| Urashima Tarō | |
| Director: | Seitaro Kitayama |
| Based On: | Urashima Tarō |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Silent |
is a Japanese animated film produced by Seitaro Kitayama in 1918. The film is an adaptation of a folk tale Urashima Tarō about a fisherman traveling to an underwater world on a turtle.[1] It premiered in February 1918,[2] making it one of the earliest anime films.[3]
It is a lost film; it was thought to have been discovered at a flea market at the Shitennō-ji temple in Osaka in 2007, but the discovered film later turned out to be another unknown work because a plot description and a series of stills of the 1918 film that differed considerably from the discovered film were found in a contemporary magazine.[4]