Dōbutsu no Mori (film)
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| Dōbutsu no Mori (Animal Forest) | |
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 Animal Crossing film poster |
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| Directed by | Jōjin Shimura |
| Produced by | Bunshō Kajiya |
| Written by | Aya Matsui |
| Starring | Yui Horie Misato Fukuen Fumiko Orikasa Yū Kobayashi Naoki Tatsuta Kenichi Ogata Shun Oguri Yūichi Kimura |
| Music by | Kazumi Totaka |
| Cinematography | Kōji Yamakoshi |
| Editing by | Toshio Henmi |
| Distributed by | Toho |
| Release date(s) | December 16, 2006 DVD- July 25, 2007 Japan |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Official website | |
| IMDb profile | |
Dōbutsu no Mori (劇場版 どうぶつの森 Gekijōban Dōbutsu no Mori?, lit. "Animal Forest: The Movie") is an anime film based on the Animal Crossing series of video games. The director is Jōjin Shimura who has worked previously on Master Keaton and Shin Angyo Joshi. It retains the theme of the video game, in which a villager moves to a town and interacts with the animal villagers. It opened in theaters in Japan on December 16, 2006. Recently, Nintendo stated that no plans have yet been made for foreign releases.[1] The film earned an estimated 1,800,000,000 yen (approximately $5,000,000) at the box office.
The film is widely based on Animal Crossing: Wild World.
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[edit] Story
The following is a translation of the story from the Japanese site:
One day, a young girl called Ai moves into the Animal Village. While working at Tom Nook's shop "Nook's Cranny" she begins living her life away from her family. To begin with, she doesn't know left from right, but under the guidance of Mayor Tortimer, the angry (but correct) Mr. Resetti, and the wandering musician K.K. Slider among others, she is eventually accepted as a member of the village. Along the way she meets Sally, who dreams of being a designer, the straight-talking Bouquet, and Bianca the Wolf, who is in love with Apollo. Soon the four of them become good friends.
One spring evening Ai finds a bottle on the beach. She picks it up, opens it and finds a mysterious message written inside. “Plant a Conifer, and on the night of the Snow Festival something miraculous will happen.”
Time passes, and soon it's time for the Snow Festival. This year it will be one very special day, and send an uproar throughout the village. Ai, following the instructions in that mysterious message, has planted a Conifer. What kind of miracle will happen on the night of the Snow Festival...? What happens is that a mysterious UFO crashes near the festival. It appears to be some sort of bird creature. The bird lost 5 parts of its UFO and needs help finding them...
[edit] Characters
| Character | Description | Japanese seiyū |
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| Ai | The naive, simple, and innocent female human protagonist of the film who moves into the Animal Village. She also likes cherries. | Yui Horie |
| Bouquet the Cat | A frank female cat who befriends Ai. She has a tendency to praise her own wares. She discovers a Seismosaurus fossil in the village cave.
She is Rosie in the video games. |
Misato Fukuen |
| Sally the Elephant | A female elephant who dreams of becoming a designer. Despite her large and intimidating appearance, she is a kind and gentle person, and befriends Ai along with Rosie.
She is Margie in the video games. |
Fumiko Orikasa |
| Yū | A brave human boy who lives in a neighboring village. His hobbies include cosplaying (usually as a pirate or a ninja) and collecting insects and fossils. | Yū Kobayashi |
| Albert the Crocodile | A mischievous male crocodile who is friends with Yū. He is Alfonso in the video games. | Takatoshi Kaneko |
| Apollo the Eagle | A calm male eagle whom Bianca seems to admire. | Masaki Terasoma |
| Bianca the Wolf | A cool female gray wolf who seems to admire Apollo. She has a passion for ladylikeness. | Yurika Hino |
| Saruo the Monkey | A muscular male monkey who likes to weight-train. Throughout the entire movie he is non-stop training. | Yasuhiro Takato |
| Araso the Gorilla | A male gorilla who is skilled in enka. He is good friends with Sakurajima. | Kazuya Tatekabe |
| Sakurajima the Anteater | A male anteater who is skilled in chanson. He is good friends with Araso. | Yūji Ueda |
| Darumaso the Penguin | A male penguin who likes to fish. He always fishes at the same place. | Hisao Egawa |
| Tanukichi | A male tanuki that owns a shop in the Animal Village. He likes to make new villagers work at his store as a part time job. | Naoki Tatsuta |
| Kotobuki | A male turtle who acts as the village headman. | Kenichi Ogata |
| Perio the Mailman | A male pelican who delivers letters around the Animal Village. | Akio Suyama |
| Periko the Pelican | A female pelican who works in the Animal Village City Hall during the daytime hours. She is a tender and kind person, unlike her older sister Perimi. | Otoha |
| Perimi the Pelican | A female pelican who works in the Animal Village City Hall during the nighttime hours. Unlike her younger sister Periko, she is a foul-mouthed and bitter person. | Yūko Mizutani |
| Fūta the Owl | A male Ural Owl who works at the Animal Village Museum. He cannot stop talking about dinosaurs once he starts talking about one. To obtain a Seismosaurus fossil is his dream. | Kappei Yamaguchi |
| Fūko the Owl | A female owl who runs the observatory in the museum. Possibly due to a translation error, a subbed version of the movie states that the cafe is on the roof and the observatory in the basement. | Mika Kanai |
| Masutan | A male Columbidae who runs the kissaten in the museum's basement. | Takaya Hashi |
| Totakeke | A male street musician dog. He is named and modeled after musician Kazumi Totaka. | Shun Oguri |
| Resetsuto-San | A male mole who is in charge of the illumination in the Village. | Yūichi Kimura |
| Seiichi | A male walrus painter who is frequently hungry and sorrowful. | Junpei Takiguchi |
| Asami | The younger of the two Able Sisters, who are hedgehog tailors. | Mari Adachi |
| Kinuyo | The older of the two Able Sisters, who are hedgehog tailors. | Saori Hattori |
| Tsunekichi | A male fox who runs a suspicious black market. | Tetsuo Sakaguchi |
| Rakosuke | A male sea otter. | Takashi Miike |
| Jonni | An male astronaut Common Gull who flies around the Village in a UFO. | Wataru Takagi |
| Kappei | A male taxicab-driving kappa. | Mitsuo Iwata |
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