Part I
The Sun Prince
Starring: Ohta Hiyoko / Hirayojiro / Ichihara Etsuko / Eiko Asano / Masao Sanba / Yasushi Nagata
Holls, a teenager who lives on a vast plain with his father, is home in the far north countryside. While he was in his infancy, the evil ice demon Grimwa descended on the countryside and used people's lusts to provoke war. Holls's hometown has since been surrounded by war and killing, and his father has to leave his hometown with his son.
Many years later, Holls was attacked by the Silver Wolves, the minions of the Ice Devil. Their fight woke up the sleeping Rock Man Mauk. Mauk dispelled the Silver Wolf, and Holls helped the Rock Man unplug the Sun Sword from his shoulder. Mauk promised to come and become Holles' minions when he had finished training his sword and became a son of the sun. Soon, Holls's father fell terminally ill. Before dying, the old man told his son about the beginning and end of the refuge here, and encouraged his son to return to his hometown and unite all his partners to defeat the disease. The sad Hers burned down the grass hut where he had lived for many years, and took his little pet Chloe on the road back home with thorns and difficulties...
Part II
Panda Family
Starring: Sugiyama Yoshiko / Kazuo Kumakura / Yoshiko Ohta
Episode 1: Mimi, a teenage girl who has lost her parents since childhood, lives with her grandmother in the depths of the dense forest. One day, Grandma returned to her hometown to rush to Grandpa's death day, leaving Mimi alone. At this time, a pair of panda father and son accidentally broke into her home. Mimi becomes the daughter of panda daddy and at the same time becomes the fat mother of the red panda, and these three naïve little guys form a strange and interesting family. The next day, Fat Goes to School with Secret, causing a mess. Soon after they return home, the zoo director comes with the police uncle to arrest the father and son of the panda who accidentally escaped...
Episode 2: Someone stole the chubby curry rice and used his instrument. With the footprints, Mimi, they found the little tiger that was sleeping on the bed. Little Tiger, an actor in a mobile circus, got lost and came to Mimi's house. After some twists and turns, the little tiger finally returned to the circus and found his mother. That night, a heavy rain poured down, flooding Mimi's house and trapping the circus animals...
Part III
"Little Trouble Chie Theater Edition"
Starring: Matsumoto Kosuke / Kosuke Koda / Ashiya Gannosuke / Katsura Saegusa / KyoKako / Mibayashi Kyoko / Nagai Ichiro / Nakayama Chika / Nishikawa Yukio
Based on the manga book of Natsuki, the anime is set in the civilian village of Osaka, centered on the self-proclaimed "Japan's first unfortunate girl" and the pure love father Deji, who lives in a sausage shop, and a series of stories that occur between characters with strong personalities and cats, parent visits, marathon meetings, reconciliation of parents, and other recurring daily lives, and the tenacity and warmth of Kansai people. When this work was released, many animation production companies competed to appear first, forming a competitive situation. Tokyo's new tv station originally wanted Miyazaki to be the director because it was Yasuo Otsuka's original work, but was refused, and Takahata was allowed to do so.
Part IV
Cello Player
Starring: Hideki Sasaki / Masashi Amemori / Fuyumi Shiraishi / Kaneta Hepatsuki / Kazue Takama / Ryoko Yokomura / Akiko Takamura
A young singer who lives in an idyllic village and is a cellist of the local Venus Music Ensemble. At night, he often sat alone in the cabin and played, and the small animals around him became his best listeners. Recently, the twelfth civic concert is about to be held, and the orchestra is intensively rehearsing Beethoven's Sixth Symphony. However, Ge Xiu was criticized by the conductor and the regimental commander for his lack of skill. The lost Goshu returned to the hut and looked at Beethoven's portrait in a daze.
Just then, a kitten pushed the door in. It advises the singer not to insist on practicing Beethoven, but also to try other people's songs to change the mood. So the irritable singer played Schumann's Tiger of India, and the kitten was tortured and fled in panic; the next day, a cuckoo visited, and it asked the song to let it practice the pitch, and the song was not prevaricating, but it practiced, but in the process it found itself lacking; on the third day, the son of the tanuki asked the song to teach it rhythm; on the fourth day, the mouse mother asked the song to play the music to save its seriously ill son.
For four consecutive days, Ge Xiu was unable to systematically practice the performance of the repertoire, but his performance was...
The film is based on a fairy tale by Kenji Miyazawa.
Part V
The Story of yanagawa Canal
The work is not an animated film, but a documentary made by Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki on environmental issues, which won the Mainichi Film Cultural Documentary Film Award. Yanagawa City, Fukuoka Prefecture is a famous sightseeing spot in Japan, with countless small rivers flowing through the city. But in recent years, with the intensification of environmental pollution, many small rivers have become stagnant water, and the beautiful scenery of Yanagawa is gradually fading. In order to save the tourist city, the Yanagawa city government has formulated three measures to dredge the river, limit the discharge of sewage and increase sewage purification facilities, strengthen the management system, and encourage citizens to participate in clean-up activities.
In order to cooperate with the implementation of this plan and raise people's awareness of the problem of public nuisance, Takahata and Miyazaki co-produced this documentary, which tells people about the history of this water city with the beautiful scenery of Yanagawa and the beautiful music, and calls on everyone to protect the scenic spots. Although this film is a documentary, it still continues the consistent characteristics of the warmth and soothing of Takahata's works, and it is worth watching.
