Katsudou Shashin
活動写真
“A sailor-suited boy writes "moving picture" in kanji, then bows to the viewer.”
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Synopsis
A sailor-suited boy writes "moving picture" in kanji, then bows to the viewer.
A young boy dressed in sailor attire and a bright red cap is shown to write the Japanese kanji characters translating to the phrase "moving picture." As he completes writing the phrase, he faces toward the viewer and bows.
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What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 23 sampled reviews
7.5/10
Score distribution
Agreement
SplitPolarized
σ 2.28 · split reception
The polarity gap
6.0 ptsRecommenders 8.0 · others 2.0
Score over time
0.48Verbosity
Snap verdicts · shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10/10 “This was pretty great to see, specially going back in time, watch probably the first anime in history. Now I don't know if it's like the first movies, that laso got a bit lost when restoring them,...”
- 8/10 “It's quite obvious that there's not much to say about this anime because it's so short but I thought I might as well give it a review. Katsudou Shashin is what is currently considered to be the...”
- 7/10 “This could very well be the first anime. Some say it might be from 1907! So i'm going to be lenient, super lenient. story - 0 There is none, it's just a 5 second long clip of a boy writing. art - 8...”
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A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — Katsudou Shashin begins and ends here.
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Reel · 01 Cat. №BS-11391
A Movie Production
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- 3 sec
- eps × min
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- Movie
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- Rated
- G
- All Ages
- Ref.
- BS-11391
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