Directed by:
Takeo NakamuraScreenplay:
Shintarō TsujiCast:
Christopher Lee, Melissa Gilbert, Michele Lee, Ken Sansom, Roddy McDowall, Dick Van Patten, Eva Gabor, Lurene Tuttle, 藤村俊二, 藤村有弘, Kin'ya Aikawa, Jo Anne Worley (more)Plots(1)
This original stop-motion Sanrio production features beautiful photography, lighting, sets, and intricate dolls. They help create a delightful and sometimes dark world complete with the menacing Ragman and a tyrannical two-headed rat queen. After a young girl, Clara, receives a nutcracker from her enigmatic Uncle Drosselmayer, she finds that her precious present is stolen by thieving rats led by Mauslynx, the double-headed rat queen. To win it back, Clara enters a surreal land through her family’s grandfather clock. One of her stops is the Kingdom of Dolls, where she finds the king grieving over his cursed, eternally-asleep daughter, Princess Mary, a doppelganger for Clara herself. She and Franz, the captain of the guards and Mary’s suitor, infiltrate the army of rats in a desperate attempt to dethrone the despot! (Discotek Media)
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