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NITABOH, the Shamisen Master (movie)

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Alternative title:
NITABOH 仁太坊―津軽三味線始祖外聞 (Japanese)
Nitaboh: Tsugaru Shamisen Shiso Gaibun (Japanese)
Genres: drama
Themes: historical
Plot Summary: At a young age, Nitaroh is stricken with an illness that leaves him blind. He inherits the shamisen guitar once used by his mother and is taught its basics by a blind travelling shamisen player. In time with the help of friends old and new, he walks the paths that leads to his ultimate fate - that of founder of the Tsugaru style of shamisen play.
User Ratings: 64 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 10 votes (sub:9, dub:1)
 Excellent: 13 votes (sub:12, raw:1)
 Very good: 22 votes (sub:21, dub:1)
 Good: 7 votes (sub:7)
 Decent: 8 votes (sub:8)
 So-so: 4 votes (sub:3, raw:1)
 Not really good: -
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Seen in part or in whole by 101 users, rank: #2303
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.969 (Very good-.03), std. dev.: 1.4139, rank: #488
Weighted mean: 7.930 (Very good-.07), rank: #422 (seen all: 7.96 / seen some: 5.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.873 (Very good-.12), rank: #296
Running time: 90 minutes
Vintage: 2004
Premiere date:
2004-02-21 (Japan)
2006-01-19 (Italy, Future Film Festival)
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Akio Nishizawa

Screenplay: Akio Nishizawa

Music: Makoto Kuriya

Original story: Kazuo Daijo

Art director: Tadashi Kudo

Animation director:
Atsuko Tanaka
Haruo Sotozaki
Junichi Takaoka
Makoto Yoshizaki
Nobuo Tomizawa
Sadatoshi Matsuzaka
Toshimitsu Kobayashi

Sound director: Toshio Sato

Director of Photography:
Koujirou Hayashi
Shuichi Heishi

Executive producer: Masahiro Murakami

Producer: Junichi Takagi

Chief Graphic Director: Hiroshi Kugimiya

Color design: Keiko Adachi

Continuity:
Hitoyuki Matsui
Junichi Takaoka

Editing: Kengo Shigemura

In-Between Check:
Goro Taki
Kim Sejun
Miiko Adachi
Sakiko Watanabe
Takanobu Katada

Music Production:
Keiko Ushida
Tsutomu Tsuchiya

Projected By: Masae Nishizawa

Shamisen Player: Hiromitsu Agatsuma

Sound Effects: Eiko Morikawa

Sound Engineer: Kazuaki Narita

Stage Direction: Yasuhiro Geshi

Theme Song Performance: Yae

 

Satoshi Hino as Nitaro/Nitaboh

Takateru Murata as Nitaro/Nitaboh (child)

Akio Ohtsuka as Santaro

Hiroaki Hirata as Tomekichi

Ikuko Tani as Itako

Masako Katsuki as Tamana

Rokuro Naya as Osyo

Sayaka Hanamura as Yuki

Taya Jun as Tomekichi (child)

Tomohiko Imai as Kikunosuke

Yae as Okinu

Yasunari Tajima as Tawaraboh

Yoshie Yamamoto as Omatsu

Yousuke Naka as Kengyo

Yumi Furukawa as Yuki (child)

Akiko Toda

Eri Saito

Hideo Watanabe

Keiko Sonoda

Masaaki Tsukada

Mitsuru Ogata

Ryouko Kuramochi

Ryuji Mizuno

Toshiaki Kuwabara

Toshitaka Shimizu

Yasuo Iwata

Yoshiyuki Kaneko

Yousuke Akimoto

Japanese companies 

3D Graphics:
Digital Frontier
Konohana

Animation Production: Wao World

Sound Production: Serafu

Sound Recording: Mouse Promotion

 
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