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Penguin Highway (movie)

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Alternative title:
Le Mystère des pingouins (French)
Penguin Highway: El misterio de los pingüinos (Spanish)
ペンギン・ハイウェイ (Japanese)
企鵝公路 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Plot Summary: Fourth grader Aoyama and a mysterious older woman, who is a dental assistant and also Aoyama's first crush seek out to discover the reason why a group of penguins appeared in Aoyama's quiet suburban neighborhood.
User Ratings: 97 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 4 votes (sub:2, others:2
1 French subtitled
1 Italian dubbed
)
 Excellent: 15 votes (sub:10, dub:3, ?:1, raw:1)
 Very good: 38 votes (sub:22, dub:10, raw:1, others:5
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Italian dubbed
1 Polish subtitled
1 German dubbed
)
 Good: 26 votes (sub:19, dub:6, others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Decent: 6 votes (sub:5, dub:1)
 So-so: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:1, dub:1)
 Weak: 2 votes (raw:1, sub:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 135 users, rank: #4596 (of 9509)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.485 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.5339, rank: #1906 (of 9648)
Weighted mean: 7.551 (Very good−), rank: #1490 (of 9648) (seen all: 7.55)
Bayesian estimate: 7.542 (Very good−), rank: #1226 (of 7274)
Running time: 119 minutes
Vintage: 2018-07-29
Premiere date:
2018-07-29 (Canada, Fantasia International Film Festival)
2018-08-17 (Japan)
2018-09-02 (USA, Crunchyroll Expo)
2018-09-06 (Russia)
2018-09-15 (Australia, Madman Anime Festival Melbourne)
2018-11-20 (Italy)
2019-08-14 (France)
2021-07-16 (Spain - Barcelona)
Ending Theme:
"Good Night" by Hikaru Utada
Official website:
Links: We have 1
Review:
Penguin Highway (Aug 23, 2018)
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Artbook
    Penguin Highway - Book Set (Artbook) 2020-08-25
Blu-ray (Region A)
    Penguin Highway [Limited Edition] (Blu-ray) delayed/cancelled
Blu-ray + DVD combo
    Penguin Highway (BD+DVD) 2019-08-06 (from $12.56)
DVD (Region 1)
    Penguin Highway (DVD) 2019-08-06 (from $16.67)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Hiroyasu Ishida
Script: Makoto Ueda
Unit Director:
Kanta Kamei
Yōjirō Arai
Music: Umitarō Abe
Original creator: Tomihiko Morimi
Character Design: Yōjirō Arai
Sound Director: Eriko Kimura
Cgi Director: Norihito Ishii
Director of Photography: Kei Machida
2nd Key Animation:
Misa Suzuki (Kinema Citrus)
Mizuki Misawa (Kinema Citrus)
Takaomi Shinoda
Animation producer: Masahiro Kannae
Assistant Animation Director: Masanao Murayama
Assistant Director: Yō Watanabe
Background Art: Takumu Sasaki (Bamboo)
Color design: Izumi Hirose
Color Script: Takashi Kumagai
Color Setting Assistant: Miho Tanaka
Cooperation Producer:
Akira Ōtani
Tetsuya Nakatake
In-Between Animation:
Aiko Minowa (WIT STUDIO)
Airi Takekawa (Tatsunoko Production)
Aoi Mori (Asahi Production Shiroishi Studio)
Ayumi Nagaki (Comix Wave Films)
Chika Kanai (Twin Engine Digital Animation Studio)
Eri Okada (WIT STUDIO)
Hiroaki Nakamichi (SILVER LINK.)
Kōta Mori (SILVER LINK.)
Miyū Hayase (Gift-o'-Animation)
Miyuki Kakehi (Gift-o'-Animation)
Mutsumi Tateishi (WIT STUDIO)
Setsuko Takenouchi
Sonomi Fujii (WIT STUDIO)
Takaomi Shinoda
Yumiko Taguchi (STUDIO 4°C)
In-Between Check Assistant:
Kentarō Kurisaki
Setsuko Takenouchi
Production Desk: Kōsuke Suzuki
Prop Design: Namiko Ishidate
Setting Production: Kana Shibata
Theme Song Performance: Hikaru Utada
Kana Kita as Aoyama
Yū Aoi as Woman

