National Film Archive of Japan

[1][2] The NFAJ is located in Kyōbashi, Tokyo and is Japan's only public institution devoted to cinema, holding about 40,000 films and numerous other materials in its collection.

In the silent comedy the animation tells the story of a samurai warrior who is tricked into buying a dull-edged sword.

He tries to attack passers-by in an effort to test the sword's quality but lower-class townspeople fight back and knock him down.

[4] The National Film Archive collection includes original movie scripts (such as Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story and Kenji Mizoguchi's Osaka Elegy), original movie posters (Godzilla, Rashomon, Tokyo Story, The Life of Oharu, etc.

), photos shot on set, movie cameras and actors and actresses' personal effects (such as Kinuyo Tanaka's).

The NFAJ in Kyōbashi
Screenshot from the oldest existing example of a Japanese animated film originally made for the cinema, Namakura-gatana (1917). This unique 2-minute film was restored and initially screened for the public in 2008.