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Air (movie)

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[ alternate retelling of Air (TV) ]

Alternative title:
Air: The Movie
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: A long time ago, a winged maiden was held prisoner in a castle - cursed never to experience love, lest she die. Centuries later, in a sleepy coastal town, a young girl relives this agony.
User Ratings: 1085 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 147 votes (sub:121, dub:16, raw:3, Fre.sub:2, ?:1, Spa.sub:1, Ger.dub:1, Pol.sub:1, Rus.sub:1)
 Excellent: 207 votes (sub:163, dub:28, Spa.sub:5, ?:3, raw:2, Fre.sub:2, Pol.sub:2, Rus.sub:1, edit.dub:1)
 Very good: 242 votes (sub:202, dub:27, Spa.sub:9, Por.sub:2, raw:1, Kor.sub:1)
 Good: 231 votes (sub:198, dub:27, Spa.sub:2, Pol.sub:1, raw:1, ?:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Decent: 113 votes (sub:90, dub:12, raw:5, Spa.sub:4, ?:2)
 So-so: 71 votes (sub:65, dub:4, Spa.sub:1, Rus.sub:1)
 Not really good: 36 votes (sub:31, dub:4, Rus.sub:1)
 Weak: 28 votes (sub:25, dub:2, Ger.sub:1)
 Bad: 3 votes (dub:2, sub:1)
 Awful: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
 Worst ever: 3 votes (sub:3)
Seen in part or in whole by 2086 users, rank: #278
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.518 (Very good-.48), std. dev.: 1.8308, rank: #894
Weighted mean: 7.404 (Good+.40), rank: #938 (seen all: 7.42 / seen some: 6.25 / won't finish: 5.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.405 (Good+.40), rank: #733
Running time: 91 minutes
Vintage: 2005-02-05
Premiere date:
2005-02-05 (Japan)
Releases: We have 2
Opening Theme:
"Tori no Uta (鳥の詩; Bird's Poem)" by Lia
Ending Theme:
#1: "Farewell song" by Lia
#2: "If Dreams Came True" by Eri Kawai
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 2
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Related reviews:
    Air DVD

Related releases:
    Air (DVD) 2007-12-11 (from $9.00)
    Air (DVD) 2009-04-21 (from $11.99)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Osamu Dezaki

Screenplay: Makoto Nakamura

Music: Yoshikazu Suo

Original Character Design: Itaru Hinoue

Character Design: Akemi Kobayashi

Art director: Shinzo Yuki

Animation director: Hidemi Kubo

Sound director: Shoji Hata

Cgi director: Tōru Yoshiyasu

Director of Photography:
Takeshi Fukuda (Sanko Production)
Tomokazu Shiratori (Sanko Production)

Executive producer: Takeshi Oikawa

Producer:
Iriya Azuma
Mamoru Yokota

Animation Advancement: Mitsuo Hagino

Art Supervision: Osamu Honma

Assistant Animation Director:
Mieko Hosoi
Natsuko Suzuki
Yoshihiro Takeda
Youichi Ohnishi

Assistant director:
Hideki Hiroshima
Hiroshi Ishida
Hirotoshi Rissen
Kou Matsuzono
Takahiro Imamura
Yukihiko Nakao

Assistant Editor: Yoshihiro Aso

Assistant Unit Director:
Nobukage Kimura
Yasunori Gotō

Background Art:
Aiko Katsumata
Eiko Sawada
Hiromi Kamiyama
Hiroyuki Tsubaki
Junichi Taniguchi
Keita Suzuki
Ken Tokushige
Kenji Matsumoto
Kentaro Akiyama
Kikuyo Yano
Masanobu Otani
Masato Itou
Masayasu Yamaguchi
Michie Wada
Midori Tanakasato
Mika Kosuga
Mitsuo Yoshino
Naomi Kasugai
Noboru Yoshida
Noriko Gōboya
Ryōko Itō
Ryuutarou Masuda
Sagako Itakura
Shinji Saito
Shoichiro Sugiura
Takashi Kurahashi
Takashi Omori
Takimi Echizen
Tatsuro Iseri
Toshihide Kawana
Yoshirō Kajiura
Yoshito Watanabe
Youichi Nishikawa
Yumi Hosaka

CG Animation:
Ai Ito (Communication Art School)
Ako Kakuda (Office Prion)
Eiji Kondō (P.R.O.)
Kōtarō Shishido (Communication Art School)
Mitsuhiro Hamada (Office Prion)
Rie Toyomaru (P.R.O.)
Satoshi Hagitani (P.R.O.)