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Aoyama's Father
Mamiko Noto as Aoyama's Mother
Megumi Han as Hamamoto
Michiyo Murase as Kobayashi
Miki Fukui as Suzuki
Misaki Kuno as Aoyama's Sister
Naoto Takenaka as Hamamoto's Father
Rie Kugimiya as Uchida
Takehiro Jizōdō as Nagasaki

Atsuyoshi Miyazaki as Yoshida
Ayaka Suwa as Maruyama
Daisuke Takahashi as Reporter
Eri Inagawa as 6th Grade Girl
Juri Kimura as Yoshino
Mai Nishikawa as Oka
Mari Doi as Dentist Receptionist Woman
Minami Iinuma as 5th Grade Girl
Minori Ihara as Kato
Misaki Kuno as Penguin
Misaki Watada as Okada
Miyuki Kobori as Aoki
Moe Edamoto as Aunt
Natsumi Fujiwara as Maeda
Rarisa Tago Takeda as Ono-san
Rio Satō as Ciba
Ryōta Suzuki as Driver
Shinichiro Uchida as Police Boss
Shuhei Izumi as Yamaguchi
Sōshirō Hori as Ueda
Takaki Ōtomari as
Fire Brigade Leader
Jabberwock
Takuya Makimura as Mr. Tamar
Yukimi Takeuchi as caster
Yuko Iida as Fujioka
Japanese companies
2D Works: Chiptune
Animation Production: Studio Colorido
Background Art Assistance: Nam Hai
Overseas Licensing: Fuji Creative Corporation
Photography:
Chiptune
Nexus
Planning Cooperation: Twin Engine
Production Cooperation: Wit Studio
special effects: Chiptune
English cast
English staff
Translation: Michael Brown (WAKANIM)

Blu-Ray Producer: Brian Ward (Shout! Factory)
DVD Producer: Brian Ward (Shout! Factory)
Packaging Design: Bonnie LeBrun
Production Assistant: Audre Pile
Proofreading: Adam Lensenmayer (WAKANIM)
Re-Recording Mixing: Samantha Peymani
Recording engineer:
Gabriel Placentia
Indu Vasudev
Recording Supervisor: Maria Nougues
Erika Harlacher as Onee-san/Young Lady
Gideon Modisett as Aoyama

Anne Yatco as Hamamoto
Cindy Robinson as Aoyama's Mother
Colin Pickard as Nagasaki
Eugene Nomura as Hamamoto's Father (credited as Jenika)
Jake Ritter as Suzuki
Keith Silverstein as Aoyama's Father
Kenna Pickard as Aoyama's Sister
Landen Beattie as Uchida
Winston Bromhead as Kobayashi

Allyson Pile as
Female Receptionist A
Female Truck Driver A
Festival Announcer
Bob Buchholz as
Police Officer A
Principal
Christine Marie Cabanos as
5th Grader A
Nintendo Boy A
Okada
Penta
Woman Crossing Street
Christopher Smith as
Firefighter
Kato
Newscaster A
Police Officer C
Cindy Robinson as
Chess Boy A
Girl in White
Oka
Colin Pickard as
Fujioka
Maruyama
Dorothy Fahn as
Aoki
Chess Boy B
Female Citizen B
Guilty Neighbor Lady
Miura
Ono
Erika Harlacher as
Boy in Blue
Maeda
Yasuda
Joseph Whimms as
Firefighter D
Male Citizen B
Yamaguchi
Yoshida
Michael Sorich as
Male Cop
Newscaster B
Police Officer B
Susan Myers as Yoshino
Tony Azzolino as
Driver
Male Classmate A
Tamaru
Ueda

