Cast ashore on a desert island after a fierce ocean storm, fifteen school boys find their lives changed forever. Who cut the lines that sent their ship to sea with no captain or crew? Why are pirates after the boys' new-found friend? Will they ever get home again? The excitement unfolds in scene after thrilling scene.
Direction
Yoshio Kuroda's economical 67-minute pacing
Production
Faithful 19th-century New Zealand setting detail
Acting
Masako Nozawa's scene-stealing Costar performance
Director
Yoshio Kuroda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Jules Verne's 'Two Years' Vacation,' this Nippon Animation adaptation rewrote the original's colonialist undertones for Japanese family audiences.
Voice actor Daisuke Namikawa was only 12 during recording; he later voiced Italy in Hetalia, completing a wild career arc from shipwreck survivor to pasta-loving nation.
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