The Adventures of Scamper the Penguin
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| The Adventures of Scamper the Penguin | |
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| Directed by | Kinjiro Yoshida |
| Produced by | Touru Komori |
| Written by | Eichi Taji, Shozo Matsuda |
| Music by | Bullets |
| Distributed by | Enoki Films, Life Work Corp., Souyzmult Film |
| Release date(s) |  1988 |
| Running time | 64 mins |
| Language | Japanese |
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The Adventures of Scamper the Penguin (also known as The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin outside the United States) is a 1988 Japanese animated feature film about the early life of an Adélie Penguin. This film is know to the Japanese as 小さなペンギンロロの冒険 (Chīsana Pengin Roro no Bōken?), which literally translates as Small Penguin: The Adventure of Lolo. This film is mostly targeted at a very young audience, although the movie is narrated like a documentary about the life of the penguins during the spring and summer seasons in the Antartic.
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The story begins with the end of winter, and the southern skies showing the aurora australis. A fleet of penguins, coming from the north, return home. The females separate from their mates to go hunt, as males go and find a large spot clear of snow, where they built their nests. The females return to lay their eggs, only to eventually separate from the males again, whilst the males take care of the eggs. The nesting grounds always faces dangers of the eggs being stolen by aggressive seagulls.
When the eggs finally hatch, one penguin family receive a new-born penguin chick which is eventually named as Scamper (Lolo). Scamper, like any other young penguin, is over-inquisitive and very curious. Together with his best friend Snowflake (Pépé), Scamper goes on many journeys through the wild, learning about the creatures that live in region. He eventually also makes friends with a tame husky puppy called Cowboy (Dun), who is on an Antarctic trek with his scientist master.
Eventually, however, Scamper and Snowflake get separated from their home, and faces many dangers such as attacks by seagulls and killer whales. Eventually, they get captured by a large group of poachers.
They later manage to escape their captors, but the trouble was not over when the poachers came and stole all their young friends from their fleet, but then Scamper leads to the rescue, and the poachers were eventually defeated by a sudden coming of a tidal wave.
The story ends as the winter comes, and the penguins go northward again.
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