Battle of a Monkey and a Crab

Battle of a Monkey and a Crab (猿蟹合戦, Sarukani Gassen) is an early Japanese animated film by Seitarou Kitayama and produced by Nikkatsu. The film originally premiered in May 1917. The work is an adaption of the Japanese folktale, The Crab and the Monkey also known as Monkey-Crab Battle (さるかに合戦, saru kani gassen). Considered a lost film, no surviving copy is known to exist in any private or public collection.