Snow White and Rose-Red

Snow White and Rose-Red (Suno Howaito to Bara-Reddo) is a 2000 Japanese animated film based on the fairy tale of the same name by The Brothers Grimm.

Plot
Snow White and Rose-Red (played by Mikit and Rumiki) are two sisters living with their mother (played by Fumiko Mizuno), a poor widow, in a small cottage by the woods. Snow White is quiet and shy and prefers to spends her time indoors, doing housework and reading. Rose-Red is outspoken, lively and cheerful and prefers to be ourdoors, they are both very good girls who love each other and their mother dearly, and their mother is fond of them as well.

One winter night, there is a knock on the door. Rose-Red open the door to find a bear (played by Gio Date). At first, she was terrified but the bear told her to not be afraid as he is half-frozen and in need for some warmth. They let the bear in and he lie in front of the fire. Snow White and Rose-Red beat the snow off the bear and quickly became friendly with him. They play with him, rolled him around playfully and let him spend the night at the fire. In the morning, the bear leaves trotting out in the woods. The bear comes back every winter and the family got used to him.

When summer comes, the bear told them that he must leave to protect his treasure from a wicked dwarf (played by Snaco Mizuta). During summer, when the girls were walking through the forest, they find a dwarf whose beard was sruck in the tree. The girls free him by cutting off his beard but he was ungrateful and yelled at them for cutting his beard off. The girls encounters the dwarf several times and rescues him from any peril he is in, for which he is ungrateful.

Then one day, they find the dwarf once again. This time, he is terrified because the bear is about to kill him. The dwarf pleads and begs the bear not to kill him but the bear pays no heed to his plea and swipe at the dwarf but the dwarf jumped off the cliff, failing to notice a giant fish to ehich he got gobbled up by.

Instantly, the bear turned into the prince anx revealed that he was put under a curse by that same dwarf by stealing his precious stone and turning into a bear. The spell was broken by the death of the dwarf and in the end, Snow White marries the prince while Rose-Red decides to not marry until she is ready to get married.