Bannertail: The Story of Gray Squirrel
The story of Banner, a young orphaned squirrel raised by a kindly mother cat, and his adventures in the forest.
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- Cast:
- Noriko Tsukase , Keiko Yokozawa , Masako Sugaya , Ichiro Nagai
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Soon after birth a young squirrel gets caught by a boy and is taken to a farm. Boy then tries to feed him to their pet cat. However, the cat feels sorry for the squirrel and adopts him as her own child and names the squirrel Banner. Banner and cat lived happily in the farm, but their happy days don't last long. A fire destroys the farm, and Banner is separated from his mother cat.
Banner can not go home, because now the weasel knows where he lives. Flappy allowed him to stay at her home until he can find himself a new home. Meanwhile, Flappy lives with her grandfather.
Banner is finally integrated as a member in the family of squirrels. A terrible lightning storm destroys his home, but thanks to help from the rest of the squirrels he builds a new nest and gives a grand opening party. Despite the occasional difficulties, there will be a lot of fun.
Young squirrels have to learn to fight against the dangers that the forest provides. So they have founded a school of squirrels and Senior is appointed as director.
Banner and Clay are allowed to go for a walk in the woods. After some adventures they reached the end of the forest. Tired, they fall asleep. When they woke up they realized, that the sun is setting and they should return home quickly.
Acacio, Banner's rival for the affections of Flappy makes an evil prank. He deceives Banner by feeding him some poisonous hallucinogenic mushrooms. Instantly Banner becomes aggressive and selfish. Flappy is seriously worried about Banner's antisocial behavior and talks to him after he had a terrible hangover.
Banner prefers to play football with Clay better than collect supplies. When hungry, Banner is accustomed to eat nuts that he can found in the forest. Flappy, as usual, tries to teach him, this time about proper retaining stocks of food. But Banner has his own ideas about that.
Lador finds a music box and says it is a gift from God, however, Banner knows that it belongs to humans. Flappy becomes some kind addicted to the melody that music box plays, but Banner is not impressed because he have lived with humans and have seen such a things before.
People have came to the forest. They cut down trees and hunt for sport, one after the other animals are losing their homes and have no alternative but to leave forest. After last glance at their old home and they will start looking for a new one.
After a long journey, full of dangers, they finally found a forest. But disappointment comes later because Senior, the leader of the group, says that it's a dead forest and is not suitable for living.
Time passes, autumn comes to an end . Desperately foraging, squirrels continue their path to a new forest. Lador has found some nuts but doesn’t want to share them with anyone. His selfish action causes a fight. Lador decides to leave the group and continue on his own. But when Lador gets in trouble the others will come to help him anyway.