Dōbutsu Takarajima (どうぶつ宝島, literally "Animal Treasure Island") is a 1971 Japanese animated feature film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
The film was produced by Toei Animation and released on the studio's 20th anniversary.
Jim, the young assistant of the keeper of the Admiral Bembo inn, and his mouse friend Gran (Rex in English) are one night asked by a rough, one-legged stranger for a room and to watch out for suspicious...
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Dōbutsu Takarajima (どうぶつ宝島, literally "Animal Treasure Island") is a 1971 Japanese animated feature film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
The film was produced by Toei Animation and released on the studio's 20th anniversary.
Jim, the young assistant of the keeper of the Admiral Bembo inn, and his mouse friend Gran (Rex in English) are one night asked by a rough, one-legged stranger for a room and to watch out for suspicious-looking characters. The latter, a band of black-cloaked assassins, soon arrive, and the man asks Jim to take care of the casket he's been carrying before engaging the intruders. Jim and Gran narrowly escape. After they return to the ransacked inn later, they open the casket in hopes of gaining some money for compensation for the damage. Inside they find a map to the treasure hidden by the infamous pirate captain Flint.
Jim and Gran immediately set out with their steam-powered barrel boat - and the innkeeper's infant son Baboo as a stowaway -...
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