Mouse and His Child
Alt titles: Oyaro Nezumi no Fushigi na Tabi
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Two tin toy mice, a father and child, who can only move when their key is wound, awaken in a toy store, only to get tossed out with the trash. In order to survive the very, very dangerous world, they venture on to find a way to become 'self winding'. Along the way they meet a future telling frog, an animal theater troup, an inventor muskrat and others. They also must be careful to avoid the clutches of Manny the Rat, a cruel rat who enslaves toys to steal for him! will our two heroes ever be free to walk their own path, or will they be stuck running in circles?
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Kino's Journey
- TV (13 eps)
- 2003
In another world, there exist many countries, each with different cultures, customs, and traditions. From technological marvels to folk legends, each location yields a vast wealth of insight of its people: their hopes and their dreams, their failures and fears. Kino is a traveler whose goal is to visit as many new places as possible, learning about others' ways of life, but also making sure to stay clear of their affairs. Together with the talking motorrad Hermes, Kino sets out to explore the beautiful world and meet its inhabitants, wherever they may be.
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add recGranted, Kino's Journey and the Mouse and his Child are very dissimilar in their format, production quality, and probable intended audience. That said, they're very similar thematically and, to a certain degree, in tone. The exploration of free will, otherness and the banality of injustice are key to both pieces, with healthy doses of social philosophy and metafiction. Though Kino's journey is for the audience's benefit (Kino is already free), Mouse and Child have a definitive goal (to become self-winding, acceptance), which accounts for their variant kinds of journeys (episodic vs. some recurring places and characters). Still, despite it's dated animation and occasional silliness, the way of the world in the Mouse and his Child is somewhat reminiscent of some of the lands visited on Kino's Journey.
Chirin no Suzu
Alt titles: Ringing Bell
- Movie
- 1978
As a child, Chirin the lamb is taught by his loving mother to be wary of leaving their pasture; wolves and other predators are a constant threat, though the naïve Chirin believes they would never eat his kind. But when a wolf breaches the perimeter and kills his mother while she protects him, Chirin decides he must do the unthinkable: find the wolf and demand that he trains Chirin to be strong. Chirin must undergo rigorous conditions and be the very thing that he despises so that he may have his revenge, but will he lose himself in the process?
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add rec"Is this the world, Papa?" "I sure hope not, son." This exchange from Mouse and his Child more or less sums up the bleak outlook of both that film and Chirin no Suzu. The animation is a bit cleaner in Chirin and the story more complicated, and a tiny bit less grim, in Mouse, but both films are good examples of dark children's films that may or may not actually be appropriate for children (at the very least, not for the very young). These fable-like tales might have cute/seemingly cuddly protagonists, but they don't pull any punches about the cruelty, bitterness, and brutality of life and the world.
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