Nothing truly new occurs here, but this unassuming youth romance from director Adam Wong possesses an energy, sincerity and local flavor that make it winning and quite enjoyable. One of the Hong Kong Cinema's more pleasant surprises in 2007.
Magic Boy, known in Japan as Shōnen Sarutobi Sasuke (少年猿飛佐助?, "Sasuke the Ninja Boy"), is a full length animated film released on December 25, 1959. Released as Toei Animation's second theatrical anime, the film was the first anime film to be released in theaters in North America on June 22, 1961, titled as Magic Boy.
Jerry Beck, an animation historian, said that the film exhibited Toei Animation's effort to use the "Disney formula of presenting a traditional folktale with songs and plenty of cute animals." In the English language version, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer left most of the original songs with Japanese language lyrics in the English version. Since the creators of the English version preferred to liken Sasuke to the public perception of samurai, who were viewed as heroic, as opposed to the ninja, who were viewed as "sinister spies and assassins," MGM's publicity incorrectly said that The Adventures of the Little Samurai was the Japanese title of the film.
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