a thousand nights anime

by Dr. Lizeth Kihn III Published 2 years ago Updated 1 year ago 10 min read

What kind of anime is a thousand and One Nights?

A Thousand and One Nights (Japanese: 千夜一夜物語 Hepburn: Senya Ichiya Monogatari) is a 1969 adult anime feature film directed by Eiichi Yamamoto, conceived by Osamu Tezuka. The film is part of Mushi Production 's Animerama, a series of films aimed at an adult audience. The film was a hit in Japan...

Who is the director of a thousand and One Nights?

A Thousand and One Nights Directed by Eiichi Yamamoto Produced by Osamu Tezuka Atsushi Tomioka Written by Osamu Tezuka Kazuo Fukasawa Hiroyuki Kum ... Music by Isao Tomita The Helpful Soul 8 more rows ...

What is so beautiful about the one thousand and One Nights?

By 'beautiful' I mean vital, absorbing and exhilarating. The chain of anomalies always tends to lead back to normality. The end of every tale in The One Thousand and One Nights consists of a 'disappearance' of destiny, which sinks back to the somnolence of daily life ... The protagonist of the stories is in fact destiny itself.

Is a thousand and one nights worth a watch?

The worlds first adult animated film (predating Fritz The Cat by 3 years), A Thousand and One Nights is a bizarre, hallucinogenic, and erotic take on Arabian Nights, that ends up being a strangely entralling watch. An absolute must for fans of obscure animated films!

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Storyline

Aldin, a poor traveling water seller rescues a beautiful slave woman named Miriam from a slave auction in Baghdad. They fall in love at first sight and have a tryst, but the evil sheriff arrests Aldin and takes Miriam for himself. After being tortured, Aldin eventually manages to escape only to find his beloved dying in childbirth.

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Debuted in the US in a version that removed almost 30 minutes of footage that was deemed too controversial (i.e. references to lesbianism and bestiality). It was not a financial success, and didn't even have a national theatrical run.

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By what name was Sen'ya ichiya monogatari (1969) officially released in Canada in English?

When was A Thousand and One Nights made?

A Thousand and One Nights is a 1969 anime feature film directed by Eiichi Yamamoto, collaborating with Osamu Tezuka, and the first entry in Mushi Production's Animerama trilogy, a series of anime films aimed at adult audiences.

When did Fritz the Cat come out?

The film was also given an American release at some point in 1969 , complete with an English dub, predating the first American X-rated animated film, Ralph Bakshi's Fritz the Cat, by three years. However, while the film was a hit in Japan, it did poorly in the United States, where it only received a limited release.

Overview

A Thousand and One Nights (Japanese: 千夜一夜物語, Hepburn: Senya Ichiya Monogatari) is a 1969 Japanese adult animated fantasy film directed by Eiichi Yamamoto, conceived by Osamu Tezuka. The film is the first part of Mushi Production's adult-oriented Animerama trilogy, and was followed by Cleopatra (1970) and Belladonna of Sadness (1973).

Plot

Aldin, a poor, traveling water seller, falls in love with Miriam, a beautiful slave woman on auction in Baghdad, but Havasalakum, the son of the chief of police, buys her. Before he can take her home, a sand storm interrupts the auction. Aldin uses the opportunity to steal away the slave woman, rescuing her from slavery. They hide from pursuing guards in a seemingly empty mansion. They have sex there, and are secretly watched by the master of the mansion, Sulaiman, who locks the…

Production

The Animerama series of adult animated feature films was conceived by Osamu Tezuka as an attempt to ensure animation could be accepted worldwide for all age groups and interests. This was in response to concerns of animation's reputation as being for children only. In addition to their erotic themes, they featured a mix of typical traditional animation with sequences of experimental uses of modern design, limited animation, and still paintings with influence from the UPA …

Reception

A Thousand and One Nights was a critical success in Japan, performing well with a distribution box-office revenue of ¥290 million. However, outside the country the film was largely ignored with the English dub release in the US being so limited it wasn't rated and audience reception being generally negative at the time of release, according to Cartoon Research.
Ethan Halker from ZekeFilm criticised the film citing issues with its failure at achieving “superbl…

External links

• A Thousand and One Nights at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• A Thousand and One Nights at IMDb
• A Thousand and One Nights in the TezukaOsamu.net database
• bcbd Senya Ichiya Monogatari