Beer, those were the days

Jul 5, 1956

0h 12m

★ 4.0

animation short

Overview

In 1955 Tadahito Mochinaga was asked to create commercials for Asahi beer, which he created using stop-motion, followed by the 1956 short film "Beer Mukashi Mukashi" (Beer, those were the days...), created specifically for theatres. With the help of Kikachiro Kawamoto and Noburo Ofuji, this is the first animated short/commercial in stop-motion made for Japanese cinemas!

Genres

Animation

Production Companies

Dentsu Eiga-sha

Ningyo Geijutsu Productions

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