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Once Upon a Time [Windaria] (movie)

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Alternative title:
C'era una volta Windaria (Italian)
Douwa Meita Senshi Windaria (Japanese)
Il était une fois Windaria (French)
Windaria
Windaria, le fable tragique (French)
Виндария (Russian)
ウインダリア (Japanese)
童話めいた戦史ウインダリア (Japanese)
Themes: love, war
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: Two rival kingdoms vie for fresh water and in the process end up destroying their entire society. As seen through the eyes of an innocent go-between, this tragic story details the depths to which loyalty and everlasting love must be tested, in a futile attempt to save a world from total destruction.
User Ratings: 183 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 7 votes (sub:5, dub:1, raw:1)
 Excellent: 23 votes (sub:15, dub:3, Rus.dub:2, Rus.sub:2, ?:1)
 Very good: 31 votes (sub:20, dub:10, ?:1)
 Good: 45 votes (sub:31, dub:12, edit.dub:1, ?:1)
 Decent: 20 votes (sub:13, dub:6, raw:1)
 So-so: 25 votes (sub:15, dub:8, ?:2)
 Not really good: 14 votes (sub:10, dub:3, Ita.dub:1)
 Weak: 11 votes (sub:7, dub:4)
 Bad: 3 votes (dub:2, sub:1)
 Awful: 2 votes (sub:1, ?:1)
 Worst ever: 2 votes (dub:2)
Seen in part or in whole by 376 users, rank: #1291
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.459 (Decent+.45), std. dev.: 2.0901, rank: #2512
Weighted mean: 6.400 (Decent+.39), rank: #2523 (seen all: 6.42 / seen some: 5.63 / won't finish: 4.00)
Bayesian estimate: 6.457 (Decent+.45), rank: #2183
Running time: 102 minutes
Vintage:
1986-07-09
1987 (Streamline home video release)
Premiere date:
1986-07-09 (Japan)
Releases: We have 1
Opening Theme:
"Yakusoku" by Akino Arai
Ending Theme:
"Utsukushii hoshi" by Akino Arai
Official website:
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 1
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Related releases:
    Once Upon a Time (DVD 1) 2004-03-16 (from $14.98)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Kunihiko Yuyama

Script: Keisuke Fujikawa

Music:
Ryuji Sasai
Satoshi Kadokura

Original Work: Keisuke Fujikawa

Character Design: Mutsumi Inomata

Art director: Geki Katsumata

Animation director: Mutsumi Inomata

Mechanical design:
Shohei Kohara
Shouhei Ohara
Takahiro Toyomasu

Director of Photography: Hiroaki Edamitsu

Executive producer:
Shuuichi Onodera
Toshihiro Nagao

Producer: Toshihiro Nagao

Accessory Coordinator: Shohei Kohara

Animation Coordination: Shigenori Kageyama

Assistant director: Shin-ichi Masaki

Chief Production Administrator: Akihiko Inari

Editing: Shuichi Kakesu

Image Design:
Shohei Kohara
Shouhei Ohara
Takahiro Toyomasu

In-Between Animation:
Atsushi Aono
Eriko Mogi
Futoshi Higashide
Haruya Nakahira
Haruyuki Kumagai
Hideko Deuchi
Hiroki Yano
Hirotoshi Katō
Junko Maeda
Kazuhiko Tanaka
Kazuhiro Kaneko
Kazuhiro Konuma
Kazumi Ōmame
Kunihiro Endō
Masahiro Sekiguchi
Masanori Nishii
Masayuki Handa
Masayuki Takabayashi
Mayumi Watanabe
Misayo Usugi
Miyuki Nakano
Noriko Numa
Sayoko Tsuji
Shinichi Yoshino
Shinji Moriyama
Shōjirō Endō
Tadashi Mitsueda
Toshi Noma
Toshie Abiru
Tsuyoshi Matsuyama
Yoshio Kinoshita
Yoshito Iwamoto
Yukari Takahashi
Yumi Igarashi
Yumiko Furukawa

