Thursday, January 02, 2020

Monkey and the Crabs

Monkey and the Crabs is a 1927 Japanese animated short film that adapts the folktale about the monkey that kills the crab. The crab's son then gets help to avenge the death.

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  1. Tom4:43 AM

    ...I must say, you do find some unusual things!

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  2. Valerie-Jael5:24 AM

    Thanks, but this is not for me! Valerie

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    1. Divers and Sundry6:07 AM

      I think the old cartoons are fun to watch.

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  3. kathyinozarks6:39 AM

    My husband would like this film for sure

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    1. Divers and Sundry8:38 AM

      It's just 5 1/2 minutes long, so it's easy to watch :) I hope he likes it.

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  4. Let's Art Journal8:38 AM

    What a strange concept, how unusual ...lol 😉. Happy New Year! Hugs, Jo x

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    1. Divers and Sundry9:34 AM

      Foreign animation is definitely different than Disney, that's for sure lol

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  5. CJ Kennedy2:08 PM

    Funny animation style

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  6. Rita10:18 PM

    Oh my! Now that was dark, immediate justice. Good guys vs bad guys...or bad monkey--LOL! ;)

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    1. Divers and Sundry9:35 AM

      Revenge! Sometimes revenge sounds like a good plan.

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  7. Bleubeard and Elizabeth8:31 PM

    You may have noticed I didn’t stop by to visit, or I didn’t host my own Second on the 2nd. The reason is quite simple. Wednesday evening, just as I was saying good-bye to my dear friends SC and ND who dropped by to wish me a happy new year, my electricity went out. When I looked outside and saw the neighbors across the street, whose lights NEVER go out when mine do were also out, I knew it wasn’t a blown transformer. My friends decided to stay to see what the problem was. Not more than three or four minutes later, we heard sirens, not just police, but fire, too. We knew it sounded close, so we walked in the direction of the sirens. It was quite dark, but my friends had their cell phone lights to guide them. Two blocks west and one block south we saw that someone in a big truck had hit a light pole so hard, it knocked it over and stretched the wire so hard, the electricity went off in the area on one side, while the other side was draped over someone’s house and was zapping live sparks on the ground in the road.

    At first we thought it was a drunk driver, but after the ambulance arrived, we saw the man either had a heart attack or possibly a seizure. As the electric company was arriving, they told the crowd it would be at least a day before we would get our power back. Instead of staying home in the cold and dark, my friend SC, who lives in another town, invited me to her home. I am just now getting home. Even though she has an I-Pad, I don’t know the password that gets me onto blogger (which is stored on my computer only). I’ll be back soon, just want you to know why I wasn’t around to visit and play host. The electricity is on (I’m not sure how long it’s been on), but it’s freezing here. Thanks for understanding, dear friend.

    I agree that you find the most unique and unusual films.

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    1. Divers and Sundry5:29 AM

      I thought maybe you'd had power taken out by one of the winter storms. Yikes! I'm sorry to hear, but what a serendipitous happening that you had congenial and willing guests at the time. Remembering all these passwords is a trial, and it'd be handy if we could program them into a key we could put on a key ring :) Welcome back!

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  8. My name is Erika.5:06 PM

    This is an interesting film. I like how the crab people moved like crabs and the monkey man moved like a monkey. It would also be interesting to know if there is any background with this story or if someone just came up with it.

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    1. Divers and Sundry7:40 AM

      I loved the movements of the characters :) It's an old Japanese folktale. I think it was first translated into English in the 1800s, and there are variations as there always are with the old folk and fairy tales.

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