小朋友在纸上画了一只黑公鸡，不久，大雁给黑公鸡送来一枚金质奖章，原来小朋友的画获了奖。纺织娘称赞黑公鸡真美丽时，建议它走出去让大伙都瞧瞧，黑公鸡听从了它的建议。 旅行的路上，黑公鸡因为那枚金质奖章越来越骄傲，不断炫耀自己如何美丽如何与众不同，但大伙都说一切都归功于小朋友的劳动和颜料，大公鸡一气之下将颜料从身上扔了出去，成了一只凸毛鸡，后来，又在大伙的嘲笑声中，扔了画纸变成一只透明鸡，直到想把线条也扔掉时，它才意识到自己并没有骄傲的资本。

1988 short film directed by Te Wei

小刺猬和小白兔一起拿蘑菇当降落伞玩过后，开始用手捡红果，妈妈看到了，要它停止用手捡改为用刺背，小刺猬问为什么，妈妈说：“我妈妈是这样教的，我妈妈的妈妈也是这样教的”。小刺猬想要红果树上更大的红果，妈妈试着跳起来用刺摘、使劲摇晃红果树等方法，红果均纹丝不动，她摇头离去时，小刺猬跳起来用手摘下了大红果。 啄木鸟提醒它们说前面有更大的果子，小刺猬和妈妈来到一片西瓜地，妈妈本以为能用刺把大西瓜背回家，不想西瓜太重她被压到了西瓜里，小刺猬一下慌了神，开始想方设法救妈妈出来。

男人新装了一个门铃，得意洋洋地欣赏了一番，关起门来等人按响门铃。门外有了脚步声，他的心怦怦直跳，可是无论是楼上的女邻居还是拍皮球玩的小朋友，都只是在他门外稍作停留。终于，来了一个找他的人，可那家伙竟然咚咚敲起门来，男人自然不理会他。 同样不识趣的邮递员来了，用力擂起门来，气得脸发青的男人和他对砸了一会，打开了门。接过邮递员递来的汇款单，男人请邮递员按一下他新装的门铃。本以为这下能听到清脆的门铃声了，不想男人只听到摩托起动的声响。

一天，蜻蜓在荷花中穿梭飞舞，蝉在柳树枝头鸣叫。螳螂从树叶中爬出，探头窥视，悄悄地朝蝉的方向爬去。蝉已察觉，但镇定自若。当螳螂在背后举刀欲斩时，蝉振翅飞去。又一日，蝉在榆树枝头鸣叫。一张树叶在慢慢地朝前爬动。黄雀飞上枝头整理羽毛，它发现树叶在向蝉的方向爬动，知道其中有鬼，就密切注视着。螳螂驮叶伏行，接近蝉，这次蝉毫不察觉。螳螂迅速举刀向蝉猛砍，蝉被击中，吱吱直叫。正当螳螂在为自己的胜利高兴时，黄雀突然向螳螂猛扑而来，正是“螳螂捕蝉，黄雀在后”。这时从树洞中突然钻出一只紫貂。又向黄雀扑去。

刺猬求小猪帮忙摘除身上的红果、小熊要求进小猪房中避雨时，小猪均以“我不帮助别人，也不要别人帮助”为理由拒绝了，甚至小白兔被大灰狼紧追要求进它院子里躲避一下时，它也不肯伸手相助，它的自私行为惹得篱笆、大树和小屋都很不满。 捉兔不成的大灰狼向小猪叫嚣时，小猪以为它根本闯不破坚固的篱笆，不想篱笆自动离它而去，随后，小屋和大树也不肯帮助它，小猪落入大灰狼手中。路上，小猪奋力逃脱，幸好有一块独木舟才免于落入湖中，不想因为又念叨“我不要别人帮助”，它再落大灰狼之手，这时，太阳公公也对它摇起头。孤独的小猪以为性命难保之时，曾被它拒绝帮助的小白兔找来小熊和刺猬商议，大伙决定把它从大灰狼的魔爪中救出来。

1981 animated film

上古时代，只身在空旷的原野中生活的女娲为了缓解孤独，用泥巴捏制出无数小人，小人们随后变作有生命的女人和男人，他们结合繁衍出后代，日子过得幸福快乐，女娲看着后代满足地进入梦乡。后来，火神和水神发生争执大打出手，一时间天地动摇，女娲的后代陷入水深火热之中，发出连连惨叫。 女娲被惨叫声惊醒后，立刻从腰际摘下一片绿叶抛掷水中，绿叶变作扁舟救下溺水的人儿。随着火水两神战斗的升级，更可怕的事情发生：天被他们撞出裂缝，滚滚落下的碎石砸伤了许多逃命的人儿。女娲见状，忙托起五彩巨石填补天上的一个个空洞，但风太猛烈，不待她填补完毕，裂缝已经扩大，女娲遂用自己的身体将天补好。在她修补过的地方，隐约出现闪闪发亮的星座。

