LOONEY TUNES: Tokio Jokio (WW2, Hitler, Japanese Stereotypes) (1943) [4K HDR Dolby Vision]

*WARNING* 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).

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*Plot*

Original black and white title cards and film frame
The film pretends to be a newsreel from Japanese cinema that was captured by American troops during World War II. Each segment features a separate story supposedly praising Japanese life and the war effort. In reality, each segment contains often racist satirical content to depict the Japanese and their Axis allies as incompetent, pathetic, self-destructive failures.

The cartoon opens with an unseen narrator announcing that footage of Japan has been released to the public. The footage starts with a rooster that is a parody of Pathé with the opening of the Defile March playing in the background. The "rooster" attempts to crow, but it is revealed that it is actually a vulture in a costume. The vulture has glasses and buck teeth, and is seen rubbing its wings together and saying "Oh, cock-a-doodle, prease", all stereotypical traits to show that the vulture is Japanese.

Directed by Cpl. Norman McCabe
Story by Don Christensen
Produced by Leon Schlesinger
Starring Mel Blanc
Music by Carl W. Stalling
Animation by I. Ellis
Color process Black and white
Production
company
Leon Schlesinger Productions
Distributed by
Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date May 15, 1943
Running time 7 minutes
Language English

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