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  • 6/13/2025
💬 Tokyo Woes (1945) is a bold, fast-paced WWII-era cartoon featuring Mr. Hook, a sharp-witted U.S. Navy sailor. Created to boost morale and educate troops, this short is packed with biting satire, patriotic messaging, and clever animation aimed at lampooning the Japanese military during the height of World War II.

📽️ Plot Summary:
In this animated propaganda piece, Mr. Hook finds himself confronting the distorted logic and exaggerated propaganda of Imperial Japan. Through humor and irony, the cartoon portrays American strength and mocks the enemy’s delusions of victory.

🕰️ Year Released: 1945
🎭 Genre: Wartime Animation, Satire, Propaganda
🎬 Produced by: Walter Lantz Studios for the U.S. Navy
🎞️ Starring: Mr. Hook

🎯 Why Watch It?
✔️ Rare WWII propaganda cartoon from the U.S. Navy
✔️ Fascinating example of wartime animation strategy
✔️ Features classic slapstick and military-themed humor
✔️ A historical time capsule of animation's role in morale and messaging

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🇺🇸 Watch Mr. Hook – Tokyo Woes (1945) to witness animation at war—satirical, sharp, and straight from history’s front lines!
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Transcript
00:00The End
00:30Tokyo Roots.
00:49Hiya, Gates!
00:50How are all you jive artists out there on the jungle network?
00:54Well, I've got a mess of hot flatters for you alligators today.
00:56Woody Herman P. Dorothy B. Goodman H. James G. Krupa
00:59and El Stokowski.
01:01So watch out for some righteous jive,
01:03but first I want you to hear a few words
01:04from a really happy, contented, captured American war prisoner
01:08from Brooklyn and Y.
01:12Hello, fellas. This is the Sad Sack.
01:15And believe me, after the war,
01:17I'm bringing my family to live here in Tokyo,
01:21in Japan.
01:23Oh, wait, it's lovely.
01:25All they feed me is peaches and...
01:27Peaches and...
01:29Pile of mold.
01:31And I'm drinking nothing but...
01:33Rum and coca.
01:35Cola.
01:38Thank you, thank you.
01:39And now all you jive bugs,
01:41before I slap on that first hot slider for you,
01:43just a few words about those war bonds
01:45they've been asking you to buy.
01:47Why do they want you to buy a North Pole and a South Pole?
01:49That's why I cut the war effort.
01:51Fooing.
01:52They aren't thinking of you guys at all.
01:53Besides, what good will bonds do?
01:55I ask you, what good will bonds do?
01:57I ask you, what good will bonds do?
01:59What good will bonds do?
02:01Furthermore, what good will bonds do?
02:05What good will bonds do, she says?
02:09I'll show her what good will bonds do.
02:13What good will bonds do?
02:15What good will bonds do?
02:17What good will bonds do?
02:19What good will bonds do?
02:21What good will bonds do?
02:23What good will bonds do?
02:25Oh boy, what court.
02:27Tokyo Rose, greetings from Uncle Sam's Navy,
02:29whose intentions are really quite plain.
02:31They're sending you more of these presents,
02:33again and again and again.
02:35Sign here, please.
02:37Oh, does your face fear of different territory?
02:53Yes siree, sailor.
02:55Today your war bonds are fighting with you on all the battle fronts.
02:59But tomorrow, when the war is over,
03:02that shell will be returned to you.
03:04Hey!
03:11Oh, there you are, sailor.
03:13I never forget a face.
03:16Oh, ha, you.
03:18You gotta be fixed up with a lot of things.
03:20Eh, first you'll want some simvies.
03:22Some spending, Mazuma.
03:34And a real post-war goug-up.
03:37Hey! Gee whiz!
03:39Now, uh, is there anything else you'll be wanting?
03:43Yeah, but, uh, ha, ha.
03:45I can take care of that myself.
03:50Ohhhh!
03:53Bishy!

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