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¡Animation Movie"THE DEATH LULLABY"¡
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IJIME, CHIBI, BINBO.
Deformity and Inferiority Complex.

The greatest suffering of a Japanese child is "Ijime".
The child of the group attacks it by violence to an independent child.
Disregard,Attack,abuse,slander...
The child of the group says "To you death!" "Die!"
"kimoi!(You are a face and the character that I come to feel sick)" to the child who stood alone.
This is Japanese bullying"Ijime".
Japanese Ijime escalates year by year.
Therefore suicide and the murder of the child of 10's increase.
It is the animated film described the bullying of the Japanese child.




œStory

A stage is the Japanese old town(Inaka).
The town of the weaver who avoided the only air raid by World War II.
The structure of the town generates fog in the morning in the evening.
Deep-rooted convention(Insyu,Shikitari...) is left in the Japanese old town(Inaka).
A boy of the main character is 12 years old.
Mother who had a disease.
Poor lifeiBinbo) only for mother and a child.
A boy is physically weak, and the back is low, too.
Therefore I am tormented by a classmateiIjime).
Mother died, and the boy became lonely.
The boy is tormented thoroughly by a classmate.
He@is@angry last, and the boy stabs a classmate with a knife.
It is sad murder by the boy of 12 years old.
What will the cause of this tragedy be?
At the time, adults destroy Japanese old culture.
Adults develop Japan in selfishness.
A big business and the Japanese ruling party destroy the Japanese old town.
As the symbol, a picture of the Narita Airport struggle is quoted.
The Japanese member of the ruling party is pleased with banzai three cheers(Banzai Sansho) as Japanese His Majesty the Emperor.
But! At the time. Many proletariats die of sacrifice of the large-scale development.
The boy cries.



œCommentary

This animated unusually describes the spot of the bullying(Ijime) directly in Japan.
And this movie appeals.
The sadness that Japan is broken at pollution, general contractor development, a nuclear power plant.
Another Japanese fact that a Japanese movie company cannot draw it.
"Gunma" becomes the low-altitude flight training place of United States Armed Forces fighter now.

Supervision / Terry Jones of the movie "Monty-Python" tells it.
"This is not confined to only a Japanese fable at all powerfully".
It is a problem to be common to all Western industrial society.
I suggest that I watch this work."

In 1986, Japanese magazine company "Pia(PFF)" showed this movie in Japanese major cities.(Shibuya Parco space Part 3 etc...)
and this movie did screenings at the next place.

1986 Turin international film Festival
1987 Berlin international film Festival
1988 Brussels super-8 & video festivals
1988 Montreal young people cinema festival
1991 London Leeds University
1992 The deserted house of the London city

Hiroshi Harada who filmized a "MIDORI-Syojyo Tsubaki" of Suehiro Maruo produced this work at the 20 years old.
The music of this movie is played in Moog synthesizer.
In addition, it is on at the sensory-effectshSensaroundh device method of the hollywood movie when it is revived in Japan in 2000.
It is digitized, and this movie is stored now@in Kiryukan.
ProductionFKiryukan store the 8‚‚ film of this movie in "PFF", and store the VHS video in "Musashino Art University", and the mini-DV video is stored for "Sendai media take".



œ Data

* The production yearF 1985 work
* Film classificationF 8 mm film
* Screen sizeF Standard 1:1:33
* A colorF Fuji-Color
* A soundF Magnetic recording, monaural
* A running timeF 27 minutes



œThe staff, the cast

Producer,Director,Animation, music, character design, photography, recording,: Hiroshi Harada
The actor of the voice:Kiyohiko Inami,Katsuhito Takahashi etc.




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