Yukiko Nikaido
2021母をたずねて三千里
Isao Takahata
Yoshiko Matsuo, Yukiko Nikaido
A young Italian boy named Marco is devastated when his mother must leave home to work in Argentina to pay off the family debt. She sends the family letters, but soon the messages stop coming, which worries Marco and sets him off on an epic quest to find her.
3000 Leagues in Search of Mother: The Movie
第三次世界大戦 四十一時間の恐怖
William Ross, Shigeaki Hidaka
Tatsuo Umemiya, Yoshiko Mita
The lives of several Japanese families are shattered as the USA and the USSR move toward war, Japan finds itself caught in the middle, and Tokyo is ultimately evacuated as the two superpowers invoke the 'nuclear option'.
World War III Breaks Out
100万年地球の旅 バンダーブック
Osamu Tezuka
Yuu Mizushima, Mami Koyama
Bander is a 17-year-old boy from Earth who lives on a distant planet, which is populated by human shape-shifters who feed off of vegetables and animal tails. Violence soon breaks out, as invaders launch an attack on Bander's new planet. This was Japan's first 2-hour animated film for television. The program received high ratings when broadcast as part of a set of 24-hour TV programs called "Ai wa Chikyu wo Sukuu" on Nippon Television. After a long gap since his last animated film for television, this work fully reflects Osamu Tezuka's desire to achieve theatrical quality with this production.
One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book
魚河岸の女石松
Eiichi Kudo
Hibari Misora, Hitomi Nakahara
Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological father who has fallen victim to an evil plot orchestrated by those who would take over his successful business.
A Fishwife's Tale
