Bro i love these Japanese stories it's old (good way), musical, scary, beautiful, history, and puppets are amazing

I'm so obsessed with ningyo bunraku dolls, this is so beautiful

I feel that the myth of "old people becoming onii (demons) and eating their children" is a poorly made excuse. In ancient times in Japan, most ordinary people were very poor and their lives depended heavily on farming. Furthermore, farming techniques at that time were quite backward, so the yield was not high, or to put it bluntly, very low. Not only was the output low, but they also had to pay taxes or pay rice to the court, so the amount of rice they actually had was not much. Therefore, the workforce of adults who were able to produce food was the most important. And of course, who were left behind? The old people were no longer able to work, they could only consume food but could not go to work. So they were considered to be a "burden" to their children. Eventually, the old people will be abandoned by their own children and starved to death so that no food is wasted feeding them. And yeah, their children made up this story to erase the guilt of abandoning their parents.

This is so beautiful and spooky 👻

「怖い」というよりも「美しい」と言いますか、人形アニメーションならではの独特な動きや背景、三味線と尺八による演奏で物語に引き込まれてしまいます(魅)。

If you watch it when you're not an adult, I think it would be really scary for a cartoon from that era.

They look like bunraku puppets! This is great.

If you want to experience the world of Kihachiro Kawamoto, come to Iida city (Nagano prefecture in Japan). There is a museum that is established for the dolls of Kawamoto.
Iida city is the  most famous city of doll theater in Japan.

I love this kind of films

❤❤❤❤ Kihachiro Kawamoto ❤❤❤❤

IG Reels brought me & I'm so glad it did bcuz this looks so good for 1970's stop motion

My father was like this the last few years of his life...

Bro this is actually a japanese mythical creatures puppet show wich is actually based on a japanese mysterious mythology

三味線の演奏をしてる鶴澤清治さんは2025年現在も人形浄瑠璃文楽公演にて演奏を行っている人間国宝です。

I thought it was all the suffering that turned her into a "demon" not old age
But would she be and oni or a yokai?

I wish I could transform myself into an oni too,after so decades of illness,pain,suffering,fear and loneliness

This video has more animations than One punch man season 3

Egao! (Smile!)

Why is their mother dancing like crazy

Is there a collection of these, this is beautiful ❤