| Anne no Nikki: Anne Frank Monogatari | |
| Genre: | Drama, biographical film |
| Type: | TV film |
| Director: | Eiji Okabe |
| Producer: | Yoshihiro Ōba |
| Music: | Kōichi Sakata |
| Studio: | Nippon Animation |
| Network: | ANN (ABC, TV Asahi) |
| Released: | 28 September 1979 |
| Runtime: | 82 minutes |
, is a 1979 Japanese anime television film directed by Eiji Okabe.[1] [2] [3] [4] The film is also sometime listed as Anne Frank Monogatari: Anne no Nikki to Douwa yori (アンネ・フランク物語 -アンネの日記と童話より- lit. "The Story of Anne Frank - From Anne's Diary and Fairy Tales-").
The film is notable for being the first animated adaptation of Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl (1942–1944) and was co-produced by Nippon Animation and Asahi Broadcasting Corporation to commemorate Anne's 50th birthday. The film uses four of Anne's short fantasy stories as interludes to her confinement. It also features an interview with Anne's father Otto Frank, and real live action footage from Nazi concentration camps and Netherlands landscapes. It aired on TV Asahi on 28 September 1979. It is said to have started the subgenre of child-focused anime about war such as Barefoot Gen and Grave of the Fireflies. The film is currently unavailable, having never been re-broadcast or released to home video.
The story follows the life of a 13-year-old jewish girl named Anne Frank, hiding with her family and some friends in an Amsterdam attic to escape the Nazis during World War II.
| Character | Japanese voice actor | |
|---|---|---|
| Anne Frank | Mariko Fuji | |
| Margot Frank | Miyuki Ueda | |
| Edith Frank | Noriko Nakamura | |
| Otto Frank | Tooru Abe | |
| Hermann Van Daan | ||
| Petronella Van Daan | Hisako Kyouda | |
| Peter Van Daan | Katsuji Mori | |
| Miep Gies | Saiko Egawa | |
| Albert Düssel | Eisuke Yoda | |
| Narrator | Fumie Kashiyama |
Opening theme
Sung by Seagulls, lyrics by Tokiko Iwatani, music and arrangement by Kōichi Sakata.
Ending theme
Sung by Seagulls, lyrics by Tokiko Iwatani, music and arrangement by Kōichi Sakata.