CG Manager: Masashi Tanaka

CG Producer: Toyokazu Hattori

Color Coordination: Tsutomu Tsukata

Data Conversion:
Toshihiro Shioda
Toshimi Gotō
Yuki Izumi

Digital Paint:
Asami Hoshikawa
Chiho Makita
Fumiko Koono
Fumiko Matsuda
Hanae Kato
Hirokazu Nagaoka
Katsunori Suzuki
Mina Noguchi
Sachiko Iura
Shizu Odagiri
Takeshi Satou
Toshiko Fukunaga
Yasutaka Inagaki
Yuki Akimoto
Yuki Tonegawa
Yūko Koga
Yuri Kayano

Digital Photography:
Arihiro Fukuda
Fumio Hirokawa
Haruhiko Ishikawa
Hidenori Saeki
Hiromu Yamaguchi
Hirosato Oonishi
Kazuhiro Yoshino
Koki Terasaki
Kunihito Noritomo
Masamichi Shimizu
Michiko Fukui
Misako Ogata
Naohiro Kaneko
Sanae Hanami
Takayoshi Matsuhira
Terumi Nakayama
Tomoko Minegishi

Editing: Masahiro Goto

Finishing Advancement: Mitsuo Hagino

In-Between Animation:
Etsuko Shinohara
Hisashi Mawatari
Kyoko Sato
Mihoko Tomita
Yasushi Hamada
Yukiko Nishikawa
Yukitoshi Yamaguchi
Yuuko Shiota

Key Animation:
Ai Kamakura
Akemi Hosoya
Akio Sugino
Asami Imamura
Atsuya Miura
Chizuru Mori
Chuji Nakajima
Daisuke Takemoto
Fujio Oda
Fusayo Ootani
Futoshi Higashide
Goichi Iwahata
Hideki Hashimoto
Hiromi Nakamura
Hironobu Saito
Hiroshi Uchida
Hitoshi Kamata
Kaoru Tanaka
Kaoru Yabana
Kazuhiko Yokota
Kazuki Miura
Kazutoyo Yamada
Keiichi Ichikawa
Keiichiro Kimura
Keiji Ishihara
Keiko Fukumoto
Keiko Yamamoto
Kimiaki Nagumo
Kumi Nakajou
Kyoko Kayano
Mai Otsuka
Maki Murakami
Makoto Tanaka
Manabu Oohashi
Marie Koizumi
Masahiro Okamura
Masayasu Yoshida
Mayu Saito
Michiko Notsu
Minako Ito
Miyuki Abe
Miyuki Katayama
Motoaki Satou
Naotoshi Shida
Noboru Furuse
Nobuhiro Masuda
Nobuyoshi Souzaki
Noriko Ōma
Osamu Ishikawa
Rika Mishima
Ryozo Sugiyama
Sadatoshi Matsuzaka
Satoru Minowa
Sawako Yamamoto
Seika Saruwatari
Seizo Toma
Shin'ichirou Fukushima
Shingo Kobayashi
Shino Ikeda
Shinobu Ookawachi
Shohei Kohara
Shuichi Ito
Shuue Kuwahara
Takashi Maruyama
Takashi Nozawa
Takayuki Manaka
Takenori Tsukuma
Takeshi Itou
Takuji Yoshimoto
Tatsuya Abe
Tomoko Ito
Tomoyuki Sugano
Wataru Nakagawa
Yasue Ohno
Yoshihiro Ujiie
Yosuke Yabumoto
Youko Satou
Yuji Miyashita
Yuki Nakajima
Yukihiro Misawa
Yumiko Ishii
Yumiko Kinoshita
Yumiko Tomiki
Yuuko Satou

Music Assistance:
Akihiko Fujita (ToeiAnimationMusicPublishing)
Akira Yoshikawa (Frontier Works)
Toshihiko Nishibe (Double Wave)

Music Director: Seiji Suzuki

Optical Re-Recording: Akira Toshisawa

Original Music:
Jun Maeda
Magome Togoshi
Shinji Orito

Paint Check:
Aiko Seguchi
Ayumi Tada
Keiko Yoshizawa
Masae Motohashi
Yoko Ohori

Production Advancement:
Megumi Suetake
Yūichi Nagata

Production Coordination: Katsumi Ōmoto

Production manager:
Kazumitsu Matsusaka
Yoshihide Moriyama

Publicity:
Daichi Nagatomi (Toei Animation)
Kazuhiro Iso (Frontier Works)
Michinao Tanaka (Frontier Works)
Takayuki Izawa (Frontier Works)
Takeo Konishi (Toei Animation)
Toshiyuki Uemura (Toei Animation)

