Sakura Wars: The Movie
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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<br / Hiroyuki Kawasaki |
| 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 Flower division while division captain Ichirō Ōgami is in Paris. Meanwhile, Douglas-Stewart, an American company led by the sinister president Brent Furlong, unveils a plan to make the division obsolete. When commander Ikki Yoneda is captured and the entire division is ordered on indefinite standby, the fate between the Flower Division, Douglas-Stewart and Tokyo is at stake.
The film was released in Japanese theaters on December 22, 2001 along with Slayers Premium, Azumanga Daioh: The Very Short Movie and DiGi Charat. It was licensed in the United States by Pioneer Animation (now Geneon Entertainment).
[edit] Cast
[edit] Staff
- Original story: Ohji Hiroi
- Director: Mitsuru Hongo
- Executive producer: Toshimichi Ohtsuki (King Records)
- Executive coordinate: Seigo Tanaka, Takeshi Yasuda, Yasuaki Nagoshi
- Production supervisor: Norikatsu Ohba (SEGA)
- Supervisor: Satoru Akahori
- Script writers: Mitsuru Hongo, Hiroyuki Nishimura, Nobutoshi Terado, Ohji Hiroi
- Music director: Kouhei Tanaka
- Original character design: Kosuke Fujishima
- Character design: Hidenori Matsubara
- Movie edition character design: Takuya Saito
- Animation direction: Takuya Saito, Mitsuru Ishihara, Hiroshi Okubo, Akiharu Ishii, Sushio
- Mechanical design: Atsushi Takeuchi, Hidekatsu Uemura
- 3D Motion Director: Atsushi Takeuchi
- Art design: Hiroshi Kato
- Art director: Yusuke Takeda
- Color design: Nobuko Mizuta
- 3D CGI animation director: Tokumitsu Kifune
- Director of photography: Koji Tanaka
- Special effects: Masahiro Murakami
- Editor: Junichi Uematsu
- Sound direction: Masafumi Mima
- Music recording producer: Yuji Saito
- Music recording director: Hajime Toma
- Music production: IMAGINE
- Sequence directors: Mitsuru Hongo, Tamaki Nakatsu
- Production manager: Tomoyoshi Koyama
- Producer: Tetsuo Uchida
- Production: Production I.G
- Sakura Wars: The Movie Production Committee: Sega, Kadokawa Shoten, Production I.G, Nippon Shupan Hanbai, Rent Lock Japan, Imagica, Character and Anime dot com
[edit] Rating
In the United States, Sakura Wars: The Movie is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America.
