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Kachi-kachi Yama, also known as Kachi-Kachi Mountain and The Farmer and the Badger, is a Japanese folktale in which a tanuki is the villain, rather than the more usual boisterous, well-endowed alcoholic. (Source: Wikipedia)
This is a short film made in the fall of 1917. It is about a girl asking for rice.
This advertising film was already described as one of three films presented by the Ministry of Communications on 11 August 1917 to encourage the use of postal saving accounts. (Source: Litten, Frederick S, and Books On Demand Gmbh. Animated Film in Japan until 1919 Western Animation and the Beginnings of Anime. Norderstedt Books On Demand, 2017.)
An animated adaptation of the folktale of Bunbuku Chagama.