The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon (1963)
- Original title
- わんぱく王子の大蛇退治
- Directed by
- Yūgo Serikawa
- Genre
- fantasy film, children's film, adventure anime and manga, Adventure
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 17 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A young prince goes on a quest to defeat an eight-headed dragon. He receives help from gods and animals along the way.
whimsicaladventurousmythologicalclassiccolorfulspiritedfantastical
What happens
The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon (Japanese: わんぱく王子の大蛇退治, Hepburn: Wanpaku Ōji no Orochi Taiji; lit. 'The Naughty Prince's Slaying of Orochi') is a 1963 Japanese animated fantasy adventure film directed by Yūgo Serikawa and scripted by Ichirō Ikeda and Takashi Iijima. It is the sixth feature produced by Toei Animation (then Tōei Dōga), and was released in Japan on March 24, 1963. Multiple notable individuals worked on the film, including supervising animator Yasuji Mori, animators Yasuo Ōtsuka and Yōichi Kotabe (who made his debut as a key animator on the film, though he is inaccurately credited on screen as an in between artist) and assistant directors Isao Takahata and Kimio Yabuki. The score was composed by Akira Ifukube. It features distinctively modernist, abstracted character, background and color design. The film was well received and is considered one of the very best of the early Tōei Animation features, with praise for its music and visuals. It placed 10th in the list of the 150 best animated films and series of all time compiled by Tokyo's Laputa Animation Festival from an international survey of animation staff and critics in 2003. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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旗本やくざ 五人のあばれ者 (1963)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.