Legend of the Forest (1987)
December 18, 1987Release Date
Legend of the Forest (1987)
December 18, 1987Release Date

Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.

Osamu Tezuka
Director / Storyboard / Scenario Writer

Takashi Ui
Sound Director / Sequence Lead

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Music

Masami Saitou
Art Direction

Masaaki Fujita
Director of Photography

Takayuki Matsutani
Producer

Minoru Kubota
Producer

Harutoshi Ogata
Editor

Kaoru Kano
Animation Coordinator / Key Animation

Atsushi Ishiguro
Animation

Naoko Kitamura
Animation

Takashi Okamura
Animation

Rika Fujita
Color Designer

Kazushige Takatô
Background Designer

Mieko Chijinami
Background Designer

Setsuko Ishizu
Background Designer

Junji Kobayashi
Key Animation

Masateru Yoshimura
Key Animation

Shinichi Suzuki
Key Animation

Shinji Seiya
Key Animation

Teruo Honda
Key Animation

Toshi Noma
Key Animation

Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Key Animation

Yoshinori Kanemori
Key Animation
Details.
Release DateDecember 18, 1987
Original Name森の伝説
StatusReleased
Running Time30m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Legend of the Forest (森の伝説, Mori no densetsu) is a 1987 Japanese animated film by Osamu Tezuka and his studio, Tezuka Productions.
Initially planned in four movements, the film was presented incompletely in 1988, on the occasion of the Asahi Prize ceremony, in the form of a first part comprising the first and fourth movements. The two central segments remained unfinished after Tezuka's death in 1989. Makoto Tezuka, the director's son and part-manager of Tezuka Productions, produced the second movement in 2014 under the title The Legend of the Forest – Part 2.
The anime's first movement depicts the struggle between a flying squirrel and a hunter lumberjack. The second, directed by Makoto Tezuka, depicts the love story of two dragonflies as they follow the course of a river through the forest. The third movement, which was never realized, was intended to feature falling raindrops. The fourth and final movement features forest spirits trying to save their environment from the ravages caused by foresters.
The film is entirely silent, and each segment is designed to be synchronized with the music of the various movements of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4. Inspired by the world of Walt Disney, the film is also a tribute to the history of animated cinema, and an artistic pamphlet with an ecological position.
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