---
title: 'Twelve Months (1980)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Kimio Yabuki'
released: '1980-03-15'
runtime_minutes: 65
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/twelve-months-1980'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400900/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Twelve Months (1980)

1980 · 65 min · Soviet Union, Japan

Original title: 森は生きている

## Synopsis

Twelve Months  is a 1980 animated feature film directed by Kimio Yabuki and produced by Toei Animation from Japan in partnership with Soyuzmultfilm from the Soviet Union. It was based on the 1943 play written by Samuil Marshak which itself was based on the medieval fairy tale of the same name. The music was composed by Vladimir Ivanovich Krivtsov and performed by the National Leningrad Philharmonic under the direction of A. S. Dmitriev.

## Credits

- **Producer:** [Chiaki Imada](https://cinepixo.com/people/chiaki-imada)
- **Director:** [Kimio Yabuki](https://cinepixo.com/people/kimio-yabuki), [Tetsuo Imazawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/tetsuo-imazawa), [Yūgo Serikawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/yugo-serikawa)
- **Screenplay:** [Kimio Yabuki](https://cinepixo.com/people/kimio-yabuki)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Vladimir Krivtsov](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-krivtsov)

## Cast

- [Daisuke Ryū](https://cinepixo.com/people/daisuke-ryu)
- [Ai Kanzaki](https://cinepixo.com/people/ai-kanzaki)
- [Kiyoshi Kobayashi](https://cinepixo.com/people/kiyoshi-kobayashi)
- [Mariko Mukai](https://cinepixo.com/people/mariko-mukai)
- [Ichirō Nagai](https://cinepixo.com/people/ichiro-nagai)
- [Masashi Amenomori](https://cinepixo.com/people/masashi-amenomori)
- [Svetlana Stepchenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/svetlana-stepchenko)
- [Shinobu Ōtake](https://cinepixo.com/people/shinobu-otake)
- [Katsuji Mori](https://cinepixo.com/people/katsuji-mori)
- [Tokuko Sugiyama](https://cinepixo.com/people/tokuko-sugiyama)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/twelve-months-1980
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