List of animated feature films of 1986

A list of animated feature films first released in 1986.

Animated feature films first released in 1986

Title	Country	Director	Studio	Animation technique	Notes
The Adventures of the American Rabbit	United States Japan	Fred Wolf Nobutaka Nishizawa	Clubhouse Pictures	Traditional
Ai City アイ・シティ	Japan	Kōichi Mashimo	Toho Movic Ashi Productions	Traditional
An American Tail	United States Ireland	Don Bluth	Sullivan Bluth Studios	Traditional
Amon Saga	Japan	Shunji Ōga	Tohokushinsha Film	Traditional	OVA
Arion	Japan	Yoshikazu Yasuhiko	Sunrise	Traditional
Asterix in Britain Astérix chez les Bretons	France	Pino Van Lamsweerde		Traditional
Barefoot Gen 2 はだしのゲン２ (Hadashi no Gen 2)	Japan	Toshio Hirata	Madhouse	Traditional
Bolek and Lolek in the Wild West Bolek i Lolek na dzikim Zachodzie	Poland			Traditional
Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation	Canada United States	Dale Schott	LBS Communications Nelvana Limited	Traditional
Laputa: Castle in the Sky 天空の城ラピュタ (Tenku no shiro Rapyuta)	Japan	Hayao Miyazaki	Studio Ghibli Toei	Traditional	Studio Ghibli's first anime feature film
Cat City Macskafogó [1]	Hungary Canada West Germany	Béla Tervovszky	Pannónia Filmstúdió Sefel Pictures International Infafilm Gmbh	Traditional
Cool Cool Bye クール・クール・パイ	Japan	Tomonori Kogawa		Traditional	OVA
Coral Reef Legend: Elfie of the Blue Sea サンゴ礁伝説 青い海のエルフィ (Sango-sho Densetsu: Aoi Umi no Erufii)	Japan	Yoshio Kuroda	Nippon Animation Fuji Television	Traditional	Television film[2]
The Cosmic Eye	United States	Faith Hubley	Hubley Studio	traditional
Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel: Curtain Call 魔法の天使クリィミーマミ カーテンコール (Mahou no Tenshi Creamy Mami: Curtain Call)	Japan	Kazunori Itō Mochizuki Tomomichi	Studio Pierrot	Traditional	OVA
Dirty Pair: Project Eden	Japan	Kōichi Mashimo	Sunrise	Traditional
Dokkaebi bangmang-i 도깨비 방망이	South Korea	Bak Seung-cheol		Traditional
Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops ドラえもん のび太と鉄人兵団 (Doraemon: Nobita to Tetsujin Heidan)	Japan	Tsutomu Shibayama	Asatsu	Traditional
Dot and Keeto	Australia	Yoram Gross	Yoram Gross Films	Traditional/Live-action
Dot and the Whale	Australia	Yoram Gross	Yoram Gross Films	Traditional/Live-action
Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies ドラゴンボール　神龍の伝説 (Doragonbōru Shenron no Densetsu)	Japan	Daisuke Nishio	Toei Animation	Traditional	First installment of the Dragon Ball film series
Eleven Hungry Cats and an Albatross 11ぴきのねことあほうどり (Juippiki no Neko to Ahōdori)	Japan		Group TAC	Traditional
The Elm-Chanted Forest aka. Fantasy Forest Čudesna šuma	Yugoslavia	Milan Blažeković Doro Vlado Hreljanovic	Croatia Film Fantasy Forest Films Inc.	Traditional	First Yugoslavian (Croatian) animated feature
Fist of the North Star 北斗の拳 (Hokuto no Ken)	Japan	Toyoo Ashida	Toei Animation	Traditional
Fluppy Dogs	United States	Haskell Barkin Bruce Talkington	Walt Disney Television Animation	Traditional	A TV special pilot for the intended TV series, although the TV series was never produced
Gaksital 각시탈	South Korea	Lee Hag-bin		Traditional
Gall Force: Eternal Story ガルフォース	Japan	Katsuhito Akiyama	AIC Artmic	Traditional	OVA
GeGeGe no Kitarō: Gekitotsu! I jigen yōkai no dai hanran ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 激突!!異次元妖怪の大反乱	Japan	Hiroki Shibata	Toei Animation	Traditional
GeGeGe no Kitarō: Saikyō Yōkai Gundan! Nihon jōriku!! ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 最強妖怪軍団!日本上陸!!	Japan	Serikawa Yuware	Toei Animation	Traditional
GoBots: War of the Rock Lords	United States	Ray Patterson	Hanna-Barbera Tonka	Traditional
The Great Cheese Robbery Velká sýrová loupez	Czechoslovakia West Germany			Traditional
The Great Heep	United States	Clive A. Smith	Nelvana Limited Lucasfilm	Traditional	TV Special
The Great Mouse Detective	United States	Ron Clements Burny Mattinson Dave Michener John Musker	Walt Disney Feature Animation	Traditional
Guyver: Out of Control	Japan	Hiroshi Watanabe		Traditional	OVA
Gréti...! Gréti...! (Egy kutya feljegyzései)	Hungary	József Nepp	Pannónia Filmstúdió	Traditional	TV Movie
