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“1984 anime film adapting Brothers Grimm's "Golden Bird" tale, shelved 3 years before release.”
The Golden Bird
グリム童話 金の鳥
6.72
6,266 rank · 2,945 viewers · 7 favorites
Adventure
Fantasy
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Synopsis
1984 anime film adapting Brothers Grimm's "Golden Bird" tale, shelved 3 years before release.
"Kin No Tori" is an adaptation of the homonymous fairy tale "The Golden Bird" by Brothers Grimm. A golden apple is stolen from the King's garden. The King orders his three sons to guard the apples in turn and to find out who is the thief. When the youngest son, Hansu, presents a feather that he got from the golden bird that stole the apple the king sends his three sons to bring this bird to him and so Hansu journey begins. Completed in 1984, this film was shelved for three years before being theatrically released.
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Community consensus
Derived from 2 sampled reviews
6.0
/10
What 2 viewers settled on.
50%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6
mode 4
σ 2.00
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.00 · split reception
The polarity gap
4.0 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 4.0
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Score over time
↓ 2.00
Running avg · Jan 2020 → Jul 2022
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “Kin no Tori is an animated adaptation of a classic fairy tale that was clearly meant to air for years on end via public-access TV, to the delight of children everywhere. Its visual inventiveness...”
- 4 “God, most of the Brothers Grimm fairytales were awful, weren't they? I mean, sometimes there were intriguing elements; a few grotesqueries that are almost always removed from the adaptations, as...”
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Medium · 0%
Long · 50%
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- Format 1 × 52′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 52m all episodes
- Aired Mar 1987 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-3256 catalog
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