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Spring and Chaos (movie)

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© TV Iwate, Group TAC.


Alternative title:
Ihatov Gensou: Kenji no Haru (Japanese)
Kenji's Spring
イーハトーブ幻想 Kenjiの春 (Japanese)
Age rating: All Ages (Nothing objectionable)
Plot Summary: Set in the beginning of the 20th century Japan, the film follows the bright and eccentric Kenji from his late student years through his adulthood. Kenji suffers the tragedy of being an artist who's art isn't recognized during his lifetime. Based on the life of the author Kenji Miyazawa, the film depicts his brief but intense existence.
User Ratings: 86 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 12 votes (sub:8, dub:3, Ger.sub:1)
 Excellent: 21 votes (sub:19, ?:1, dub:1)
 Very good: 22 votes (sub:16, dub:4, Rus.sub:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Good: 21 votes (sub:13, dub:6, Rus.sub:2)
 Decent: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
 So-so: 4 votes (sub:2, dub:2)
 Not really good: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Weak: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 154 users, rank: #1962
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.884 (Very good-.11), std. dev.: 1.6241, rank: #551
Weighted mean: 7.813 (Very good-.18), rank: #516 (seen all: 7.81)
Bayesian estimate: 7.781 (Very good-.21), rank: #368
Running time: 53 minutes
Vintage:
1996-12-14
2001-05-29 (American Release)
Premiere date:
1996-12-14 (Japan)
Releases: We have 2
Ending Theme:
"アヴェ・マリア (Ave Maria)" by Shang Shang Typhoon
Official website:
Kenjiの春 (Japanese)
Comment:
TOKYOPOP / Mixx Entertainments first licensed title and dub.
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    Spring and Chaos DVD

Related releases:
    Spring and Chaos (DVD) 2001-05-29 (from $14.90)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Shoji Kawamori

Screenplay: Shoji Kawamori

Music: Shang Shang Typhoon

Original story: Kenji Miyazawa

Character Design: Takahiro Kishida

Art director: Hiroshi Ohno

Animation director: Takahiro Kishida

Sound director: Atsumi Tashiro

Cgi director:
Shinji Nasu
Tsuneo Maeda

Executive producer: Takao Abe

Producer:
Atsumi Tashiro
Yukinori Fuchizawa

Assistant director: Eiichi Sato

Assistant producer: Ken Fujita

Cinematography: Hajime Noguchi

Color director: Miyoko Ichinose

Editing: Masashi Furukawa

Recording engineer: Yasushi Nagura

Sound Effects: Shizuo Kurahashi

Special consultant to the director:
Hiroshi Masumura
Taijiro Amazawa

 

Shirou Sano as Kenji

Shiho Niiyama as Taichi

Akane Tomonaga as Seito

Chikao Ohtsuka as Father

Hiroshi Isobe as Kana

Keiichi Fujimura as Peasant A

Mariko Kouda as Toshi

Naoko Hirai as Kuni

Japanese companies 

Distributor: Bandai Visual

Production:
Group TAC
Satelight
TV IWATE

Recording: AVACO Creative Studios

English cast 
English staff 

Director: Stuart Levy

Translation:
Mathew Galgani
Stuart Levy

Sound director: John Forbes

Executive producer:
John Parker
Stuart Levy

Script Editing: James Klein

Sound Editor: Paul Nielson

Ron Jaxson as Kenji

Elissa Sarna as Toshi

Herb Mendelson as Kanai

James Klein as
Chusaku
Student

Janathan Funk as Teikichi

Jenny Subjack as
Farmer
Ryota
Student
Taka

Karen Vered as Intro Naration

Kirk Durham as Tetsuo

Suzan Isaacs as
Farmer
Kuni

Suzan Jaget as Kenji's Mother

Wendel Kimsell as Kenji's Father

Heather Smith as Student

Neil Maclean as
Farmer
Student

Ronald Scovil Jr. as Farmer

Victor Chin as Farmer

English companies 

Licensed by: TOKYOPOP

 
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