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Penguin Highway (movie)

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Alternative title:
Le Mystère des pingouins (French)
Penguin Highway: El misterio de los pingüinos (Spanish)
ペンギン・ハイウェイ (Japanese)
企鵝公路 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: adventure
Plot Summary: Fourth grader Aoyama and a mysterious older woman, who is a dental assistant and also Aoyama's first crush seek out to discover the reason why a group of penguins appeared in Aoyama's quiet suburban neighborhood.
User Ratings: 98 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 4 votes (sub:2, others:2
1 French subtitled
1 Italian dubbed
)
 Excellent: 16 votes (sub:11, dub:3, raw:1, ?:1)
 Very good: 38 votes (sub:22, dub:10, raw:1, others:5
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Italian dubbed
1 Polish subtitled
1 German dubbed
)
 Good: 26 votes (sub:19, dub:6, others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Decent: 6 votes (sub:5, dub:1)
 So-so: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:1, dub:1)
 Weak: 2 votes (sub:1, raw:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 137 users, rank: #4648 (of 9718)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.500 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.5336, rank: #1828 (of 9848)
Weighted mean: 7.565 (Very good−), rank: #1485 (of 9848) (seen all: 7.57)
Bayesian estimate: 7.554 (Very good−), rank: #1214 (of 7401)
Running time: 119 minutes
Vintage: 2018-07-29
Premiere date:
2018-07-29 (Canada, Fantasia International Film Festival)
2018-08-17 (Japan)
2018-09-02 (USA, Crunchyroll Expo)
2018-09-06 (Russia)
2018-09-15 (Australia, Madman Anime Festival Melbourne)
2018-11-20 (Italy)
2019-08-14 (France)
2021-07-16 (Spain - Barcelona)
Ending Theme:
"Good Night" by Hikaru Utada
Official website:
Movie "penguin highway" official site (Japanese)
Links: We have 1
Review:
Penguin Highway (Aug 23, 2018)
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North American Anime, Manga Releases, August 4-10 (Aug 8, 2019)
Eleven Arts Reveals Home Video Release for Penguin Highway Anime Film on August 6 (May 18, 2019)
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Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, February 4-10 (Feb 12, 2019)
Penguin Highway Anime Film Opens in April in U.S., Canada (Feb 5, 2019)
Japan's Animation DVD Ranking, January 28-February 3 (Feb 5, 2019)
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VFX-Japan Awards Nominates Batman Ninja, Penguin Highway, Hugtto! Precure, Dragon Pilot (Feb 1, 2019)
Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Mirai, More Nominated for 42nd Japan Academy Prize (Jan 15, 2019)
Penguin Highway Anime Film Opens in Thailand on November 22 (Oct 29, 2018)
Extra Edinburgh Penguin Highway Screening on October 24 (Oct 10, 2018)
Mirai, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, Okko's Inn, Modest Heroes Films to Premiere at L.A.'s Animation is Film Festival in October (Sep 19, 2018)
Eleven Arts to Screen Penguin Highway Film in U.S. Theaters in Winter 2019 (Sep 3, 2018)
Eleven Arts to Premiere Penguin Highway Anime Film at Crunchyroll Expo (Aug 31, 2018)
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Penguin Highway Film Wins Satoshi Kon Award at Fantasia Int'l Film Festival (Jul 26, 2018)
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Hikaru Utada Performs Penguin Highway Anime Film's Theme Song (May 15, 2018)
Anime Limited Will Release Penguin Highway in Cinemas (Apr 25, 2018)
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Studio Colorido Announces 10th Anniversary Online Film Festival (Apr 25, 2022)
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Artbook
    Penguin Highway - Book Set (Artbook) 2020-08-25
Blu-ray (Region A)
    Penguin Highway [Limited Edition] (Blu-ray) delayed/cancelled
Blu-ray + DVD combo
    Penguin Highway (BD+DVD) 2019-08-06 (from $14.06)
DVD (Region 1)
    Penguin Highway (DVD) 2019-08-06 (from $14.85)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Hiroyasu Ishida
Script: Makoto Ueda
Storyboard:
Hiroyasu Ishida
Kei Masaki
Tatsurō Kawano
Tomotaka Shibayama
Yō Watanabe
Yōjirō Arai
Unit Director:
Kanta Kamei
Yōjirō Arai
Music: Umitarō Abe
Original creator: Tomihiko Morimi
Character Design: Yōjirō Arai
Art Director:
Takamasa Masuki
Yūsuke Takeda
Animation Director:
Akihiro Nagae
Fumi Katō
Kenji Fujisaki
Namiko Ishidate
Yū Yamashita
Art design:
Akihiro Nagae
Kei Masaki
Namiko Ishidate
Takashi Kumagai
Yōjirō Arai
Sound Director: Eriko Kimura
Cgi Director: Norihito Ishii
Director of Photography: Kei Machida
Producer:
Katsuhiro Takei
Noriko Ozaki
Taku Matsuo

