The Adventures of Red Riding Hood

The Adventures of Red Riding Hood is a 1998 Japanese animated fantasy drama adventure film directed by Hiroshi Saito. It is an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm's children's fantasy story Little Red Riding Hood; Unlike the Saban version, comprising Little Red Riding Hood's Amazing Adventure had a reboot with the original characters (confused with a similar to the Big Bad Wolf and the White Rabbit with Pat (a frog) and Bill (a lizard) from Alice in Wonderland in 1990) and a half-comparing midquel with the new characters (a lion form of Red's abandoned father, the fairy godmother,) produced at Nippon Animation. The production was English directed by Kerrigan Mehan. The film was released to theaters by Shochiku with Nippon Animation (the makers of The Dog of Flanders) on March 12, 1998 in Japan and in United States and the others, the english dubbed and his staff by Warner Bros./Paramount with Saban Entertainment on April 17, 1998.

Plot
The film follows a plot involves a young girl named Red. The girl walks through the woods to deliver food to her sickly grandmother. In Grimms' version, her mother had ordered her to stay strictly on the path. A Big Bad Wolf wants to eat the girl and the food in the basket. He secretly stalks her behind trees, bushes, shrubs, and patches of little and tall grass. He approaches Little Red Riding Hood, who naively tells him where she is going. He suggests that the girl pick some flowers as a present for her grandmother, which she does. In the meantime, he goes to the grandmother's house and gains entry by pretending to be her. He swallows the grandmother whole and waits for the girl, disguised as the grandma. When the girl arrives, she notices that her grandmother looks very strange. Which point the wolf jumps out of the bed and eats her, too. Then he falls asleep. A hunter comes to the rescue with an scissors, and cuts open the sleeping wolf. Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother emerge shaken, but unharmed. Then they fill the wolf's body with heavy stones. The wolf awakens and attempts to flee, but the stones cause him to collapse and die.

Red Riding Hood gets lost and she meets a lion appears as herself is traveling through the forest and asks him to remove a thorn from his paw. Though the lion warns him not to travel through the swamp the girl goes ahead with his original plan in order to search for his father, when she falls in lion sacrifices himself to save him and assures him that he wouldn't have lived long anyway as the thorn was poisonous. Red Riding Hood is then chased by a giant bird, which she initially thought was the Big Bad Wolf, when she encounters the White Rabbit again who directs her to his house. When Red Riding Hood comes across a bottle of liquid that makes her enormous growth size and leaves her trapped in the house. The White Rabbit and his gardeners Pat and Bill attempt to remove Red Riding Hood by going down the chimney, but Red Riding Hood shrinks to normal again begins to search for his mother and walks until she reaches the forest.

She runs into a cabin to sleep, but is later attacked by carpenter ants, the Fairy Godmother saves him but explains that she behaved badly and needs to develop compassion, which she sets to work doing that night, She then goes to the house when she meets the ugly stepmother and the stepsisters.

The next morning Red Riding Hood wake up and discover that she have transformed into donkey during the night. The real reason for which they were initially brought to the land of toys by the wanderer. The other donkeys are later on taken to the market and sold by the wanderer to a circus. Only after Red Riding Hood understands that the curse would be removed only after she would change his ways and would start doing good deeds, does she decide to change his ways. After Red Riding Hood manages to save the circus from burning in a big fire, she transforms back to his former-self by the Fairy Godmother.

Red's mother is convinced that the girl has perished and was too old to make the journey, but is happy to see her. Just then, her mother suddenly spots a white shape on the horizon, which she soon realizes is, Red Riding Hood coming as quickly as he possibly can. The mother and Red Riding Hood are ecstatic to be reunited once again. She have finally completed their journey and live happily ever after.