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| Sakura Wars: The Movie | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Mitsuru Hongō |
| Produced by | Tetsuo Uchida |
| Written by | Story: Ōji Hiroi Screenplay: Ōji Hiroi Mitsuru Hongō Hiroyuki Nishimura Nobutoshi Terado |
| Starring | Chisa Yokoyama Akio Suyama Michie Tomizawa Urara Takano Kumiko Nishihara Mayumi Tanaka Kazue Ikura Maya Okamoto Akiko Kuno Keiichi Nanba Kōichi Yamadera |
| Music by | Kohei Tanaka |
| Cinematography | Kōji Tanaka |
| Editing by | Junichi Uematsu |
| Distributed by | Toei Company (Japan) Geneon Entertainment (USA) |
| Release date(s) | December 22, 2001 (Japan) July 2003 (USA) |
| Running time | 85 min. |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| IMDb profile | |
Sakura Wars: The Movie (サクラ大戦 活動写真 Sakura Taisen Katsudō Shashin?) is a 2001 Japanese animated film adaptation of the Sakura Wars series directed and co-written by Mitsuru Hongō.
The film takes place between the onset of Sakura Wars 3 and Sakura Wars 4. Lachette Altair is dispatched to the Imperial Capital Tokyo from New York to work for the Imperial Assault Force's Teito Hanagumi. However, Douglas-Stewart, an American company led by the sinister Brent Furlong, plans to make the Hanagumi obsolete. When Commander Ikki Yoneda is captured and the Hanagumi is placed on indefinite standby, the fate between the Hanagumi, Douglas-Stewart and Tokyo is at stake.
The film was released in theaters on December 22, 2001 in Japan with 3 other movies, Slayers Premium, Azumanga Daioh: The Very Short Movie and DiGi Charat. It was licensed in the United States by Pioneer Animation (now Geneon Entertainment).
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The opening text reveals that Tokyo's prosperity has been increased by steam power. After a performance by the Imperial Revue at the Great Imperial Theater, the group celebrates Leni Milchstrasse's seventeenth birthday. During this, Yūichi Kayama appears to join the celebration. The next morning, on Christmas Day, Sumire Kanzaki and Maria Tachibana visit a theater, where Maria finds out that Brent was one of the mafia members in New York when Tachibana was in America. At the Great Imperial Theater, Lachette Altair arrives from New York to be assigned into the Imperial Assault Force. That night, Douglas-Stewart president Brent Furlong and his ally, Patrick Hamilton, summons the Kouma to obliterate a city. The Imperial Assault Force is summoned to the battlefield where the Kouma are at. However, during the assault, Lachette appears in an Eisenkleid.
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[edit] Rating
In the United States, Sakura Wars: The Movie is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America.
