Kumo to Tulip
In 2001, the Japanese magazine "Animage" elected "Kumo to Tulip" one of the greatest anime productions of all time. The short-film was screened at Locarno Film Festival and at Barbican Centre's Barbican Animation Show. Plot. A spider wants to lure a beetle-woman into her net by singing, but she recognizes the danger and flees. She saves herself in a tulip, in which she is then wrapped by the spider's thread. Shortly after, a storm rises, which the beetle-woman (protected by the flower) survives, but the spider gets thrown through the air until  it finally lands in a puddle. Release and Production. The film was produced in 1943 under the direction of Kenzo Masaoka by Shochiku Doga Kenkyujo. The music was composed by Ryutaro Hirota. The film was released on April 15, 1943, in Japanese cinemas. Funimation released the film on Blu-ray and DVD alongside "" on a single disc.