English companies
Distributor:
Eleven Arts (USA/Canada, theaters) 
Shout! Factory (Standard Edition)
The Right Stuf International (Limited Edition; Cancelled)
Internet Streaming:
AnimeLab (Australia and New Zealand)
Crunchyroll (United Kingdom and Ireland)
Hoopla
Screen Anime (United Kingdom and Ireland; May 2020; Scotland Loves Animation 2020)
Tubi TV
Licensed by:
Anime Limited (UK/Ireland)
Eleven Arts (USA)
Madman Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand)
Production: SDI Media (English dub)
French staff
French cast
ADR Director: Alexandre Gibert

Adaptation: Vanessa Leiritz
Sound Engineer: Aaron Baustert
Geneviève Doang as Aoyama
Mélissa Windal as Onee San

Julie Claude as Hanamoto
Juline Klock as Soeur d'Aoyama
Mathieu Dupire as Uchida
Sofiane Fischer as Kobayashi
Thimothé Gulyas as Nagazakie
French companies
Dubbing: Soundtastic
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
ADR Director:
Cesc Casanovas (Spain dub; Catalan dub)
Dubbing Director:
Francesc Casanovas (Catalan dub) 
Xavier Serrano (Spain dub)

Screen Inserts: Albert Peñarroya (Spain dub)
Ana María Camps as Lady (Catalan dub; Spain dub)
Marta Amat as Aoyama (Catalan dub; Spain dub)

Eli Serra as Uchida (Catalan dub; Spain dub)
Gerard Cruset as Suzuki (Catalan dub; Spain dub)
Irene Garrés as Hamamoto (Catalan dub; Spain dub)

Albert Peñarroya as
Aoyama's Father (Spain dub)
Pare de l'Aoyama (Catalan dub)
Ariadna Colomer as
Aoyama's Mother (Spain dub)
Mare de l'Aoyama (Catalan dub)
Cesc Casanovas as
Hamamoto's Father (Spain dub)
Pare de la Hamamoto (Catalan dub)
Eric Suñén as Amic d'en Suzuki (Catalan dub)
Laia Martínez as
Aoyama's Sister (Spain dub)
Germana de l'Aoyama (Catalan dub; Catalan dub)
Thais Buforn as Professora (Catalan dub)
Yolanda Gispert as Germana de l'Aoyama (Catalan dub)

Aaron Rico (Catalan dub)
Derrick Alvarez (Catalan dub)
Joan Altabella (Catalan dub)
Toni Moreno Azagra (Catalan dub)
Spanish companies
Broadcaster: Movistar CineDoc&Roll (Spain)
Dubbing Studio: Here Comes the Sound (Spain dub; Catalan dub)
Licensed by: Jonu Media (Spain)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Fabrizio Mazzotta
Translation: Irene Cantoni

Dialogues: Lina Zargani
Dubbing Assistant: Viola Privitera
Mixing: Mauro Lopez
Italian companies
Distributor: Dynit
Dubbing Studio: C.D. Cine Dubbing
Internet Streaming: VVVVID
German staff
German cast
ADR Director: Jörn Friese
Dorothea Zwetkow as Aoyama
Victoria Frenz as Onee-san

Esther Brandt as Suzuki
Jana Dunja Gries as Hamamoto
Jule Friese as Aoyama's Sister
Lilian Wilfart as Aoyama's Mother
Richard Westerhaus as Aoyama's Father
Rolf Berg as Hamamoto's Father

Leal Çehreli as Nagasaki
Louis Friedemann Thiele as Tamaru-sensei
Nicole Hise as Yoshino-sensei
Vivien Faber as Kobayashi
German companies
Distributor: Kazé Germany
Dubbing: G&G Tonstudios
Russian staff
Russian companies
(none)
Licensed by: Exponenta
Russian cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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