2D Work:
Kana Shibata
Yohei Hashizume
2nd Key Animation:
Misa Suzuki (Kinema Citrus)
Mizuki Misawa (Kinema Citrus)
Takaomi Shinoda
Animation producer: Masahiro Kannae
Assistant Animation Director: Masanao Murayama
Assistant Director: Yō Watanabe
Background Art:
Marie Murata (A-1 Pictures CloverWorks Art Room)
Takumu Sasaki (Bamboo)
Chief Producer:
Kōji Yamamoto
Yōko Matsuzaki
Color design: Izumi Hirose
Color Script: Takashi Kumagai
Color Setting Assistant: Miho Tanaka
Cooperation Producer:
Joe Ōtani
Tetsuya Nakatake
In-Between Animation:
Aiko Minowa (WIT STUDIO)
Airi Takekawa (Tatsunoko Production)
Aoi Mori (Asahi Production Shiroishi Studio)
Ayumi Nagaki (Comix Wave Films)
Chika Kanai (Twin Engine Digital Animation Studio)
Eri Okada (WIT STUDIO)
Hiroaki Nakamichi (SILVER LINK.)
Kōta Mori (SILVER LINK.)
Minori Nakagawa (SILVER LINK.)
Miyū Hayase (Gift-o'-Animation)
Miyuki Kakehi (Gift-o'-Animation)
Mutsumi Tateishi (WIT STUDIO)
Setsuko Takenouchi
Sonomi Fujii (WIT STUDIO)
Takaomi Shinoda
Yumiko Taguchi (STUDIO 4°C)
In-Between Check:
Chieko Ichimanda
In-Sun Jung
Maiko Matsumura
Masako Terada
In-Between Check Assistant:
Kentarō Kurisaki
Setsuko Takenouchi
Key Animation:
Ai Yukimura
Asako Inayoshi
Ayako Takahashi
Chieko Miyakawa
Dana Shuhara
Dong Sheng Luo
Fumi Katō
Fumiko Yoshida
Haruko Ichihara
Harumi Kakuda
Hideaki Abe
Hideki Takahashi
Hiroshi Shimizu
Hiroshi Tatezaki
Hisashi Samejima
In-Sun Jung
Jun Ishikawa
Junpei Tatenaka
Katsushi Suzuki
Kei Masaki
Kei Suezawa
Keiko Fukumoto
Keiko Ōta
Kentarō Kurisaki
Kiyotaka Oshiyama (Dream Sequence)
Kota Ike
Mai Kuwabara
Mai Ogawa
Mai Yonekawa
Masanao Murayama
Masayo Andō
Mayuko Kato
Mayumi Nakamura
Mika Saitō
Minoru Ohashi
Namiko Ishidate
Nana Miura
Natsuki Yamada
Qian Ru Yang
Ryūshi Tokunaga
Ryuuta Yanagi
Saka Ikeda
Sayaka Yamai
Shiori Hosaka
Shūichi Seki
Taiki Konno
Takashi Nakamichi
Takayuki Onoda
Takurō Sakurai
Tamami Izawa
Tatsurō Kawano
Tetsuya Takeuchi
Tōru Yoshida
Washio
Yang Huang
Yasuko Miyazaki
Yohei Hashizume (Dream Sequence)
Yōjirō Arai
Yoko Takada
Yosuke Jinbo
Yotsube
Yū Yamashita
Yuan He
Yuan Wu Ma
Yūji Shimizu
Yuki Fukuda
Yuki Satō
Yūko Yamamoto
Yumi Ikeda
Yūri Ichinose
Yūsuke Shingū
Zhong Li Xie
Production Advancement:
Kana Manabe
Kazuaki Mochikawa
Minami Kobayashi
Production Advancement Assistant:
Azuma Hasegawa
Motoki Taniguchi
Yohei Hashizume
Yuta Mizunuma
Production Desk: Kōsuke Suzuki
Prop Design: Namiko Ishidate
Setting Production: Kana Shibata
Theme Song Performance: Hikaru Utada
Kana Kita as Aoyama
Yū Aoi as Woman

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Aoyama's Father
Mamiko Noto as Aoyama's Mother
Megumi Han as Hamamoto
Michiyo Murase as Kobayashi
Miki Fukui as Suzuki
Misaki Kuno as Aoyama's Sister
Naoto Takenaka as Hamamoto's Father
Rie Kugimiya as Uchida
Takehiro Jizōdō as Nagasaki

