(aka "Taiyo no oji: Horusu no daiboken" or "Prince of the Sun: The Great Adventure of Horus" or "The Little Norse Prince Valiant")
directed
by Isao Takahata
Japan 1968
“The Little Norse Prince” is a key film in Japanese
animation history, being both the first modern anime, but also the film on
which Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, who later formed Studio Ghibli, first
worked together.
Based upon a puppet-theatre drama by Kazuo Fuzakawa, who based his script upon
an Anui legend, the producers at Toei changed the setting from Northern Japan
to Scandinavia and the Anui to Vikings, in hope to make it more appealing
internationally. This was not the only thing Toei changed or forced upon the
animators and the production became a trial for both sides, going over budget
and schedule. When it finally was released, it proved such a failure, that it
was withdrawn after only ten days.
Horus is a boy, who pulls a sword out of a rock giant, only to discover that
it is the Sword of the Sun, which transforms Horus into the Prince of the Sun
and battles an evil Ice Demon.
It is a very confusing film, especially for a Dane. Much of the mythology is
Japanese, but people have Nordic names. But it has an energy and boyish
go-get-em attitude and it is easy to see why it became such a hit amongst
animators and anime fans.
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Theatrical Release: July 21, 1968
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DVD Review: Optimum Asia - Region 2 - PAL
Big thanks to Henrik Sylow for the Review!
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| Runtime | 1:21:46 (4% PAL speedup) | |
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Considering the age of the film, it looks surprisingly good. Compression artifacts are at a minimum. Only two things of the image are to critic. The first is, that its not OAR of 2.35:1 ToeiScope, but a cropped 2.10:1. The other is, that combing and ghosting are very visible even at the smallest movement. |
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