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The Fantastic Adventures of Unico (movie)

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©SANRIO CO., LTD. / Tezuka Productions


[ alternate retelling of Unico: Short Story (movie) ]

Related anime:
    Unico: To The Magic Island (movie) (sequel)

Alternative title:
Unico
Único el unicornio (Spanish)
Unico il piccolo unicorno (Italian)
Unico-Das Hörnchen (German)
ユニコ (Japanese)
Age rating: All Ages (Nothing objectionable)
Plot Summary: Unico the Unicorn has the amazing power to make anyone he meets happy. Whether it's because of his personality or the powers of his horn, no one knows. However, the gods become jealous of Unico, thinking that only they should be able to decide or allow people to be happy. Unico is banished to the Hill of Oblivion, and the West Wind is ordered to take him there. She can't stand giving this fate to Unico, so Unico's adventures begin, as the West Wind takes him from one place and time to the next, in a neverending journey to escape the wrath of the gods.
User Ratings: 63 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 3 votes (dub:3)
 Excellent: 5 votes (sub:4, dub:1)
 Very good: 24 votes (dub:14, sub:4, edit.dub:2, Ger.dub:1, raw:1, Spa.dub:1, ?:1)
 Good: 18 votes (dub:12, Ger.dub:2, sub:2, edit.dub:1, ?:1)
 Decent: 6 votes (dub:5, ?:1)
 So-so: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
 Not really good: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Weak: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 2 votes (sub:2)
Seen in part or in whole by 159 users, rank: #1937
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.159 (Good+.15), std. dev.: 1.8275, rank: #1390
Weighted mean: 7.228 (Good+.22), rank: #1154 (seen all: 7.23 / seen some: 7.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.266 (Good+.26), rank: #901
Running time: 90 minutes
Vintage: 1981-03-14
Premiere date:
1981-03-14 (Japan)
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 1
Comment:
Unico was originally a manga created by Osamu Tezuka, but the manga (serialized in the Sanrio magazine, "Ririka") and at least two of the movies were owned and copyrighted by Sanrio. However, after Tezuka's death in 1989, the rights for the Unico title were sold back to Tezuka Osamu Productions. Since there is no American branch of Tezuka Osamu Productions, the English version of this movie (as well as the Japanese version which was not availabe to view by the American public) is no longer available, making it a rare anime to find because of this licensing problem.
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Osamu Tezuka

Screenplay: Masaki Tsuji

Music: Masahiko Satoh

Original Manga: Osamu Tezuka

Art:
Hisatoshi Motoki
Kazuo Ojika
Makoto Nakamura
Manabu Oohashi
Ryutaro Nakamura
Sakiko Kobayashi
Shigemitsu Koshiba
Sho Nobori
Takeshi Ohtake
Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Yuichi Endo
Yumiko Takahashi

Animation director: Akio Sugino

Director of Photography: Iwao Yamaki

Executive producer: Shintaro Tsuji

Animation:
Atsuko Fukushima
Ayumi Endo
Hiromi Endo
Junko Aoyama
Kimiko Murakami
Koji Morimoto
Makoto Hattori
Minoru Yamasawa
Nobuko Tsukada
Sachiko Kaneko
Sachiko Sugino
Shiro Okumura

Background Art:
Hiromasa Ogura
Jinzaburo Kaiho
Katsushi Aoki
Kazuharu Mizutani
Koji Ono
Miyuki Kudo
Satoshi Matsuoka
Shichiro Kobayashi
Tsutomu Ishigaki
Yuko Fujie
Yumiko Motoki

Editing: Toshiharu Ogata

Music Director: Ryo Kitayama

Recording Director: Takashi Miyamoto

Rendition: Toshio Hirata

Settings:
Jiro Saito
Mami Sugino
Masao Maruyama
Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Titles: Yukio Kumagaya

 

Katsue Miwa as Unico

Chieko Baisho as Nishikaze (West Wind)/Zephyrus

Ichirô Nagai as God

Isamu Tanonaka as God

Jouji Yanami as God

Junko Hori as Devil Child/Beezel

Kazuko Sugiyama as Chao/Katy

Kouji Yada as God

Makio Inoue as Danshaku (Duke)/Baron DeGhost

Ryoko Kinomiya as Yokaze (Night Wind)

Taeko Nakanishi as Old Woman

Japanese companies 

Production:
Madhouse Studios
Sanrio

English cast 
English staff 

Director: Ardwight Chamberlain

(none)
English companies 
(none)
Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 
(none)
 

Matilde Vilariño as Unicornio Único (Spain dub)

Angela González as Gata Katty (Spain dub)

Irene Guerrero De Luna as Old woman (Spain dub)

Luis Varela as Barón de Ghost (Spain dub)

Mari Pe Castro as Jisel (Pequeño Diablo) (Spain dub)

Selica Torcal as Narrator (Spain dub)

Teófilo Martínez as Gran Diablo (Spain dub)

Spanish companies 
(none)

German staff 
(none)
German cast 

Ghadah al Akel as Beezel

Viola Sauer as Nachtwind

German companies 
(none)
 
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