
Artist's commentary
北上さんが見たいっていうなら、それは大正義。
ちなみに「ハハッ!!」の会社が作った「ピ〇キオ」ですが、1940年に米国公開し翌年日本でも公開される予定で、日本の映画雑誌でも特集を組まれるほど期待されましたが結局その年、日米開戦が起こり1950年代までお流れとなりました。
大正生まれのデモクラシーな二人はもしかしたら開戦前は見たかったのかもしれないと思い描いてみました。
As long as it is something that Kitakami san wants to watch, it is of Great Justice!
Well, in 1940, the cartoon movie "Pinocchio" produced by the "Hahaa!!" company (indicating Disney) was released in the US, and was scheduled to be released in Japan the next year. As the japanese fans were having really high expectation with this movie, many movie magazines published special issues for it. But in the end, it was not until the 1950s, did this movie finally appeared there...
As Kitakami and Ooi were born in Taishou period (1912~1926, during this time Japan enjoyed a relatively more democratic and liberal political atmosphere, and had much better relationship with western world comparing to the Hirohito period), probably they were also quite eager for "Pinocchio" too.
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