Tokio Jokio (1943)
7m
Running Time
May 15, 1943Release Date
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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Wiki.
Tokio Jokio is a 1943 Looney Tunes propaganda short directed by Norman McCabe. The cartoon is notorious and controversial for its racist depictions of Japanese people. 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), and "joke". The cartoon is possibly also a pun on Tojo's name, with the first two syllables of each word spelling his name (Tokio Jokio).