The Red-Nosed Reindeer

A music video for the song "Akahana no Tonakai" (The Red-Nosed Reindeer) by Peggy Hayama and the NHK Tokyo Jidou Gasshoudan, this short was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program. The program, which began in 1961, showcased animated and live-action clips set to popular songs, and this particular piece was one of its early entries.

The video is now considered lost media, with no known surviving copies. Despite its disappearance, the song itself remains a beloved holiday classic in Japan, and the short holds historical significance as part of the early days of Japanese television animation. The exact content of the video is unknown, but it likely depicted the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, a character from a popular Christmas song and story, adapted into a Japanese context.