Yuki
7.3
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.
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Cast
10 people
Chie Ushihara
Yuki (voice)
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Joji Yanami
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Texhnolyze
Tadashi Imai Director · Akira Miyazaki Screenplay Ryusuke Saito Story
First release August 9, 1981 · Produced in Japan · Production Mushi Production
Production
Nikkatsu Children's Films
Production
Mushi Production
Production
Japan
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Languages
Original title
ゆき
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · August 9, 1981
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
August 1, 1982 · Physical · VHS (Jacques Canestrier - Vidéo Jeunes) (placeholder)
March 25, 2020 · Theatrical
January 20, 2021 · Physical · DVD (Rimini Editions)
Poland
February 8, 1987 · TV
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