Ojiisan no Lamp

* An original short selected as part of JAniCA's Young Animator Training Project. Tatsunosuke is an orphan child who does several odd jobs in his village in order to earn a living. When running one of these odd jobs, he gets the chance to visit the city, and there he witnesses one of the products of Japan's modernization, the lamp, in action. He sees it as a business opportunity and manages to take one home, which he promptly sells and even takes orders for. Soon he establishes a small business as a lamp seller, and marries his childhood sweetheart Setsu, but just when all was going fine and he formed a lovely family which he had to look after, modernization takes a step further, and electricity-powered light threatens to sweep him away from business. Faced with the risk of losing the income that feeds his wife and children, Tatsunosuke is forced into a corner which would become his greatest obstacle to date. Note: All four shorts (this anime, Bannou Yasai Ninninman, Tansu Warashi. and Kizuna Ichigeki) were originally screened together in eight film theatres as part of a roadshow held between March 5 and 11, 2011, and then shown weekly between March 6 and 27, 2011 as part of MBS' TV schedule. Ojii-san no Lamp was the second to air on March 13, 2011, however the broadcasting date was later changed to March 20 because of the Great Tohoku Earthquake.