Andersen Monogatari
Also known as: Andersen Monogatari Match Uri no Shôjo, Hansu Kurushitan Anderusan No Sekai
English titles: Andersen's Stories: The Little Girl With the Matches, Tales Of Hans Christian Andersen, Andersen Tales, The World Of Hans Christian Andersen
- Studio
- Tôei Company Ltd., Hal Roach Studios Inc., Sean Productions Inc.
- Animation studio
- Tôei Dôga
- Distributor
- Tôhô, United Artists (U.S.A.)
Synopsis
Japanese animated retelling of the life of the famed fantasy writer, with all the charm and loving characters of his fairy tales. Young storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, thanks to his magical Uncle Oley, has a series of adventures that inspire his most famous tales. Andersen tries to help out his cash-strapped shoemaker father. The story incorporates elements of two classic Andersen fables, and makes use of many wondrous characters, places and situations.
Characters
Hans Christian Andersen, Uncle Oley, Kaspar Kat, Elisa, Hannibal Mouse
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Kimio Yabuki
- U.S. Version
- Al Kilgore, Chuck McCann
Producing
- Producer
- Hiroshi Ôkawa
- Producers, English
- Al Kilgore, Chuck McCann
- Executive Producers
- Herb (Herbert) Gelbspan, Bill Yellind
Writing
- Writer
- Hisashi Inoue, Morihisa Yamamoto
Animation
- Animator
- Akira Okuwara
Voices
- Voice
- Tadao Takashima, Toshiko Fujita, Kazuko Sugiyama, Eiko Masuyama, Yasushi Suzuki, Shinsuke Minami, Katsue Miwa, Chiharu Kuri, Arihiro Fujimura, Kôkichi Tomita, Michiko Hirai, Ichirô Nagai, Vocal Shop, Shûichi Okada, Miyuki Kojima
- Vocal Talent, English Version
- Chuck McCann (Uncle Oley), Hetty Galen (Hans Christian Andersen), Jim MacGeorge (Kaspar Kat), Corinne Orr (Elisa), Lionel G. Wilson (Hannibal Mouse), Linda November (Lullaby Vocal), Ruth Bailew, Sidney Filson, Earl Hammond
Music
- Music
- Seiichiro Uno
- Music, U.S. Version
- Ron (Ronald) Frangipane
- Lyricist
- Al Kilgore
Editing
- Editor
- Eli Haviv, Emil Haviv
Crew
- Design
- Reiji Koyama
- Sound
- Dick Vorisek
- Planning
- Masajirô Seki, Seiichi Moro, Ken Ariga
- Scenario
- Hisashi Inoue, Morihisa Yamamoto
- Art Director
- Reiji Koyama
- Colors Designer
- Tadanao Tsuji
- Technical Director
- Kimio Yabuki
- Assistant Director
- Yasuo Okabe, Katsutoshi Sasaki
- Animation Director
- Akira Daikuhara
- Key Animators
- Tomekichi Takeuchi, Katsuya Oda, Michihiro Kanayama, Hideki Mori, Tatsuji Kino, Akinori Matsuhara, Satoshi Hirakawa, Kinnosuke Hirakawa
- Backgrounds
- Shichirô Kobayashi, Itoshi Ikeda, Eiko Nishiyama
- Inbetweeners
- Toshiaki Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Fujimoto, Akihiro Ogawa, Haruko Kasai, Keiichi Iida, Tsutomu Tominaga, Eiko Saitô, Reiko Hanada, Keiko Shibata, Shinya Tamura, Seiko Shinohara, Fumio Akutsu, Kiyotaka Asada, Yoshiharu Horiike, Tôru Masai, Shinnosuke Kusama, Akira Sasaki
- Tracing
- Kazuko Ueki, Kyôko Taniguchi
- Xerography
- Minoru Katô
- Color
- Kazue Seki, Masako Sekiguchi
- Special Effects
- Tokie Hayashi
- Advisor
- Yutaka Kosada, Atsuko Nishimoto
- Camera
- Akio Hayashi, Motokatsu Shirone
- Music
- Seiichirô Uno
- Production progression
- Yoshiharu Kozawa
- Recorder
- Hiromi Kanbara
- Sound Effects
- Yoshirô Matsushita
- Editing
- Yutaka Chikura
Companies and other credits
- Post-Production: Titan Productions
- Film development: Tôei Chemical Co. Ltd
Production notes
Stories include "The Red Shoes," "The Little Match Girl," "Thumbelina" and "The Ugly Duckling."
A 73-minute version was dubbed for release in the United States on March 1, 1971 as "The World of Hans Christian Andersen."
A 73-minute version was dubbed for release in the United States on March 1, 1971 as "The World of Hans Christian Andersen."