Heathcliff: The Movie	United States Canada France	Bruno Bianchi	DIC Entertainment LBS Communications McNaught Syndicate	Traditional
Inhumanoids: The Movie	United States			Traditional	TV films
Ivanhoe	Australia			Traditional
Jiminy Cricket's Christmas	United States		Walt Disney Animation Studios	Traditional/live action	Direct-to-video film/Compilation of animated/live action Disney film clips and cartoons.
Kinnikuman: Crisis in New York! ニューヨーク危機一髪! (Nyū Yōku Kiki Ippatsu)	Japan	Takenori Kawada	Toei Animation	Traditional
Kinnikuman: Justice Supermen vs. Fighter Supermen 正義超人vs戦士超人	Japan	Yasuo Yamayoshi	Toei Animation	Traditional
Liberty and the Littles	United States			Traditional	TV films
Long Live Servatius Éljen Szervác!	Hungary	Ottó Foky	Pannónia Filmstúdió	stop-motion
Love City アイ・シティ (Ai shitî)	Japan	Kōichi Mashimo	Toho Movic Ashi Productions	Traditional
Maris the Chojo ザ・超女 (Za Sūpāgyaru)	Japan	Motosuke Takahashi	Studio Pierrot Shogakukan Production	Traditional	OVA
MD Geist 装鬼兵MDガイスト (Sokihei M.D. Gaisuto)	Japan	Hayato Ikeda	Studio Wave Zero G-Room	Traditional	OVA
Megazone 23 Part II メガゾーン23 PART II	Japan	Ichiro Itano	AIC Artland Tatsunoko	Traditional
Meitantei Holmes: Mrs. Hudson Hitojichi Jiken / Dover Kaikyō no Daikūchūsen! 名探偵ホームズ ミセス・ハドソン人質事件／ドーバー海峡の大空中戦！	Japan	Hayao Miyazaki	Tokyo Movie Shinsha	Traditional
Monica and the Mermaid of the River Mônica e a Sereia do Rio	Brazil			Traditional
My Little Pony: The Movie	United States	Michael Joens Margaret Nichols	Hasbro Sunbow Productions Marvel Productions Toei Animation AKOM	Traditional
The New Adventures of Monica and Her Friends As novas aventuras da turma da Mônica	Brazil			Traditional
Opening the Door aka. Open the Door 扉を開けて (Tobira o Akete)	Japan			Traditional
Phoenix: Karma Chapter	Japan	Rintaro	Madhouse Tezuka Productions	Traditional	OVA
Porwanie w Tiutiurlistanie	Poland	Franciszek Pyter, Zdzisław Kudła		Traditional
Prefectural Earth Defense Force 県立地球防衛軍 (Kenritsu Chikyuu Boueigun)	Japan	Keiji Hayakawa	Gallop	Traditional	OVA
Project A-ko プロジェクトA子 (Purojekuto A-ko)	Japan	Katsuhiko Nishijima	Soeishinsha A.P.P.P.	Traditional
Ratty Råttis	Sweden	Lennart Gustafsson		Traditional
Robotech: The Movie	United States Japan	Noboru Ishiguro Carl Macek	Harmony Gold USA Tatsunoko AIC Enterprises	Traditional
Roots Search ルーツ・サーチ 食心物体Ｘ (Roots Search: Shokushin Buttai X)	Japan	Hisashi Sugai		Traditional	OVA
Salar	Czechoslovakia	Ivan Renč	Krátky Film
Sangokushi II: Amakakeru otoko-tachi 三国志II 天翔ける英雄たち	Japan	Tetsuo Imazawa	Shin-Ei Animation	Traditional	TV Special
Sango-sho Densetsu: Aoi Umi no Erufii サンゴ礁伝説 青い海のエルフィ	Japan	Yoshio Kuroda	Nippon Animation	Traditional
Skeletor's Revenge	United States		Filmation	Traditional	Compilation of earlier He-Man TV episodes
Sophie's Place	United States			Experimental	[3]
Super Mario Bros.: The Great Plan to Free Princess Peach (Sûpâ Mario Burazâzu.: Pîchi-hime kyushutsu dai sakusen)	Japan			Traditional
They Were Eleven 11人いる! (Jûichi-nin iru!)	Japan	Satoshi Dezaki Tsuneo Tominaga	Kitty Film	Traditional
The Transformers: The Movie	United States Japan	Nelson Shin	Hasbro Marvel Productions Sunbow Productions Toei Animation	Traditional	The final film for both Orson Welles, who died the year before its release, and Scatman Crothers, who died months after its release.
The Trapalhoes in the Tail of the Comet Os Trapalhões no Rabo do Cometa	Brazil			Traditional
Urusei Yatsura: Lum the Forever うる星やつら４　ラム・ザ・フォーエバー (Urusei Yatsura 4: Ramu za fôebâ)	Japan	Kazuo Yamazaki	Studio Deen	Traditional
Valhalla	Denmark	Peter Madsen Jeffrey J. Varab		Traditional
Violence Jack: Harem Bomber バイオレンス・ジャック/ハーレムボンバー編 (Violence Jack bangaihen: Harlem bomber hen)	Japan	Osamu Kamijo	Soei Shinsha Ashi Production	Traditional	OVA
Wanna-Be's	Japan	Yasuo Hasegawa	AIC Artmic Movic	Traditional
Windaria aka Once Upon a Time 童話めいた戦史ウインダリア (Dôwa meita senshi Windaria)	Japan	Kunihiko Yuyama	Idol Kaname Productions Studio Gallop	Traditional
When the Wind Blows	United Kingdom	Jimmy Murakami	Recorded Releasing	Traditional/Stop-Motion
Zima w dolinie Muminków	Poland	Lucjan Dembinski Krystyna Kulczycka Dariusz Zawilski Jadwiga Kudrzycka	Se-ma-for	Stop motion

