Kemurigusa Monogatari
English title: A Story of Cigarettes
Japanese title: 煙り草物語
Alternative titles: A Story of Tobacco
Type: Movie
Source: Original
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: 1926
Duration: 3 min
Rating: G - All Ages
Genres: Comedy

The oldest recovered film by Noburou Oofuji that combines paper cutout animation with live action shots. In front of a girl with the traditional Japanese hairstyle, a small man on a desk says, "women descended from tobacco." The girl laughs at him and traps him under a glass. The angry man puffs on a cigarette in a pipe and blows smoke at the girl. The girl takes the cigarette from the man and puts it under her book. When the man threatens her with a gun, the girl throws the cigarette into the yard. The man becomes really angry and tries to shoot her, but the gun does not fire. In the end, the man starts telling her about the beginning of tobacco.

(Source: animation.filmarchives.jp)