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Glassy Ocean: Kujira no Chouyaku (movie)

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Alternative title:
Glassy Ocean
クジラの跳躍 (Japanese)
Genres: drama, fantasy
Plot Summary:
On what apparently is a parallel world, time flows in a much slower pace than normal. The ocean remains on a solid state of matter as the eccentric individuals who inhabit this land casually wander over it.
Time has come to a standstill. A whale appears from a glassy ocean and spends half a day soaring gracefully across the skies. What makes this works extraordinary is the artist`s decision to use the transparency and visual bulk of 3D computer graphics only for the un-moving ocean and glaciers. The people, whale, and ships are all hand-drawn, and with this contrast, he invites the viewer into a different world. This is a poem written in animation, the creation of a true fantasy. This project was a considerable under taking, and the results are marvelous. 
User Ratings: 88 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 7 votes (sub:6, dub:1)
 Excellent: 13 votes (sub:13)
 Very good: 14 votes (sub:13, dub:1)
 Good: 23 votes (sub:21, Spa.dub:1, raw:1)
 Decent: 15 votes (sub:14, dub:1)
 So-so: 7 votes (sub:7)
 Not really good: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Weak: 5 votes (sub:4, dub:1)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 128 users, rank: #2120
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.977 (Good-.02), std. dev.: 1.8585, rank: #1800
Weighted mean: 7.031 (Good+.03), rank: #1463 (seen all: 7.06 / won't finish: 2.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.080 (Good+.07), rank: #1207
Running time: 22 minutes
Vintage: 1998-11-14
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Shigeru Tamura

Music: Yutoro Teshikai

Original creator: Shigeru Tamura

Producer: Mitsuo Shionaga

Animation producer: Akemi Ueda

Visual Direction: Shin'ya Kato

 

Eric Jacobsen as man on the ocean floor

Hiroyuki Aoki as alcohol philosopher

Ichirô Nagai as old man

Kento Ogasawara as boy

Masaharu Satou as human building

Masatoshi Nagase as Narration

Masayuki Terashima as man with spear

Noboru Mitani as artist R

Shinichi Tsuda as lime student

Takeshi Toshishige as dreaming man

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Project Team Sara

Production:
Ai ga areba Daijobu CO. LTD.
Bandai Visual

French staff 
French companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster: Canal + (from June 1998)

French cast 
(none)
Spanish staff 
Spanish companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster: Locomotion (Latinamerica)

Spanish cast 
(none)
 
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