Fuku-chan no Sensuikan
Japanese title: フクちゃんの潜水艦
Alternative titles: Fuku-chan's Submarine
Type: Movie
Source: Other
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Nov 9, 1944
Duration: 30 min
Rating: G - All Ages
Studios: Shochiku Animation Institute
Producers: Asahi Production
Genres: Comedy
Themes: Historical, Military

Fuku-chan was one of the most popular newspaper comic strip boy-characters in Japan at the time. The film portrays a submarine attack on an enemy cargo ship. Though this, too, was to boost patriotism, Japanese children particularly enjoyed the scenes in which the kitchen crew cooked in the submarine kitchen. Released in November of the same year, the food shortage was quite serious in Japan, and the abundant food supply in the submarine kitchen -- vegetables, fruit, fish, rice, and more which were already luxury items in Japan at the time -- was prepared into various dishes along with a merry, rhythmic song.

(Source: AniDB)