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Samurai Shodown: The Motion Picture (special)

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Alternative title:
Samurai Shodown: La película (Spanish)
Samurai Spirits - Apocalisse a Edo (Italian)
Samurai Spirits - Haten Kōma no Sho (Japanese)
Самурайский дух (Russian)
サムライスピリッツ 破天降魔の章 (Japanese)
侍魂 〜破天降魔之章〜 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: action, adventure
Themes: martial arts
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: Amakusa betrayed his fellow Holy Warriors and killed them all. Now 100 years later, the warriors have been reincarnated and must work together to defeat him. But first they need to get Haohmaru to remember his past life.
User Ratings: 154 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Excellent: 2 votes (sub:1, dub:1)
 Very good: 4 votes (sub:2, others:2
1 Portuguese dubbed
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Good: 7 votes (dub:4, sub:1, edit.dub:1, others:1
1 Portuguese dubbed
)
 Decent: 20 votes (dub:12, sub:6, others:2
1 Spanish dubbed
1 French subtitled
)
 So-so: 11 votes (dub:7, sub:3, ?:1)
 Not really good: 17 votes (dub:11, sub:5, others:1
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Weak: 26 votes (sub:12, dub:12, others:2
1 French subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 Bad: 27 votes (dub:13, sub:12, ?:1, others:1
1 Italian dubbed
)
 Awful: 24 votes (sub:12, dub:8, edit.dub:2, ?:1, others:1
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 Worst ever: 15 votes (sub:7, dub:7, ?:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 308 users, rank: #3025 (of 10146)
Median rating: Weak
Arithmetic mean: 3.299 (Weak+), std. dev.: 2.3051, rank: #10176 (of 10324)
Weighted mean: 3.261 (Weak+), rank: #10180 (of 10324) (seen all: 3.28 / seen some: 3.00 / won't finish: 2.00)
Bayesian estimate: 3.589 (Not really good−), rank: #7750 (of 7760)
Vintage: 1994-09-29 (TV special on Fuji TV)
Release dates: We have 2
Ending Theme:
"Daisuki to iu Uso o Tsuita" by Gwinko
Comment:
Loosely based on characters from SNK's best-selling Samurai Shodown game series.
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DVD (Region 1)
    Samurai Shodown: The Motion Picture (Dub.DVD) 2003-03-04 (from $36.95)
VHS
    Samurai Shodown: The Motion Picture (Dub.VHS) 1998-11-11 (from $50.11)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Hiroshi Ishiodori
Screenplay: Nobuaki Kishima
Storyboard: Hiroshi Ishiodori
Unit Director:
Jōhei Matsuura
Raisen Hanyū
Music: Kaoru Wada
Character Design: Kazunori Iwakura
Chief Animation Director: Kazunori Iwakura
Animation Director:
Hiromi Nakamura
Takashi Hyōdō
Yūji Ikeda
Executive producer:
Kenji Shimizu
Yoshirō Kataoka
Producer:
Hiromichi Mogaki
Tatsuji Yamazaki
Yoshihiro Suzuki