In-Between Check: Kyoko Ishida

Key Animation:
Ayumi Chibuki
Hideki Araki
Hiroaki Gohda
Hiromi Nakamura
Hiroyuki Ikegami
Kazuaki Moori
Kazunori Nakazawa
Minoru Tozawa
Mutsumi Inomata
Satoshi Isono
Satoshi Kobayashi
Satoshi Utsunomiya
Shigenori Kageyama
Shohei Kohara
Shouhei Ohara
Takafumi Hayashi
Takahiro Toyomasu
Takashi Hyoudo
Takashi Koizumi
Takuya Wada
Tamotsu Tanaka
Toshihiro Kawamoto
Toshimitsu Kobayashi
Toshiyuki Tokura
Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Yoshiyuki Ichikawa

Layout:
Kazuaki Moori
Takafumi Hayashi

Planning:
Shuuichi Onodera
Toshihiro Nagao

Production Desk: Mutsuo Horibe

Sound Assistant Direction: Jun Watanabe

Sound Direction: Noriyoshi Matsuura

Sub-mechanical Design: Tomohiko Sato

Theme Song Arrangement: Satoshi Kadokura (OP-ED)

Theme Song Composition:
Akino Arai (ED)
Kazuhiko Katoh (OP)

Theme Song Lyrics:
Akino Arai (ED)
Masumi Kawamura (OP)

Theme Song Performance: Akino Arai (OP, ED)

 

Waka Kanda as Marlin

Gara Takashima as Druid

Hidekatsu Shibata as Lanslo 

Ichirô Nagai as Piralu

Kazuhiko Inoue as Jiru

Kazuki Yao as Torel

Keiko Mari as Druido ((as Gara Takatori)) 

Naoko Matsui as Ahnas

Norio Wakamoto as Kyle 

Tohru Furuya as Izu 

Tomie Kataoka as Isis

Yumi Kinoshita as Sharem

Japanese companies 

Background Art: Studio Cosmos

Distributor: Atlus

Photography: Studio Gallop

Production:
Idol
Kaname Productions

English cast 
English staff 

Director: Carl Macek

ADR Director: Tom Wyner

Script:
Carl Macek
Tom Wyner

Executive producer:
John Ledford (ADV Films)
Mark Williams (ADV Films)

Producer: Carl Macek

International Coordination: Toru Iwakami (ADV Films)

Jane Alan as Marie

Kerrigan Mahan as Allen

Bruce Nielsen as Prince Roland

A. Gregory as Old Allen

Abe Lasser as Lord Legato

Alfred Thor as Lunarian Advisor

Barbara Goodson as Princess Veronica

Brittany Harlowe as Celina

Catherine Luciani as Lunarian Queen

Dave Mallow as Lunarian Court Member

Deanna Morris as Telsa

Lara Cody as Kid

Michael McConnohie as King Drako

Richard George as
Legato's Soldier
Shadowland Pilot

Sam Strong as
Lunarian
Shadowland Guard

Sonja S. Fox as
Juliet 2
Shadowland Queen

Wendee Lee as Juliet 1

English companies 

ADR Production: Intersound, Inc.

Licensed by:
ADV Films
Streamline Pictures (Expired)

Production: Harmony Gold U.S.A. Inc.


French staff 
(none)
French cast 

Frederic Legros as Isse

French companies 
(none)
Italian staff 
Italian cast 
(none)
 

Barbara De Bortoli as Maria

Dario De Grassi as Alan (old)

Vittorio Guerrieri as Alan (young)

Giuliano Giacomelli as Roland

Giuliano Santi as Lagado

Monica Ward as Veronica

Italian companies 

Distributor: Yamato Video

Dubbing: Promovision


Russian staff 
(none)
Russian companies 

Production: MC Entertainment

Russian cast 
(none)
 
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