3000 Leagues in Search of Mother: The Movie (1980)
Original title: 母をたずねて三千里
3000 Leagues in Search of Mother: The Movie is a 1980 Japanese-language animation movie directed by Isao Takahata, with a running time of 1h 47m. It stars Yoshiko Matsuo, Yukiko Nikaido and Kiyoshi Kawakubo.
A young Italian boy named Marco is devastated when his mother must leave home to work in Argentina to pay off the family debt. She sends the family letters, but soon the messages stop coming, which worries Marco and sets him off on an epic quest to find her.