Animation Check:
Hideya Kan
Yoshikazu Samura
Color:
Aki Watanabe
Fujie Ichikawa
Hiroko Saito
Ichino Satō
Kanae Hara
Kazuhiko Ouchi
Kazumi Hasegawa
Kazumi Morishima
Kazumi Yamazaki
Natsuko Seo
Noriko Kawada
Noriko Tamura
Takafumi Tomihata
Yi-Li Liu
Yoko Iwaida
Color design: Kazuko Satō
Coloring Designation:
Kazuko Satō
Kumiko Oka
Yoshie Murakami
Continuity: Hiroshi Ishiodori
Cooperation:
Ikuo Satō
Shuji Miyata
In-Between Animation:
Akihiko Mori (Tokyo Animation Center)
Atsuko Inada (Anime R)
Chizuko Iwasa (Samtack)
Chun-yu Chen (Samtack)
Harumi Ito (Anime R)
Hidekazu Kuboyama (Magic Bus)
Hiromi Kubota (Tokyo Animation Center)
Hiroshi Kameyama (Studio Wombat)
Jun Yoshida (Studio Wombat)
Kaoru Fujiwara (Magic Bus)
Kazuhisa Fujikawa (Studio Wombat)
Kazutaka Tamura (Magic Bus)
Keisuke Ikeda (Magic Bus)
Kenichi Ogawa (Studio Mu)
Kenji Yokoyama (MI)
Kiyotaka Iida (Studio Comet)
Koichi Nakaya (Studio Mu)
Masaki Kamiguchi (Studio Wombat)
Masaki Sekine (Magic Bus)
Masami Murata (Anime R)
Minoru Kato (MI)
Mitsuko Taniguchi (Yumeta Company)
Rie Sezaki (Tokyo Animation Center)
Satomi Tanaka (Studio Mu)
Satoshi Nishimura (Magic Bus)
Satoshi Ogawa (Studio Comet)
Shinobu Tagashira (Yumeta Company)
Tadashi Kubo (Studio Wombat)
Tomomi Tanaka (Studio Wombat)
Tooru Sawamura (Studio Wombat)
Toshikazu Motozumi (Studio Wombat)
Yasuhiro Takafuji (Magic Bus)
Yasuo Ishii (MI)
Yuichi Watanabe (Studio Wombat)
Yukako Tsuzuki (Magic Bus)
Yukiko Shimizu (Yumeta Company)
Yukitoshi Morita (Studio Wombat)
Key Animation:
Akiko Kawashima
Akira Inoue (Angle)
Asako Nishida (Studio Mu)
Atsuya Miura (Tezuka Pro)
Hidekazu Yuri (TAC)
Hironori Sawada (TAC)
Hiroyoshi Ohkawa
Junichi Kigawa (Tezuka Pro)
Katsuji Matsumoto (Group Zen)
Kazuo Hayashi
Keiko Yamamoto (Magic Bus)
Kōji Kataoka (TAC)
Kōji Sugiura
Kyūma Ōshita (Tezuka Pro)
Masami Ōbari
Masami Suda
Masao Ōkubo (Group Zen)
Masao Suwa (Samtack)
Masayoshi Nishida (Tezuka Pro)
Mayumi Oda (Studio Mu)
Michinori Shirato
Seiichi Nakatani (Studio Mu)
Setsuko Shibuichi (Magic Bus)
Shigeki Satō
Shigeru Uchihara (Samtack)
Shinichi Suzuki (Magic Bus)
Shūji Sakamoto (Magic Bus)
Shūkō Murase
Tadakazu Iguchi
Takehiro Nakayama
Takuji Yoshimoto (Angle)
Terumi Mutō
Toshiaki Iino
Yasuhiro Fujita (Samtack)
Yasuhiro Ōshima
Yasuyuki Noda (Group Zen)
Yoshihiro Sugai (Samtack)
Yoshikazu Samura
Yoshiko Nakajima (Studio Mu)
Yoshitaka Koyama
Yoshitsugu Hatano
Yuji Nakao (Samtack)
Yukari Kobayashi (Magic Bus)
Yūki Kinoshita
Yukimaro Ōtsubo
Production Director: Etsuko Komatsu
Production Planning:
Jun Nakajima
Yoshinori Takaoka
Public Relations: Momoko Konaka
Theme Song Performance: Gwinko (ED)
Shingo Katori as Haohmaru

Kōichi Kitamura as Shiranui Gen'an
Reiko Chiba as Nakoruru
Sakiko Tamagawa as Charlotte Christine de Colde
Shigezō Sasaoka as Earthquake
Takehito Koyasu as Tam Tam
Takeo Chii as Yagyū Jūbei
Takeshi Aono as Hattori Hanzō
Tesshō Genda as Wan-Fu
Wataru Takagi as Galford D. Weller
Yū Daiki as Amakusa Shirō Tokisada
Yūji Mitsuya as Senryō Kyōshirō

