Momotarta's Sea Eagles Essay

“Momotarō 's Sea Eagles” by Seo Mituyo, which made as a war propaganda, is the completely different story of the tale of “Momotaro,” but it uses the Momotaro’s characters for showing the figure of multi ethnic empire.

“Momotarō 's Sea Eagles” was released in 1943 during Pacific War. In this period, Japanese empire repeated to invade European empire ' colonies and to expand the territory in Asia. Thus, Japan empire controlled many areas and different races when the film was created.

All characters of Momotaro are different species as a human, a dog, a monkey, a peasant and a rabbit that express different ethnicity in Japanese territory as a Japanese, Chines, Manchuria, and Korean.

In fact, Characters’ looks are obviously different shape. In the story, Dog try to ties a towel around his head, but he doesn 't do well to

In addition, characters shows the case that different race speaks different language. However, the film mentions it is not matter by making communication between animals with each animals’ original cries.Nevertheless, all characters understand Momotaro’s words in Japanese. In other words, the film focus on the language difference is not a problem but also leads to the conclusion that people of Japanese empire have to understand Japanese to make a communication between people because Japanese empire is now multi- ethnic empire.

Moreover, the relationship between Momotaro and animals suggests the role model of the appropriate state of people. Momotaro is the leader of the team and controls the troop with keeping a cool head no matter what happens, so film noticed that Japanese controls other ethnic groups and leads and unites non Japanese people to achieve the Japanese empire goal with coolly.

On the other hand, the film points out that non-Japanese people have to serve with all his heart and mind and strength for Japanese empire that animals work hard and attacked Onigashima regardless of the risk of losing own lives under control of