Complex sentence: This film is based on the work "A Dog of Flanders" and the film "Small Love Melody", and it was set in a poor village in Yamagata Prefecture in the early Shōwa period.
Split into simpler sentences: This film is based on the work "A Dog of Flanders" and the film "Small Love Melody". It is set in a poor village in Yamagata Prefecture in the early Shōwa period.