Doggie March
Doggie March (わんわん忠臣蔵, Wanwan Chūshingura) is a 1963 Japanese animated adventure comedy drama film directed by Akira Daikubara while distributed by Toei Company, Ltd. The film premiered in the same year as another Toei Animation production, Wolf Boy Ken. An apprentice around this time, a pre-fame Hayao Miyazaki worked on in-betweens during the production phase as his first animation gig. The film was released in Japan by Toei on December 21, 1963.[1]
| Doggie March | |
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| Japanese | わんわん忠臣蔵 |
| Hepburn | Wanwan Chūshingura |
| Directed by | Akira Daikubara |
| Produced by | Hiroshi Okawa |
| Screenplay by | Daisaku Shirakawa Kei Iijima |
| Based on | Doggie March by Osamu Tezuka |
| Starring | Chiyoko Honma Fumitake Omura Hideo Kinoshita Hideo Sato Junko Hori Kazuko Yoshikawa Kiyoko Yamamoto Kō Nishimura Makiko Ito Ranko Mizuki Yoshihisa Kamo |
| Music by | Urato Watanabe |
| Cinematography | Jiro Yoshimura Kenji Sugiyama |
| Edited by | Ikuzo Inaba |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Toei |
Release date |
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Running time | 81 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Plot
The movie is about Rock, a homeless dog and her mother, Shiloh who defends forest animals by resentment against cold-blooded and evil tiger, Killer. Shiloh who is stuck out to the fox of the killer's fox is pierced from the cliff by the tiger's killer and loses his life. Shiloh child rock pledges revenge and goes to defeat killer and acciami, but it did not quite satisfy with puppy rock. Rock saved by forest animals goes out town and meets stray dogs. Among the stray dogs in the town, a rock that challenged a single fight against a tiger gathers a person's desire, but it is tailored to a warehouse vandalism by the strategy of akamimi, it is put in a barrel and thrown away in the sea. In time the animals in the forest are caught by humans and brought to the zoo. The killer who lost the animals of the forest and had no prey entered the zoo by themselves according to Akemi 's advice, and even oppress the animals of the forest there. The rock that was thrown away in the sea was saved lives by the girl on the island that had arrived and grew into adult dogs. Rock heard the situation of forest animals from the swallow, the rock escapes from the island and returns to the town to meet with former colleagues, stray dogs. In order to defeat the enemy killer, rock is accompanied by the stray dogs in the city on a cold day of snow, heading for the zoo. The last battle of rock and killer will be unfolded on the roller coaster.
Cast
- Rokku/Girl in the lighthouse - Aki Hori
- Shiro - Mizuki Ranoko
- Karu - Kitagawa Mari
- Goro - Hideo Sato
- Nukiya - Sakae Umezu
- Killer - Akira Nishimura
- Akamimi - Kamo Kikuhisa
- Rabbit - Makiko Ito
- Ron - Kazuko Yoshikawa
- Rima - Kiyoko Yamamoto
- Stray Dogs - Hanazawa Tokuho, Unno Yori, and Nishito Taika
References
- "わんわん忠臣蔵". Japanese Cinema Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
External links
- Doggie March (film) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Doggie March at IMDb
- Wan Wan Chuushingura webpage