AniWorthMomotaro's Sea Eagles
Introduction
Momotaro sends a sneak aircraft attack to sink the ships of Demon Island, using his animal companions as crew members and pilots.
Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 4.84/10 · 1107
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Audience reviews
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Clamshell
Many people like to joke that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Japan the way it is today. I disagree, I think it was always like that. My evidence is this film. It’s about the attack on Pearl Harbor if the Japanese were cute cartoon monkeys.
The idea is simple: get kids excited about kamikaze. Cue 30 minutes of heroism and patriotism. It was meant for small children who had no access to the internet. For them, it may have been exciting. For me, the film could have been 15 minutes shorter and been a more entertaining experience. I understand that planes need to take off before they start wars they’re not going to win but these things can be cut from the film.
Underneath all that ism is a surprisingly anti-war film. There are some shots which linger on the destruction cau…
Read at the sourceAtsunome
We already know that this is a LITERAL piece of imperialist propaganda, so I’ll try to bring something new to the table and review this objectively (animation quality, storyline, voice acting, music, and enjoyment). Obviously, I do not support the absolute atrocities this condones.
Animation: 7/10
Quite frankly, I was shocked by how fluid some of the scenes (particularly the attack and flying scenes) were in this film. It may sound unbelievable, but this 80-year-old animation tops the lower end of what is put out today (looking at you, low-budget, generic, seasonal isekai series. While it isn’t “great” by any means, for the time, I have to at least give credit for what is BY FAR the most positive aspect of this entry.
Story: 2/10
I’ll just say it now, it’s a stretch to even call what…
Read at the sourceAlanDSouza1
Momotarou's Sea Eagles is better than its extended sequel in two major ways. One that is it shorter, and two that it has a synchronized and concise narrative. The film is a Japanese propagandistic perspective of the bombings of Pearl Harbor and the offensive on the Pacific theatre of the Second World War. It makes for a curious contrast to American propagandistic films of the same time - a la popeye that dealt with the event in vastly contrasting terms. We already see the employment of non threatening anthropomorphic personifications standing in for the Japanese as opposed to the threatening demon like external existential threat from the opponent becoming a part Japanese animation lexicon and stylistic toolkit.
Once again, it is worth remembering that the director of this film was a know…
Read at the sourceAssthete
The more I think about this historically, the more retarded the whole project seems. Japan attacked Peal Harbor and felt the need to instill in children such an achievement, perhaps even brainwash them into celebrating the Empire's actions overseas. What next? They hire a leftist artist to direct a pro-war propaganda animated movie. Sounds good? Unworried about the future, the military rejoiced over a rather unimpressive final product. Seo most definitely felt bad about all this, meaning his efforts towards the film's realization must have been the bare minimum. He'd still direct a sequel before Hiroshima's bombing. The government never thought for a second that they could lose the war, that all this pathetic pretentiousness would be glued on the wall of shame for future generations to con…
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