Wakakusa Monogatari (Little Women)

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Synonyms: Little Women (1980)

Japanese: 若草物語

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Type: TV Special

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: May 3, 1980

Producers: Fuji TV

Licensors: Harmony Gold

Studios: Toei Animation

Source: Novel

Genre: Slice of Life

Theme: Historical

Duration: 1 hr. 8 min.

Rating: G - All Ages

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Score: 6.15¹ (scored by 464 users)

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Ranked: #9059²

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Popularity: #12799

Members: 1,424

Favorites: 0

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Synopsis

This is a TV special based on the novel, Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott. It covers a year in the lives of four sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy as their father is away fighting in the American Civil War.

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Horie, Mitsuko

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Aoki, Nozomi

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Alcott, Louisa May

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Reviews

Jan 17, 2019

matthigh

Not Recommended

A fairly straightforward version of Little Women -- made in 1980, and the quality of the artwork and animation are standard for the time it was made.

However, the biggest shortcoming of this version is that it is only an hour long. And it's not exactly easy to compress one of America's greatest literary classics of the 19th century from hundreds of pages down to a short-length movie. The whole thing seems rushed, and the story cut up, with some story elements getting the short-shrift. If you are familiar with the story in other formats, you will ...