Nutcracker Fantasy (1979)
March 3, 1979Release Date
Nutcracker Fantasy (1979)
March 3, 1979Release Date


Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.

Kaoru Sugita
Clara (voice)

Michele Lee
Narrator

Kō Nishimura
Uncle / Street Singer / Puppeteer / Watchmaker (voice)

Melissa Gilbert
Clara

Shizue Natsukawa
Aunt Gerda (voice)

Lurene Tuttle
Aunt Gerda

Atsuko Ichinomiya
Queen Morphia (voice)

Christopher Lee
Uncle Drosselmeyer

Takao Yamada
Gar (voice)

Yukari Uehara
Princess Mary (voice)

Tarō Shigaki
Franz / Fritz (voice)

Hisao Dazai
Chamberlain (voice)

Jo Anne Worley
Queen Morphia

Ken Sansom
Chamberlain

Haruko Kitahama
Queen of Time (voice)

Shiro Kishibe
Fat Mouse (voice)

Kiiton Masuda
King Godwin (voice)

Dick Van Patten
King Goodwin

Roddy McDowall
Franz

Shinji Maki
Clovis (voice)

Hiroshi Tamaoki
Viking Wiseman (voice)

Nobuo Ogawa
Editor

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Original Music Composer

Jack Angel
The Chinese Wiseman

E. T. A. Hoffmann
Original Story

Fumio Otani
Cinematography

Aguri Sugita
Cinematography

Ryoji Takamori
Cinematography

Takeo Nakamura
Director

Shintaro Tsuji
Screenplay / Executive Producer

Atsushi Tomioka
Producer

Thomas Joachim
Writer
Media.



Details.
Release DateMarch 3, 1979
Original Nameくるみ割り人形
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 35m
Genres
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Wiki.
Nutcracker Fantasy (くるみ割り人形, Kurumiwari Ningyō, lit. 'The Nutcracker') is a Japanese-American stop motion animated film produced by Sanrio, very loosely based on Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker and E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1816 story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It is directed by Takeo Nakamura and written by Shintaro Tsuji, Eugene A. Fournier and Thomas Joachim. It was officially released in Japan on March 3, 1979 and later in the United States on July 6, 1979. The film was nominated for the 1980 Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film and the 1980 Young Artist Award for Best Motion Picture featuring youth and won the 1980 Young Artist Award for Best Musical Entertainment.
Nutcracker Fantasy was the first stop-motion project by Sanrio. The film's overall animation style is reminiscent of all the original Rankin/Bass "Animagic" productions, shot at Tadahito Mochinaga's MOM Production (later renamed Video Tokyo Production) in which Nakamura had previously worked for. A remastered version of the film was announced by Sanrio, with an advanced screening at the 27th Tokyo International Film Festival on October 29, 2014 and released formally in theaters on November 29, 2014 as part of Hello Kitty's 40th anniversary.
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