After losing his parents, a young bear named Yamataro is chained as an attraction of a small kiosk near a train station. There he is encouraged by a C-62 train to runaway from the humans and become free.
Direction
Tezuka's kinetic, expressionist storyboarding in hyper-compressed runtime
Director
Osamu Tezuka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Commissioned by the Japan Railways Group as a PR film for children, which makes its anti-captivity message either accidentally radical or deeply hypocritical.
Tezuka recycled this premise from his 1951 manga 'Lost World' — the man had a lifelong obsession with imprisoned animals finding transcendence through suffering.
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