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Dagger of Kamui (movie)

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Alternative title:
Kamui no Ken
La Spada dei Kamui (Italian)
Меч Камуи (Russian)
カムイの剣 (Japanese)
Themes: historical
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: A young boy named Jiro finds his mother and sister murdered in his home. Falsely accused of the crime, he flees from his village and meets a priest named Tenkai, who has him kill a rogue ninja named Tarouza. After fulfilling that task, Jiro undergoes training to become a master assassin. Many years later, Jiro finds out that he was an orphan and his real father was Tarouza, who had worked for Tenkai until he aborted his mission when he fell in love with an Ainu woman. The young ninja discovers that the Shogunate was to retrieve the lost treasure of Captain Kidd and use it to once again isolate Japan from the rest of the world. Using the clues that Tarouza had kept secret, Jiro - along with the female ninja Oyuki and a slave named Sam - travels to Russia and America to search for the treasure in hopes of using it to extract revenge from Tenkai.
User Ratings: 129 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 5 votes (sub:3, dub:1, raw:1)
 Excellent: 16 votes (sub:13, dub:2, Fre.sub:1)
 Very good: 24 votes (sub:19, Fre.sub:2, dub:2, Ita.dub:1)
 Good: 27 votes (sub:21, dub:4, ?:1, Ita.dub:1)
 Decent: 20 votes (sub:14, dub:3, Ita.dub:1, ?:1, Fre.sub:1)
 So-so: 10 votes (sub:6, dub:3, raw:1)
 Not really good: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Weak: 6 votes (sub:4, dub:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Bad: 5 votes (sub:3, dub:2)
 Awful: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Worst ever: 7 votes (sub:5, ?:1, dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 263 users, rank: #1539
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.202 (Decent+.20), std. dev.: 2.5469, rank: #2852
Weighted mean: 6.244 (Decent+.24), rank: #2750 (seen all: 6.27 / seen some: 5.49)
Bayesian estimate: 6.335 (Decent+.33), rank: #2349
Running time: 132 minutes
Vintage: 1985-03-09
Premiere date:
1985-03-09 (Japan)
Ending Theme:
"Kamui no Ken (The Dagger of Kamui)" by Noriko Watanabe
Official website:
Comment:
Previously released in the U.S. in English dubbed format as Revenge of the Ninja Warrior (with over 40 minutes cut from the original film) and The Blade of Kamui (uncut).
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Related releases:
    Dagger of Kamui (DVD) 2003-09-01 (from $8.99)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Rintaro

Screenplay: Mamoru Mazaki

Music:
Eitetsu Hayashi
Ryudo Uzaki

Character Design: Moriyoshi Murano

Art director: Takamura Kurao

Art:
Kazuo Oga
Tadao Kubota

Animation director: Takuo Noda

Original Novel: Tetsu Yano

Mechanical design: Katsumi Itahashi

Director of Photography: Iwao Yamaki

Executive producer: Haruki Kadokawa

Producer:
Masao Maruyama
Rintaro
Satoru Ikegami

Animation Check:
Kumiko Saito
Masato Fukami
Miyuki Umetsu

Art Assistant:
Fukiko Hashizume
Hiromi Koono

Assistant Animation Director: Kyoko Matsubara

Assistant director:
Hiroyuki Ebata
Naoko Kusumi
Susumu Ishizaki

Assistant Editor: Yoshiyuki Abe

Audio Producer: Susumu Aketagawa

Background Art:
Haruo Ibara
Jinzaburoo Kaibo
Katsushi Aoki
Mimiko Satoo
Rumiko Minemura
Satsuki Hashimoto
Tomomi Morishita
Yamako Ishikawa
Yoko Yoshida
Yoshihiro Itoo
Yoshiyuki Shikano
Yuji Ikehata
Yukio Abe

Cel Check:
Emiko Matsumoto
Michiyo Iriomote
Yuki Hisada

Cel Painting:
Ayako Kobayashi
Chikako Kamata
Hiroko Yokoyama
Kouji Satou
Mayumi Kanei
Nagisa Andoo
Naoko Shibayama
Yuuji Ooyama

Cel Painting Advancement: Yasuhide Baba

Cel Painting Assistance: Yoshitaka Suzuki

Cel Setting: Yoshiharu Wakai

Color Coordination: Akemi Katada

Dolby 4-Channel Music Mixer: Akihiko Oono (Aoi Studio)

