Original: Shin Minamiyoshi
Supervision: Akiichi Takiguchi
Otoshi: Takeshi Featherda
Animation: Telecom Animation Film
Broadcast period: 2011-03-05
CV:Hiroshi Kamiya / Risa Shimizu / Kazuaki Ito / Ikuko Tani
The Young Animators Incubation Program, also known as Project A (2010), Future of Animation (2011-2015), and Egg of Animation (2016-), is a 200 million yen investment in the Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs to revitalize the country's animation business in order to cultivate new young animation talents. Launched in 2010, four of the industry's leading animation companies are selected each year to produce one episode of animation. It was originally hosted by the Japan Animation Producers Association and took over by the Japan Animation Association after 2014.
"Grandpa's Kerosene Lamp" is one of the selected works of "Project A" in 2010, and it is also recognized as the best of the four films.
In the Meiji era of Japan, a young orphan named Minosuke in the village saw a lit kerosene lamp in the streets of the city by chance, and felt the power of "civilization and civilization" for the first time, so he was inspired to use kerosene lamps to illuminate the small village. Minosuke's kerosene lamp business is getting better and better, and he marries Koyuki, a green plum bamboo horse, and has a son and a daughter.
However, when he returned to the city, he found that every household had electric lights, and he realized that kerosene lamps would soon be replaced. This time, "civilization" became something that scared Minosuke, but he could not stop the village's electrification plan. Realizing that he had lost his original heart, Minosuke shattered his own kerosene lamp in Xiaoxue's tears.
A boy with nothing saw the new world, illuminated the whole village, and thus began to have his own livelihood, rich life and children, all of which were brought about by the "kerosene lamp". Minosuke is a very typical Japanese character personality, diligent, energetic, ambitious, work at all costs, smell the changes of the times, and seize the opportunity quickly when it comes.
Perhaps at this time, Nosuke could not imagine that there would be a "youth crisis" waiting for him.
"At the critical moment, this old and old thing does not work", flint stones are not as good as matches, and kerosene lamps are bound to be inferior to electric lamps.
And how could Minosuke put down the happy time brought by the "kerosene lamp"? Late at night, after his wife and children were asleep, he hid in the quilt and sobbed, and saw Koyuki and his daughter sincerely admiring the "beautiful" light on the riverbank, and In the process of pain, Minosuke had clearly realized the changes in the world.
But what's wrong with Minosuke? The struggle of the individual will inevitably be crushed under the wheels of the great era, and the world is unpredictable. Here will be kerosene and electric lights, and elsewhere will be carriages and airplanes, and there will be newspapers and computers.
Because the wheels don't hit our eyes, we can talk to each other easily here.
The world changes in ways beyond imagination, blinking a lifetime. Animation has the romance of animation, that is, the times are gradual, and people's hearts will always remain unchanged after some twists and turns.
So In the end, Minosuke found himself.
Although the length of the film is only less than 25 minutes, it experiences two short and quite ritualistic scenes. The first time is the night walk encountered by Minosuke on the night road when he brings back a kerosene lamp, which is a ceremony of the old era to usher in the new era, cheerful and even a little cheerful. The second time was the ceremony of saying goodbye to the old era of the kerosene lamp, and the kerosene lamp hanging on the tree cast a fire, which was beautiful before the cherry blossoms fell, and it was also the old era that was broken by Minosuke himself.
By the way, why is the title of the film "Grandpa's Kerosene Lamp"? Because Minosuke is Grandpa ╮(╯_╰)╭
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