本美术片是系列木偶剧《阿凡提的故事》的第一集。 热日当空，为生计疲于奔命的穷人在一棵大树下稍作歇息，贪财的财主巴依看到，和老婆稍作合计，想出发财妙招：他称树荫属于他，穷人要想乘凉，必须拿钱来买。穷人纷纷摇头表示没有银子时，巴依和老婆动手欲将他们手中赖以活命的羊奶等物抢去占为己有。纷扰中，倒骑毛驴的阿凡提来到树荫下，巴依自然也要他快掏银子，阿凡提不慌不忙，表示欲买树荫，巴依和老婆以为阿凡提是傻瓜，狮子大张口要了他一袋钱。众人起初不解阿凡提意图，慢慢明白他是以其人之道还治其人之身。

本美术片是系列木偶剧《阿凡提的故事》的第二集。 财主伯克忽叫阿凡提买油忽让他打水忽要他背柴，阿凡提被他呼之得一刻空闲功夫也没。某日伯克欲出门，临行吩咐阿凡提浇湿院子，但不许用水，也不能让太阳把湿地晒干，结果阿凡提以油代水浇湿院子，伯克气得干瞪眼。伯克和其他几个财主商议要惩罚阿凡提，他们告知世界末日即将到来，要阿凡提贡献出肥羊，阿凡提也利用世界末日将几人戏耍一番。众乡邻为阿凡提担心时，阿凡提将兔子送信的计划讲出，众人纷纷点头称赞，伯克又一次被狠狠耍弄。

本美术片是系列木偶剧《阿凡提的故事》的第三集。 乐善好施的阿凡提手牵毛驴来到一个混有形形色色的人的热闹市集，正苦于拔不掉病人的坏牙的牙医看到他，犹如看到明灯，可是阿凡提却摆摆手说不懂如何行医，但自己的毛驴懂，牙医和周围的人都很好奇，结果毛驴拔牙的方式令他们十分佩服。紧接着，聪明的阿凡提假借毛驴神医之名声，治好了肥胖者、苦于找不到知音的歌者等人的病或心中的郁结，并捉弄了自称很有智慧的信口雌黄者、惩治了小偷。

