List of animated feature films of 1985 explained

This is a list of animated feature films first released in 1985.

List

Animated feature films of 1985

Title	Country	Director	Studio	Animation technique	Format	Notes	Release date	Duration
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Australia		Burbank Films Australia	Traditional	Television film		December 17, 1985	50 minutes
The Adventures of Mark Twain	United States	Will Vinton	Will Vinton Productions Harbour Town Films	Stop motion/Claymation	Theatrical	First fully Clay animated feature film.	March 1, 1985	86 minutes
The Adventures of Robin Hood	Australia		Burbank Films Australia	Traditional	Television film		July 13, 1985	50 minutes
Angel's Egg	Japan	Mamoru Oshii		Traditional	Theatrical		December 15, 1985	71 minutes
Area 88: The Movie	Japan	Hisayuki Toriumi	Studio Pierrot	Traditional	Theatrical Compilation film	Re-edited compilation film of the first two episodes of the OVA series Area 88, based on the manga of the same name, that ran for four 65 minute episodes from February 5, 1985 until June 15, 1986.	July 20, 1985	99 minutes
Armored Trooper Votoms: The Last Red Shoulder	Japan	Ryousuke Takahashi		Traditional	Direct-to-video OVA		August 21, 1985	50 minutes
Asterix Versus Caesar	France Belgium	Gaëtan Brizzi Paul Brizzi	Gaumont Dargaud Films Les Productions René Goscinny	Traditional	Theatrical	Fourth installment in the Asterix film series; Plot adapted and composited from volumes 4 and 10 of the comic book series respectively.	December 11, 1985	74 minutes
Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines	United States	John Gibbs Ray Lee Terry Lennon		Traditional	Direct-to-video Compilation film	Compilation film of the 9-episode animated television miniseries ran in 1985, as part of the series Super Sunday that ran from October 6, 1985 to October 1986.		53 minutes
The Black Cauldron	United States	Ted Berman Richard Rich	Walt Disney Productions Silver Screen Partners II	Traditional	Theatrical	The first Disney animated feature to be recorded in Dolby Stereo and rated PG by the MPA.	July 24, 1985	80 minutes
Bobby's Girl	Japan	Hiroyoshi Shimizu Toshio Hirata	Madhouse Project Team Argos Toei Company Kadokawa Haruki Jimusho	Traditional	Theatrical		March 9, 1985	44 minutes
The Brave Frog's Greatest Adventure	United States Japan		Harmony Gold Tatsunoko Production	Traditional	Direct-to-video Compilation film	Second compilation film of the animated television series Demetan Croaker, The Boy Frog that ran from January 2 until September 25, 1973 for a total of 39 half hour episodes; this film covers the events in the series' final four episodes (from 36 "Namazu nyuudou ni makeru na" to 39 "Hibike heiwa no Kerokero fue" respectively).		91 minutes
Captain Tsubasa: Ayaushi, Zen Nippon Jr.	Japan	Hiroyoshi Mitsunobu	Tsuchida Production	Traditional	Theatrical		December 21, 1985	60 minutes
Captain Tsubasa: Europe Daikessen	Japan	Hiroyoshi Mitsunobu	Tsuchida Production	Traditional	Theatrical		July 13, 1985	41 minutes
The Care Bears Movie	Canada United States	Arna Selznick		Traditional	Theatrical		March 29, 1985	75 minutes
Cosmo Police Justy	Japan	Motosuke Takahashi	Studio Pierrot	Traditional	Direct-to-video OVA		July 20, 1985	44 minutes
Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel: Long Goodbye	Japan	Mochizuki Tomomi	Studio Pierrot	Traditional	Direct-to-video OVA		June 15, 1985	55 minutes
The Dagger of Kamui	Japan	Rintaro	Madhouse	Traditional	Theatrical		March 9, 1985	132 minutes
Dallos Special	Japan	Hisayuki Toriumi Mamoru Oshii	Studio Pierrot	Traditional	Direct-to-video OVA Compilation film	Compilation film of the inaugural OVA series that ran for four 30 minute episodes from December 16, 1983 until August 5, 1984.	August 5, 1985	83 minutes
Dirty Pair: Affair of Nolandia	Japan	Masaharu Okuwaki	Sunrise	Traditional	Direct-to-video OVA		December 20, 1985	55 minutes
Dokgo Tak 3 – The Mound Rediscovered	South Korea	Mun Deog-seong	Daewon Donghwa	Traditional	Theatrical	Third feature in the Dokgo Tak series.	August 13, 1985	70 minutes
	Japan	Tsutomu Shibayama		Traditional	Theatrical		March 16, 1985	98 minutes
Dot and the Koala	Australia	Yoram Gross		Traditional/Live action	Theatrical		June 20, 1985	71 minutes
Epic	Australia	Yoram Gross	Yoram Gross Films	Traditional			May 14, 1985	70 minutes
Fire Tripper	Japan	Osamu Uemura	Studio Pierrot	Traditional	Direct-to-video OVA		December 16, 1985	50 minutes
Gon, the Little Fox	Japan	Kosei Maeda	Aikikaku Center	Traditional	Theatrical		March 16, 1985	76 minutes
