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Adaptation Displacement: The movie is not an original work by Takahata; it's based on a puppet play about the Ainu people, Kazuo Fukazawa's The Sun Above Chikisani (チキサニの太陽 , Chikisani no Taiyō). Which in itself is based on an Ainu epic story, known in Japan as Okikurumi to Akuma no Ko (オキクルミと悪魔の子).
Iron Woobie: Hols, who's always as brave and kind as he can in the face of the utter shit he goes through.
Jerkass Woobie: Hilda, who can be cold and bitter but has had a genuinely scarring past and becomes increasingly sympathetic as the movie goes on.
Nightmare Fuel: A few scenes, but especially the "Forest of Delusion" sequence.
What Could Have Been: Hols WAS supposed to be set in Hokkaido and feature the Ainu, but it was changed to Scandinavia to avert any prospect controversies.
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