This Video truly made me appreciate *"Toei Animation"* from their early talents back in the 1960s of Anime, They may not be the Disney of Japanese Animation, but they are truly like the "Warner Bros. Animatons" of Japanese Anime.
Horus Prince of the sun is that one criminally underrated Studio Ghibli prototype that is never listed in any definitive Miyaski film collection list online and it’s such a shame. It was far ahead of any animated work at the time both on a technical level and narrative and it strangely reminds me of the Legend of Zelda series in some of its characters and themes presented.
Seconding the Zelda sense that this film prefigures! I felt that instantly and helped me realise the impact this film may have had on the young generation of artists who later joined Nintendo and other studios.
I don't know if it's true or not. Some sources say that Kyubi no Kitsune to Tobimaru was shown in the USA in 1969. It is not known whether it was shown in cinemas or broadcast somewhere, but this is written on IMDb, Peliplat and Anisearch. Maybe this information will help you in your search for anime.
Toei's PussnBoots movie will always be a comfort movie for me it is so good, still hum the English songs till this day. The comedy in that movie was the break we needed from the despair the main character and the princess faces throughout the movie.
I didnt really know what to expect comming into this video, but I am totally blown away at how incredible the animation and art design is for each and every one of these movies. Great job at covering this decade, will have to look at the other videos you have made in this series and cant wait to see what the 70s have in store!
I have been so inspired recently by the differences of old anime art, and how it creates an entirely different, and in some cases better, feeling to anime. Of course, I do enjoy the identity that modern anime has, especially because it exemplifies Japan's identity rather than being like UPA, or being like 60s Disney, or of that ilk, modern anime DOES have a style that is undeniably Japanese which is great and all, but the pointillism and precision of 60s anime, along with its painted backgrounds and minimal/modernist character designs is really making me feel like anime could take more inspiration from the past. It seems like in the early 2000s a lot of anime artists were starting to look backwards (Super Milk Chan always reminded me of a modern take on 60s anime character designs), but then it seems like it got unpopular to do so and then it got phased-out, and I'd say more animators are inspired by 80s and 90s anime moreso now than back then. My favorites so far have got to be "The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed dragon", and also "Koneko no Studio"
yea when i took a break from 60s anime to watch Saiyuki, it was shocking how much better the movies were compared to 2000s series. I know movies generally look better, but it was still surprising to see how much moved back then and how little moved with fairly recent anime. Koneko no Studio was amazing. I cover it in the Early Anime Beginner's Guide along with other great ones like Black and White Woodcutter which I also loved
A shame Animal Treasure Island didn't come out till 71, that movie is a great series of gags adventures which certainly tops the three Puss In Boots films to me. Would've been cool to hear your thoughts on it. I was always disapointed by Toei's Puss In Boots as a story, and it's sequeals, it set up themes without exploring them properly (Pierre feels guilty for lying to the princess, but never considers confronting Pero and talking about it?), and the characters were rather flat. Not up to snuff with the films Disney were doing around that time, despite Pero's charming and likible presense. The three cats who chase Puss are good concepts for a trio, but they lack a certain je ne sais quoi that lovable rogues like Honest John & Gideon process which gives them depth to their antics. Meanwhile the mice feel less like defined characters, and much more like an excuse for more pandering cutsey 'comedy' a musical number that doesn't move the plot along nor explore the emotions of their character. Animal Treasure Island wasn't very deep either, and it still has that Toei style weirdness to the plot, (like the walrus without any explaination defecting to the goodguys.) However, it's still a fun ride with well executed comedy, daring adventure, and a cast of characters who are fairly competent, rather then having Jim be the only one with a brain as a more juvenile version of this film could have turned out. No set piece goes on too long.
This was a fantastic analysis and historical perspective on the 1960's decade of japanese anime film with its more adult themes and animation that was far ahead of anything that came out of tezuka works at the time. Its funny because much of the anime tv series in the 1970's would not see this kind of mature story telling and themes until like close to the very late 70's and early 80's.
Holy shit man! I've been away off the search on Kyubi no Kitsune to Tobimaru for a while. Where and HOW anyone have found that short footage? When I was on search, the biggest stuff we had was a bunch of photos that I found throught a japanese site.
Kyubi no Kitsune to Tobimaru (Sesshoseki) was broadcast in Italy only once in 1972 with the Italian title "La volpe con nove code" ("The Fox With Nine Tails"). From some years I'm working about his rediscovery! What is the Hungarian title of the movie?
I don’t think the Hungarian title was named, but thanks for the Italian title. I’ll look into that and pass it around to my friends in Italy and see if they can find anything
I do not know anything about the Hungarian title, but the Italian title found interesting information. According to the Italian TV archives, it was shown on the Italian channel Raiuno (or Rai 1).
Well the rankings are relative so I might not give any of them a 10/10 but for 60s movies those were the ones that stood out. For my personal enjoyment maybe the As are like 8.5/10 in this context
@@bobsamurai I see, thats fair. Yeah I personally look at these subjectively as a product of there time. I don't compare the complexities of writing in today's media with something that is episodic and lacks alot of paticular logic. Its just unfair imo so i tend to quite base my assumptions on how well a show in the late 60's stacks up with everything in that decade or perhaps maybe early to mid 70's. So there could potentually be 9's or even 10's in these early years like Lupin the 3rd, Space battleship yamato or this Horus prince of the sun film or Gatchaman which i still found to be one of the best super sentai/mecha of the tatsunuko properites to come out of the early to mid 70's. I don't know if that is the wrong way to look at it, but thats just how i do things. I guess you can only go so far with that tho because narrative/writing techniques certainly started peaking towards the late 80's.
I think I was going for stand-alone movies since there were several connected to Astro boy, tetsujin 28, and others. However I did cover that one in my cyborg 009 beginners guide
