Nobody’s Boy: Remi (Movie)

Year: 1980

Runtime: 96 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Osamu Dezaki

DramaFamilyComedyAnimation

Remi, an orphan kid gets hired out to a traveling street entertainer Vitalis when her foster parents fall on hard times.

Direct adaptation

Nobody's Boy: The book behind Nobody’s Boy: Remi (Movie)

A Foundling Sold to a Traveling Musician Crosses France with Performers and Animals, Learning a Trade while Searching for the Family from Which He Was Taken · by Hector Malot, Florence Crewe Jones, Thelma Gooch

Why this book?

The 1980 animated feature condenses the television adaptation of Malot's novel, retaining foundling Rémi, his separation from Mother Barberin, life with Vitalis and the animal troupe, travel, hardship, friendship, and the search for his birth family. Compression necessarily removes many episodes and secondary households from the long picaresque source. The complete English book restores the cumulative education through which Rémi learns work, loyalty, grief, and self-reliance rather than moving only between major plot turns.

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