Fujiko Takimoto as Child
Kazuhiko Kishino as Tokugawa Yoshimune
Megumi Terase as Chiyo
Miyuki Matsushita as Child C
Seiko Tomoe as Otami
Tohru Senrui as Attendant
Tomohisa Asō as Gorō
Tomoko Maruo as Child B
Tsutomu Kashiwakura as Child A
Japanese companies
Backgrounds: Studio Uni
Broadcaster: Fuji Television Network
Co-Production:
Studio Comet
Studio Gazelle
Coloring:
Baek Koo
Han il Animation
HeeWon Entertainment
Lee Production
Seong Bo Yang Haeng
Studio CATS
Studio Comet
Studio Killy
Studio OM
Studio OM Aomori Works
Studio Toys
In-Between Animation:
Anime R
Baek Koo
Han il Animation
HeeWon Entertainment
Magic Bus
MI
Samtack
Seong Bo Yang Haeng
Studio Comet
Studio Mark
Studio Mu
Studio Wombat
Tokyo Animation Center
Yumeta Company
Key Animation:
Group Zen
Magic Bus
Samtack
Studio Angle
Studio Mu
Tezuka Productions
Tokyo Animation Center
Music Production: Fuji Pacific Music Publishing
Music Production Assistance: Office Two-One
Original Concept:
NEO-GEO
SNK
Photography: Studio Twinkle
Production:
Fuji Television Network
King Records
NAS
Recording Studio: Aoi Studio
Sound Effects: Sound Box
Sound Production: Magic Capsule
English staff
English cast
ADR Director: Matt Greenfield
Art Director: Lorraine Reyes
Executive producer:
John Ledford
Mark Williams (DVD)
Sharon Papa
Producer: Matt Greenfield

Additional Translation:
Chris Hutts
Masako Arakawa
Advertising Design: Lorraine Reyes
Dialogue Recording: Paul Killam
DVD Coordination: Janice Williams
DVD Producer: Janice Williams
Graphics: Lorraine Reyes
Head Translator: Toru Iwakami
International Coordination: Toru Iwakami
Packaging Design:
Hiroko Fukumori (DVD)
Kevin Hinnant (VHS)
Post Production: Paul Killam
Production Assistant:
Paul Casperson
Rod Peters
Production Coordination: Sharon Papa
Script Adaptation: Matt Greenfield
Titles:
Karen Albracht (Video Post and Transfer)
Pat Couch (Video Post and Transfer)
Paul Neumann (Video Post and Transfer)
Marcy Rae as Shiro Amakusa Tokisada
Milton Lawrence as Haohmaru

Brian Matthews as Jubei Yagyu
Carol Amerson as Nakoruru
Drew Scroggins as Tam Tam
Kurt Stoll as Galford
Matt Greenfield as Earthquake
Mungle Roberts as
Hanzo Hattori
Wan Fu
Neal Ford as Gen-An Shiranui
Tiffany Grant as Charlotte

Aaron Krohn as
Kyoshiro
Yoshimune
Carol Amerson as Child D
Christopher Isaac as
Goro
Village Men
Dennis Fowler as
Jashin Soldier
Swords Master
Jane Angus as
Village Women
Young Mother
Kathleen Jenkins as
Child A
Chiyo (Haohmaru's Mother)
Old Woman
Kimberly Yates as Child C
Lorraine Reyes as Child E
Lorriane Reyes as Child E 
Steve Bosco as
Attendent
Moichiro
Tiffany Grant as Goro's Mom
Wendee Lee Curtis as Child B
English companies
ADR Production: Industrial Smoke & Mirrors
Broadcaster: The Anime Network
DVD Authoring & Encoding: M.O.F.C.
Licensed by:
ADV Films (Expired)
Recording Studio: Texas Video & Post
French staff
French cast
(none)
Catherine Conet as Amakuza
Olivier Cuvelier as Haohmaru

