May 15, 1943
Release Date

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Tokio Jokio (1943)

Name: Tokio Jokio
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Released: 1943-05-15

Running Time

May 15, 1943
Release Date

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Plot.

A "captured" Japanese newsreel. Civilian defense shows an aircraft spotter painting spots on aircraft and a fire prevention HQ that already burned down. Kitchen Hints shows the construction of a sandwich from bread and meat ration cards. Poisonalities in the News shows Yamamoto walking on stilts and boasting of plans for the White House, contrasted with the room reserved for him: an electric chair. A submarine, launched 3 weeks ahead of schedule, is still being built. A plane's new landing gear is a little man on a tricycle. A minesweeper uses a giant broom.

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Cast & Crew.

Mel Blanc

Various Characters (voice)

Norm McCabe

Director

Leon Schlesinger

Producer

Don Christensen

Story

Carl W. Stalling

Music

Izzy Ellis

Animation

Details.

Release Date
May 15, 1943

Status
Released

Running Time
7m

Genres
Animation Comedy

Last updated: 2025-02-10

Wiki.

Tokio Jokio is a 1943 Looney Tunes anti-Japanese propaganda short directed by Norman McCabe. It is an example of American propaganda during World War II. The cartoon was banned from public broadcast after the war for its racist depictions. This is also noted for being the final Norman McCabe cartoon.

The name of the cartoon is a pun on "Tokyo", the capital of Japan (Tokio is the old English romanization), "joke", and possibly "Tojo", a former prime minister of Japan during World War II.