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The Life of Budori Gusuko (movie 2012)

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Alternative title:
A Biography of Gusuko Budori
Budori, l'étrange voyage (French)
Das Leben des Budori Gusko (German)
Guskō Budori no Denki (Japanese)
La Leyenda de Budori Guskou (Spanish)
Life of Budori Guskou
The Legend of Budori Gusuko
The Life of Budori Gusukou
The Life of Guskou Budori
グスコーブドリの伝記 (Japanese)
Genres: adventure, fantasy
Plot Summary: Guskō Budori lives a happy life with his family until a radical weather change brings misery and hunger for a long time to his hometown. Budori must then enter a journey that leads him to a big city where he ends up studying volcanoes. 
User Ratings: 39 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: -
 Excellent: 4 votes (sub:3, others:1
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Very good: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
 Good: 11 votes (sub:9, raw:1, others:1
1 German dubbed
)
 Decent: 10 votes (sub:8, raw:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 So-so: -
 Not really good: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Weak: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 54 users, rank: #6368 (of 9585)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.000 (Decent), std. dev.: 2.0755, rank: #7127 (of 9708)
Weighted mean: 6.129 (Decent), rank: #6824 (of 9708) (seen all: 6.13)
Bayesian estimate: 6.486 (Decent+), rank: #5257 (of 7289)
Running time: 108 minutes
Vintage:
2012-04-04
2022-05-07 (BitMe - Latin America)
Premiere date:
2012-07-07 (Japan)
2013-04-12 (Italy, Future Film Festival)
2013-04-15 (Sweden, Stockholm Filmfestival Junior)
2013-06-16 (Canada, Toronto Japanese Film Festival)
2013-10-13 (UK, Scotland Loves Animation)
Release dates: We have 2
Ending Theme:
"Umarekuru Kodomo-tachi no Tame ni" (生まれ来る子供たちのために) by Kazumasa Oda 
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    The Life of Budori Gusuko (Blu-ray) 2018-03-27 (from $19.95)
    The Life of Budori Gusuko (Blu-ray) 2023-08-15 (from $14.79)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Gisaburō Sugii
Screenplay: Gisaburō Sugii
Original creator: Kenji Miyazawa
Original Character Design: Hiroshi Masumura
Character Design: Marisuke Eguchi
Art Director: Yukio Abe
Sound Director: Fusanobu Fujiyama
Director of Photography: Youichirou Satou

Assistant Technical Director: Takahiro Tsunekawa (Dandelion Animation Studio)
CG Animation:
Kōhei Itō (Dandelion Animation Studio)
Masahiro Izaki (Dandelion Animation Studio)
Ryota Kaneko (Dandelion Animation Studio)
Yutaro Tada (Dandelion Animation Studio)
CG Animation Director: Kazuhiro Tamura (Dandelion Animation Studio)
CG Production Manager:
Manabu Takayama (Dandelion Animation Studio)
Saori Terui (Dandelion Animation Studio)
CG Produer: Kazuhiro Nishikawa (Dandelion Animation Studio)
Editing: Masashi Furukawa
Music Performance:
Tomoyuki Hasegawa (Trumpet)
Yuya Minorikawa (Viola)
Planning: Kiriko Watanabe
Sound Effects: Masami Kitakata
Supervision: Taijiro Amazawa
Theme Song Arrangement: Kazumasa Oda
Theme Song Composition: Kazumasa Oda
Theme Song Lyrics: Kazumasa Oda
Theme Song Performance: Kazumasa Oda
Typography: Naoki Satō
Shioli Kutsuna as Neri
Shun Oguri as Budori Gusuko

Akira Emoto as
Narrator
Professor Kuubou
Kuranosuke Sasaki as Kotori
Ryūzō Hayashi as Nadori Gusuko
Shōzō Hayashiya as Redbeard
Tamiyo Kusakari as Budori's Mother

Houko Kuwashima as School Teacher
Kazue Komiya as Redbeard's Wife
Kenji Utsumi as Silk Factory Owner
Kōji Yusa as Observer
Mitsuaki Hoshino as Timber Mill Manager
Mitsuru Miyamoto as Nakata
Sukekiyo Kameyama as Redbeard's Father
Japanese companies
English cast
English staff
ADR Director: Charles Campbell
Translation: Sawa Savage
ADR Script: Marta Bechtol
Executive producer:
Eiichi Takahashi
John Ledford
Producer: John Ledford

Disc Authoring: Joel McCray
Menu Design: Sarah Cain
Mixing: Matt Wittmeyer
Packaging Design: Sarah Cain
Production Coordination: Janice Williams
Production manager: Son Phan Le
Subtitling: Nathan Lopez
Supervising Translator: Javier Lopez
Technical Assistant: Michael Olesch
English companies
Distributor: Distribution Solutions (2023 release)
Internet Streaming: HIDIVE
Licensed by: Sentai Filmworks
Production: Sentai Studios
Recording Studio: DM Location Audio
French staff
French cast
ADR Director: Vanessa Leiritz

Adaptation: Jean Renaudieu
Anaïs Orville as Neri
Sullivan Da Silva as Budori

Célia Torrens as Mère de Budori
Félix Lobo as Kotori
Franck Fischer as Barbe Rouge
Lionel Bourguet as Nandori
Marc Gallier as Professeur Kubo

Caty Baccega as Institutrice
Françoise Demange as Femme de Barbe Rouge
Rémi Barbier as Professeur Pennen
French companies
Distributor: Eurozoom 
Dubbing: Soundtastic
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Broadcaster:
BitMe (2022, Latin America)
Capital 21 (Mexico)
Radio y Televisión Querétaro (Mexico)
Licensed by: The Japan Foundation (Latin America)
Spanish cast
(none)
German staff
German cast
ADR Director: Daniel Käser
Script: Timo Schouren
Céline Vogt as Neri Gusko
Louis Friedemann Thiele as Budori Gusko

Ernst-August Schepmann as Professor Kubo
Michael Lott as Redbeard
Nicole Boguth as Budori's Mother
Robert Steudtner as Nakata
Thomas Anzenhofer as Silk Factory Owner
Thomas Balou Martin as Nadori Gusko
Torsten Sense as Kotori

Bernd Rehse as Sheep Man
Claudia Dalchow as Woman
David Gerlach as Farmer
Demet Fey as Teacher
Hildegard Meier as Redbeard's Wife
Thomas Kautenburger as Timber Mill Manager
Thomas Lang as Technician
Tom Raczko as Youngster
Uwe Thomsen as Researcher Cat
Viktor Weiss as Redbeard's Father

German companies
Distributor: Anime House 
Dubbing: KÖLNSYNCHRON

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