The Story of Fifteen Boys

Name: The Story of Fifteen Boys
Genre: History, Animation, Adventure
Released: 1987-10-19
Duration: 1 h 7 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Daisuke Namikawa, Kazue Ikura, Urara Takano, Toshiko Fujita, Masako Nozawa

瞳のなかの少年十五少年漂流記 (1987)

1:07 (67 min)

History, Animation, Adventure

Japan

7.5/10
48

—
no scores

5.7/10
3

7.6/10
45

Rate the movie:

All about film

Photo 1

Actors and characters

Movie poster "The Story of Fifteen Boys"

Production

Nippon Animation

Release date

19 October 1987

Director

Yoshio Kuroda

Scenario

Jules Verne

Author

Composer

Actors

Jack (voice)

Briant (voice)

Donagan (voice)

Gordon (voice)

Costar (voice)

Maria Kawamura

Kate (voice)

All actors and roles (6)

Short description

Cast ashore on a desert island after a fierce ocean storm, fifteen school boys find their lives changed forever. Who cut the lines that sent their ship to sea with no captain or crew? Why are pirates after the boys' new-found friend? Will they ever get home again? The excitement unfolds in scene after thrilling scene.

What's left behind the scenes

In 1978, an anonymous adventure novel titled 'The Tale of Fifteen Boys and Girls' was published in the DPRK; its main plot line largely coincides with the novel 'Two Years' Vacation,' and the authorship of this book is attributed to Kim Il Sung.
In 1982, another anime adaptation of Jules Verne's novel 'Two Years' Vacation' was released, produced by Toei Animation and directed by Masayuki Akéhi.
Satoru Nishizono, the screenwriter of the anime series 'Digimon Adventure' (1999), admitted that the idea for the series' plot was inspired by the novel 'Two Years' Vacation'.
The anime is based on an adaptation of Jules Verne's later novel, 'Two Years' Vacation' (French: Deux ans de vacances, 1888).
There are two film adaptations of Jules Verne's novel 'Two Years' Vacation': 'The Stolen Airship' / Ukradená vzducholod (1966, Czechoslovakia) and 'Pirates of the Pacific' / Piratii din Pacific (1974, France, Germany (FRG), Romania).
Jules Verne began working on a cycle of 'Robinsonade' novels in 1886. In them, he describes the collective labor of people stranded on a deserted island, far from civilized society, where humans are constantly forced to interact with wild nature. Here, it is all for one and one for all...