Highest-grossing animated films of the year

Rank	Title	Studio	Worldwide gross	Ref.
1	An American Tail	Sullivan Bluth Studios / Universal Studios	$84,542,002	[4]
2	The Great Mouse Detective	Walt Disney Feature Animation	$38,625,550	[5]
3	Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation	LBS Communications / Nelvana Limited	$12,000,000
4	Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops	Asatsu / Toho	$11,100,000 (¥1.30 billion)
5	Laputa: Castle in the Sky	Studio Ghibli	$9,779,853	[6]

See also

• List of animated television series of 1986

References

1. https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?at=0&genres=animation&num_votes=1000,&sort=user_rating,desc&title_type=feature
2. サンゴ礁伝説　青い海のエルフィ (1986). allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
3. Larry Jordan
4. "An American Tail (1986) - Box Office Mojo". www.boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
5. "The Great Mouse Detective (1986) - Box Office Mojo". www.boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
6. Castle in the Sky
   • Japan: US$8.1 million
     • Info, Japan (2015-07-14). "Top 7 Studio Ghibli Films of All Time". Japan Info. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
   • Hong Kong: HK$13.1 million (US$1,679,853)
     • "Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Credits & Figures)". Nausicaa.net. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
     • "Pacific Exchange Rate Service (7.7983 HKD per USD)" (PDF). UBC Sauder School of Business. University of British Columbia. 1987. p. 3. Retrieved 21 November 2017.