Jenal

Hi,

There are 2 films that I remember from my childhood but cannot remember the name of either one of them. Hopefully someone out there can help me out. Sorry if the details are a bit vague.

(1) It is an animated film about a young/teenage boy and girl, presumably brother and sister. They are on a beach and regularly dive in the sea. Near the beginning of the film, one or both of them create a dolphin figure out of sand on the beach. Later in the story they both go diving from a boat out at sea, and see lots of sharks. All I remember is that there are hammerhead sharks who sort of fight with each other. I saw this in the 1980s sometime.

(2) It is another animated film about a little girl. Either she owns the dog or it is just with her in the film, but the dog is a Saint Bernard breed of dog and he has a red barrel thing around his neck/collar. The girl is climbing a mountain trying to reach the top where there is a red flower with some sort of special magical powers. If I remember correctly, there are also a couple of baddies trying to get the flower before the little girl. I also saw this film in the 1980s sometime. The animated characters look like something drawn from Pokemon or that film called ‘Spirited Away’. I believe this is the sort of films made by Miyazaki.

Any help on either of these would be really good.

Thanks.

asiamiles

Re. (2) Miyazaki contributed to the 70's TV series "Heidi" so you may be remembering a episode of that?

nehs

Yes looks like it was Heidi Animation / Heidi (Alps no Shojo Heidi) [Theatrical Feature]