Enoken no Tobisuke boken ryoko (1949)
Article 5810 by Dave Sindelar
Date: 7-15-2020
Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
Featuring Ken’ichi Enomoto, Yuki Daigo, Kiyoko Hanashima
Country: Japan
What it is: Comic fantasy
A puppeteer is injured when he tries to rescue a little girl from a kidnapper. The little girl takes the puppeteer on a quest to a place where he will be healed, but the path is filled with perils.
My copy of this obscure movie has no English subtitles, so I can’t really go into more plot details than I have above. It is, however, a very visual movie, and it held my attention as the travelers encounter any number of strange people, places and creatures. The set design is also highly non-realistic, and that adds to the appeal. Let’s hope this one is released with English subtitles in the future.
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This sounds like an interesting short. Where did you manage to find a copy of this? I’ll have to go on the hunt for it!
It’s not a short; it’s full length. I think it was included as an extra disc in a trade I did several years ago.