Nobody talks about this one. That needs to stop. A single music video from 1961, lost for decades, resurfaces with a children's song so perfectly crafted it survives on pure melody alone, no narrative tricks, no character arcs, just Toshie Kusunoki's voice and a composition that understands exactly how a simple tune burrows into memory and stays there. The song is built on repetition and hook, the kind of thing that gets stuck in your head and never leaves. This is what happens when someone writes a song so good that losing it entirely doesn't kill it.
A music video set to the song Henohenomoheji, performed by Toshie Kusunoki. The piece was featured on Minna no Uta, a program broadcast by NHK. No copy of the video is known to survive, and it is regarded as lost media, so little can be said about what it showed.