Editing: Osamu Tanaka

Effects:
Hideyo Sasaki
Kenji Shibazaki (Tooyoo Sound)
Shizuo Kurahashi

Epigraphs: Katsuhiko Satoo

Fixed Designs: Masao Maruyama

Illustration: Moriyoshi Murano

In-Between Animation:
Akemi Watanabe
Chieko Katsuda
Etsuko Kimura
Hajime Yoshida
Harutoshi Tsubaki
Hidenori Nakagawa
Hiroyuki Horiuchi
Junichi Nagano
Junko Aoyama
Keiko Watanabe
Kimiko Murakami
Kunihiko Sakurai
Madoka Morie
Madoka Yasue
Maki Fujita
Makoto Ishida
Mayumi Nakamura
Mika Sugai
Sachiko Komeyama
Shinobu Matsumoto
Shuichi Sendao
Wakako Ueda
Yasuko Suzuki
Yoneko Fukaya
Yoshinori Takahashi
Yumiko Sugano
Yutaka Okamura
Yuusuke Takahashi

Insert Song Arrangement: Mitsuo Hagita

Insert Song Lyrics: Yoko Agi

Insert Song Music: Ryudo Uzaki

Insert Song Performance: Noriko Watanabe

Key Animation:
Atsuko Fukushima
Atsuko Ikeda
Emi Hoshino
Kengo Inagaki
Kitaro Kousaka
Koji Morimoto
Kyoko Matsubara
Makoto Ito
Manabu Oohashi
Nobumasa Arakawa
Osamu Nabeshima
Reiko Kurihara
Satoshi Utsunomiya
Shigetaka Kiyoyama
Shinji Otsuka
Shinsuke Terasawa
Shojuro Yamauchi
Shunji Saida
Takashi Nakamura
Yasuomi Umetsu
Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Music Assistance:
Junichi Kuwabara
Shuuichi Kurita

Music Director:
Eitetsu Hayashi
Ryudo Uzaki

Music Performance:
Koji Endo
Kokunosuke Kohara
Masahiro Kawasaki
Masashi Kikuchi
Masayuki Higuchi
Mitsuo Nagai
Shigeo Kinoshita

Music producer:
Hikaru Ishikawa
Tadao Takakuwa

Music Recording:
Mamoru Ishibashi
Shooji Nakano
Takeo Suzuki

Negative Editing: Shinya Tadano

Photography:
Jin Yamaguchi (Madhouse)
Kinichi Ishikawa
Masahide Ueda (T Nishimura)
Teruo Abe (Ogata Productions)
Yasuyoshi Toyonaga
Yoshihiro Kataki
Yoshiyuki Tamagawa

Production Advancement:
Kazunobu Shimizu
Masahiro Otake
Shunsuke Kawamoto
Yoshihide Ishii

Production Assistance: Keiichi Sakagaki

Production Chief:
Yasuteru Iwase
Yoshimi Asari

Production Coordination: Munetaka Koga (Haruki Kadokawa Office)

Production Design: Masao Maruyama

Production Desk: Ayumi Kimura

Production manager: Yasuo Takahashi

Publication Planning:
Kazuo Shimada (ARGOS)
Seiichiroo Aoki (Kadokawa Shoten)
Shooji Motohashi (ARGOS)

Publicity Producer: Masaya Tokuyama

Recording: Ichiro Tsujii

Recording Assistant: Akikazu Ootsuka

Research: Toshikazu Sasaki (Ainu Customs/Morals)

Special Effects:
Hoji Tanifuji
Nobuyuki Kanei
Satoru Hirono

Special Thanks To:
Hooji Deshi (Kussharo Ainu Data House)
Kazunori Shimotomai

Theme Song Arrangement: Mitsuo Hagita

Theme Song Composition: Ryudo Uzaki

Theme Song Lyrics: Yoko Agi

Theme Song Performance: Noriko Watanabe (ED)

Titles: Yukio Kumagaya

 

