Elmer Fudd

A beautiful kitsune seduces Daffy Duck to learn Warner Brothers war plans.

Etc.

[vawlkee]

Actually I came up with the same idea a couple of years ago when the complete film was up but the segments and comments from that posting were all taken down by YouTube. Basically Bugs and company are fighter pilots, a-la the Flying tigers, they knock down all the planes except Momotaro's and then land ahead of him and then make like they're surrendering. The fun starts when Bugs breaks in dressed like the emperor and orders them all to commit hara kiri!

[vawlkee]

Whatever you're smoking - I'll have some.

Check out "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips" for some really good lines!

[thegriffin88]

@videolung So much win.

[videolung]

Even cute native monkeys love the Co-Prosperity sphere.

There's not much point getting angry about a film that premeired in 1945. It\s too bad they couldn't of had Bugs Bunny and Popeye fighting the cute bunnies and adorable birdies of the JNAF.

[PeekabooDave]

huh they made propaganda cute

[reddevilneck]

must had been a capture actor for the english speaking part

[Tonahuac1989]

Yeah, I can honestly say that there are absolutely no innacuracies in how the British are depicted in this film, if you don't believe me, just watch the actually footage of the British surrender to Yamashita at Singapore. It's straight on.

[56LC]

I loved it, technically flawed, un PC, and anti-British bias in all. At the end, the animals back at the base practice parachuiting on the South West of the U.S. It is a priceless animated propaganda film like the ones they do not make anymore for any side in any modern war. Well, Hamas had one against Fatah that made headlines because they used a Disney's Lion King look a like lion (it was really well done). . character

[masukaking00]

この作品は恐ろしくクオリティが高いと思います。素晴らしい。し­かし、この愛らしい熊さんやウサギさんたちが、この後フィリピン­やインパール、沖縄やニューギニアでどういう運命を辿るのかと思­うと、やはり戦争は悲惨だと単純に考えてしまいます。あとアメリ­カ兵も、殺してしまうのは平時の目線で見るとより残酷に見えます­ね・・・

[gabi326jjk]

I agree masukaking00

[Someone92231]

and to think a America caused a Japanese emperor for the first time in Japanese history to surrender in disgrace and humiliation.. :3

[woadancincolours]

wow, the american stereotype held by the japanese was actually more accurate and less racist than the japanese stereotype of the americans. go figure.

[vawlkee]

Oh really? Take a look at the Brits as they're depicted in the film. Total stereotypes.

I've been a student of the Pacific War since the 60's.

Oh yeah, and take a look at the "horns" on the heads of the Brits.....Tell me about that one!

There's also something fishy about this film...Besides the sound quality being TOO good for a film from that era, why is it that there are no Japanese subtitles provided for the home audience during the Brit's surrender...Hmmm?

I suspect the film's been enhanced.

[gabi326jjk]

vawlkee dude I speak japanese thay are not really doing what you think shor thay are making the brits look like retards but do you think wee dide eny beter? I don't know 1 japanese person that hates american or british or eny wight person what so ever but if you go to america iven some kids hate japanese people cus the parints teach them so this cartoon is for kids its just to give light in a part of japanese history that was darck so give it a brack

[vawlkee]

No, you don't understand........In Japan, then as now, outsiders are called "gaijin". I dated and almost married a wonderful Japanese girl...But I was still a gaijin. They make the Brits look like sneaking cowards and the horns on their heads are reminiscent of the nasty little "kappa" creatures of Japanese folklore. Even the fictional island they were on was called "Ogre" - in English that translates to devil or demon... I find the film fascinating but technically tragically flawed.

[victorbrunswick]

@vawlkee It's an allusion to "foreign devils" Note how the name of the British-held island is called Demon Island.

[reddevilneck]

wow how the japanese dipict how british would surrender in this film i mean lol the british or american look so retareded

[Salam817]

お疲れ様です。日本のアニメは昔から素晴らしかったのがよーくわ­かりましたｗ