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Buried Treasure - Ringing Bell

"Are you telling me that the reviewer is telling his audience to exterminate wolves?

What the hell did Wolves ever do to you that you would tell us to kill them?

"This pretty much sums up my general problem I seem to be having with all kids movies lately. Just name it, Bolt, Insert Disney movie, Spiderwick Chronicles, they're all playing it safe. None of the main characters or their parents/best friends ever die (or if they do it was way before the movie ever started), they all have happy endings, and they don't try anything objectionable.

The squirrels are not trying to kill you

Umm, Charred Knight, ever think that he's talking about the popularized "Innocent Natural Harmony" bullcrap that we put in our kids' faces with movies where lions nobly explain that the only reason they eat antelope is because it's part of an Elton John song?

No one's saying kill wolves. What he's saying is let's look at the real nature where wolves do eat livestock because they're hungry and livestock are easy prey provided Farmer Frank doesn't have his twice-barreled shootgun on hand.

It came off to me like Justin was promoting the destruction of the ugly nature to make it more safe for humans.

It shows me that Justin is incredibly short sighted believing that humanity and nature can not live together when that is a must.

I like Arashi no Yoru ni but the review hit the nail on the head. I really would like to check this one out. I'll see what I can do about the fansub situation

Edit: I think Arashi no Yoru ni came out in 2005 not last year.

They had this at Otakon a few years ago. One of the video rooms was playing it on Saturday night. One of the most depressing things I have ever seen.

[snip -TK]

Guh? The Mouse and his Child? I watched that after it was mentioned several times on TVTropes.org. Good movie, but I had no idea it was by Sanrio.

(It was good enough that I bought the book off of Amazon.com. And yes, before you ask, the book is better, but the movie stands on its own merits.)

Anyways, thanks for the YouTube link...I've heard of Ringing Bell before (thank you, Anime Encyclopedia and your shining gems mixed in with tons of misinformation), but I've never had cause or opportunity to watch it. :3

Since the time when I put up my review of Ringing Bell about two years ago, I've received a lot of correspondence from people who remember seeing it in their childhood perhaps not via the RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video release, but because this thing apparently aired on TV. Exactly where is uncertain: people have claimed it was on Nick Jr, but I grew up with the creation of Nickelodeon back when they used to show tons of anime, and since I never saw this during my childhood I can only assume it aired somewhere else.

I hear similar stories regarding Unico as well as Sea Prince and the Fire Child, so there must be something to the tales.

That said, I'm not the resident expert; for matters relating to this (as well as Unico), I defer to whatever Rob Fenelon--one of the original "pushers" of Ringing Bell--and StudioToledo say.

I do wish Sanrio had continued making films of the caliber of this, Unico, and Legend of Sirius. It's my opinion that children's entertainment is far too sanitized and overprotective to the point of being detrimental.

I suppose Wall*E actually tried to bring some things into question in regards to the American life style (with clear disregards to skinny vegetarians), so it gets some credit there I suppose for not playing it entirely safe, but pretty much everything else has been annoying me for this very reason.

I just finished watching this on youtube (hooray for youtube) and enjoyed it.

I'd call it family viewing and viewing for little kids no problem, it's not like bazookas are involved with enough blood to fill several olympic sized swimming pools on the screen at any given time. But it still deals with more mature themes than "finding you pet" or "protecting a book from evil using tomato sauce", both of which were uber predictable happy endings. I don't remember being sheltered this much when I was a kid (and this was just back in the 90's). And I played with Fisher Price toys that had small parts young kids might choke on, but clearly, everything worked out.

Just picked it up @ CDJapan.co.jp for about $23 shipped. Pretty nice price for a classic.
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=PCBE-52415

What a great counterpoint to Bambi. I just finished it on YouTube and I was impressed. From an adult viewpoint, there's no villain. The wolf lives his life honestly, and survives by being the creature he is. I found the wolf the most respectable character in the film.

He didn't say that human and nature shouldn't belong, he stated that nature was not beautiful. It makes me think of Justin as having a screw loose and thinking the squirrels are out to get him.

I wanted to correct Justin on that and let him know it was a goat, not a lamb in that film too.

Nature is not beautiful, but I'd venture to say man is even worse.

Seeing as how you are ready to poop your pants over watching "Planet Earth" on BluRay, I don't quite see where this sentiment is coming from all the sudden. Or is your idea of beauty reserved solely for food now?

And in that case... you don't find beauty in snakes unhinging their jaws with swallow wild hogs whole?