Publicity Assistance: Atsushi Takeyama

Recording:
Kōichi Ōtsuki
Nobuhiro Ōmura
Shinsuke Mori

Recording Assistant: Kazuyoshi Iino

Setting Assistance:
Kanetake Ebikawa
Takeo Taguchi

Sound Adjustments:
Shoji Hata
Takashi Takasaka (assistant)

Sound Effects: Yukiyoshi Itokawa

Special Effects:
Ken Hoshino
Masayuki Kawachi
Nao Ota
Nobuhiro Shimokawa
Toshio Katsuoka
Yumi Ushiyama

Special Thanks To:
Kaname Ikeda
Kaoru Sawada
Noriharu Yamazaki
Ryunosuke Kingetsu

Theme Song Composition: Kei Haneoka (ED2)

Theme Song Performance: Eri Kawai

 

Aya Hisakawa as Haruko Kamio

Hikaru Midorikawa as Yukito Kunisaki

Tomoko Kawakami as Misuzu Kamio

Chinami Nishimura as Kannabi-no-mikoto

Kikuko Inoue as Uraha

Nobutoshi Canna as Ryuya

Hiromi Konno as Potato

Keiko Han as Yaobikuni

Shinichiro Miki as Keisuke Tachibana

Yuko Nagashima as Yukito's mother

Yumi Touma as Hijiri Kirishima

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Toei Animation

CG Production:
Office Prion
P.R.O.

Dubbing Studio: Studio Aoi

Editing Studio: Tabac

Original Creator: Visual Art's/Key

Post-Production Studio: Omnibus Japan

Production:
Frontier Works
Toei Animation

Production Cooperation:
ACC Production Studio
Angle
Anime R
Anime Workshop Basara
Aoni Production
Araki Productions
Athena Art Studio
Beijing Xie Le Art Co., Ltd.
Design office MECHAMAN
Double R
EMUAI
IMG
J-Fox
JC Staff
KLAS
Last House
M.S.J Musashino Production
Marchen-Sha
Neo Media
NTT Media Lab
Plum
Shindo Production
Snowlight Staff
Studio CATS
Studio Don Juan
Studio Liberty
Studio Line
Studio MAT
Tabac
Tezuka Productions
TMS Photo
Yokocine D.I.A.
Yuhodo

Supervision: Visual Art's/Key

English staff 
English cast 

ADR Director: Kyle Jones

ADR Script: Kathleen Moynihan

Executive producer:
Joey Goubeaud
John Ledford

Producer: Scott McClennen

DVD Menu Design: Bety Sosa

Editing:
Eddie Shannon Jr.
Patrick Givens

International Coordination: Toru Iwakami

Media Coordinator: Mariela Ortiz

Mix: Matt Wittmeyer

Packaging Design: Bety Sosa

Production Assistant:
Maki Nagano
Paul Mericle

Production manager: Shelly Thomas

Recording engineer: Bobby Gordon

Sound Design: Matt Wittmeyer

Subtitle Script & Timing: Dwayne Jones

Translation Proofer: Amy Forsyth

 

Luci Christian as Haruko Kamio

Monica Rial as Misuzu Kamio

Vic Mignogna as Yukito Kunisaki

Allison Sumrall as Uraha

Cynthia Martinez as Kannabi-no-mikoto

Jay Hickman as Ryuya

Charles Campbell as Guard Captain

Christine Auten as Hijiri Kirishima

Christopher Ayres as
Bartender Pops
Teacher

John Gremillion as Keisuke Tachibana

John Swasey as Bus Driver A

Josh Grelle as Cook

K.C. Jones as Crow

Laura English as Girl A

Mariela Ortiz as Kid

Robin Terry as
Girl C
Yaobikuni

Serena Varghese as Girl B

Shannon Emerick as Dr. Phone

Shelley Calene-Black as Yukito's Mother

Stephanie Wittels as Kano Kirishima

Tiffany Grant as Potato

English companies 

Licensed by:
ADV Films
FUNimation Entertainment

Recording: ADV Studios

 
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