"Tenguri, Boy of the Plains" (1977)

http://en-f.tezuka.co.jp/anime/sakuhin/pr/pr005.html

This is a page about a short promotional film, "Tenguri, Boy of the Plains" (1977), produced by Shinei animation for a dairy company. Those who took part in the project that were involved in the Pre-Ghibli and Studio Ghibli films include Yasuo Otsuka as rendition and animation director; Hayao Miyazaki and Yasuo Otsuka as layout artists; Michio Mamiya as composer; and Yasuo Otsuka, Yoshifumi Kondo and Yoichi Kotabe as key animators. Interestingly, Osamu Tezuka came up with the original storyline. Can anyone tell me more about it?

There's a clip on the site: http://en-f.tezuka.co.jp/anime/sakuhin/m...005/pr005_m.mpg

I don't think that there's ever been a VHS or DVD release of it...I know that this would be illegal, but is there a torrent anywhere of it? I'd really like to see it.

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I've never heard of this, but watching it, it certainly has a Ghibli feel. I found this website, hope it's of some use to you, it has a link to Osamu Tezuka's web site!!

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclop...ime.php?id=3378

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Post last edited by SpiritedSen on 06.17.2006, 06:15 PM.

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I've never heard of this, but watching it, it certainly has a Ghibli feel. I found this website, hope it's of some use to you, it has a link to Osamu Tezuka's web site!!

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclop...ime.php?id=3378

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“Miyazaki is the greatest living animator… His frames are brilliantly, sunnily ‘lit’, with exhilarating shifting perspectives and cinematic movement, and a drawing style that is as detailed and dense as Brueghel.” — Philip Lopate, Film Comment

Found this written on http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/index.php?m=2004, it says a little something at the bottom about possible release, had no luck finding you a download though, sorry! ;

Another similarly tantalizing long-lost project in which Otsuka was involved, and in a big way, was Sogen no Ko Tenguri (Tenguri, Boy of the Plains), a 1977 PR short commissioned by Snow Brand Milk Products. Intended as a way of explaining the historical origin of cheese to kids sightseeing the company factories, it tells the story of a boy living in a village on the Mongolian grasslands who decides to release his beloved pet calf into the wild to save her from being killed and eaten by the villagers, who know of no other way to survive the harsh winter than to kill their livestock. Many years later, when he has grown up, he meets the calf again, now grown into a cow, and learns from her the secret that will make it possible for Tenguri's people to put the killing behind them. This was Yasuo Otsuka's first directing project. Like Cagliostro, it had to be produced in an extremely short time span, in this case one month, and in adverse conditions that had a permanent curbing effect on Otsuka's directing ambitions, which since the experience of Horus he had largely been abandoned anyway. This caused Otsuka to appraise the project negatively in retrospect. Nonetheless, it features work by most of the luminaries of the ex-Toei Doga group at that period - Hayao Miyazaki did a third of the layout, Yoichi Kotabe animated the protagonist, and Yoshio Kabashima animated the calf - and it is one of only two films directed by Otsuka, so there is clearly merit for releasing it, yet it is not currently available to the public in any format (it has been released on that outrageously-priced DVD set). In this case, it can be expected that this will in all probability happen one day, since a DVD release already exists.

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Post last edited by SpiritedSen on 06.17.2006, 07:29 PM.