The Wild Swans (1977)
- Original title
- 世界名作童話 白鳥の王子
- Directed by
- Nobutaka Nishizawa
- Genre
- anime, drama anime and manga, fantasy anime and manga
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 02m
- Rated
- 6
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 17 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A princess must save her eleven brothers who have been turned into swans by a curse. She undertakes a silent task of weaving nettle shirts to break the spell.
dreamlikemelancholicwhimsicalgentlevisually lushfairy-talehopefulsoftly tragic
What happens
The Wild Swans (世界名作童話 白鳥の王子, Sekai Meisaku Dōwa: Hakuchō no Ōji; lit. 'World Masterpiece Fairy Tales: The Swan Princes') is a 1977 Japanese anime fantasy film produced by Toei Animation, based on the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale The Six Swans and on Hans Christian Andersen's variation The Wild Swans. The film was first shown in Japan on 19 March 1977 in the Toei Manga Matsuri (Toei Cartoon Festival). The Wild Swans represents the first entry in Toei's World Masterpiece Fairy Tales film series, followed by Thumbelina (1978), Twelve Months (1980), Swan Lake (1981), and Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (1982). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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