SarahtheBoring wrote:Oh, and while I'm at it, I'll throw this one out:
When I was a kid I remember this (very loosely dubbed, I think) movie - possibly, though not definitely, anime - about a pet squirrel, living in a city apartment, who is inspired to run away from home by a pigeon. He ends up in a forest with a bunch of other squirrels including a girl squirrel named Nono. And then something dramatic happens which I don't remember. The main squirrel wore a bandanna, I think either blue or green. This was about 1987. They actually didn't look terribly much like squirrels; more like chipmunks with long pointy tails and striped backs.
To this day, I cannot figure out what the hell that movie was. It's one of those nagging things that pops up in the back of your mind every now and then.
Anyone who can name this for me gets eternal gratitude. 8)
Enchanted Journey
A middle-of-the-Japanese road effort from Tatsunoko; which means limited animation by modern standards, but all the major themes get sounded here. A pet chipmunk named Glico (after the Japanese candy maker?) gets an inkling that there's a life outside the apartment and tries to get to the woods. He ends up spending time in a zoo (where other chipmunks teach him the meaning of "ganbatte") and he encounters a love-interest named Nono, complete with a flashback to her mother's death-bed; even the mainstream kid's stuff in anime is different. The predatory animals (a fox and a cat) are downright demonic; genuinely scary. The other characters are cartoony, but the backgrounds are highly detailed and downright gorgeous in the nature scenes. In this dub Orson Welles voices a bird; Jim Backus voices a rat. Directed by Yakikoto Higuchi.
This sound about right?
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