Scary Fairy Tales: Thumb Princess

Scary Fairy Tales: Thumb Princess

1999 · 95 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama, Horror, TV Movie

Saeko Machida is a high school girl with a crush on a boy in her class named Yuichi Kimijima. Becoming obsessed with him, she tries to gain his attention and win his affections, but there's no such luck. One day, she meets a strange man at a flea-market who gives her a red liquid, telling her that if she splashes it on Yuichi, her wish will become true. She acquiring the liquid, certain that the liquid will cause Yuuichi to love her. Saeko finally gets the courage to confess her love to Yuichi, but he rejects her. Disappointed, she splashes the liquid on Yuichi, but that liquid actually causes him to shrink about three inches in height.

Directed by Fuminori Kaneko · Written by Kankuro Kudo

Your Rating

Cast

Chiaki Kuriyama Saeko Machida
Issey Takahashi Yuichi Kimizima
Erina Asai Aya Morimoto
Hisoka Yamamoto Strange man
Shin Yazawa Aya's friend
Yoshiaki Umegaki Saeko's father
Kimiko Ikeda Saeko's mother
Sarutoki Minagawa Highschool teacher

Make it a double feature

3h 40m together

Scary Fairy Tales: Thumb Princess

Extremely Inappropriate! New Years Special

Both from Fuminori Kaneko.

Scary Fairy TalesSee all →

Scary Fairy Tales: The Ugly Duckling

Scary Fairy Tales: The Ugly Duckling · 1999

Scary Fairy Tales: The Ugly Duckling

MovieHorrorDrama

When nurse Ibuki visits the home of a boy who was brought to the infectious disease ward by mistake, she sees a horrifying scene there.

Scary Fairy Tales: Cinderella

Scary Fairy Tales: Cinderella · 1999

Scary Fairy Tales: Cinderella

MovieHorrorDrama

This is a horror story for adults with a modern twist on Grimm's fairy tales, bringing out the brutality and bizarre nature of the story.

Scary Fairy Tales: Rapunzel

Scary Fairy Tales: Rapunzel · 1999

Scary Fairy Tales: Rapunzel

MovieHorrorDrama

This is a horror film for adults that takes as its subject matter fairy tales from the East and West, and brings to life their brutality, bizarre nature, and obscenity.

Scary Fairy Tales: The Little Mermaid

Scary Fairy Tales: The Little Mermaid · 1999

Scary Fairy Tales: The Little Mermaid

MovieHorrorDrama

Popular model Koyuki plays the role of the mermaid princess who cannot speak and has a limp, but drives men crazy with her beauty.

Scary Fairy Tales: Alice in Wonderland

Scary Fairy Tales: Alice in Wonderland · 1999

Scary Fairy Tales: Alice in Wonderland

MovieHorrorDrama

Arisugawa is a businessman who has been transferred to a local branch office. However, the people at the branch office are all peculiar...

More from Fuminori KanekoSee all →

We Married as a Job: New Year's Special

We Married as a Job: New Year's Special · 2020

We Married as a Job: New Year's Special

Quartet

Quartet · 2017

Maki Maki, Sebuki Suzume, Beppu Tsukasa and Iemori Yutaka happen to meet and form a quartet. They even begin to live together in Karuizawa during the winter, but there is a big hidden secret.

PU- PU- PU-

PU- PU- PU- · 1998

Despite coming from completely different backgrounds, the three of them share one thing in common: none of them can get along with their fathers. They meet for the first time on their way to study abroad in LA, each having left home for his own reasons. Soon after they arrive, they discover they've been scammed, leaving them broke and stranded in a foreign city. Will they swallow their pride and go home to their fathers, or find a way to make it on their own?

Story of My Family!!!

Story of My Family!!! · 2021

Story of My Family!!!

SeriesComedyDrama

An aging pro wrestler returns to fight for his inheritance when his father — a respected Noh actor — threatens to leave his fortune to his caregiver.

The Full-Time Wife Escapist

The Full-Time Wife Escapist · 2016

The Full-Time Wife Escapist

SeriesComedyDrama

A series of events leads single, 25-year-old Mikuri Moriyama and 36-year-old Hiramasa Tsuzaki to marry as a cover.

Extremely Inappropriate!

Extremely Inappropriate! · 2024

Extremely Inappropriate!

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Ichiro is a PE teacher in 1986 feared by his students for a "tough love" approach, harsh tongue and frequently “inappropriate” behavior. He’s also a dad trying to raise a rebellious daughter after having lost his wife to illness. When he gets transported in time to 2024, he encounters modern sensibilities that teach him about empathy but also gives people of today a reason to rethink their own political correctness in this time traversing comedy about change.

