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Katri: Girl of the Meadows

1984 · 1 season

A gentle, slow-paced slice of rural life that quietly accumulates emotional weight through small hardships and everyday resilience.

Created by
Hiroshi Saito
Genres
Animation, Drama, Family
Starring
Hitomi Oikawa, Hisako Kyoda, Kumiko Takizawa
Overview
Katri is a young country girl who lives in Finland during the First World War. Her mother has gone off to Germany and Katri is left to live with her grandparents. The young but diligent girl manages daily tasks of her grandparents' property and, despite her young age, soon gets to work for a local farmer as a herd. There she makes friends with the two boys of the neighbourhood.

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Created by
Hiroshi Saito
Genres
Animation, Drama, Family
Starring
Hitomi Oikawa, Hisako Kyoda, Kumiko Takizawa
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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • survival
  • coming-of-age
  • isolation
  • work
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
  • home
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism7
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
animation, drama, family
Created by
Hiroshi Saito
Written by
Akira Miyazaki
Starring
Hitomi Oikawa, Hisako Kyoda, Kumiko Takizawa, Naoki Tatsuta, Toru Furuya, Akiko Takeguchi, Akio Nojima, Asami Mukaidono
Music
Toru Fuyuki
Length
1 seasons, 49 episodes, 24 min each
Network
Fuji TV
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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