Part VI
Grave of the Fireflies
Starring: Tsutomu Tatsumi / Yoshino Shiraishi / Ryoko Shinohara / Akemi Yamaguchi / Kozo Hata
When the U.S.-Japan War broke out, 14-year-old Kiyota fled with her young sister, and when they reached the bomb shelter, her mother was seriously injured and died not long after. Since then, the two brothers and sisters have lived a life of dependence on each other. They had to turn to their mother's sisters, and even though they gave all the belongings in the family to their aunts, the more they felt the feeling of being sent under the fence when the food was finished, and Kiyota decided to take her sister and leave to live alone. Life in the smoke of the fire is not good, And Qingtai steals food for her sister, but her sister is still severely malnourished...
Part VII
The Fairy Tale of the Years
Starring: Miki Imai / Toshiro Yanagiba / Real name Yoko / Issei Takahashi / Masataka Iizuka / Yoshimasa Kondo / Tomoe Kitagawa
Myoko is 27 years old this year, and she asked the company for ten days off to enjoy the long-awaited rural life in the countryside. Since then, she has often remembered her fifth grade. Along the way, she kept thinking about the events of the fifth grade, and when she arrived at her destination, she was greeted by a country boy, Toshio, who was 2 years younger than her.
She began the life of a farmer and enjoyed it, sharing with Toshio the bits and pieces of her childhood, and the scenery seen in the countryside can evoke good memories. The two get along very happily, and feel the traces of the passage of time together. The night before she was leaving, Toshio's grandmother actually suggested to Myoko that she marry Toshio, and immediately pulled up Myoko's memories...
Part VIII
"Heisei Tanuki Battle"
Starring: Shincho Kokintei / Kohei Miki / Nijiko Kiyokawa / Makoto Nonomura / Yuriko Ishida / Shigeru Izumitani / Gannosuke Ashiya / Yuhiro Murata
With the development of human civilization, the size of the city has become larger and larger, and in contrast, the green mountains and rivers have rapidly decreased. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government proposed the concept of "Tama New City" and expanded into the surrounding primeval forests. The Tanuki family, whose ancestors grew up in the Tama Hills, have been hit hard, and as the trees and flowers have shrunk dramatically, food for them has become short of food. Eventually, a civil war ensued between the Hawk No Mori and reimori's Tanuki, and the battle was fierce. At the command of the Fire Jade Mother-in-Law, the two factions of Tanuki cats shook hands and made peace, and instead aimed their main target at the humans who destroyed the forest. In order to better understand their opponents, the Fire Jade Mother-in-Law and the Turtle Crane Monk teach the long-forgotten art of change to the clan. After a period of arduous practice, the tanuki finally learned to change freely. Under the leadership of the radical representative Quan Tai, a group of tanuki cats launched a terrorist attack on construction workers, causing many casualties. Although their actions have been effective, they cannot stop the footsteps of the self-interested human race.
The forest is being eaten away a little bit, and the fate of the Tanuki family is in danger...
Part IX
"My Neighbor Jun Yamada"
Starring: Asaoka Yukiji / Masu Toru / Araki Masako / Igohata Xunto / Yano Yukiko
The Yamada family, who lives in Yamano City, has a family of five: the head of the family, Takashi Yamada, is a clerk in the miscellaneous goods department of a small company. He is a bit macho, often quarreling with his wife for some trivial matters, but he is overwhelmed by his mother-in-law; Aaron's wife Matsuko is the same age as her husband, a full-time housewife, busy every day, taking care of the food and living of a large family, but he is confused and often lost; Matsuko's mother is nearly ancient, but the spirit is strong, this old man has always been a maverick, speaking poisonously, even the violent group is not afraid; the eldest son, A Sheng, is a middle school student with mediocre looks and learning. He inherited his mother's confused personality and had a lot of fun in life; the youngest daughter, Nonoko, was still a third-grader in elementary school, and she met a group of family members who were often forgotten.
It is such an ordinary Yamada family that stages a wonderful life show with fun and endless joy every day.
This is a manga by Hisaichi Ishii, "Hohokekyo: My Neighbor Yamada-kun" reformed.
Part X
The Story of Hui Ye Ji
Starring: Asako Asako / Kengo Takara / Takeo Chii / Nobuko Kashimoto / Junko Takahata / Tomoko Tabata / Shinosuke Tachikawa / Takaya Kamikawa
The grandfather (voiced by Takeo Jijing), who lives in the old forest in the mountains, goes into the mountains early in the morning to cut bamboo, only to find a doll the size of a palm in a nearby glowing bamboo shoot. The childless grandfather is so excited that he returns home with the doll in both hands, while the little one grows bigger and bigger in the hands of the grandmother (voiced by Nobuko Miyamoto). In the years that followed, the affectionate grandfather took good care of his princess (voiced by Asakura Aki), and the little girl grew up at an alarming rate, traveling around the countryside with the children of the village and meeting the honest and reliable brother Shemaru (Kengo Takara), and an inexplicable song brought her to tears. The old grandfather found gold and beautiful cloth in the mountains, and he was determined to let the princess live a noble life, so the family moved to the mansion in the capital. The princess was otherworldly and beautiful, and since then, the name of "Hui Yao Ji" has been widely praised among the nobles in the capital. However, the beautiful girl's smile gradually faded, and this did not seem to be the life she longed for...
The film is based on the story of the Japanese folklore Taketori Monogatari.