When Chuta, a badly injured mouse, staggers off a ship in Tokyo Harbor, he bumps into out-of-towners Gamba and Bobo, who are at a party being given by Yoisho, the sailor-mouse. Chuta tells the local mice that he has escaped from Devil's Island, where Norio the evil ermine has crushed the mice with his reign of terror.
Direction
Shunji Oga squeezes genuine horror into 75 minutes of animal adventure.
Acting
Masako Nozawa's Gamba somehow makes 'brave mouse' feel iconic, not ridiculous.
Score
That synth-heavy soundtrack hits different when characters are actually dying.
Director
Shunji Oga
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on a 1972 novel that spawned a vastly darker 1975 TV series; this film condenses the grim into pure adrenaline.
Director Shunji Oga later worked on Pokémon—imagine if THAT had Gamba's body count.
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