Heidi in the Mountains

Heidi 1974 Japanese anime series by Zuiyo Eizo now Nippon Animation based on the Swiss novel Heidis Years of Wandering and Learning by Johanna Spyri 1880 It was directed by Isao Takahata A featurelength film Heidi in the Mountains aka The Story of Heidi was edited from the series by Zuiyo which by then was a separate entity from Nippon Animation which employed many of the TV series animation staff distributed in 1979 All cast were replaced excluding Heidi and the grandfather This movie is also the only incarnation of the Heidi anime to have been released commercially in the United States in English on home video in the 1980s Isao Takahata remarked Neither Hayao Miyazaki nor I are completely related to any shortening version on this work