A Day after a Hundred Years
"Ogino glimpses tomorrow in ten minutes."
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About this film
Shigeji Ogino's ten-minute experimental animation imagines a world a century hence, using small-gauge techniques the amateur filmmaker pioneered from the late 1920s. Geometric and figurative movement reflects Ogino's interest in avant-garde form before his later documentaries of Japanese animation craft.
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Historical background
Ogino worked outside the commercial studio system, producing hundreds of 8mm, 9.5mm, and 16mm films between the 1920s and 1970s; his 1933 entry belongs to his pre-war experimental period.
Why this film matters
A Day after a Hundred Years is preserved on Wikimedia Commons and discussed in Japanese small-gauge cinema scholarship as evidence of early amateur avant-garde animation.
Making of
Open sources chiefly list credits with Shigeji Ogino named as director.
What critics said
Ogino won international small-gauge awards including Budapest in 1935; later retrospectives at Cinémathèque québécoise revived interest in his abstract works.
Did you know?
- Directed by Shigeji Ogino; runtime about ten minutes.
- Preserved on Wikimedia Commons (1933 print).
- Ogino made over 400 small-gauge films in his career.
What audiences thought
Audience documentation for A Day after a Hundred Years is limited; availability today depends on archive and streaming copies.
Film restoration
Preservation status should be confirmed against archive holdings.
Where to watch
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shigeji%20Ogino-%20A%20Day%20after%20a%20Hundred%20Years%20(1933).ogv