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Pioneers of Japaneses Animation: From Tekobo to Momotaro

Defeat of the Spies

Sanae YAMAMOTO

Japan1942 9min 16mm B&W

Synopsis

During the Pacific War U.S. president Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill hold secret talks and select three spies, now on their way to Japan. The spies parachute down and start their work in Japan, but the Japanese people manage to stop their activities. A propaganda animation for arousing awareness of enemy spy activities during the war.

Diretor

Sanae YAMAMOTO

At first assisting Seitarou Kitayama in animation production, Sanae Yamamoto began his own work in 1925. In 1956 he established an animation studio where he was the director, and started animating on a full-scale, and where he produced Japan's first feature-length color animation, Tale of the White Serpent. Other works include Momotaro is the Greatest(1928), Brother Bear(1932), and Defeat of the Spies(1942).