Twelve Months (1980)
Original title: 世界名作童話 森は生きている
Twelve Months is a 1980 Japanese-language fantasy movie directed by Kimio Yabuki and Yugo Serikawa, with a running time of 1h 5m. It stars Shinobu Otake, Ai Kanzaki and Tokuko Sugiyama.
A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward. One greedy woman sends her stepdaughter, whom she does not like, to look for the flowers in a cold forest, knowing the task will be impossible for her. The girl almost freezes to death in the forest, but she is rescued by the spirits of the Twelve Months, who create spring around her. The girl is able to deliver the bouquet to the queen, but others want a share of the reward.
Cast
- Shinobu Otake as Anja (voice)
- Ai Kanzaki as Queen (voice)
- Tokuko Sugiyama as Stepmother (voice)
- Mariko Mukai as Stepmother's daughter (voice)
- Ichiro Nagai as Professor (voice)
- Masashi Amenomori as Prime Minister (voice)
- Daisuke Ryū as Officer (voice)
- Kiyoshi Kobayashi as January (voice)
- Katsuji Mori as April (voice)
- Masato Yamanouchi as Soldier (voice)
- Koji Yakusho as Young soldier (voice)
- Hidekatsu Shibata as Additional voice