Gentaroo Ishida as Tenkai

Hiroyuki Sanada as Jiro

Kazuyuki Sogabe as Sam

Mami Koyama as Oyuki

Mikio Terashima as Genjuro Fujibayashi

Takeshi Aono as Sanpei

Yuriko Yamamoto as Julie Rochelle / Chico

Eitetsu Hayashi as Shinban no Kikusa

Hidekatsu Shibata as Koozunosuke Oguri

Ichirô Nagai as Shouzan Andoo

Iemasa Oyumi as Mark Twain

Kaneto Shiozawa as Shingo

Kazumi Tanaka as Magohachi

Kazuo Oka as Goldgun

Kôichi Kitamura as Iga Chief

Masako Ikeda as Oyaruru

Masato Hirano as Kinsaku

Michio Hasama as Tarouza

Mitsuko Horie as Chiomapp

Naoki Sugimoto as Uraka

Ryouichi Tanaka as Jakal

Ryudo Uzaki as Okinba

Shiroo Amakusa as Elder

Takashi Ebata as Captain Drasnic

Takashi Sotoyama as Hanzoo Tokachi

Tomiko Suzuki as Sayuri

Yasuo Muramatsu as Indian Chief

Yasuroo Tanaka as Tooami no Magoroku

Yoshie Asai as Tsuyu

Eiichi Fukunaga

Hidehiro Kikuchi

Hiroko Emori

Hiroshi Endoo

Jun Takayanagi

Naoko Taniguchi

Yuuichi Kanemaru

Japanese companies 

Animation: Madhouse Studios

Audio Production: Magic Capsule

Cel Painting: ONLY FOR LIFE

Cel Painting Assistance:
ACT
Easy World Pro
Kozue Anime
Shinsei Pro
Suzuki Animation Planning
Viola Co.

Distributor: Toei Company, Ltd.

Dolby Technical Assistance: Kyokuto Continental Co., Ltd

Film Developing: Tooyoo Developing Laboratories

In-Between Animation:
ACT
Hadashi Production
Nakamura Production
Oh Productions
Studio Aton
Studio Dove
Studio Pokke
Tamazawa Animation House
Tiger Productions

Music Performance: Ryuudoogumi

Music Production:
Columbia Music Entertainment
Kadokawa Shoten

Photography:
ACC Tanihara Studio
Animation Staff Room
Madhouse Studios
Ogata Productions
Studio Cosmos
Studio Gallop
T Nishimura

Production:
Kadokawa Shoten
Madhouse Studios
Project Team Argos
Toei Animation

Production Assistance:
Aoni Production
Gull Enterprises, Inc.
Kadokawa Shoten
Major, Inc.
Mukuo Studio

Recording Facility: Studio Aoi

Soundtrack Available From: Columbia Records

Soundtrack Production: Kadokawa Records

Special Thanks: Sai Village Town Hall (Aomori Prefecture)

English staff 
English cast 

Director: Michael House

Translation:
Shin Kurokawa
Vincent Winiarski

Executive producer:
Janice Hindle
Natsumi Ueki
Robert J. Woodhead

Producer: Michael Morton

Assistant producer:
Bobby Engelmann
Sara Rouse

Consultant:
Masae Watanabe (Cultural/Literary)
Miwako Ikeno (Historical)
Yuuji Watanabe (Cultural/Literary)

Editing: Roe R. Adams III

Production Assistant:
Brian Godwin
Nicole Zeldin
Paul Laughter
Steve Klem

Production Coordination: Natsumi Ueki

Production manager:
George Arriola (Japan)
Janice Hindle (USA)
Peter R. Haswell (USA)
Scott Carlson

 (none)
English companies 

Licensed by: AnimEigo

Subtitles: AnimEigo

Translation: AnimEigo

French cast 
French staff 
(none)

Gérard Rouzier as Tenkai

Philippe David as Jiro

Dominique Vallee as Chico

Michel Boman as Sam

Michel Raimbault as Genjuro

Philippe Roullier as Senpei

Sybille Tureau as Oyuki

Christine Paris as vieille femme

Frédéric Cerdal as Saigo

Gérard Boucaron as viel homme

Olivier Hémon as capitaine

Yann Pichon as Hanzo

French companies 

Distributor: Déclic Images

Italian staff 
Italian cast 

Director Of Dubbing: Raffaele Farina

 

Enrico Bertorelli as Tenkai

Luigi Rosa as Jiro (adult)

Aldo Stella as Sampei

Andrea De Nisco as Sam

Lara Parmiani as Tico

Massimiliano Lotti as Genjuro

Roberta Gallina Laurenti as Oyuki

Anna Maria Tulli as Chinamapp

Antonio Guidi as Narratore

Augusto Di Bono as Capo Iga

Claudio Moneta as Shingo

Elisabetta Cesone as Oyaruru

Enrico Maggi as Taroza

Gianni Mantesi as Shozan

Giovanni Battezzato as Capitano

Irene Scalzo as Jiro (child)

Luca Semeraro as Hanzo

Mario Scarabelli as Twain

Stefano Albertini as Oguri

Italian companies 

Distributor: Yamato Video (Italy)

Dubbing: DEA Digital Editing Audio

Soundtrack: Yamato Video (Italy)

 
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