Imokawa Mukuzo Genkanban no Maki

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| name = The Story of the Concierge Mukuzo Imokawa

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| director = Ōten Shimokawa

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| studio = Tenkatsu

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| released = {{Film date|1917|04}}

| runtime = 5 minutes

| country = Japan

| language = Silent

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{{nihongo|The Story of the Concierge Mukuzo Imokawa|芋川椋三玄関番の巻 or 芋川椋三玄関番之巻|Imokawa Mukuzō Genkanban no Maki}} was once considered to be the first professional Japanese animated film ever made.{{cite web|url=http://www.hdrjapan.com/japan/japan-news/historic-91%11year%11old-anime-discovered-in-osaka/ |title=Historic 91-year-old anime discovered in Osaka |accessdate=May 12, 2008 |url-status=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080402012234/http://www.hdrjapan.com/japan/japan-news/historic-91%11year%11old-anime-discovered-in-osaka/ |archivedate=April 2, 2008 }}{{cite web | url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-03-27/two-90-year-old-anime-films-discovered | title=Two Nine-Decade-Old Anime Films Discovered (Updated) | publisher=Anime News Network | accessdate=5 July 2013}} It was made by Ōten Shimokawa in 1917{{cite web | url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-anime-pioneers-idUST23069120080327 | title=Japan finds films by early "anime" pioneers | publisher=Reuters | accessdate=6 July 2013}} to be shown in a cinema, in this case, in the Asakusa Kinema Kurabu, a theater in Tokyo managed directly by the film company Tenkatsu. It was preceded by Shimokawa's early work, {{nihongo|凸坊新画帳・名案の失敗|Dekobō shingachō – Meian no shippai|Bumpy new picture book – Failure of a great plan}} and New Art Book of Tokobo: Imosuke's Boar Hunt ( 凸坊新畫帖 芋助猪狩の巻) from January 1917.{{cite web | url=http://litten.de/fulltext/ani1917.pdf | title=Some remarks on the first Japanese animation films in 1917 | publisher=Litten, Frederick S. | accessdate=11 July 2013}}