Motion Picture: The Kitsune vs. the Tanukis (1933)

Overview : A farmer walking in the woods is frightened away by a shapeshifting fox, who then disguises himself as a samurai and makes his way to a temple, haunted by a young shapeshifting tanuki whose various attempts to frighten the fox/samurai away fail. The young tanuki telephones his father, and they join forces against the samurai.

Release Date : December 31, 1933

Runtime : 12m

Genre : Fantasy, Comedy, Animation, Horror  

Companies : P.C.L. Manga-bu, Towa Shoji G.K.

Countries : Japan

Keywords : samurai, tanuki, japanese folklore