Kazuo Iwata

In this engaging animated children's story a young and very brave boy spends three years receiving special instructions from a hermit in the woods. After the three years are up, the little boy is possessed of magic powers that will help him subdue the source of unhappiness and evil in the forest - a wicked witch. As these exponents of white and black magic go at it, the animals in the forest line up on the side of Magic Boy and help him out whenever they can. (starpulse.com)

The adventures of a feisty girl, Oyuki and Santa, a homeless child she saves mixed in with a plot to make ill gotten gains by illicitly cornering the rice market. (imdb)