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A Tree of Palme (movie)

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©2001 Takashi Nakamura/GENCO • Palme Production Committee


Alternative title:
Arbre de Palme (French)
Palme no Ki (Japanese)
Pochti Chelovek (Russian)
Почти Человек (Russian)
パルムの樹 (Japanese)
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Palme is a puppet created by a man to care for his sickly wife. After her death Palme becomes paralyzed with sorrow, that is, until a woman being pursed happens to cross paths with Palme and his creator and ask them to deliver something precious to a sacred place called Tama. Palme, mistaking her for his masters late wife, accepts the request. This becomes his first step to becoming more human in order to understand his own feelings.
User Ratings: 118 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Excellent: 21 votes (sub:14, dub:6, Rus.sub:1)
 Very good: 24 votes (dub:12, sub:11, raw:1)
 Good: 23 votes (dub:11, sub:11, Fre.sub:1)
 Decent: 22 votes (sub:12, dub:8, Spa.sub:1, ?:1)
 So-so: 11 votes (sub:8, dub:2, Rus.dub:1)
 Not really good: 7 votes (sub:6, dub:1)
 Weak: 4 votes (dub:2, sub:2)
 Bad: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Awful: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 189 users, rank: #1790
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.670 (Good-.33), std. dev.: 1.94, rank: #2214
Weighted mean: 6.672 (Good-.32), rank: #2121 (seen all: 6.62 / seen some: 8.00 / won't finish: 9.00)
Bayesian estimate: 6.737 (Good-.26), rank: #1770
Running time: 136 minutes
Vintage:
2001
2007-10-06 (Mexico - Canal 22)
Premiere date:
2004-01-17 (Italy - Future Film Festival)
Ending Theme:
"Sora no Aosa" by Akino Arai
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Takashi Nakamura

Screenplay: Takashi Nakamura

Original story: Takashi Nakamura

Character Design: Toshiyuki Inoue

Art director: Mutsuo Koseki

Chief Animation Director: Mamoru Sasaki

Sound director: Masafumi Mima

Director of Photography: Takashi Azuhata

Producer: Taro Maki

Color Coordination: Kayoko Nishi

Editing: Shuichi Kakesu

Music producer: Shiro Sasaki

Original Score: Takashi Harada

Theme Song Performance: Akino Arai

 

Akiko Hiramatsu as Palme

Daisuke Sakaguchi as Shatta

Kappei Yamaguchi as Roualt

Megumi Toyoguchi as Popo

Etsuko Kozakura as Moo

Hiroshi Yanaka as Fou (young)

Ichirô Nagai as Jamji

Isamu Tanonaka as Zakuro

Jouji Nakata as Gandel

Katsuhisa Houki as Hota

Kouka as Xian

Mari Yokoo as Daruyama

Masashi Ebara as Gyariko

Mika Kanai as Poo

Motomu Kiyokawa as Fou

Mugihito as Guerilla Captain

Rikako Aikawa as Barron

Ryuuji Saikachi as Sawadust

Takashi Nagasako as Baku

Unshou Ishizuka as Gus

Yurika Hino as Koram

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Palm Studio

Music Production: Victor Entertainment

Production:
GENCO
Kadokawa Shoten
TOHO

English staff 
English cast 

ADR Director: Don Rush

Translation: Josh Cole

ADR Script: Mike Yantosca

Executive producer:
John Ledford
Mark Williams

Producer: Don Rush

Coordinator: Anthony Benavides

Creative Director:
David Del Rio
J. Michael Stovall

Editing:
Neil O'Sullivan
Roberto Garcia

International Coordination: Toru Iwakami

Menu Design:
Fumiko Chino
Roberto Garcia

Mix: Brent Marshall

Post-Production Manager: Shelly Thomas

Production: Andrew Kent

Production Assistant:
Carole Pavlik
Maki Nagano
Miyuki Kamiya
Paul Mericle
Sara Muir

Production manager: Joey Goubeaud

Project Translator: Josh Cole

Recording engineer:
Adam Jones
Afshar Kharat
Henry Rogers
Jacob A. Gragard
Jason Grundy
Richard Stanford

Senior Translator: Shoko Oono

Sound Design: Brent Marshall

Subtitle Script: Anthony Gillet

Subtitle Timing: Anthony Gillet

 

Kira Vincent-Davis as Palme

Chris Patton as Shatta

Jessica Boone as Popo

Michael Coleman as Roualt

Allison Sumrall as Koram

Andy McAvin as Fou

Chris Ayres as Sawadust

Chris Patton as Gyariko

Christine Auten as
Soma
Xian

David Born as Hota

Donaldo as Baron

Jay Hickman as Jamji

John Gremillion as
Guerilla Captain
Soma

John Swasey as
Gus
Zakuro

Kelly Manison as Woman Guerilla

Luci Christian as Darumaya

Mike MacRae as
Crickle
Gandel

Mike Vance as Baku

Mike Yantosca as Pirate

Monica Rial as Mu

Nancy Novotny as Juggler

Nomed Kaerf as Scruffy

Tiffany Grant as Pu

Tyler Galindo as Hat

Chris Hawley

Jon Talia

English companies 

Broadcaster: The Anime Network

Distributor: Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia & New Zealand)

DVD Authoring & Encoding: M.O.F.C.

Licensed by: ADV Films

Recording Studio: Industrial Smoke & Mirrors

French staff 
(none)
French companies 

Distributor: TF1 Vidéo

French cast 
(none)
Spanish staff 
Spanish companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster: XEIMT Canal 22

Spanish cast 
(none)
Russian staff 
Russian companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: MC Entertainment

Russian cast 
(none)
 
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