Mori no Densetsu (1987)

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Legend of the Forest is a 1987 Japanese animated film by Osamu Tezuka and his studio, Tezuka Productions.

Production

The project for The Legend of the Forest dates back to 1971, when Osamu Tezuka wanted to make an ambitious animated film to rival Disney Studios. The first movement was inspired by the story Musa the Flying Squirrel (モモンガのムサ, Momonga no musa) published by Tezuka in the magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump on November 22, 1971.

The four segments, Conversation between the Trees of the Forest (森の木の対話, Mori no ki no taiwa), Romance between Two Dragonflies (二ひきのかげろうの恋物語, Nihiki no kagerō no koimonogatari), Ballad of the Raindrops ((雨のしずくのバラード, Ame no suzuku no barādo) and On the Hill of Storm and Rainbow ((嵐と虹の丘にて, Arashi to niji no oka nite), are to be synchronized with the four movements of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.

However, the financial difficulties of the Mushi Production studio, which went bankrupt in 1973, prevented the project from going ahead, even though the outline had already been drawn up. Tezuka completed the script in the early 1980s, but it was several years before the film was actually produced by his other studio, Tezuka Productions.

In 2008, Osamu Tezuka's son Makoto Tezuka, one of the directors of Tezuka Productions studio, announced at the 12th Hiroshima International Animation Festival his desire to produce the second and third movements, written by his father but not realized, to complete the film. Makoto Tezuka used mainly the production notes left by Osamu Tezuka, and sought a more Japanese style of animation than the other segments.

After six years in the making, with an interruption due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, the second part, corresponding to the second movement of Tchaikovsky's symphony, was completed and premiered on August 21, 2014, at the 15th Hiroshima Festival, twenty-five years after Tezuka's death in 1989, twenty-seven years after the first broadcast of the unfinished work and thirty years after the mangaka won the festival's first Grand Prize for the Broken…

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