Kemurigusa Monogatari (A Story of Cigarettes)

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Synonyms: A Story of Tobacco

Japanese: 煙り草物語

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: 1926

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Source: Original

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 3 min.

Rating: G - All Ages

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Score: 5.06¹ (scored by 755 users)

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Ranked: #12966²

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Popularity: #12833

Members: 1,392

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Synopsis

The oldest recovered film by Noburou Oofuji that combines paper cutout animation with live action shots. In front of a girl with the traditional Japanese hairstyle, a small man on a desk says, "women descended from tobacco." The girl laughs at him and traps him under a glass. The angry man puffs on a cigarette in a pipe and blows smoke at the girl. The girl takes the cigarette from the man and puts it under her book. When the man threatens her with a gun, the girl throws the cigarette into the yard. The man becomes really angry and tries to shoot her, but the gun does not fire. In the end, the man starts telling her about the beginning of tobacco.

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Oofuji, Noburou

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Reviews

Jul 22, 2017

Sidewinder51

Mixed Feelings

Rate a 6
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Story
Not what i thought it would be. I was expecting more of comical spin on cigarettes history. However, what i got instead was more gag and hardly anything historical. There are far too many questions that arrived from this skit. Such as what is the relationship between the two main characters? What story did the male have to offer? what was his reasoning for thinking of his comparison in the beginning? All of which makes me think if this was purely meant for cheap laughs or required some in-depth thinking?

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Animation/character design surprised me. The cutout animation blend with live action shot worked ...

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Jan 13, 2024

Japan_lover888

Mixed Feelings

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Now this was interesting. it was the first including of RL footage and animation. The premise is quit interesting but have to admit that the animation was quit ugly. Now dunno if the character was animated ugly in purpose or not. Also the story is kinda dull. And yes, I know it's short but still, there are way better short films, with better story and animation, so the runtime can't be a excuse for lacking. I forgot if I watched other works from the director or not, but he has done better story shorts if I had watched them. So yeah, kinda feels you left ...