Yokoyama Ryuuichi

* Based on the popular comic strip character, but used as war propaganda.

Fuku-chan was one of the most popular newspaper comic strip boy-characters in Japan at the time. The film portrays a submarine attack on an enemy cargo ship. Though this, too, was to boost patriotism, Japanese children particularly enjoyed the scenes in which the kitchen crew cooked in the submarine kitchen. Released in November of the same year, the food shortage was quite…

Reportedly the first Japanese animation filmed in 35mm.