GoShogun: The Time Étranger	Japan	Kunihiko Yuyama	Ashi Productions	Traditional	Theatrical		April 27, 1985	90 minutes
Greed	Japan	Tomonori Kogawa		Traditional	Direct-to-video OVA		January 21, 1985	57 minutes
Gu Gu Ganmo	Japan	Akinori Nagaoka	Toei Animation	Traditional	Theatrical		March 16, 1985	45 minutes
Gwen, the Book of Sand	France	Jean-François Laguionie		Traditional	Theatrical		February 6, 1985	67 minutes
Happy Days of the Moomins	Poland	Lucjan Dembinski Krystyna Kulczycka Dariusz Zawilski Jadwiga Kudrzycka	Se-ma-for	Stop motion	Theatrical		January 1, 1985	58 minutes
	United States	Bill Reed Ernie Schmidt	Filmation	Traditional	Television special		December 25, 1985	44 minutes
Here Come the Littles	United States France Canada Japan Luxembourg	Bernard Deyriès		Traditional	Theatrical	First Luxembourgian animated feature.	May 25, 1985	75 minutes
A Journey Through Fairyland a. k. a. Fairy Florence	Japan	Masami Hata	Sanrio	Traditional	Theatrical	Sanrio's final feature-length anime until 2007.	October 19, 1985	91 minutes
Kalabaza tripontzia	Spain	Juan Bautista Berasategi	Jalzkibel Kultur	Traditional				90 minutes
Karuizawa Syndrome	Japan	Mizuho Nishikubo		Traditional	Direct-to-video OVA		July 5, 1985	76 minutes
Kinnikuman: Hour of Triumph! Justice Superman	Japan	Takenori Kawada	Toei Animation	Traditional	Theatrical		December 21, 1985	60 minutes
Kinnikuman: Justice Supermen vs. Ancient Supermen	Japan	Yasuo Yamayoshi	Toei Animation	Traditional	Theatrical		March 16, 1985	45 minutes
	Japan	Kunihiko Yuyama	Toho Kaname Production	Traditional	Direct-to-video OVA		March 1, 1985	75 minutes
The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus	United States Japan	Jules Bass Arthur Rankin Jr.		Stop motion	Television special	Rankin/Bass' final "Animagic" production.	December 17, 1985	50 minutes
Little Memole: Marielle's Jewelbox	Japan	Isamu Tsuchida	Toei Animation	Traditional	Direct-to-video OVA		July 21, 1985	75 minutes
The Little Vagabond	Spain	Manuel Rodriguez Jara	M.R. Films	Traditional	Theatrical		July 29, 1985	84 minutes
Love Position – The Legend of Halley	Japan	Shuji Iuchi	Pack-In Video Tezuka Productions Sunshine Corporation	Traditional	Direct-to-video OVA		December 16, 1985	93 minutes
Ludwig's Think Tank	United States			Traditional	Television special Compilation film	Compilation of Disney theatrical animated shorts that concern learning; Wayne Allwine provided new redubbed lines for Ludwig Von Drake in the special.	September 1, 1985	90 minutes
Lupin III: Legend of the Gold of Babylon	Japan	Seijun Suzuki Shigetsugu Yoshida		Traditional	Theatrical		July 13, 1985	100 minutes
Mach and Sebestova – Come Up to the Blackboard!	Czechoslovakia	Adolf Born Jaroslav Doubrava Milos Macourek	Krátký film Praha	Traditional		Film compiled from seven selected episodes of the television series Mach a Šebestová.		68 minutes
Magical Princess Minky Momo – La Ronde in my Dream	Japan	Hiroshi Watanabe	Ashi Productions	Traditional	Direct-to-video OVA		July 28, 1985	81 minutes
The Man in the Iron Mask	Australia		Burbank Films Australia	Traditional	Television film		July 26, 1985	54 minutes
Megazone 23	Japan	Noboru Ishiguro	AIC Tatsunoko Production	Traditional	Direct-to-video OVA	Part one of a four-part OVA series; an alternate 107 minute version of the film was released theatrically 14 days later on March 23.	March 9, 1985	80 minutes
Micro Commando Diatron 5 a. k. a. Space Transformers	South Korea	An Bong-sik Jeong Su-yong	Daekwang Planning Co., Ltd.	Traditional	Theatrical		July 20, 1985	63 minutes
Molly and the Skywalkerz: Happily Ever After	United States	Bill Melendez Steven Cuitlahuac Melendez	JZM Productions Bill Melendez Productions WonderWorks PBS	Traditional	Television film		October 20, 1985	60 minutes
The Monkey King Conquers the Demon a. k. a. Monkey Conquers the Demon	China	Te Wei Yan Ding-Xian Lin Wen-Xiao	Shanghai Animation Film Studio	Traditional	Theatrical			89 minutes
Mujeokcheorin lamboteu	South Korea	Mun Deog-seong		Traditional	Theatrical		December 21, 1985	70 minutes
Nicholas Nickleby	Australia		Burbank Films Australia	Traditional	Television film		March 16, 1985	72 minutes
Night on the Galactic Railroad	Japan	Gisaburo Sugii	Group TAC Studio Gallop	Traditional	Theatrical		July 13, 1985	105 minutes
a. k. a. Odin: Starlight Mutiny	Japan	Eiichi Yamamoto Takeshi Shirato Toshio Masuda Yoshinobu Nishioka	Toei Animation West Cape Production	Traditional	Theatrical		August 10, 1985	140 minutes
Odyssea	Czechoslovakia East Germany	Jiří Tyller	Krátký film Praha DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme	Cutout/Live action		Produced from 1983–1985.^[1] Released in the GDR in 1986.^[2]	September 5, 1986	68 minutes
Peter-No-Tail in Americat	Sweden	Stig Lasseby Jan Gissberg	Farago Film Filmhuset AS Sandrews Semic Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI) Teamfilm AS	Traditional	Theatrical		December 14, 1985	78 minutes
	Japan	Shunji Kimura	Toho CM Land Hakuhodo Inc. SUNTORY Animation Staff Room	Traditional	Theatrical		July 22, 1985	102 minutes
The Pickwick Papers	Australia		Burbank Films Australia	Traditional	Television film		March 26, 1985	71 minutes
The Pied Piper	Czechoslovakia	Jiří Barta	Krátký film Praha	Stop motion	Theatrical		September 1986	53 minutes
Pohádky pod sněhem	Czechoslovakia	Zdeněk Smetana	Krátký film Praha Studio Jirího Trnky	Traditional	Theatrical		October 1, 1986	64 minutes
The Prince of Devil Island: The Three-Eyed One	Japan	Yugo Serikawa		Traditional	Television film	Eighth animated special produced for Nippon TV's 24 Hour TV "Love Saves the Earth" telethon, and the second of only three specials not to be produced by Tezuka Productions.	August 25, 1985	85 minutes
Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer	United States France	Bernard Deyriès Kimio Yabuki		Traditional	Theatrical		November 15, 1985	85 minutes
Robby the Rascal	Japan		Knack Productions KidPix Productions	Traditional	Direct-to-video Compilation film	Compilation film of the animated television series Cybot Robotchi that ran from October 7, 1982 to June 29, 1983 for a total of 39 episodes.		90 minutes
The Robot Corps and Mecha 3	South Korea	Kim Cheong-gi	Seoul Donghwa Production	Traditional	Theatrical		October 19, 1985	68 minutes
Robot King Sun Shark	South Korea	Bak Seung-cheol	3rd Advertisement	Traditional/Live action	Theatrical		July 20, 1985	62 minutes
Sangokushi	Japan	Tetsuo Imazawa		Traditional	Television special		March 20, 1985	90 minutes
The Secret of the Sword	United States	Ed Friedman Lou Kachivas Marsh Lamore Bill Reed Gwen Wetzler		Traditional	Theatrical Compilation film	The first five episodes of the animated television series (1985–1987) ("Into Etheria", "Beast Island", "She-Ra Unchained", "Reunions" and "Battle for Bright Moon", respectively) all compiled into a single narrative with minor edits made to the plot; originally released before the series' premiere later in the year on September 9.	March 22, 1985	91 minutes
The Secrets of a Wicker Bay	Poland	Wiesław Zięba	Studio Miniatur Filmowych	Traditional		Compilation film of the Polish animated television serial that ran for seven 21 minute episodes from 1984 until 1988.		73 minutes
The Snow Country Prince	Japan	Tomoharu Katsumata		Traditional	Theatrical		December 21, 1985	88 minutes
	United States South Korea	Steven Hahn		Traditional	Theatrical	Originally produced and released in the 3D film format.	November 22, 1985	107 minutes
Szaffi a. k. a. The Treasure of Swamp Castle	Hungary Canada West Germany	Attila Dargay		Traditional	Theatrical		April 11, 1985	76 minutes
Time Patrol	Japan	Gregory Snegoff	Harmony Gold Tatsunoko Production	Traditional	Television film Compilation film	Another compilation film of the animated television series Time Bokan that ran from October 4, 1975 to December 25, 1976 for a total of 61 episodes.		72 minutes
Ttoriwa Jeta Roboteu	South Korea	Kim Cheong-gi	Seoul Dongwha Production Co., Ltd.	Traditional	Theatrical		January 17, 1985	58 minutes
	Japan	Kazuo Yamazaki		Traditional	Theatrical	Third feature in the Urusei Yatsura film series.	January 26, 1985	93 minutes
Urusei Yatsura: Ryoko's September Tea Party	Japan	Keiji Hayakawa Junji Nishimura Mamoru Oshii Tsugio Ozawa Iku Suzuki Osamu Uemura Kazuo Yamazaki Naoyuki Yoshinaga	Fuji TV Kitty Films Studio Deen	Traditional	Television special		September 24, 1985	48 minutes
Vampire Hunter D	Japan	Toyoo Ashida	Toho Ashi Productions	Traditional	Theatrical		December 21, 1985	80 minutes
Vampires in Havana	Cuba Spain	Juan Padrón	Manfred Durniok Produktion für Film und Fernsehen Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos (ICAIC) Radio Televisión Española (RTVE)	Traditional	Theatrical			69 minutes
We Called Them Montagues and Capulets	Bulgaria	Donyo Donev	Boyana Film	Traditional	Theatrical		June 27, 1985	89 minutes
What's Michael?	Japan	Makoto Nagaro	Kitty Films	Traditional	Direct-to-video OVA		November 25, 1985	55 minutes
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown	United States	Sam Jaimes	Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates United Media Productions Mendelson-Melendez Productions	Traditional	Television special	Third hour-long Peanuts special.	November 6, 1985	50 minutes

Highest-grossing animated films of the year

Rank	Title	Studio	Worldwide gross	Ref.
1	The Care Bears Movie	Nelvana Limited / American Greetings	$34,000,000 ($22,934,622)	^[3]
2	The Black Cauldron	Walt Disney Feature Animation	$21,288,692	^[4]
3		Asatsu / Toho	$9,600,000	^[5]
4	The Secret of the Sword	Filmation / Atlantic Releasing	$7,660,857	^[6]
5	Here Come the Littles	DIC Entertainment / ABC Entertainment / Atlantic Releasing	$6,565,359	^[7]

See also

• List of animated television series of 1985

References

1. http://www.filmportal.de/film/die-irrfahrten-des-odysseus odyssea_cd920035f5104f5e93a2334955c40ae4 filmportal.de
2. http://www.defa-stiftung.de/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=412&FilmID=Q6UJ9A002M29&qpn=0 Film database of the Defa-Stiftung
3. News: Babar's triumphs. Hayden. Gene. August 7, 1989. Maclean's. Maclean Hunter Limited. 48. Founded in 1972, the [Nelvana] company earned an international reputation in 1984, after American director George Lucas—best known for the Star Wars movie series—hired the studio to create two animated TV spin-off series, Ewoks and Droids. A year later, Ohio's American Greetings Corp. and Kenner Parker Toys Inc. commissioned Nelvana to produce the animated Care Bears Movie. Earning $34 million in 1985, it became at the time the world's most profitable non-Disney animated movie. Buoyed by that success, Nelvana made two sequels. But the last of the trilogy, the 1987 Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland, which Nelvana produced for just under $5 million, only broke even. Conceded Hirsh: 'It was just one [sequel] too many.'.
4. Web site: The Black Cauldron (1985) - Box Office Mojo. www.boxofficemojo.com. 2016-08-05.
5. Web site: 邦画興行収入ランキング . SF MOVIE DataBank . General Works . 19 February 2019.
6. Web site: He-Man and She-Ra in The Secret of the Sword (1985) - Box Office Mojo. www.boxofficemojo.com. 2016-08-05.
7. Web site: Here Come the Littles (1985) - Box Office Mojo. www.boxofficemojo.com. 2016-08-05.

External links

• Animated films of the year, listed in the IMDb