Kumo to Tulip

Kumo to Tulip (Japaneseくもとちゅうりっぷ, kumo to chūrippu, dt " Spider and Tulip" ) is an anime short film from the year 1943. The story, a modern fable, based on a contemporary story of Michiko Yokoyama.

Content

A spider will attract a beetle woman singing in their network, but they recognize the danger and flees. She takes refuge in a tulip, which is then wrapped by the spider with her thread. Shortly after pulling on a storm that the beetles woman survives in the flower, but the spider rips through the air until it finally ends up in a puddle.

Production and publication

The film was produced in 1943, directed by Kenzo Masaoka Shochiku Doga Kenkyujo. For the first time a multi- camera plan for a Japanese animation was used. The music was composed by Ryutaro Hirota.

The movie was released on April 15, 1943 in Japanese theaters.

Reception and interpretation

Daniel Kothenschulte sees similarities to the Disney productions, The Moth and the Flame and The Old Mill from the Silly Symphonies series. In contrast to these films in which the natural event would be in the foreground, it was the emotional drama at Kumo to Tulip. The natural step forward, according to the Far Eastern tradition, as soulful, independent actor on. The spider that tries to lure the beetles with swing music, symbolizing the American culture, which is to warn the film. So Kumo to Tulip series also in the propaganda films of the interwar period. The black-and- white aesthetic bribe, especially in the landscape representation, is partly resorting to more abstract, ornamental representation by a wealth of gray values ​​and instead of naturalistic representation of the rain.