Animated August 2025: The Dull Sword (1917)

Animation is a highly flexible medium of filmmaking that allows for anything at all to exist in a movie. It also reveals a lot about the people who work on it through their brushstrokes, styles, techniques, and so on. Animation truly has limitless potential. In this series, Tony will explore some of the great animated classics that  defined animation for generations, as well as those that may not have received the cultural praise they deserved but were still technical achievements on their own. Here's to all the animators of the world!

Today, we go from West to East exploring the earliest surviving anime! Join Tony as he celebrates one of the defining Japanese movies ever, The Dull Sword.

No spoilers this time!

A link to watch the digitally restored version of the movie is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=580Aa0kjCAg

A lower resolution version with a different dye is available on Wikipedia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dull_Sword

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