A boy with a mythical sword wants to protect a Norse village from an evil ice wizard and his minions, who destroyed his family's village. However, the villagers don't fully trust him and a m... Read allA boy with a mythical sword wants to protect a Norse village from an evil ice wizard and his minions, who destroyed his family's village. However, the villagers don't fully trust him and a mysterious girl with a dark secret befriends him.A boy with a mythical sword wants to protect a Norse village from an evil ice wizard and his minions, who destroyed his family's village. However, the villagers don't fully trust him and a mysterious girl with a dark secret befriends him.
- Hilda
- (voice)
- Village Leader
- (voice)
- Hols
- (voice)
- Villager
- (voice)
- Horu's Father
- (voice)
- …
- Paul
- (voice)
- …
- Rusan
- (as Masaaki Tsusaka)
- Little girl Mauni
- (as Yoko Mizugaki)
- Coro, the little Bear
- (voice)
- (as Yukari Asai)
- Director
- Writer
- Kazuo Fukazawa(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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- TriviaThe production was ridden with problems, mainly due to the difficult union relationships between the artists and the company Tôei Animation (then known as Tôei Dôga). The movie was released far beyond schedule and kept in the theaters only for 10 days. Because of this, it bombed, and Isao Takahata never directed for Toei again. However, the movie became immediately an underground hit among students and young anime artists, and is now widely considered the first modern anime.
- GoofsWhen Grunwald is holding Hols' rope on the icy cliff, you can see his gloves change color from black to blue to black again.
- Quotes
Hols: [after escaping from the Endless Woods and encountering Hilda] Hilda, come with me to the village.
[She steps back, clutches her amulet and glares coldly at him]
Hols: I was right, I knew we could get the other Hilda out of you. Come to the village, Hilda.
[Shaking her head, she attacks him with her sword and he fends her off with his axe]
Hols: That's the Hilda we must get out of you. Be brave and show them how human you really are.
[He disarms her and she bows her head]
Hols: There... you are human
Hilda: [Gazes sadly at him] Goodbye, Hols.
[Begins to slide into the snow darkness like a ghost]
Hols: Hilda!
Hilda: My brother went to the village... you'd better hurry to help Flep and Mauni.
Hols: Hilda...
- Alternate versionsThe English-dubbed version from AIP-TV changed the location of the film from Northern Japan to Norway.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hana and Alice (2004)
The film is important for its place in anime history. As a story, it's slightly weak (there are several subplots that didn't quite seem to fit), but nevertheless very enjoyable. This was partly due to the fact that the fansub I watched was, um...rather poorly translated, and some of the subtitles caused me to break into fits of hilarity. The animation itself seems mediocre nowadays, but must have been exceptional for the time. There's a slightly Disney look to it, but the anime style is definitely there...and the film is much darker than anything Disney could come up with. I mean, there's an Ice Demon whose dream is to kill everyone in the world. ! I'm thinking also of the part when Hilda's squirrel companion says something like, "But Hilda, if you save this girl she will live a life of rejection and hatred! Just like your whole life has been!" (That's nowhere near an exact quotation, but it's as close as I can remember.) And then there's the scene when Horus enters the Forest of Delusion...
It's fun to see the early development of Takahata and Miyazaki. You can see ideas just forming that would manifest in their later films. The film in itself is quite good, and in fact one of the better anime (animes?) I've seen. [Certainly it was better than the other feature at Anime Society that night, an inexplicable, boring, badly animated mess about a detective who is his own client and airplanes turning into fish and a two-year-old who is God...no, I didn't get it either.]
In conclusion, if you ever get the chance to see "Horus, Prince of the Sun", don't hesitate. I just wish there was a way I could see it again...
- Zohariel
- Jul 14, 2000
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- Horus, Prince of the Sun
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- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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