Hashimoto-san: House of Hashimoto (1960)
Filed under: Animation, Color, Educational films, Terrytoons Animated Shorts, U.S.A.,
Hashimoto-san: House of Hashimoto
Directed by:Bob Kuwahara (series director)
Connie Rasinski
Producers:Bill Weiss
Frank Schudde
Animated by:Cosmo Anzilotti
Larry Silverman
Music by:Phil Scheib
Backgrounds by:Bill Hilliker
Studio: Release date:1960
Running time:6 min
Color process:De Luxe
This is an episode from Terrytoons’ “Hashimoto-san”, an animated series about a mouse who is a judo instructor in Japan. Hashimoto-san was the first Japanese animated character in an American cartoon. While it was criticized for representing Japanese people with racial stereotypes, Hashimoto-san was created by a Japanese-American animator, Bob (Rokuro is his Japanese name) Kuwahara. Japanese culture is represented in a positive light, as the series was intended to educate American audiences about the country’s cultural traditions.
References:
IMDb. “House of Hashimoto”. IMDb, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0148316/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1.