A Thousand and One Nights (1969 film)

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A Thousand and One Nights
Japanese film poster
Japanese name
Kanji	千夜一夜物語
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Senya Ichiya Monogatari
Directed by	Eiichi Yamamoto
Screenplay by	Osamu Tezuka Kazuo Fukasawa Hiroyuki Kumai
Based on	One Thousand and One Nights
Produced by	Osamu Tezuka Atsushi Tomioka
Starring	Yukio Aoshima Kyoko Kishida Hiroshi Akutagawa
Cinematography	Akira Tsuchiya
Edited by	Masashi Furukawa
Music by	Isao Tomita The Helpful Soul
Production company	Mushi Production
Distributed by	Nippon Herald Films
Release date	14 June 1969 (1969-06-14)
Running time	128 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	¥290 million

A Thousand and One Nights (Japanese: 千夜一夜物語, Hepburn: Senya Ichiya Monogatari) is a 1969 Japanese adult animated fantasy film directed by Eiichi Yamamoto, conceived by Osamu Tezuka. The film is the first part of Mushi Production's adult-oriented Animerama trilogy, and was followed by Cleopatra (1970) and Belladonna of Sadness (1973).

The film was a hit in Japan with distribution box-office revenue of ¥290 million,^[1] but was largely ignored outside of the domestic market, receiving a limited release in the US.^[2] The English dub of the film was considered lost until anime distributor Discotek Media discovered and restored it, releasing it on Blu-ray alongside the original Japanese version on 24 November 2020.^[2][3][4] The English-dubbed version was cut to 100 minutes and was recorded in Italy.^{[citation needed]} The film predates the more successful release of Fritz the Cat, the first American X-rated animated film, by three years.