Jack and the Beanstalk

This is simply the best movie I have ever seen. It captured me when I watched it as a 10 year old boy, and hasn't aged (or I haven't).

It puzzles me that this truly amazing film was very difficult to obtain (for a long time at least). Made by an obscure Japanese director never heard of again.

When I saw it the first time as a boy, I constantly thought that story was too good to be true - for my personal expectations of how good a story could be that is - and was anxious and convinced, that either the movie would end prematurely, the princess die, or some other let-down would take place at some point, because it was setting itself up just too high to carry through. But it did.

(If I had to nitpick, changing the mice back into their human form was less than ideally 'cast', but then these characters only were there for a few seconds, so can't expect it to be perfect I guess)