Hashire Melos (1981)

Melos is a Greek country man that is arrested and accused of conspiracy against the king.

He gets three days to travel to his sister's wedding while Selinentius (Selinae), a genius sculptor that Melos just met stays as a hostage.

Note: Initially released as a TV special.

In 1992, this was followed by a 107 minute animated film directed and written by Masaaki Osumi.

The story was animated as a 30 minute stop-motion short for the Classic Children's Tales series (1992), and again, as a 10 minute short directed by Keisuke Morishita, for the Famous Japanese Fables series (1997).