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The Wild Swans

1977 · 62 min

A solemn, storybook fairy tale that unfolds with patient, old-fashioned charm and a quiet sense of peril.

Overview
A young girl must spend six years making sweatshirts out of poison ivy in order to save her six brothers which have been turned into swans by an evil sorceress.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • survival
  • betrayal
  • faith
  • isolation
Places
  • fantasy world
  • countryside
  • single country house
Era
timeless
Audience
family
Form
  • animated
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour1
Realism3
Romance3
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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Where to watch in the UK

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Details

Genres
drama, family, animation
Directed by
Yûji Endô, Nobutaka Nishizawa
Written by
Yasuko Miyazaki
Starring
Eiko Masuyama, Yasuko Miyazaki, Kaneko Iwasaki, Yōsuke Kondō, Tokuko Sugiyama, Tarō Mochizuki, Yasuyuki Kachi, Shōshin Kobayashi
Runtime
62 min
Country
Japan, Soviet Union
Languages
Japanese

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