Beer, those were the days
MovieTitle | Bîru mukashi mukashi |
User score | 4 |
Release date | Jul 5, 1956 |
Genre | Animation |
Director | Tadashi Iizawa , Tadahito Mochinaga |
Production country | Japan |
Production companies | Dentsu Eiga-sha, Ningyo Geijutsu Productions |
Run time | 12 min. |
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!