フィンランドに伝わる「サンタクロース伝説」を主題に、フィンランドの四季の美しい景観も交えて描くメルヘンファンタジーのTVアニメシリーズ。フィンランドの森の奥深く。そこには「ヨールプッキ」(サンタクロースの正式名)と、彼に従う小人の妖精「トント」たちが住んでいた。一年に一度だけやってくるクリスマスのため、ヨールプッキとトントたちは世界中の子供たちに配るプレゼントを作ったり、トナカイの訓練をしたりして日々を過ごす。だがそんな彼らの日常にも、大小のいろいろな事件が……。製作は『ムーミン』『アルプスの少女ハイジ』の瑞鷹(ズイヨー)エンタープライズ。サンタクロースはクリスマス以外の日々に何をしているのかという着想がユニークな作品で、日本離れした愛らしいキャラクターデザインを担当したのは、実力派アニメーターの白梅進。
V: The Series was a one-hour weekly television series that aired in the United States on NBC in 1984-85. It was a continuation of the science fiction franchise about an alien invasion of Earth by a carnivorous race of reptilians known as "The Visitors" which was originally conceived by American writer, producer and director Kenneth Johnson. Johnson, however, was not involved in...
A Japanese period drama broadcast in prime-time in 1984, based on Goseki Kojima and Kazuo Koike 's manga of the same title. Kainage Mondo is a secret child of Tokugawa Yoshimune and skilled swordsman. His job is a part to test food for poison for Yoshimune. He was on a journey but he goes to Edo to see Yoshi...
John Peter Macallister was a Korean veteran who| after serving| decided to live in Japan| and| while there| he studied Ninjitsu and became a Ninja. Thirty yearslater| he learned that he has a daughter| so left to find her. Apparently| though| he can't leave the sect that he is with| because it means that he is now markedfor death. He manages to escape| and| upon arriving in the...
The TARDIS arrives on Androzani Minor, the source of a life-prolonging drug refined from a substance called spectrox. Production of the drug is controlled by Sharaz Jek, a facially deformed madman in self imposed exile, who blames Morgus, a powerful industrialist on Androzani Major, for all his misfortunes.
Jek is fighting government troops sent to liberate the drug. His weapon...