Senga Tsubo

Rating 10/10

This film was quite fun to watch although the short little story about the lion and the wolf was a little to long taking up a decent chunk of the main film. The lessons that it showed to the audience were quite nice to see compared to what we see in today's society.

The animation was pretty fluid and the character expressions were very comical to look at.
The boy tricking the monster to get back into the pot after coming out was very smart on his part and it shows how gullible the monster actually is and eventually showed the monster how favors should be ... repaid with kindness.

Overall, I highly recommend this to everyone who reads this comment because it is an epic tale that should be told for generations to come.

Pretty good short little film.

The animation isn't quite on par with other works of the same era. You'd see more fluidity of movement and less of an obvious "these are focal objects" vs "these are immobile backgrounds" visual distinction in the layering in comparable works like, for example, Laugh-o-Gram's Alice series. However, there's a good amount of character detail and complexity here, especially in the creatures like the lion or the clothing of the human characters.

The story is a bit oddly structured, with the character relationships not fully constructed, and the fable in the middle taking too long in proportion to the "main" ... story, but overall it's still a fun and interesting little tale.

Rate a 5
English Subtitled
art film
no vocals/sound

Story
A story within a story. Both stories represent each other. The message from all of this is kind. The anime comments it as favors pay off. While in a way that works I find my take is a better explanation. Life is challenging. We rely on constant things to get by. I reckon no one is a stranger to the idea of wanting more of something. The problem of that greed is one forgets about balance. Sure, we could have more but is it really worth it? Will the ends justify the means?

As for the ending it made me smile. ... Although it was not quite clear at first the end result as long as you stuck around you could figure it out. I suppose the idea of not being clear was intended. For it only builds on the main message of greed. Which was a wonderful touch.

Art
-black and white
- An unfortunate mixture. I understand this was is an old film but the constant screen shakes, brightness issues, weird character expression/movements was quite appalling. Although, that is just a portion of the anime production. Some of the animations/drawings were done well like the minor characters.

Characters
-there a few moments of wonderfully crafted dialogue. I type well crafted because of how intelligent the underlying reason for it was.