Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka (力と女の世の中, lit. "Within the World of Power and Women" or "The World of Power and Women") is a 1933 anime short film by Kenzō Masaoka and the first Japanese anime of any type to feature voiceovers.[1][2][3] The film was released in black and white. There are no known prints of this film available, and it is considered a lost film.[2]
| Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka | |
|---|---|
 The typist and the main character. | |
| Kanji | 力と女の世の中 |
| Directed by | Kenzō Masaoka |
| Written by | Tadao Ikeda |
| Produced by | Shiro Kido |
| Music by | Masanori Imasawa |
Production company | |
Release date |
|
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Chikara was listed as one of the "Best of Best" by the 12th Japan Media Arts Festival.[4]
Plot
editThe protagonist is a father of four children. His wife is 180 centimetres (5.9 ft) tall, and weighs 120 kilograms (260 lb) due to her incredibly large physique.[citation needed] Because he is constantly being henpecked at home, he becomes involved in an affair with a typist at his company and accidentally tells his wife about it while talking in his sleep. After obtaining additional evidence of the affair, she goes to confront both her husband and the typist at her husband's office.[citation needed]
Production
editIn 1927, The Jazz Singer was released in the United States as the first talkie film, and Japanese film companies began working on creating them as well. Shochiku released The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (マダムと女房, Madamu to Nyōbō) in 1931, the first Japanese talkie. Due to the success of this film, the president of Shochiku, Shirō Kido, commissioned Masaoka to make the first anime talkie, and he began working on it immediately.
Masaoka worked on the film for a little over a year and finally completed it in October 1932. The film was released in theaters the following year on 13 April 1933.[5] At this time, the job of voice actor did not exist, so Shochiku used regular actors for the voice parts. Casting well-known stars, such as Roppa Furukawa and Ranko Sawa (of the Takarazuka Revue), helped make the film a success.
Staff
edit- Original Creator, Script: Tadao Ikeda
- Original Planning, Director: Kenzō Masaoka
- Animation: Mitsuyo Seo, Seiichi Harada, Saburō Yamamoto
- Photography: Kakuzan Kimura
- Producer: Shirō Kido
- Voiceover Director: Hiromasa Nomura
- Audio: Haruo Tsuchihashi
- Music Director: Masanori Imasawa
Cast
edit- Main character: Roppa Furukawa
- Wife: Ranko Sawa
- Typist: Yōko Murashima
- Tarō: Akio Isono
- Jirō: Kōji Mitsui (credited as Hideo Mitsui)
- Hanako: Fusako Fujita
- Toshiko: Yōko Fujita
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Baricordi, Andrea (December 2000). Anime: A Guide to Japanese Animation (1958-1988). Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Protoculture Inc. p. 12. ISBN 2-9805759-0-9.
- ^ a b Sharp, Jasper (23 September 2004). "Pioneers of Japanese Animation". Midnight Eye: The Latest and Best in Japanese Cinema. Retrieved 20 May 2009.
- ^ Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha. 1993. ISBN 978-4-06-206489-7.
- ^ Ōguchi, Takayuki (September 2006). 前編：日本のアニメーション芸術年代史 ─アニメーション─ (in Japanese). Japan Media Arts Festival. Archived from the original on 7 September 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2009.
- ^ a b c 力と女の世の中 (1933) (in Japanese). AllCinema Movie & DVD Database. Retrieved 20 May 2009.
- ^ a b 力と女の世の中 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 20 May 2009.
External links
edit- Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka at IMDb
- Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka (film) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia