Ringing Bell (1978) on Netflix
Chirin, a young lamb on a farm, wears a bell so his mother can find him. When a wolf kills her, he leaves the farm and follows the wolf toward the mountains.
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Plot summary
Chirin lives with his flock on a farm, and a bell around his neck lets his mother find him whenever the adventurous lamb strays too far. She tells him never to go beyond the fence, because a sheep-eating wolf lives in the mountains nearby. The wolf is old and black, and a scar crosses one of his eyes; he hunts out of a belief that the cycle of nature must go on. One night he comes into the barn, and Chirin's mother puts herself between the wolf and her son and dies. The flock offers the grieving lamb no sympathy, and his anger turns toward the mountain. He leaves the farm and goes after the wolf.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ringing Bell (1978)
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- Ringing Bell was Sanrio's first anime film to have a dark plot; the only two films the studio later co-produced with Sunrise that followed suit were The Ideon: A Contact and The Ideon: Be Invoked, both of which conclude Yoshiyuki Tomino's Space Runaway Ideon.
- Ringing Bell is also among Sanrio's first works aimed at young adult audience members both in Japan and abroad.
