encyclopedia
forum
username password login remember me | register
menu_news
menu_views
menu_encyclopedia
menu_video
menu_forum
menu_myann

Unico: To The Magic Island (movie)

Have you seen this? want to / seen some / seen all

©SANRIO CO., LTD. / Tezuka Productions


[ sequel of (The) Fantastic Adventures of Unico (movie) ]
Alternative title:
The Fantastic Adventure of Unico 2
Unico in the Island of Magic
Unico: Mahou no Shima he (Japanese)
ユニコ 魔法の島へ (Japanese)
Age rating: All Ages (Nothing objectionable)
Plot Summary: Unico the unicorn has the amazing power to make anyone he meets happy. In this adventure, Unico finds himself with a new friend, a young girl named Cherry. However, Cherry's long lost older brother Toby has finally come home, and is now a misguided apprentice to an insane (and not human) magician named Kuruku. When Cherry's parents get turned into weird, almost zombie-like dolls called living puppets, she and Unico start a quest to the very ends of the earth to get her parents and brother back before Kuruku takes over the world.
User Ratings: 50 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 4 votes (dub:3, sub:1)
 Excellent: 13 votes (dub:8, sub:5)
 Very good: 15 votes (dub:12, edit.dub:1, sub:1, raw:1)
 Good: 12 votes (dub:9, sub:2, ?:1)
 Decent: 3 votes (dub:3)
 So-so: -
 Not really good: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Weak: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 110 users, rank: #2245
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.720 (Very good-.28), std. dev.: 1.7554, rank: #682
Weighted mean: 7.772 (Very good-.22), rank: #552 (seen all: 7.77)
Bayesian estimate: 7.728 (Very good-.27), rank: #412
Running time: 91 minutes
Vintage: 1983
Premiere date:
1983-07-16 (Japan)
Ending Theme:
"Do-Re-Mi-Fa Lullaby" by Emiko Shiratori
Official website:
Madhouse Studios' Unico Page (Japanese)
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 2
In the news 1 times:
2008-10-16   Tokyo Film Fest to Host Anime/Manga Film Premieres
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.
You can contribute information to this page, but first you must login or register

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Mami Sugino

Screenplay: Mami Sugino

Storyboard: Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Original Manga: Osamu Tezuka

Art director: Katsushi Aoki

Art:
Ikuo Fudaki
Junko Aoyama
Katsumi Aoshima
Kengo Inagaki
Misugi Okubo
Miyuki Umezu
Nobumasa Shinkawa
Senju Fujimoto
Teruo Handa
Yukio Suzuki

Animation director: Katsushi Tomizawa

Sound director: Yasuo Uragami

Director of Photography:
Iwao Yamaki
Kinichi Ishikawa

Executive producer: Shintaro Tsuji

Producer:
Masao Maruyama
Tsunemasa Hatano

Animation:
Ai Kagawa
Akiko Matsushima
Etsuko Tomita
Hiromi Nishibori
Kunihiko Sakurai
Madoka Yasue
Naomi Ono
Noriko Itano
Rikako Ono
Ritsuko Tanaka
Sho Nobori
Yasuko Miyazaki
Yuzo Sato

Background Art:
Akira Yamakawa
Chikako Shibata
Hiromasa Ogura
Hiromi Ando
Satoshi Kumagaya
Seiji Miyamoto
Yuji Ikehata

Editing: Harutoshi Ogata

Music Director: Ryo Kitayama

Theme Song Performance: Emiko Shiratori (ED)

Titles: Yukio Kumagaya

 

Katsue Miwa as Unico

Sumi Shimamoto as Cherry

Shuuichi Ikeda as Toby

Fujio Tokita as Kuruku

Ichirô Nagai as Yamaneko

Noriko Tsukase as Marusu/Baby Sphinx

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Madhouse Studios

Production: Sanrio

 
This encyclopedia is collaboratively edited by the users of this site
DISCLAIMER add information report an error lookup sources

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Anime anthology