The virtuous movements of camera were done by Hiroyasu Omoto and his assistant Koji Shiragami. The artistic direction was done by three greatest artist as Minoru Nishida, Mitsuo Iwazaki and Kazusuke Yoshihara, who created some of the most sumptuous background paintings ever seen. Mia Farrow did a wonderful voice for Amalthea, as did Christopher Lee for evil King Haggard. In fact, this may be considered one of the most talented voice cast Rankin/Bass has ever assembled. During the Christmas festivities it is regularly aired under the title DAS LETZTE EHINORN by the German network RTL2, which has also allowed many Italian fans to admire the splendid Kazuyuki Kobayashi's sequence, in which thousand of unicorns take life from the waves of the sea. A latest curiosity: Lee also send his talented voice for the German dubbing. A new live/CGI version of this movie had been announced during 2003, but it is not a Rankin/Bass production (in 2006 IMDb shut down their page, since they were unable to verify that the film was actually being made). THE WIZARD OF OZ was a 1981 Japanese anime feature film directed by rookie Fumihiko Takayama, which is based on classic book by L. Frank Baum, produced by Yoshimitsu Banno and Katsumi Ueno for Toho. At Topcraft was prepared a substantial portion of key frames and I/B animations. It was distributed the United States by Paramount Pictures: this movie was at last dubbed into Japanese for release in the country in 1986. Fumihiko Takayama started its career in 1978 as camera operator on episodes 24 and 29 of SHIN LUPIN SANSEI. 

THE FLIGHT OF DRAGONS was broadcast in the US four years after its completion. The additional screenplay was written by Jeffrey Walker.	Jonh Ritter supplied the voice of Peter Dickinson in THE FLIGHT OF DRAGONS, while Don McLean sung the title song.

1982 marked the latest co-production with American Rankin/Bass and it was named THE FLIGHT OF DRAGONS. The script was principally based upon the Peter Dickinson's fantasy book by the same title and upon the relatively unknown book THE DRAGON AND THE GEORGE by Gordon R. Dickson. The TV special conveied a plain enviromental message, but never didactic. The animation presented many similarties with THE HOBBIT and previous THE LAST UNICORN, since it was mostly made by the same animators team. Tadakatsu Yoshida and Hidemi Kubo took care of layout, inspired by original book illustrator Wayne Anderson, while Katsuhisa Yamada and Fumihiko Takayama did storyboard and co-direction. This time were recruited young key animators, such as Mitsuru Hosoya, Yoshiji Kigami, Mariko Aizawa and Toshio Kaneko. For the first time in his career, Takashi Watanabe did the key animations. He was born in July 22, 1957 and started its career as I/B animator in 1977. He's today a well-liked director, thanks to the successful TV series SLAYERS. As already occurred in the WINTER WONDERLAND's US version, Kazuyuki Kobayashi was wrongly credited in key animator's role, when he instead took care of continuity design. 1982 also saw Topcraft involved in two TV series for the Japanese audience. The first one is the sequel (never aired) of YOKAI NINGEN BEM, for which two episodes were completed only. The second was the animated transposition of the MGM's masterpiece movie "The Yearling", KOJIKA MONOGATARI, in which the key frames were signed by Tadakatsu Yoshida, Mitsuru Hosoya and Yoshiko Sasaki. Toward the end of the same year, Kazuyuki Kobayashi and Katsuhisa Yamada respectively took care of continuity design and direction of JERINKO CHIE's episode 45. This is was not the first time Topcraft worked for TMS. In fact, Topcraft produced the animation on some episodes of SHIN LUPIN SANSEI. Later, Tsuguyuki Kubo took care of the entire layout design on the Rankin/Bass production of THE CONEHEADS; the name of the studio is still unknown, except that the camera operations were provided by Trans Arts. In according to Japanese Wikipedia, it is rumored that Nelvana's EASTER FEVER was made by Topcraft, but we cannot prove it to be true.