In the 54 years from his sexual awakening at the age of 7 until the age of 61, Yonosuke had relations with 3740 women and 725 men. So we learn about the protagonist of Ihara Saikaku's 17th century novel The Sensualist in this animated adaptation, which is directed by erstwhile art director Yukio Abe, best known as the art director of the great Sanrio films of the 70s and early 80s, and scripted by erstwhile director Eiichi Yamamoto, best known for directing the experimental adult epic Belladonna. Armed with those stats, Yonosuke makes Casanova look like the 30-year-old virgin. The 18th century Venetian and patron saint of latter-day Venutian artists such as Neil Strauss proclaims in his autobiography to have had relations with a mere 200 or so women during his lifetime. Yawn. But Casanova's autobiography is an engrossing and ethnographically invaluable piece of writing, and Yonosuke is a fictional character, so we'll call it even. Better known as The Life of an Amorous Man, the novel was the first in a series of tracts that Ihara Saikaku published in the 1680s recounting the amorous escapades of the denizens of his Edo-period merchant class demimonde, who were apparently quite the libertines. I'm sure there are some juicy parallels waiting to be drawn between 17th century Japan and 18th century Venice by an enterprising student of comparative cultural studies. Edo-period Japan was one of the most enlightened and liberal societies the world has ever known when it comes to sexual matters, with its sophisticated amalgamation of sexual openness and artistic expression. Rather than clients visiting prostitutes in dingy dives for a slam-bam-thank-you-mam exchange of fluids, Japan's geisha were government-sanctioned master artists who engaged clients in a classy, ritualized form of intellectual foreplay involving conversation, music and poetry. The crème de la crème of geisha was the tayuu, and it's one of these creatures that is the object of the chase in this film. The Sensualist tells the story of a fumbling young man who seeks Yonosuke's assistance in getting with a renowned Edo tayuu. Flashbacks weave in and out of the narrative thread, filling us in on Yonosuke's respectable history of romantic dalliances. The visuals of the film are exquisite, creating a sumptuous homage to the art of the Edo period. The characters are modeled after the style of Edo hanga, and are animated with great care under the supervision of the late great FX animator Mikiharu Akabori. Quite simply, the film is a feast for the eyes. Abe Yukio was first and foremost an art director, and the focus on the film is understandably on creating a sequence of beautiful images, which it does marvelously. There are few anime films as beautiful as this one out there. The film feels like a moving hanga. Rather than gliding through a crude naturalistic approximation of Edo Japan, the characters inhabit the actual art and expressive symbols of the era. The ocean undulates like an ink painting, white lines on a black background. Naked bodies entwined in an embrace float through fields of lotuses. Shadows of long-eared rabbits hop across folding screens painted with stormy waves. Prints of Edo beauties or landscapes by the great masters pan across the screen, creating a heady and intoxicating atmosphere in which art, sex and life intermingle, rather than simply telling a story. Although this is definitely a film for adults, and there is a good deal of nudity, a bit of rubbing, and a whole lot of bobbing, none of it is explicit. Actual shunga from the same period as this novel are far more explicit. Instead, symbols like the turtle and the camellia that were used back then to hint at sexual matters are used in a similar spirit during lovemaking scenes. The only time the film borders on funny is when they use the same strategy as 1001 Nights and Cleopatra and suddenly coyly shift from a shot of the couple embracing to a shot of abstract animation showing a suggestively shaped flame, or a clap of lightning that sends birds flying off of a tree. But for the most part, these shots of abstract animation are subtle and creative, and they feel like a modern extension of the traditional Japanese symbolic tradition. Originally released in Japan around 1990, this 54-minute film was presumably a direct-to-video release. Gone were the days when a film like Belladonna, this film's only real analogue in anime, could be released in the theaters. It appears to have disappeared into obscurity fairly quickly, and it's hard to find almost any information about it anymore. Needless to say, it has not been re-released on DVD. This film deserves a better fate. If ever a film qualified as a buried gem, this is it. There is quality work here. This was an ambitious project that was clearly a labor of love. Director Yukio Abe masterfully handles a complex narrative that flows between the present, the past and the abstract, making every image count. Mikiharu Akabori's character animation is subtle but nuanced, authentically reproducing the complex dress of the era and the styles of physical representation of Edo-era prints. And Eiichi Yamamoto deserves a lot of credit for penning an excellent script tangled with poetry, authentic inflection and subtle wit. Together, they did a good job of visualizing some pretty difficult material in a way that remained true to its explicit nature without teetering too much into the realm of bad taste. More importantly, they fully utilized all the means available in animation to create a thematically and visually consistent interpretation of the spirit of the novel. They channel the actual art of that period into the modern means of animation, achieving a sense of artistic unity that could not be achieved in a live-action adaptation. Despite being an erotic film, it's not meant to be titillating. The film has a sense of spiritual and literary depth that goes beyond mere sexual exploitation. It reminds me of the themes invoked in 1001 Nights, the first Animerama film, which was also directed by Eiichi Yamamoto: Ambition, lust, curiosity. The desire to push yourself to be the best YOU you can be, to go higher and higher, just to see if you can do it. That is one running themes that seems to occupy Eiichi Yamamoto in the three characters of Yonosuke, Belladonna and Aldin. 1001 Nights was intended as a film for adults addressing complex adult themes, not as erotica, and I find that that's the case with this one, although the erotic element is unmistakably more dominant here. The film feels like an homage not only to the art of Edo Japan but to the erotic sensibility of that era. And lest all this make the film sound like a stuffy art film, it's clear that they don't take themselves too seriously. It's entertaining to watch the protagonist, a bumbling stand-in for every ordinary loser out there who isn't a Don Juan like Yonosuke, fumble his way into the arms of this goddess. Alongside Belladonna, The Sensualist is one of the rare attempts to do tasteful and artistic adult fare in animation. The studio that produced this ambitious film might come as a surprise: It was Grouper Production, a short-lived studio that was co-founded in 1986 by Masami Hata, the director of many of the very same Sanrio productions on which Yukio Abe acted as the art director. Hata directed several of Grouper's productions, including the Hobberdy Dick TV series, the Super Mario Brothers: Princess Peach movie, and the Ping Pong Club TV series. As far as I know, this is the only film that Yukio Abe directed. Since then, he has returned to art directing, most recently working again under Masami Hata on the Stitch TV series produced by Madhouse. How did this project come about? It seems so out of character with everything else done by the studio as well as the director. Was it a project he had always wanted the chance to direct? So many questions. Grouper continued operating for several years after this film was released, so at the very least, it didn't put them out of business, which is a relief. Belladonna was produced 20 years earlier. Films like this only seem to come around in 20 year increments. Hopefully that means we'll be getting a new one soon. It's understandable that most studios don't have the daring to try their hand at something a little more ambitious like this, but it's still a shame. The talent is out there to make a new adult epic. It only makes me all the more grateful for the occasional aw-the-hell-with-it moments of indulgence like The Sensualist

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奇幻冒险漫画《#通灵王#》确定制作完全新作TV动画，根据全35卷原作漫画改编！原作漫画在《周刊少年Jump》上连载，2001年曾被改编为TV动画。新版将于2021年4月开播！