Rail of the Star - A True Story of Children and War (movie)
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Alternative title:
O-Hoshisama no Rail (Japanese)
مسرح الحياة (Arabic)
お星さまのレール (Japanese)
Genres:
drama
Plot Summary:
A young Japanese actress remembers her war childhood in Korea. Her father goes to fight, her baby sister Miko dies of typhoid, her beloved Korean maid Ohana is fired due to a mistake which could cost Chiko her life... By and by Chiko realizes that the country is being ruled by the Japanese and the Koreans are persecuted. When the war ends, the Koreans chase the Japanese rule and the roles change. Now Chiko's family is unwanted. But then the Russians come and this is the end. They have to burn all the pictures to avoid all suspicions... even Miko's picture. But when the Russians come to their house, they decide to flee over the 38th Parallel towards freedom. A group of men, women, children struggles along the mountains, led by the light of the Northern Star. Along the way they meet a Korean man, who is willing to help them to escape the Russian soldiers although his family was killed by the Japanese.
User Ratings:
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Running time:
79 minutes
Vintage:
1993
Premiere date:
1993-07-10 (Japan)
Release dates: We have 1
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| Rail of the Star (Dub.VHS) 1998-11-11 (from $11.00) |
| Rail of the Star (Sub.VHS) 1998-11-11 |
Director: Toshio Hirata Unit Director: Satoru Namekawa Music: Kōichi Sakata Character Design: Yoshinori Kanemori Art Director: Yūji Ikeda Animation Director: Katsunori Kimizuka Original Novel: Chitose Kobayashi Sound Director: Susumu Aketagawa Director of Photography: Hitoshi Yamaguchi Background Art: Emiko Koizumi (Atelier BWCA) Hideaki Kudo (Studio Wyeth) Hirofumi Shiraishi (Atelier BWCA) Hitoshi Nagasaki (Studio Wyeth) Mariko Tōyama (Studio Take One) Masako Okada (Madhouse) Naruyo Kiriyama (Madhouse) Noriko Kaneko (Atelier BWCA) Sachiko Kato (Madhouse) Seon Geun Han (Madhouse) Shigenori Takada (Studio Wyeth) Shinichi Uehara (Madhouse) Shinobu Takahashi (Studio Wyeth) Tomoko Sasaki (Studio Take One) Toshiyuki Yoshimura (Atelier BWCA) Yasunari Usuda (Atelier BWCA) Youngil Park (Madhouse) Yuka Okamoto (Atelier BWCA) Yūko Fujie (Studio Take One) Yūko Kobayashi (Studio Wyeth) Color design: Osamu Mikasa Color setting: Masahiko Tamaru Coordination: Masaaki Kubota (T&K Telefilm) Key Animation: Chen Hong Gu Diao Huang Kahoru Hirata Masaru Kitao Nobumasa Shinkawa Qing Fu Chen Rong Hui Du Rui Xia Chen Tsukasa Abe Yoshiharu Ashino Yoshihito Hishinuma Yu Lei Zhang Yūzō Satō Paint: Hua Zhang Kaeko Matsuo Lian Hong Wu Ping Mao Zhang Rong Rong Liu Tomoko Fukushima Xiao Fei Chen Yu Guo Ying Planning: Kisuke Shikamoto Production Design: Masao Maruyama Recording: Kunio Andō (Aoi Studio) Sound Effects: Shizuo Kurahashi (Sound Box) Sound Production: Takeshi Takadera (Magic Capsule) Special Effects: Kunji Tanifuji Supervision: Mamoru Takeuchi Theme Song Arrangement: Yasuo Higuchi Theme Song Composition: Kōichi Sakata Theme Song Lyrics: Tokiko Iwatani Theme Song Performance: Hiromi Iwasaki Titles: Hidetaka Ushio | Yoshino Takamori as Chika Sakamoto as Hideyuki Tanaka as Keiko Han as Kenichi Ogata as Reiko Suzuki as Tomoko Maruo as Yuka Ōno as Chafūrin as Eiji Itō as Hideyuki Umezu as Issei Miyazaki as Johnny Nomura as Junji Kitajima as Kōji Ishii as Michiko Neya as Shinpachi Tsuji as Yūko Sumitomo as | |||
Animation Production: Madhouse Film Developing: Tokyo Laboratory In-Between Animation: Shanghai Chaoyang Animation Music Production: Sakata Music Office Music Studio: AVACO Creative Studios Production: TV Tokyo Publicity: Major, Inc. Publicity Assistance: N&N Recording Studio: Aoi Studio Released by: JVC Sound Effects: Sound Box Sound Production: Magic Capsule | ||||
Director: Gary Dehan Script: Gary Dehan Project Translator: Kuni Kimura Executive producer: John Ledford Audio Mixing: Paul Killam International Coordination: Toru Iwakami Logo Design: Andy Orjuela Packaging Design: Andy Orjuela Production Coordination: Janice Williams Production Engineer: Dan Rockwell (Subbed VHS) Production Intern: Nancy Semin Sound Design: Paul Killam Sound Engineer: Charles Campbell Subtitle Script: Janice Williams Voice Stunt Director: Charles Campbell | Catherine Glynn as Amy McAndrew as Christopher Shea as Diane Perella as Gary Dehan as Glen Zoch as Jackie Belvin as Jessica Schwartz as Patricia Goldwater as | |||
(none) | Broadcaster: Locomotion (Latin America) Distributor: Xystus (Latin America) Licensed by: Xystus (expired) | |||
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