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Hashire Melos
Type: TV Special
Show start: 1981-02-07
Show Ended: 1981-02-07
Episodes: 1
Runtime: 70
Rating: 3.31
Tags:
content indicators, themes, original work, setting, elements, time, place, past, Earth, violence
Categories:
Violence, Earth, Europe, Romance, Past,
Description:
* Based on http://anidb.net/cr9129 [Dazai Osamu]`s 1940 short story, itself based on Greek legend (via a poem by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller).
Melos is a Greek country man that is arrested and accused of conspiracy against the king. He gets three days to travel to his sister`s wedding while Selinentius (Selinae), a genius sculptor that Melos just met stays as a hostage.
Source: Wikipedia
Note: Initially released as a TV special. In 1992, this was followed by a 107 minute animated film directed and written by Masaaki Osumi. The story was animated as a 30 minute stop-motion short for the Classic Children`s Tales series (1992), and again, as a 10 minute short directed by Keisuke Morishita, for the Famous Japanese Fables series (1997). | Similar Animes |
