For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, we’re starting early, at 7:30PM EST, to watch Charlie Chapin’s The Circus (1928). We were supposed to watch it after Gangs of Wasseypur last night, but due to our late start, itself due to the terrible changes to Vimeo’s free account system, everyone decided to go to bed instead. Therefore, we will watch it this evening. We have, surprisingly, never watched any Charlie Chaplin films, despite having dipped into Buster Keaton’s filmography a few times. The Tramp joins the circus as a handyman, and falls in love with the owner’s daughter; hilarity ensues, including all sorts of animal antics. This is considered one of Chaplin’s best films, so let’s give it a whirl.

After that, the people demanded more Sailor Moon, and so, we’re continuing on, with episodes 43 through 48 of the 1992 series, the definitive magical-girl anime. This is the completely unabridged, unexpurgated, uncensored, Japanese version of the show, including everything that the English dub butchered, altered, and/or cut, which is quite a bit. Tonight’s episodes see the conclusion of Season 1, and with it, the Dark Kingdom arc; it also sees the beginning of the anime-only Makai Tree arc of Season 2.

Last for the night is Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998), a French cartoon about an African folk tale about a small boy who must journey into the mountains to free his village from the curse of an evil witch. Excellent reviews everywhere for this one, and there aren’t very many movies about African mythology, so let’s check it out.

We’ll start at 7:30PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• The Circus: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-circus/
• Sailor Moon: Sorry, not on Letterboxd. Here’s the MAL page: https://myanimelist.net/anime/530/Bishoujo_Senshi_Sailor_Moon
• Kirikou and the Sorceress: https://letterboxd.com/film/kirikou-and-the-sorceress/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• The Circus: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018773/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• Sailor Moon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103369/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• Kirikou and the Sorceress: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/22666

CWs for The Circus:

• Slapstick violence.
• Smoking.

CWs for Sailor Moon:

• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Bath scenes.
• Age-gap romance.
• Panty shots.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Blood and gore.
• Animal abuse.
• Children in peril.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Sexual harassment of schoolgirls.
• Kissing.
• Deaths of parents.

CWs for Kirikou and the Sorceress:

• A whole bunch of nude children, including the protagonist throughout the movie. However, they are all drawn with more-or-less Barbie doll anatomy.
• A whole lot of bare-breasted women.
• Child endangerment.
• Age-gap romance between a child who transforms into an adult and an adult woman.
• Deaths of animals.
• Snakes.
• Implied sexual assault as part of villain’s backstory. Not depicted.
• Kidnapping.
• Claustrophobia.
• Childbirth.
• Babies.
• Black character dies first.
• Drowning.

Links to movies:

Forthcoming. I have the files, but the most convenient way to upload them is to replace one of the earlier videos while a later video is playing.