The main character of the story is Fang, who was born to a hunting dog and a circus-runaway European wolf. Although Fang was raised by a human family, he is a wild animal after all, and is destined to live amongst nature. The story reaches its climax when Fang returns from the circus and faces his foe, a giant brown bear which killed his family.
Direction
Eiji Okabe blends Disney sentiment with harsh ecological realism.
Director
Eiji Okabe
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Released during Japan's 1970s 'nature boom,' when films like Ringing Bell and Barefoot Gen traumatized children with ecological pessimism.
Based on a 1968 novel by Ernest Thompson Seton, the same author who wrote the story that inspired The Fox and the Hound—dude really hated domestication.
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