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Kumo to Tulip (くもとちゅうりっぷ,Kumo to Chūrippu, lit. "Spider and Tulip") is a short animated Japanese film made in 1943 byKenzo Masaoka. It is a story about a ladybug being chased by ablack-faced spider. The spider catches the ladybug, but then it rains, the spider drowns, and the ladybug is freed by a friendly fly.
In 2001, the Japanese magazineAnimage electedKumo to Tulip one of the greatest anime productions of all time.[1]
The short-film was screened atLocarno Film Festival and atBarbican Centre's Barbican Animation Show.[2][3]
A spider wants to lure a beetle-girl into her net by singing, but she recognizes the danger and flees. She saves herself in a tulip, in which she is then wrapped by the spider's thread. Shortly after, a storm rises, which the beetle-woman (protected by the flower) survives, but the spider gets thrown through the air until it finally lands in a puddle.
The film was produced in 1943 under the direction of Kenzo Masaoka by Shochiku Doga Kenkyujo. The music was composed byRyutaro Hirota.
The film was released on April 15, 1943, in Japanese cinemas.
Funimation released the film onBlu-ray andDVD alongsideMomotaro: Sacred Sailors on a single disc.
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