Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka (????????, lit. Within the World of Power and Women or The World of Power and Women) is a 1933
anime short film by
Kenzo Masaoka and the first
Japanese anime of any type to feature voiceovers.
[1][2][3] The film was released in
black and white, and there are no prints of this film available.
[2]The protagonist is a father of four children. His wife is 180&_160;centimetres (5.9&_160;ft) tall, and weighs 120&_160;kilograms (260&_160;lb) due to her incredibly large physique. Because he is constantly being henpecked at home, he becomes involved in an affair with a cute typist at his company and accidentally tells his wife about it while talking in his sleep. After obtaining additional evidence of the affair, she goes to confront both her husband and the typist at her husband's office.
In 1927, the The Jazz Singer was released in the United States as the first talkie film, and Japanese film companies began working on creating them as well. Shochiku released Madame and the Courtesan (??????, Madamu to Nyobo?) in 1931, the first Japanese talkie. Due to the success of this film, the president of Shochiku, Shiro Kido, commissioned Masaoka to make the first anime talkie, and he began working on it immediately.
Masaoka worked on the film for a little over a year and finally completed it in October 1932. The film was released in theaters the following year on 13 April 1933.[5] At this time, the job of voice actor did not exist, so Shochiku used regular actors for the voice parts. Due to the success of this film, several actors such as Roppa Furukawa as well as Ranko Sawa (of the Takarazuka Revue) became stars.
