Panda! Go Panda! ( Panda kopanda ) ( Panda Go Panda )

Panda! Go Panda! (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Panda kopanda
Alternate Title: Panda Go Panda
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
75 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1972 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Isao Takahata

Written By:
Hayao Miyazaki

Actors:
Kazuko Sugiyama ..... Mimiko (voice)
Kazuo Kumakura ..... Papanda
Yoshiko Ohta ..... Pan-chan (voice)
Yasuo Yamada ..... Omawari-san
Alexis A. Edward ..... (voice: English version)
Katie Evans ..... (voice: English version)
Leigh Everest ..... (voice: English version)
Melissa Fahn ..... (voice: English version)
Barbara Goodson ..... (voice: English version)
Dougary Grant ..... (voice: English version)
W.T. Hatch ..... (voice: English version)
Chet Huntley ..... (voice: English version)
Steve Kramer ..... (voice: English version)
Cody MacKenzie ..... (voice: English version)
Melanie MacQueen ..... (voice: English version) (as Aline Leslie)
Julie Maddalena ..... Mimiko (voice: English version)
Mona Marshall ..... (voice: English version)
Jake Martin ..... (voice: English version) (as Dan Martin)
Simon Prescott ..... (voice: English version) (as Simon Isaacson)
Brianne Siddall ..... (voice: English version) (as Ian Hawk)
Peter Spellos ..... (voice: English version) (as G. Gordon Baer)
Doug Stone ..... (voice: English version) (as Gully Jimson)
Kirk Thornton ..... (voice: English version) (as Sparly Thornton)
Claude Wayne ..... (voice: English version)
Heidi Wilbur ..... (voice: English version)

Synopsis:

This strange and lively animated short was the first real collaboration between Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki, who together formed Studio Ghibli in 1985. Panda! Go Panda! tells a simple story aimed at young children, but the oddness of the premise also keeps it interesting for older fans of Miyazaki's work. The plot revolves around Mimiko, an orphaned little girl living on her own, who discovers a pair of talking pandas. She takes in the father and his baby son, and together they form a surrogate family. What follows is cute, innocent fun as Mimiko and the pandas get into various comical mishaps, but there is some noteworthy subtext for adult viewers, as well. The "papa" panda can alternately be seen as a proxy father, a husband figure, or even a child for Mimiko, and the cheerfulness with which she deals with being parentless is both inspiring and unsettling. Still, this is first and foremost a bright, cheerful tale that will please the young -- and young at heart -- with its wholesome action and humorous situations. From these modest beginnings, Miyazaki went on to create such masterpieces as My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, and Spirited Away, while Takahata directed the unforgettable Grave of the Fireflies.

Cheerful Mimiko has a very strange family for a little girl - a Panda for her Papa, and his son, Panny, calls her Mom! Join this happy family and their many adventures! When Panny follows Mimiko to school, he must pretend to be a teddy bear so Mimiko won't get into trouble, but everyone wants a cute Panda! Despite his efforts to behave, Panny causes trouble in the school kitchen, and now the whole school is after Panny! Then, Panny makes a new friend, Tiny, a baby tiger who's wandered off from the circus. Getting Tiny back to his mom becomes the first adventure, but after a hard rain, the whole town is flooded and Mimiko, Papa Panda and Panny must rescue Tiny and other animals from the trapped circus train! Created by Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away), the founding father of Studio Ghibli, this DVD is a must have for all Miyazaki completists and served as the inspiration for My Neighbour Totoro.

When her grandmother goes away on a trip, 7-year-old Mimiko stays at home by herself in her small, friendly village, unafraid of burglars. When she arrives back home from the train station where she saw her grandmother off, she discovers she has a visitor-a baby panda. She quickly makes friends with the young panda and names it Pannie. She later meets Pannie's father, a large panda she calls Papanda. She dubs Pannie her son and Papanda her father, and the three become a happy family with their own big adventures.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 03 March, 2010.

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