Tuesday 7 October 2008

The Little Prince And The Eight Headed Dragon (1963) 1/11

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Anonymous said...

Very beautiful and intereseting movie, unfortunately little known and never arrived in Italy.
Do you have english subtitles of the movie ? Thanks from Sicily

Rosario

13 October 2008 at 09:30
Anonymous said...

My family has a cinema and I work in the school for projects about cinema and animation, I'd like to show this movie to the classroom if I had english subtitles...could you help me ?

Thanks

13 October 2008 at 09:34
Rosario said...

I am glad to inform you that I have realized a Dvd rip mux (with english dubbing) of this very important movie in the history of japanese animation.

www.megaupload.com/?d=KY5CSV43

dvd rip mux with 3 audio (japanese/english/spanish + 2 trailers, 90 minutes - 904 mb)

Based on Japanese mythology, the three tales in this film are adapted from chapters of the "Nihon Shoki," an eighth-century chronicle linking historical Japanese emperors with gods and demigods.

Akira Ifukube, better known as the composer for the Godzilla films, provided a rare anime score.

A little prince leaves home to find the spirit of his dead mother. Along the way, he battles a giant fish, a fire monster and the eight-headed dragon.

Much of the historical background was lost when this anime was adapted into an American children's film.

Originally released on March 24, 1963.

One of the all-time anime masterpieces, a film that holds the distinction of being the film that introduced the animation director system into anime (whereby one person corrects all the drawings by the key animators in order to eliminate minor differences and keep the characters looking the same throughout the film). But that's not necessarily what's great about it to anybody who watches it. The designs are great. The color is great. The music is great. The story is great. The animation is great. The finale is incredible. It's probably the first Toei Film film that comes together as a totally satisfying and integral whole.

The animation hilight of this film is the final scene of the hydra, animated by Yasuo Otsuka together with Sadao Tsukioka. Otsuka had pursued realism since he began as an animator, basing his animation on close observation of the reality around him -- for example, observing and drawing actual catfish in preparation for animating the scene with the giant fish in Magic Boy. But there are no 8-headed dragons in the real world to study, so how to draw one? Reality in this scene is evoked by the tension produced by careful timing and framing of the action unfolding on the screen in one continuous flow over the course of several minutes.

There are many other great scenes -- the fight with the tiger early on, the dance scene. This is the first film in which most of the film is totally satisfying in terms of the animation, with interesting movement and appealing and original designs.

Benjamin Ettinger (www.pelleas.net/aniTOP)

produced at Toei Animation Studio - Tokyo
Executive producer....Hiroshi Okawa

Original screenplay...Ichiro Ikeda, Takashi Ijima
Animation director....Yasuji Mori

Music.................Akira Ifukube

opening theme...Haha no nai ko no komori uta
Theme song lyrics: Takashi Morishima
Vocals: Setsuko Watanabe

Art director..........Reiji Koyama
Animators.............Kideo Furusawa, Masao Kumagawa, Yasuo Otsuka,Daikichiro Kusube, Makoto Nasagawa, Reiko Okuyama, Masamu Kita, Chikao Katsui, Sadao Tsukioka
Yoichi Kotabe, Tomekichi Takeuchi, Norio Kikone
Color designer......Saburo Yokoi
Background..........Tomo Fukumoto
Associate producers...Shin Yoshida, Isamu Takahashi, Takashi Ijima
Supervisors...........Sanae Yamamoto, Koji Fukiya
Director..............Yugo Serikawa

English version produced by United Service, Inc. - Tokyo
English adaptation written and directed by William Ross

original trailer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I3IG848-dk

18 June 2010 at 02:40
Rosario said...

http://www.acfmovies.com/board/viewtopic.php?p=280520#280520

18 June 2010 at 02:42

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