Arabian Night: Sindbad no Bouken

These shows have a distinct Middle Eastern aesthetic or take place in the region. The Middle East consists of over a dozen countries that stretch from Turkey (sometimes spelled Türkiye) to the north, Egypt and the surrounding African nations in the west, all the way to Iran (formerly known as Persia or Pars in ancient times) and Afghanistan to the east. The land of Arabia is particularly well-known, due to the famous literature, "Arabian Nights".

Animes set in desert or isolated areas

Anime that are adaptations of/inspired by literature/books :)

Every cinema or direct to video anime film that came out between 1960 and 1969.

1940s & 1950s: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/34960
1970-1978: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/35053

Missing on MyAnimeList:
- "Shōnen Ninja Kaze no Fujimaru: Maboroshi Majutsuban" 少年忍者風のフジ丸・まぼろし魔術団, Japan, 1965.
- "Shōnen Ninja Kaze no Fujimaru: Daisaru Taiji" 少年忍者風のフジ丸・大猿退治, Japan, 1965.
- Park Young-il 박영일, "Bomulseom" 보물섬 (Treasure Island), South Korea, 1969.

Disclaimer: There are a few hentai movies, that could be counted as well:
- Leo Nishimura, "(Hi) Gekiga Ukiyoe Senya Ichiya" (秘)劇画 浮世絵千一夜, Japan, 1969.

Co-Produced Western films by Japanese animation studios:
- Larry Roemer (1917-1995), "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", Canada, Japan, USA, 1964.
- Arthur Rankin Jr. (1924-2014) & Nagashima Kizo, "Willy McBean and His Magic Machine", Canada, Japan, USA, 1965.
- Jules Brass (1935-2022), "The Daydreamer", Japan, USA, 1966.
- Larry Roemer & Nagashima Kizo, "The Ballad of Smokey the Bear", Japan, USA, 1966.
- Arthur Rankin Jr. & Jules Brass, "Cricket on the Hearth", Japan, USA, 1967.
- Jules Brass, "Mad Monster Party?", Japan, USA, 1967.
- Jules Brass & Nagashima Kizo, "The Wacky World of Mother Goose", Japan, USA, 1967.
- Arthur Rankin Jr. & Jules Brass, "The Mouse on the Mayflower", Japan, USA, 1968.

A list of classic Toei Animation films. Some are better than others but, in general, they are interesting titles to see and analyze from different perspectives, especially, from the perspective of the history of anime and its international distribution.

Toei Animation was Japan's first major animation studio. Throughout the 1960s, they made several films inspired by American studios such as Disney. These movies tend to have animation more fluid than that of the average anime.

"Some of the stories commonly associated with the Arabian Nights—particularly "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"—were not part of the collection in the original Arabic versions, but were instead added to the collection by French translator Antoine Galland after he heard them from Syrian writer Hanna Diyab during the latter's visit to Paris. Other stories, such as "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor", had an independent existence before being added to the collection. "
(Source: Wikipedia
One Thousand and One Nights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights)

Tags: Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Aladdin, Wonderful Lamp, Magic Lamp, Thief, Sinbad, Sailor, Middle Eastern

Wikis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Baba_and_the_Forty_Thieves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinbad_the_Sailor

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One Thousand and One Nights: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/50354
Aladdin: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/50355
Ali Baba: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/50356
Sinbad: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/50357

"The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor", had an independent existence before being added to The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights).
(Source: Wikipedia)

Tags: Sindbad, Arabian Nights, Sailor, Middle Eastern

Wikis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinbad_the_Sailor

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One Thousand and One Nights: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/50354
Aladdin: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/50355
Ali Baba: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/50356
Sinbad: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/50357