A 1933 film where a fox spirit becomes a samurai just to mess with a raccoon spirit, cinema operating on pure supernatural pettiness, no plot required. The raccoon calls his father for backup, and what emerges is something closer to a folk tale argument than a story, all of it played with the deadpan timing of someone who knows how absurd the stakes are. This is what anime comedy looked like before it became a format, when a joke could simply be "two shapeshifters bickering in the woods" and that was enough.

A fox spirit takes the form of a samurai and starts picking on a raccoon spirit. The raccoon goes to fetch his father, and the two of them join forces to face the fox. Made in 1933, this supernatural comedy film pits a shape-shifting fox against a raccoon and his father, who team up to take on their rival.