Atsuyoshi Miyazaki as Yoshida
Ayaka Suwa as Maruyama
Daisuke Takahashi as Reporter
Eri Inagawa as 6th Grade Girl
Juri Kimura as Yoshino
Mai Nishikawa as Oka
Mari Doi as Dentist Receptionist Woman
Minami Iinuma as 5th Grade Girl
Minori Ihara as Kato
Misaki Kuno as Penguin
Misaki Watada as Okada
Miyuki Kobori as Aoki
Moe Edamoto as Aunt
Natsumi Fujiwara as Maeda
Rarisa Tago Takeda as Ono-san
Rio Satō as Ciba
Ryōta Suzuki as Driver
Shinichiro Uchida as Police Boss
Shuhei Izumi as Yamaguchi
Sōshirō Hori as Ueda
Takaki Ōtomari as
Fire Brigade Leader
Jabberwock
Takuya Makimura as Mr. Tamar
Yukimi Takeuchi as caster
Yūko Iida as Fujioka
Japanese companies
2D Works: Chiptune
2nd Key Animation:
Asahi Production Shiroishi Studio
ingresA
Kagura
Kinema Citrus
Signal.MD
Studio Angle
Animation Production: Studio Colorido
Background Art:
A-1 Pictures
Atelier PLATZ
Atelier Roku 07
Bamboo
Graphinica
Kusanagi
Studio Lagurus
Studio Pablo
Tatsunoko Production
Background Art Assistance: Nam Hai
Finish Animation:
Asahi Production
Asahi Production Shiroishi Studio
Bird
D-COLORS
Kagura
Kinema Citrus
Likeminds Animation
Line Farm
Nippon Animation
Production I.G
R.I.C
Stella Road
Studio 4°C
Studio Elle
Tatsunoko Production
Triple A
Wish
In-Between Animation:
A-Line
Anime R
Anime Torotoro
Anitus Kōbe
Asahi Production Shiroishi Studio
CoMix Wave Films
diomedéa
FAI
Gift-o’-Animation
Graphinica Asagaya Studio
Husio Studio
ingresA
Jumondo
Kagura
Kinema Citrus
Lay-duce
LIDEN FILMS
LIDEN FILMS Osaka Studio
Likeminds Animation
MAPPA
Nakamura Production
Nippon Animation
Oh! Production
OLM
Sakura Create
Signal.MD
SILVER LINK.
Studio 4°C
Studio Gimlet
Studio Gram
Studio Hibari
Studio Massket
Tatsunoko Production
Triple A
Twin Engine
Wit Studio
Line Test:
Asura Film
Satelight
Tatsunoko Production
Overseas Licensing: Fuji Creative Corporation
Photography:
Chiptune
Nexus
Planning Cooperation: Twin Engine
Production:
Dentsu Inc.
Fuji Television Network
Kadokawa
Sony Music Entertainment
TOHO
Production Cooperation: Wit Studio
special effects: Chiptune
English cast
English staff
Director:
Bob Buchholz
Megan Buchholz
Translation: Michael Brown (WAKANIM)

Blu-Ray Producer: Brian Ward (Shout! Factory)
Dialogue Editing:
Hannah Pfeiffer
Liliana Bautista
DVD Producer: Brian Ward (Shout! Factory)
Packaging Design: Bonnie LeBrun
Production Assistant: Audre Pile
Proofreading: Adam Lensenmayer (WAKANIM)
Re-Recording Mixing: Samantha Peymani
Recording engineer:
Gabriel Placentia
Indu Vasudev
Recording Supervisor: Maria Nougues
Erika Harlacher as Onee-san/Young Lady
Gideon Modisett as Aoyama

Anne Yatco as Hamamoto
Cindy Robinson as Aoyama's Mother
Colin Pickard as Nagasaki
Eugene Nomura as Hamamoto's Father (credited as Jenika)
Jake Ritter as Suzuki
Keith Silverstein as Aoyama's Father
Kenna Pickard as Aoyama's Sister
Landen Beattie as Uchida
Winston Bromhead as Kobayashi