Catherine Conet as Nakoruru
Jean-Marc Delhausse as Yagyu Jubei
Jean-Pierre Denuit as Galford
Sylvain Goldberg as Gen-An Shiranui
Véronique Biefnot as Charlotte

Guylaine Gibert as Voix d’enfants
Jean-Marc Delhausse as Yoshimune
Sylvain Goldberg as
Kyoshiro Senrio
Moichiro
Véronique Biefnot as La mère d’Haohmaru

Jean-Marc Delhausse
Sylvain Goldberg
French companies
Broadcaster:
Cinéstar (from 1998)
Mangas
NT1 (from 2005)
Distributor:
AB distribution
Shuriken
Dubbing: Made In Europe
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
Executive producer: Luis de Val

Screen Inserts: Jaime Migueiz (Spain dub)
Ana Marín as Shiro Tokisada Amakusa (Spain dub)
Enrique Gracia as Haohmaru (Spain dub)

Cándido Blas as Genan Shiranui (Spain dub)
Eduardo Diez as Kyoshiro Senryo (Spain dub)
Gemma Sansans as Nakoruru (Spain dub)
Jaime Migueiz as Galford (Spain dub)
José Catalán as Tam Tam (Spain dub)
José Antonio Alaya as Wan Fu (Spain dub)
Juan Carlos González as Jubei Yagyu (Spain dub)
Juanjo Hernández as Hanzo Hattori (Spain dub)
Rosa Vivas as Charlotte (Spain dub)

Antonio Moro as Yoshimune Tokugawa (Spain dub)
Gloria Gías as Chiyo (Spain dub)
Spanish companies
Distributor: Manga Films (Spain)
Dubbing Studio: Sonomaster (Spain dub)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Rossana Bassani

Dialogues: Marinella Armagni
Gianluca Iacono as Haohmaru
Luigi Rosa as Amakusa Shiro Tokisada

Aldo Stella as Genan Shiranui
Alessandra Karpoff as Charlotte
Claudio Moneta as Tam Tam
Emanuela Pacotto as Nakoruru
Gianfranco Gamba as Hanzo Hattori
Giovanni Battezzato as Tam Tam 
Marco Balzarotti as Jubei Yagyu
Maurizio Scattorin as Wan Fu
Nicola Bartolini Carrassi as Galford
Paolo Sesana as Genan Shiranui 
Pietro Ubaldi as Hanzo Hattori 
Stefano Albertini as Earthquake

Alberto Olivero as
Soldier
Villager
Aldo Stella as
Soldier
Villager
Cinzia Massironi as Kid
Claudio Moneta as Kyoshiro Senryo
Dania Cericola as Madre di Haohmaru
Diego Sabre as Ragazzo del Villaggio
Irene Scalzo as Bambino del Villaggio
Stefania Patruno as Madre di Haohmaru 
Italian companies
Broadcaster: Man-Ga
Distributor: Yamato Video
Dubbing: S.E.D.E. - Milano
Internet Streaming: YouTube (Yamato Animation)
Portuguese staff
Portuguese cast
Dubbing Director: Márcia Gomes
Cecília Lemes as Charlotte
Marcelo Campos as Galford

Borges de Barros as Earthquake
Elcio Sodré as Tan Tan
Guilherme Lopes as Wan Fu
José Parisi Jr as Hattori Hanzo
Leda Figueiró as Nakoruru
Luiz Antônio Lobue as Yaguiu Jubei
Márcia Gomes as Mãe do Haohmaru
Mauro Eduardo as Haohmaru
Noeli Santisteban as Amakusa
Paulo Porto as
Gen-An Shiranui
Senryo Kyoshiro

Isaura Gomes
Márcia Regina
Portuguese companies
Broadcaster: Rede Manchete (Brazil, U.S.Mangá)
Dubbing Studio: Dublavídeo
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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