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Anne no Nikki: Anne Frank Monogatari

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Anne no Nikki: Anne Frank Monogatari
GenreDrama, biographical film
Anime television film
Directed byEiji Okabe
Produced byYoshihiro Ōba
Written byRyūzō Nakanishi
Music byKōichi Sakata
StudioNippon Animation
Original networkTV Asahi
Released28 September 1979
Runtime82 minutes

Anne no Nikki: Anne Frank Monogatari (アンネの日記 アンネ·フランク物語, Anne no nikki: Anne Furanku monogatari, lit. "Anne's Diary: The Story of Anne Frank"), is a 1979 Japanese anime television film directed by Eiji Okabe.[1][2][3][4] The movie is also sometime listed as Anne Frank Monogatari: Anne no Nikki to Douwa yori (アンネ・フランク物語 -アンネの日記と童話より- lit. "The Story of Anne Frank - From Anne's Diary and Fairy Tales-").

The film is notable for being the first animated adaptation of Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl (1942–1944) and it was co-produced by Nippon Animation and TV Asahi to commemorate Anne's 50th birthday. The movie uses four of Anne's short fantasy stories as interludes to her confinement.[2] It also features an interview with Anne's father Otto Frank, and real live action footage from Nazi concentration camps and Netherlands landscapes. It aired on TV Asahi on 28 September 1979 from 21:00 to 22:22. It is said to have started the subgenre of child-focused anime about war such as Barefoot Gen and Grave of the Fireflies.[2] The film is currently unavailable, having never been re-broadcast or released to home video.

Plot

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The story follows the life of a 13-year-old jewish girl named Anne Frank, hiding with her family and some friends in an Amsterdam attic to escape the Nazis during World War II.

Cast

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Character Japanese voice actor
Anne Frank Mariko Fuji
Margot Frank Miyuki Ueda
Edith Frank Noriko Nakamura
Otto Frank Tooru Abe
Hermann Van Daan Kōichi Kitamura
Petronella Van Daan Hisako Kyouda
Peter Van Daan Katsuji Mori
Miep Gies Saiko Egawa
Albert Düssel Eisuke Yoda
Narrator Fumie Kashiyama

Music

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Opening Theme

  • "There is a Tomorrow with Love" (愛がある明日がある, Ai ga aru ashitagāru)
Sung by Seagulls, lyrics by Tokiko Iwatani, music and arrangement by Kōichi Sakata.

Ending Theme

  • "The Girl who Became a Seagull" (かもめになった少女, Kamome ni natta shōjo)
Sung by Seagulls, lyrics by Tokiko Iwatani, music and arrangement by Kōichi Sakata.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara; Shandler, Jeffrey (2012). Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-00661-5.
  2. ^ a b c Clements, Jonathan; McCarthy, Helen (9 February 2015). The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition: A Century of Japanese Animation. Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 978-1-61172-909-2.
  3. ^ Sharp, Jasper (13 October 2011). Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7541-8.
  4. ^ Goodman, David G.; Miyazawa, Masanori (2000). Jews in the Japanese Mind: The History and Uses of a Cultural Stereotype. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-0167-4.
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