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“1930 short film: soldier's long journey to deliver letter, receives sword from monkey.”
The Monkey Sword Masamune
猿正宗
5.46
13,160 rank · 1,952 viewers · 0 favorites
Adventure
Military
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Synopsis
1930 short film: soldier's long journey to deliver letter, receives sword from monkey.
Short movie from 1930 about a soldier traveling a great distance to deliver a letter. Along the way he receives a sword from a monkey.
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Derived from 2 sampled reviews
7.5
/10
What 2 viewers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 6
σ 1.50
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.50 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 1.50
Running avg · May 2017 → Apr 2024
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “Immediatly knew it's Yasuji Murata's work since you can immediatly recoknize his art style. It's a nice anime, well accept for a vertain scene after which I so badly wanted for the monkey to all...”
- 6 “Rate a 6 Eng subtitled art piece Special note: In terms of duration and rating understand there are two versions to this particular show. There is a 7 minute and a 9 minute. The 9 minute has a tad...”
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Long · 0%
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A Movie Production
- Format 1 × 9′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 09m all episodes
- Aired Jan 1930 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-3609 catalog