A baby raised by monkeys speaks in a language that isn't human, moves through the world without civilization's rules, and sees an island the rest of us would call chaos as simply home. Masaoka builds something that predates anime but arrives fully formed, a visual imagination where movement itself tells the story, where a child learning to survive is the entire point. This isn't a curiosity from animation history. It's a founding gesture: proof that the medium could make you care about a creature that doesn't fit anywhere, just by showing you how they live.

A baby ends up on an island and is raised there by a troop of monkeys. The film is an adventure and one of the earliest works by the animator Kenzou Masaoka.