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Shōnen Keniya (movie)

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Alternative title:
Jungle Boy
Kenya Boy
Shonen Kenia on Kadokawa (Japanese)
صبي الأحراش (Arabic)
少年ケニヤ (Japanese)
Genres: adventure, drama
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: It is the year 1941. 11-year-old Murakami Wataru lives with his family, Japanese textile traders operating in British Kenya, when war breaks out between Japan and the Allies. Fleeing into the bush, young Wataru falls headlong into a series of fantastic adventures.
User Ratings: 20 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: -
 Excellent: -
 Very good: 3 votes (sub:2, others:1
1 Arabic dubbed
)
 Good: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Decent: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
 So-so: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Not really good: 1 vote (others:1
1 German dubbed
)
 Weak: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 35 users, rank: #7219 (of 9763)
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 5.200 (So-so+), std. dev.: 1.9647, rank: #8903 (of 9909)
Weighted mean: 5.256 (So-so+), rank: #8848 (of 9909) (seen all: 5.27 / won't finish: 5.00)
Bayesian estimate: 6.131 (Decent), rank: #6335 (of 7492)
Running time: 109 minutes
Vintage: 1984-03-10
Premiere date:
1984-03-10 (Japan)
Links: We have 5
Trivia: We have 1
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Nobuhiko Ōbayashi
Screenplay:
Chiho Katsura
Makoto Naito
Wataru Kenmochi
Music: Ryūdō Uzaki
Original Work: Sōji Yamakawa
Art Director: Motoyuki Tanaka
Animation Director: Hiroshi Wagatsuma
Co-Director: Tetsuo Imazawa
Director of Photography: Masatoshi Fukui
Executive producer: Haruki Kadokawa
Producer:
Chiaki Imada
Takeshi Tamiya

Assistant Animation Director: Mitsuru Aoyama
Assistant Director:
Hiroyuki Ebata
Katsunori Haruta
Michihiro Kanayama
Background Art:
Etsuko Ogasawara
Kazuo Ebisawa
Takao Sawada
Tomoko Arikawa
Yūji Ikeda
Yūko Kobayashi
Editing:
Masaaki Hanai
Nobuhiko Ōbayashi
In-Between Animation:
Chikako Uesugi
Haruyo Yamamoto
Hideaki Furusawa
Hideki Hamasu
Hideko Okimoto
Hiroto Katō
Hirotoshi Rissen
Hiroyuki Kawano
Hisako Yaji
Katsusuke Konuma
Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru
Kazuko Takada
Keiichiro Hattori
Kumiko Ōta
Kumiko Tanihira
Kuniko Iwagami
Maki Yamada
Masaharu Tada
Masahiro Andō
Masaru Kitao
Mikio Morita
Miyo Yamada
Nanae Morita
Noriko Sugiyama
Rieko Matsukura
Sachiko Kobayashi
Setsuko Mitani
Takahiro Kagami
Takako Ueki
Takeo Ide
Tatsuji Kino
Toshiko Okayasu
Yasuyuki Suzuki
Yayoi Suzuki
Yoshinobu Usuda
Youko Ozone
Yumi Kawachi
Yumiko Kawasaki
Key Animation:
Fukuo Yamamoto
Hirohide Shikishima
Hiroshi Oikawa
Keiko Kanayama
Kenji Yokoyama
Masami Suda
Michi Himeno
Noboru Takahashi
Nobuyoshi Hoshikawa
Shigeo Matoba
Shingo Araki
Shinya Takahashi
Takeo Kitahara
Tomeko Horikawa
Toshio Mori
Yasuhiro Yamaguchi
Yoshinobu Aohachi
Yoshinori Tanabe
Negative Cutting: Mari Kishi
On-Location Art: Kazuo Satsuya
Orchestra Conductor: Hiroshi Kumagai
Production manager: Yoshihiro Seki
Recording: Isao Hatano
Sound Effects: Katsumi Itō
Theme Song Performance: Noriko Watanabe
Xerography:
Hideko Sakai
Tomoko Totsuka
Ryōichi Takayanagi as Wataru
Tomoyo Harada as Kate

Chikao Ohtsuka as Zega
Eiko Masuyama as Yōko Murakami
Hidekatsu Shibata as Agera of the Lizard tribe
Ichirō Nagai as Von Görhin
Jouji Yanami as Dr. Stein
Junichirō Katagiri as Wataru Murakami (age 10)
Kenji Utsumi as Gure of the Pora tribe
Makio Inoue as Daisuke Murakami

Hiroyuki Taira as Lizard Tribe B
Kaneto Shiozawa as Wakagi of the Maasai tribe
Kazuhiko Kishino as Father of the Bride
Kazumi Tanaka as Ram Dass
Kazutaka Sekiguchi as Lizard Tribe A
Kōji Yada as Moor A
Masaharu Satō as Pora Tribe A
Masashi Hironaka as Moor B
Michitaka Kobayashi as Pora Tribe B
Nobuyuki Suchi as Lizard Tribe C
Ryōichi Tanaka as Boochi
Sōji Yamakawa as Himself (live action scenes)
Japanese companies
English staff
English cast
Executive producer: Sidney Pike
Producer:
Carmen Ventura
Simon Nuchtern

Dialogue Director: Peter Fernandez
Dialogue Writer: Peter Fernandez
Editing: Arshes Anasal
(none)
English companies
Post Production: August Films, Inc.
Recording Studio: Sound Shop East
Video Tape Post-production: LRP Video
German cast
German staff
(none)
Manja Doering as Kate
Marius Claren as Wataru

Detlef Gieß as Daisuke Murakami
Ernst Meincke as Herr Gerchin
Horst Lampe as Dr. Stein
Joachim Siebenschuh as Zega
German companies
(none)

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