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Unico: Short Story (movie)

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Alternative title:
Tanpen Unico (Japanese)
Unico: Black Rain and White Feather
Unico: Nube negra, pluma blanca (Spanish)
短編 ユニコ 黒い雲と白い羽 (Japanese)
短編ユニコ (Japanese)
Genres: drama
Objectionable content: None
Plot Summary: The Goddess Venus is jealous of the beautiful human girl Psyche and blames her pet unicorn, Unico, as Psyche's source of good luck. Venus has Unico banished, and it becomes the West Wind's duty to take Unico from one place and time to the next. Taken to a heavily polluted city, Unico meets a sickly girl named Chiko who is suffering because of the pollution of a nearby factory that darkens the entire sky. Unico then is determined to cheer her up, cure her, and destroy the nearby factory.
User Ratings: 35 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Excellent: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Very good: 6 votes (sub:3, dub:2, raw:1)
 Good: 12 votes (sub:9, dub:2, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Decent: 6 votes (sub:6)
 So-so: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: -
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 62 users, rank: #5583 (of 8806)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.886 (Good), std. dev.: 1.7033, rank: #3921 (of 8925)
Weighted mean: 6.681 (Good−), rank: #4517 (of 8925) (seen all: 6.68)
Bayesian estimate: 6.900 (Good), rank: #3399 (of 6725)
Running time: 26 minutes
Vintage: 1979
Opening Theme:
"Doko kara Kita no Unico" (どこから来たのユニコ) by Katsumi Kahashi
Ending Theme:
"Soshite Kyō mo" (そして今日も) by Katsumi Kahashi
Insert song:
"Dondon" (どんどん) by Katsumi Kahashi
"Ōzora no Unico" (大空のユニコ) by Katsumi Kahashi
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Toshio Hirata
Music:
Mickie Yoshino
Yukihide Takekawa
Original Manga: Osamu Tezuka
Art: Yukio Abe
Director of Photography: Iwao Yamaki
Producer:
Shintaro Tsuji
Susumu Aketagawa

Animation:
Fukami Taga
Haruko Onishi
Haruo Takahashi
Sadao Miyamoto
Teruo Handa
Background Art:
Kenji Notani
Mariko Kadono
Masumi Kaneko
Yamako Ishikawa
Yoko Yoshida
Editing:
Harutoshi Ogata
Masashi Furukawa
Effects: Mitsuru Kashiwabara
Key Animation:
Kanji Akahori
Masami Hata
Shigeru Yamamoto
Planning: Hiroshi Tsugawa
Production Coordination: Yoshimi Asari
Recording: Takashi Miyamoto
Special Effects:
Akiji Hashizume
Tomoji Hashizume
Supervision: Osamu Tezuka
Titles: Yukio Kumagai
Hiroya Oka as Unico
Minori Matsushima as Chiko

Ichirou Arishima as Grandfather
Junpei Takiguchi as Black Cloud
Kaneta Kimotsuki as Mouse (Garappachi)
Kyōko Kishida as West Wind Zephyrus
Japanese companies
Film Developing: Toyo Laboratory (now Imagica)
Production:
Sanrio
Tezuka Productions
Recording: Aoi Studio
Spanish cast
Spanish staff
(none)
Pilar Ferrero as Chiko (Spain dub)
Rosa Romay as Unico (Spain dub)

Ana Begoña Eguileor as West Wind (Spain dub)
Juan Martín Goirizelaia as Mouse (Spain dub)
Miguel Ortiz as Grandfather (Spain dub)
Txemi del Olmo as Black Cloud (Spain dub)
Spanish companies
Distributor: Divisa home video (Spain)

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