:Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka

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| name = Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka

| native_name = {{Infobox Japanese|child=yes|hide=no|header=none|kanji=力と女の世の中}}

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| caption = The typist and the main character.

| director = Kenzō Masaoka

| producer = Shiro Kido

| writer = Tadao Ikeda

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| music = Masanori Imasawa

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| studio = Shochiku

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| released = {{Film date|1933|04|13|df=yes}}

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| country = Japan

| language = Japanese

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{{Nihongo|Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka|力と女の世の中||lit. "Within the World of Power and Women" or "The World of Power and Women"}} is a 1933 anime short film by Kenzō Masaoka and the first Japanese anime of any type to feature voiceovers.{{Cite book|title=Anime: A Guide to Japanese Animation (1958-1988) |last=Baricordi |first=Andrea |date = December 2000|publisher=Protoculture Inc. |location=Montreal, Quebec, Canada |isbn=2-9805759-0-9 |page= 12}}{{Cite book|title=Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia |year=1993 |publisher=Kodansha |location=Tokyo, Japan |isbn=978-4-06-206489-7 }} The film was released in black and white. There are no known prints of this film available, and it is considered a lost film.{{Cite web|url=http://www.midnighteye.com/features/pioneers-of-anime.shtml|title=Pioneers of Japanese Animation|first=Jasper|last=Sharp|publisher=Midnight Eye: The Latest and Best in Japanese Cinema|date=23 September 2004|access-date=20 May 2009}}

Chikara was listed as one of the "Best of Best" by the 12th Japan Media Arts Festival.{{Cite web|url=http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/museum/archives/bestofbest/200609/|script-title=ja:前編：日本のアニメーション芸術年代史 ─アニメーション─|first=Takayuki|last=Ōguchi|publisher=Japan Media Arts Festival|date=September 2006|access-date=20 May 2009|language=ja|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110907005034/http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/museum/archives/bestofbest/200609/|archive-date=7 September 2011|url-status=dead}}

Plot

The protagonist is a father of four children. His wife is {{convert|180|cm|ft}} tall, and weighs {{convert|120|kg|lb}} due to her incredibly large physique.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}} Because he is constantly being henpecked at home, he becomes involved in an affair with a typist at his company and accidentally tells his wife about it while talking in his sleep. After obtaining additional evidence of the affair, she goes to confront both her husband and the typist at her husband's office.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}

Production

In 1927, The Jazz Singer was released in the United States as the first talkie film, and Japanese film companies began working on creating them as well. Shochiku released {{Nihongo|The Neighbor's Wife and Mine|マダムと女房|Madamu to Nyōbō}} in 1931, the first Japanese talkie. Due to the success of this film, the president of Shochiku, Shirō Kido, commissioned Masaoka to make the first anime talkie, and he began working on it immediately.

Masaoka worked on the film for a little over a year and finally completed it in October 1932. The film was released in theaters the following year on 13 April 1933. At this time, the job of voice actor did not exist, so Shochiku used regular actors for the voice parts. Casting well-known stars, such as Roppa Furukawa and Ranko Sawa (of the Takarazuka Revue), helped make the film a success.

Staff

Original Creator, Script: Tadao Ikeda
Original Planning, Director: Kenzō Masaoka
Animation: Mitsuyo Seo, Seiichi Harada, Saburō Yamamoto
Photography: Kakuzan Kimura
Producer: Shirō Kido
Voiceover Director: Hiromasa Nomura
Audio: Haruo Tsuchihashi
Music Director: Masanori Imasawa

Sources:{{Cite web|url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=130376|script-title=ja:力と女の世の中 (1933)|publisher=AllCinema Movie & DVD Database|language=ja|access-date=20 May 2009}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1933/bi001470.htm|script-title=ja:力と女の世の中|language=ja|publisher=Japanese Movie Database|access-date=20 May 2009}}