The Wild Swans
Mar 19 1977
•1h 2m
•Drama, Family, Animation
A young girl must spend six years making sweatshirts out of poison ivy in order to save her six brothers which have been turned into swans by an evil sorceress.
Cast
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Eiko Masuyama
Elisa (voice)
Yasuko Miyazaki
Namida (voice)
Kaneko Iwasaki
Greta (voice)
Yōsuke Kondō
King Hilderbrand (voice)
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