We Are the Pigs

By: Carl Neville

The first ever anime feature, now back in cinemas, combines anthropomorphic animals and anti-Western agitation; it was also a work of fascist propaganda.

Still from Divine Sea Warriors(1945).

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Mitsuyo Seo’s Momotaro’s Divine Sea Warriors—currently available as part of the British Film Institute’s extensive series on Japanese animation—was long presumed lost or destroyed after the Second World War by the Allied forces, until a single remaining copy was discovered in 1983. The film has since been given a foundational place in the development of […]

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Mitsuyo Seo’s Momotaro’s Divine Sea Warriors—currently available as part of the British Film Institute’s extensive series on Japanese animation—was long presumed lost or destroyed after the Second World War by the Allied forces, until a single remaining copy was discovered in 1983. The film has since been given a foundational place in the development of […]

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Mitsuyo Seo’s Momotaro’s Divine Sea Warriors—currently available as part of the British Film Institute’s extensive series on Japanese animation—was long presumed lost or destroyed after the Second World War by the Allied forces, until a single remaining copy was discovered in 1983. The film has since been given a foundational place in the development of […]

Mitsuyo Seo’s Momotaro’s Divine Sea Warriors—currently available as part of the British Film Institute’s extensive series on Japanese animation—was long presumed lost or destroyed after the Second World War by the Allied forces, until a single remaining copy was discovered in 1983. The film has since been given a foundational place in the development of […]

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