Yuki

Aug 9 1981 N/A 1h 29m
Adventure, Animation, Family

Up in Heaven, Yuki’s grandparents decide that, having turned thirteen years old, she must go down to Earth to a village that is torn by bandits and intervene to save its people. However if she does not succeed within one year she will become as insubstantial as the wind. Down in the village, Yuki is befriended by a group of orphans whose parents have all been killed by the bandits and who now subsist by begging. Yuki amazes them by taming the wild horse Blizzard. She is instrumental in getting the orphans and farmers to stand up to first the warring bandits and then Goemon, the greedy lord that owns the region. But Yuki must face her greatest challenge yet when the displeased Demon God that lives in the volcano emerges to destroy those who live beneath.

Plot

Set in feudal Japan, the film focuses on Yuki, an adolescent goddess whose task is to clean up the Earth, both by ridding it of oppressive authorities and by covering it with a blanket of snow.

Written by

Akira Miyazaki

Directed by

Tadashi Imai

Cast

Chie Ushihara, Akiji Kobayashi, Hôsei Komatsu

Crew

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Production Countries

Japan

Production Companies

Nikkatsu Children's Films Inc., Mushi Production

Languages

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
90
Average Rating
7.3 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA