Directed by:
Isao TakahataScreenplay:
Hayao MiyazakiCinematography:
Tatsumasa ShimizuCast:
Kazuo Kumakura, Kazuko Sugiyama, Yoshiko Ōta, Yasuo Yamada, Hiroko Maruyama, Yoneko Matsukane, 梶哲也, Osamu Ichikawa, Mine Eken, 沼波輝枝, Reiko Seno, Yôko YamaokaPlots(1)
Mimiko, a seven-year-old girl, is left home alone after seeing her grandmother off on a trip. Returning home, she discovers a pair of pandas — Panny and his father, Papa Panda. Mimiko quickly becomes friends with the pandas and the three form a surrogate family, partaking in numerous adventures in the process. (Shout! Factory)
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Mimiko, the protagonist, is very similar to Pippi Longstocking with her red-haired braids, her independence and the fact that she has the whole house to herself (for a while). If you overlook the fact that little Mimiko is also sort of the daughter of the great Panda and the mother of the Panda's son, which makes her effectively a cousin, this is an easy-going, if somewhat infantile, one-off whose target audience is definitely children. In the visuals of Daddy Panda, you can clearly see traits of the later Totoro, who is qualitatively different.
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