Film

White Fang

1990 · 1h 23m · Drama · Family · Animation

IMDb

5.2

A gray wolf raised on a farm kills the family dog, and to save him from being destroyed, a boy named Lasset makes a trek through the wilderness with the wolf to a wilderness sanctuary 300 miles to the north. The BGM in the film consists entirely of Dvorak's Serenade for Strings, making it perhaps the only anime since Gauche the Cellist to make use of a single piece of classical music as the soundtrack. The plot of the film is simple and the outcome obvious, but the atmosphere of the film is genuine, and it is very moving in parts thanks to Dvorak's music (which is scored entirely for the most emotional of the instrument groups, the strings). This is a straightforward drama about the friendship between a boy and his wolf, and it pushes all the buttons you'd expect, but it's very enjoyable despite all that.

Katsumi Toriumi

Russ Clagg (voice)

Gorō Naya

Schott (voice)

Hiroshi Arikawa

Cal (voice)

Tomoko Munakata

Emily (voice)

Kazuyuki Sogabe

Reiko Seno

Ritsuo Sawa

• Tsuneo MaedaDirector
• Wataru KenmotsuWriter
• Mel EllisNovel
• Shigeji TsuikiProducer
• Juro SugimuraDirector of Photography
• Masashi FurukawaEditor

Release date

April 28, 1990

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 23m

Genres

Drama, Family, Animation