Saving My Stupid Youth

Saving My Stupid Youth · 2014

Saving My Stupid Youth

SeriesComedyDrama

Heisuke teaches at his alma mater, an all-boy’s Buddhist high school and leads a very ordinary life, except for the fact that he is still tortured by the memory of an unfortunate incident that took place there involving him and his school 14 years ago. In hopes of closure, he strikes upon a plan to jointly hold this year’s Culture Festival with a nearby girl’s school, with which there are chilly relations. Determined at all costs to make the event a success, Heisuke finds himself dealing with a constant stream of problems along the way.

Let's Get Divorced

Let's Get Divorced · 2023

Let's Get Divorced

SeriesComedyDrama

A mediatised married couple who no longer love each other is highly optimistic about getting a divorce. However, external circumstances will get in their way and they will have no other choice but to work hand in hand to reach their ultimate goal: getting a divorce.

Keizoku: Unsolved Cases

Keizoku: Unsolved Cases · 1999

Keizoku: Unsolved Cases

SeriesDramaCrime

Keizoku is a Japanese mystery thriller created first as a TV drama and later as a film. It is about Detective Jun Shibata, who handles unsolved cases with her hardened partner Tōru Mayama. The television series was broadcast in eleven episodes between 8 January and 19 March 1999. A two-hour "special drama" was then broadcast on 24 December 1999. The series has been called "epoch-making" in the police procedural genre on Japanese television.

Ties of Shooting Stars

Ties of Shooting Stars · 2008

Ties of Shooting Stars

SeriesComedyFamily

Based on a novel by mystery writer Keigo Higashino, Ryūsei no Kizuna tells the story of three orphans, whose parents were murdered long ago. Together, the three vowed on a shooting star to one day avenge their parents. After many years, the two brothers have found the murderers, and are set to carry out their plan for vengeance when they realize they've made a serious miscalculation; you see, their sister...

Dr.STOЯKS

Dr.STOЯKS · 2015

The drama revolves around Kounotori Sakura, an Ob-Gyn doctor working at the Persona General Medical Centre who is also a gifted jazz pianist. His mother had died in childbirth and he was brought up in an orphanage, which is what fueled his ambition to be an ob-gyn. He hopes to be able to deliver every baby to this world, congratulating them on the gift of life given to their little bodies. (Source: TBS)

You're My Pet

You're My Pet · 2003

SeriesDramaComedy

A dejected woman finds an unconscious man resembling her former dog and takes him in as a "pet", forming an unexpected bond as they overcome obstacles together, raising the question of whether such love can exist.

Nameless Poison

Nameless Poison · 2013

Nameless Poison

SeriesMysteryDrama

Saburo Sugimura works for the PR department of a company which his father-in-law Yoshichika Imada runs. One day, Yoshichika Imada tasks Saburo Sugimura with work regarding a man named Nobuo Kajita. A complicated story unfolds from the request.

Ikebukuro West Gate Park

Ikebukuro West Gate Park · 2000

Ikebukuro West Gate Park

SeriesDramaCrime

Living in Ikebukuro — an area infamous for juvenile crime, 21-year-old Makoto Majima becomes associated with a youth gang called the G-Boys. A troubleshooter known for his cool headedness and ability to get things done, Makoto diffuses tense situations around Ikebukuro to keep his friends and others out of harm's way. However, the mysterious death of his girlfriend and an escalating gang turf war threaten to be more than Makoto can handle.

Extremely Inappropriate! New Years Special

Extremely Inappropriate! New Years Special · 2026

Extremely Inappropriate! New Years Special

MovieComedyScience Fiction

Snarky 1980s PE teacher, Ogawa Ichiro, is back — crashing through the wall of Café Scandal! This time, he's brought along the café "master" and 83-year-old inventor, Inoue, embarking on a new, time warping adventure. After sending Kiyoshi into the past to prevent Yuzuru's fated encounter with daughter, Junko, Ichiro travels to the night of the Great Hanshin Earthquake (1995) and greets a surprise visitor, while learning of an incident coming in 2036.

You and I on the G-String

You and I on the G-String · 2019

You and I on the G-String

Every woman's dream is to be able to resign from work after finding a man who can support her. Office lady Yaeko does exactly that. Except between the time of her resignation and the chiming of the wedding bells her (future) husband finds a prettier woman and dumps her. With extra time on her hands she registers for a violin class where she meets a university student. She is head over heels for the young man and wants him.

More Like This

Couldn't load this row right now.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter