Twelve Months (1980)
Overview
A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward. One greedy woman sends her stepdaughter, whom she does not like, to look for the flowers in a cold forest, knowing the task will be impossible for her. The girl almost freezes to death in the forest, but she is rescued by the spirits of the Twelve Months, who create spring around her. The girl is able to deliver the bouquet to the queen, but others want a share of the reward.
Cast
Shinobu Otake
Anja (voice)
Ai Kanzaki
Queen (voice)
Tokuko Sugiyama
Stepmother (voice)
Mariko Mukai
Stepmother's daughter (voice)
Ichiro Nagai
Professor (voice)
Masashi Amenomori
Prime Minister (voice)
Daisuke Ryū
Officer (voice)
Kiyoshi Kobayashi
January (voice)
Katsuji Mori
April (voice)
Koji Yakusho
Young soldier (voice)
Hidekatsu Shibata
Additional voiceRecommendations
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Epic
A Tooth Fairy Tale
The Legend of Ochi
Hook
The Princess and the Goblin
Pan
The House of Magic
Welcome to Smelliville
Godmothered
Frozen
FairyTale: A True Story
Snow Queen
My Oni Girl
Wolfwalkers
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Kiki's Delivery Service
Castle in the Sky
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger