is a Japanese animated film produced by Seitaro Kitayama in 1918. The film is an adaptation of a folk tale '' Urashima Tarō'' about a fisherman traveling to an underwater world on a turtle. It premiered in February 1918, making it one of the earliest

anime is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...

films. It is a

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; it was thought to have been discovered at a flea market at the Shitennō-ji temple in Osaka in 2007, but the discovered film later turned out to be another unknown work because a plot description and a series of stills of the 1918 film that differed considerably from the discovered film were found in a contemporary magazine.

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* * 1918 animated films 1910s anime films Films based on folklore 1910s animated short films Anime short films Articles containing video clips Japanese silent films Japanese black-and-white films Lost animated films 1918 lost films 1918 films Isekai anime and manga 1918 short films {{anime-film-stub