Allyson Pile as
Female Receptionist A
Female Truck Driver A
Festival Announcer
Bob Buchholz as
Police Officer A
Principal
Christine Marie Cabanos as
5th Grader A
Nintendo Boy A
Okada
Penta
Woman Crossing Street
Christopher Smith as
Firefighter
Kato
Newscaster A
Police Officer C
Cindy Robinson as
Chess Boy A
Girl in White
Oka
Colin Pickard as
Fujioka
Maruyama
Dorothy Fahn as
Aoki
Chess Boy B
Female Citizen B
Guilty Neighbor Lady
Miura
Ono
Erika Harlacher as
Boy in Blue
Maeda
Yasuda
Joseph Whimms as
Firefighter D
Male Citizen B
Yamaguchi
Yoshida
Michael Sorich as
Male Cop
Newscaster B
Police Officer B
Susan Myers as Yoshino
Tony Azzolino as
Driver
Male Classmate A
Tamaru
Ueda

Christine Marie Cabanos
Michael Sorich
English companies
Distributor:
Eleven Arts (USA/Canada, theaters) 
Shout! Factory (Standard Edition)
The Right Stuf International (Limited Edition; Cancelled)
Internet Streaming:
AnimeLab (Australia and New Zealand)
Crunchyroll (United Kingdom and Ireland)
Hoopla
Screen Anime (United Kingdom and Ireland; May 2020; Scotland Loves Animation 2020)
Tubi TV
Licensed by:
Anime Limited (UK/Ireland)
Eleven Arts (USA)
Madman Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand)
Production: SDI Media (English dub)
French staff
French cast
ADR Director: Alexandre Gibert

Adaptation: Vanessa Leiritz
Sound Engineer: Aaron Baustert
Geneviève Doang as Aoyama
Mélissa Windal as Onee San

Charlotte Hennequin as Suzuki
Julie Claude as Hanamoto
Juline Klock as Soeur d'Aoyama
Mathieu Dupire as Uchida
Sofiane Fischer as Kobayashi
Thimothé Gulyas as Nagazakie
French companies
Dubbing: Soundtastic
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
ADR Director:
Cesc Casanovas (Spain dub; Catalan dub)
Dubbing Director:
Francesc Casanovas (Catalan dub) 
Xavier Serrano (Spain dub)
Translation:
S. G. Cortina (Spain dub; Catalan dub)
Executive producer: José Luis Puertas (Jonu Media)

ADR Engineer:
Oriol Ortiz (Catalan dub; Spain dub)
Screen Inserts: Albert Peñarroya (Spain dub)
Ana María Camps as Lady (Catalan dub; Spain dub)
Marta Amat as Aoyama (Catalan dub; Spain dub)

Eli Serra as Uchida (Catalan dub; Spain dub)
Gerard Cruset as Suzuki (Catalan dub; Spain dub)
Irene Garrés as Hamamoto (Catalan dub; Spain dub)

Albert Peñarroya as
Aoyama's Father (Spain dub)
Pare de l'Aoyama (Catalan dub)
Ariadna Colomer as
Aoyama's Mother (Spain dub)
Mare de l'Aoyama (Catalan dub)
Cesc Casanovas as
Hamamoto's Father (Spain dub)
Pare de la Hamamoto (Catalan dub)
Eric Suñén as Amic d'en Suzuki (Catalan dub)
Laia Martínez as
Aoyama's Sister (Spain dub)
Germana de l'Aoyama (Catalan dub; Catalan dub)
Thais Buforn as Professora (Catalan dub)
Yolanda Gispert as Germana de l'Aoyama (Catalan dub)

Aaron Rico (Catalan dub)
Derrick Alvarez (Catalan dub)
Joan Altabella (Catalan dub)
Toni Moreno Azagra (Catalan dub)
Spanish companies
Broadcaster: Movistar CineDoc&Roll (Spain)
Dubbing Studio: Here Comes the Sound (Spain dub; Catalan dub)
Licensed by: Jonu Media (Spain)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Fabrizio Mazzotta
Translation: Irene Cantoni

Dialogues: Lina Zargani
Dubbing Assistant: Viola Privitera
Mixing: Mauro Lopez
Italian companies
Distributor: Dynit
Dubbing Studio: C.D. Cine Dubbing
Internet Streaming: VVVVID
German staff
German cast
ADR Director: Jörn Friese
Dorothea Zwetkow as Aoyama
Victoria Frenz as Onee-san

Alexandra Yoko Hagino as Uchida
Esther Brandt as Suzuki
Jana Dunja Gries as Hamamoto
Jule Friese as Aoyama's Sister
Lilian Wilfart as Aoyama's Mother
Richard Westerhaus as Aoyama's Father
Rolf Berg as Hamamoto's Father

Leal Çehreli as Nagasaki
Louis Friedemann Thiele as Tamaru-sensei
Nicole Hise as Yoshino-sensei
Vivien Faber as Kobayashi
German companies
Distributor: Kazé Germany
Dubbing: G&G Tonstudios
Russian staff
Russian companies
(none)
Licensed by: Exponenta
Russian cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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