Chirin is traumatized by her death, in an extended scene that must have scared little children who watched it.Ĭhirin, still a cute baby lamb, goes beyond the fence to challenge the Wolf King for vengeance.
Chirin’s mother is killed protecting him. Chirin does not pay any attention to her.ĭuring winter, the sheep are cozy in their byre when the Wolf King breaks in. His worried mother warns him to remain in the meadow inside the fence, because the mountains beyond are the Wolf King’s domain. The opening credits featuring plaintive, mournful music under a bleak, characterless, snow-filled landscape do not seem to match the opening story of Chirin as a happy baby lamb, gamboling within his flock during the bright summer.
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and shown as a TV children’s film, but its switch from the opening of traditional Disney-cartoon lightness to a dark Law-of-the-Jungle brutality earned it a very mixed critical reception, ranging from praise for its honesty to a R-rating for violence, and being banned in some countries as unsuitable for children.
it was shown on TV and was one of the first animated cartoon videos in the early 1980s, from RCA/Columbia Home Video. But it was intended primarily for the OAV market. Ringing Bell was produced by Sanrio and released in Japan on a theatrical double bill with its 83-minute The Mouse and His Child.
These two were actually theatrical releases, not OAVs. One Stormy Night ( Arashi no Yoru Ni), directed by Gisaburo Sugii. Ringing Bell ( Chirin’s Bell Chirin no Suzu), directed by Masami Hata.
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