the alchemist cookbook movie same as book?

The movie begins with a group of anthropomorphic animals on leave from the Japanese navy and returning to their village to be celebrated as heroes. Seo’s mapped that story onto the Japanese war effort in the Pacific. The basic story of the tale has an elderly couple finding a boy in a peach that washes downstream past their house when Momotaro grows up he sets out to defeat an island of demons, or oni, and does so with the help of various animal companions. Momotaro’s a mashing-up of the war in the Pacific with the Japanese legend of the peach boy Momotaro. Recently the original negatives were found, a 4K restored version was made, and Momotaro screened at Cannes in the Cannes Classics section.

It was believed lost during the American occupation, until a VHS copy turned up in Japan in the 1980s. Seo, who’d already made a 37-short retelling the bombing of Pearl Harbour, produced the 74-minute Momotaro. Seo was apparently told by the Japanese Ministry of the Navy to make a propaganda film for children, and given Disney’s Fantasia as an example of what the Ministry had in mind. Momotaro was written and directed by Mitsuyo Seo, and released in 1945. It looked like a packed day, and I wondered how the movies would play off of each other. I hoped to make it back to the Hall after that in time to watch the second in a series of Japanese science-fiction action movies, Library Wars: The Last Mission ( Toshokan Sanso: The Last Mission). Then I planned to head across the street to the De Sève and watch an independent American horror film, The Alchemist Cookbook. On Wednesday, July 20, I’d go downtown to the Hall Theatre to watch an oddity: a restored Japanese propaganda cartoon from World War II, Momotaro, Sacred Sailors ( Momotaro, Umi No Shinpei). And sometimes they don’t, however much it might look like they ought to. As I’ve said before, sometimes the movies I see at Fantasia on a given day have a common theme.

The alchemist cookbook movie same as book?