"Rocky Chuck the Mountain Rat (Fables of the Green Forest)", Original Release Japanese Speed Poster 1973, Speed Poster Size (c. 26 cm × 75 cm) N51

This is an original Japanese poster printed in 1973 for the first release of Rocky Chuck the Mountain Rat (山ねずみロッキーチャック), screened on 1 August 1973 as part of the Toho Champion Festival (東宝チャンピオンまつり).

Known internationally as Fables of the Green Forest, the television series ran for 52 episodes on Fuji TV from 7 January to 30 December 1973. Produced by Zuiyo Eizo with assistance from Mushi Production for the Calpis Comic Theater (later World Masterpiece Theater), the anime adapts Thornton W. Burgess’s 1910-20s woodland tales. This festival feature compiles key episodes in which the adventure-loving woodchuck Rocky befriends the timid beaver Polly and other forest creatures, teaching lessons of curiosity, cooperation and respect for nature. The film earned a Children’s Welfare Cultural Encouragement Prize the same year.

Poster design
Printed in the tall speed-poster format, this design features:

• Full-height, full-colour portrait of Rocky in his red vest, greeting viewers against a lush hand-painted forest backdrop.

• Playful pink katakana title ロッキーチャック running vertically, with orange copy inviting children to “come and play.”

• Blue vertical text announcing the Children’s Welfare Cultural Encouragement Prize win.

• Toho studio circle at the top and “Printed in Japan © TOHO Co., Ltd. 1973” in the lower margin confirming first-issue provenance.

Speed posters were produced in far smaller quantities than standard B2s, making surviving examples for 1970s family features exceptionally scarce.

This poster is in excellent condition. Please refer to the imagery (both front and back) as this is the exact poster that is for sale.

It is over 52 years old!

It is not a reproduction or a reprint.

Certificate of Authenticity included.