Katri, Girl of the Meadows - Season 1 Episode 1 Goodbyes
The story begins as a woman named Sara looks upon her payload as she is taking a carriage ride across the Finnish countryside to where her six-year-old daughter Katri has been residing with her grandparents. A cowpoke's cautionary challenge becomes the forum by which Sara explains that she has had to work abroad for protracted periods of time as evidenced by her previous visit having taken place the year before -- a dynamic that has driven Katri to perch on a bridge railing oblivious to how worried her grandparents Hilda and Julius Ukonniemi are about her. A very sentimental mother-daughter reunion gives way to Katri exchanging notes with Sara about the lives they have led before Sara presents Katri her payload -- an energetic dachshund puppy. Katri becomes extremely fond of the dachshund puppy which she names Aapeli whose immense affection and situational utility does very little to compensate for Sara's protracted absence during which the Colossal War in Europe extinguishes all correspondence and finding to her horror that her grandparents' micro-economy is in a bad way even without a large bear that thinks of Katri and her grandparents as food before Aapeli barks some trepidation into the large ursine. Even as the male villagers slay the bear that they think is why another farm lost two cows and Aapeli barks an injunction against proximity to the forest to the calf, it ultimately offers very cold comfort to Katri who does not like the necessity of selling a cow that she is fond of -- and that a bear has decided for the cow being its next meal along with her grandpa.
Year: 1984
Country: Japan
Studio: Fuji TV
Director:
Cast: Hitomi Oikawa, Hisako Kyoda, Kumiko Takizawa, Naoki Tatsuta, Toru Furuya, Akiko Takeguchi
Crew: Auni Nuolivaara (Original Story), Hiroshi Saito (Director), Akira Miyazaki (Screenplay), Toru Fuyuki (Original Music Composer), Taizaburo Abe (Art Direction)
First Air Date: Jan 08, 1984
Last Air date: Dec 23, 1984
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 49 Episode
Runtime: 24 minutes
IMDb: 6.40/10 by 5.00 users
Popularity: 57.676
Language: Japanese
Keyword :
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Goodbyes
Friends
Spring Storm
Decision
Time of Separation
The Master
The Madam
The Accident
Affection
The Promise
The Fight
The Letter
A Wonderful Present
My First Invitation
An Unexpected Payment
The Little Lost Lamb
Day of the Wolves Extermination
Two Fires
Roommate
Incoming Person, Outgoing Person
Abel Targeted
While Waiting for Spring
The Bear vs. The Cattle
Meeting and Parting
Event at the Island
The Person Who Saved Us
Growing City
New Life
Seeing Dreams
Like a Majestic Swan
Book Delivered By Mail
Magical Book and the Devil
Joy and Sadness
Going to Helsinki
Father and Daughter
The Big Decision
Abel Astray
Every Road
Party at Harma's Mansion
On the Road
Citizens of Turku
Picture Book Without Pictures
Rode a Car!
Obnoxious Girl
Tiresome Day
Beautiful Thing
Souvenir Bag
Ah, School Entrance!
Mother's Return
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