The Moving Picture Fight of the Fox and the Possum
★ 7.4 · 1933 · 12m · Fantasy · Comedy · Animation · Horror
A farmer walking in the woods is frightened away by a shapeshifting fox, who then disguises himself as a samurai and makes his way to a temple, haunted by a young shapeshifting tanuki whose various attempts to frighten the fox/samurai away fail. The young tanuki telephones his father, and they join forces against the samurai.
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