Venus Wars (movie)

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©1989 Kugatsusha/Gakken Co., Ltd./Shochiku Co., Ltd./Bandai Co., Ltd.

Alternative title:
Venus Senki (Japanese)
Война на Венере (Russian)
ヴィーナス戦記 (Japanese)
金星戰記 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: War breaks out between 2 nations on a terraformed Venus, catching a teenage motorized unicycle team unaware. At the same time, a reporter from Earth is trying to keep up with the team to document the story.
User Ratings: 331 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 13 votes (dub:7, sub:5, raw:1)
 Excellent: 31 votes (sub:16, dub:15)
 Very good: 60 votes (sub:31, dub:25, ?:1, others:3
2 Spanish dubbed
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Good: 96 votes (dub:49, sub:41, edit.dub:3, ?:3)
 Decent: 71 votes (sub:36, dub:29, ?:2, edit.dub:1, others:3
1 French subtitled
1 French dubbed
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 So-so: 29 votes (sub:15, dub:11, ?:1, others:2
1 Spanish dubbed
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Not really good: 16 votes (sub:8, dub:7, ?:1)
 Weak: 10 votes (sub:5, dub:5)
 Bad: 5 votes (sub:4, dub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 596 users, rank: #1762 (of 7677)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.755 (Good−), std. dev.: 1.6464, rank: #3692 (of 7704)
Weighted mean: 6.705 (Good−), rank: #3776 (of 7704) (seen all: 6.74 / seen some: 5.44 / won't finish: 3.00)
Bayesian estimate: 6.736 (Good−), rank: #3419 (of 5824)
Running time: 102 minutes
Vintage: 1989
Premiere date:
1989-03-11 (Japan)
Ending Theme:
"Asu e no Kaze" (明日への風) by George Yanagi
Insert song:
"Shakunestu no Circuit" (灼熱のサーキット) by Eiko Yamane 
"Venus no Kaze" (ヴイナスの風) by Taku Kitahara
Trivia: We have 1
Review:
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Blu-Ray (Region A)
    Venus Wars (Blu-Ray) 2015-12-15
DVD (Region 0)
    The Venus Wars (DVD) 1998-11-03
    The Venus Wars (DVD) 2003-01-28
DVD (Region 1)
    Venus Wars (DVD) 2012-09-18 (from $17.95)
VHS
    The Venus Wars (Dub.VHS) 1993-10-20

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Screenplay:
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Yuichi Sasamoto
Unit Director: Koichi Chigira
Music: Joe Hisaishi
Original creator: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Character Design: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Art Director: Shichirō Kobayashi
Animation Director:
Sachiko Kamimura
Toshihiro Kawamoto (Assistant)
Mechanical design:
Kow Yokoyama
Makoto Kobayashi
Sound Director: Koichi Chiba
Director of Photography: Yoshiyuki Tamagawa
Executive producer:
Hiroshi Furuoka
Makoto Yamashina
Toru Okuyama
Producer:
Tsuneyuki Morishima
Yasuo Kaneko
Yukio Kurata

Assistant Animation Director: Morifumi Naka
Assistant Unit Director: Yasunori Urata
Editing: Takeshi Seyama
In-Between Animation: Kumi Horii
Key Animation:
Hideki Araki
Hideki Futamura
Hideko Yamauchi
Hiroshi Shimizu
Hiroshi Watanabe
Hirotsugu Kawasaki
Hiroyoshi Ohkawa
Hiroyuki Ochi
Hiroyuki Okiura
Hitoshi Ueda
Kenichi Ohnuki
Kōichi Hashimoto
Koichi Horikawa
Manabu Oohashi
Masahito Yamashita
Masami Ohta
Masami Ozone
Sachiko Sugino
Satoru Utsunomiya
Satoshi Saga
Shigenori Kageyama
Shigeru Kato
Shigetaka Kiyoyama
Shin Matsuo
Shinichiro Minami
Shinji Hashimoto
Taiga Ôta
Takahiko Shobu
Takahiro Ōmori
Tatsuyuki Tanaka
Toshihiro Kawamoto
Toshio Kawaguchi
Toshiyuki Inoue (under the pen name 上井敏之)
Toshiyuki Tsuru
Toyoaki Emura
Tsukasa Dokite
Yoshikazu Takenouchi
Yoshimitsu Ohashi
Mechanical animation Director: Hirotoshi Sano
Planning:
Keiichi Koyama
Kenichiro Imai
Production Committee:
Hirohiko Sueyoshi
Ken Matsumoto
Masaya Tokuyama
Seiichiro Mitsumata (Gakken)
Shin Unozawa
Sound Effects:
Hironori Ono
Kazutoshi Sato
Tsuneo Saito
Theme Song Performance:
Eiko Yamane (Insert Song)
George Yanagi (ED)
Taku Kitahara (Insert Song)
Katsuhida Uekusa as Hiro

Eriko Hara as Susan

Daisuke Gouri as Game Announcer
Gorō Naya as Gary
Hidemi Osaka as Desk
Hiroshi Kawaguchi as Tao
Houchu Ohtsuka as Will
Ikuya Sawaki as Branch Manager
Kaneto Shiozawa as Donner
Kiyoyuki Yanada as Jack
Kōichi Yamadera as Jeff
Konami Yoshida as Cathy
Masami Kikuchi as Rob
Minoru Inaba as Bartender
Mitsuaki Hoshino as Manuel
Naoki Makishima as Kenny
Shūichi Ikeda as Kurtz
Tatsuyuki Jinnai as Chief
Tesshō Genda as Sims
Tsutomu Kashiwakura as Chris
Yousuke Akimoto as Maggie's Father
Yuko Mizutani as Maggie
Yuko Sasaki as Miranda
Yuzuru Fujimoto as General
Japanese companies
Animation Production:
Kugatsusha
Triangle Staff
Backgrounds: Kobayashi Production
Film Developing: Tokyo Laboratory
Finishing/Clean-up:
Anime World Osaka
Aubec
Just
Kino Production
Kyoto Animation
Life Work Corp.
Madhouse
MI
Office Next-One
OM
Studio Kuma
Studio Tomcat
Trace Studio M
Trans Arts Co.
Yuuminsha
Key Animation:
AD Cosmo
Animaruya
Anime Roman
Anime Spot
Araki Productions
Big Bang
Daume
Dax International
Dragon Production
Kino Production
Kyoto Animation
Magic Bus
Monsieur Onion
Nakamura Production
Office Next-One
Oh! Production
Production I.G
Studio Argo
Studio ArgoShip
Studio Boomerang
Studio Egg
Studio Hack
Studio Jam
Studio Kuma
Studio Live
Studio Max
Studio Rod
Studio Ten
Studio Wombat
Tamazawa Douga-sha
Twenty First
Photography: T. Nishimura
Production:
Bandai Visual
Gakken
Shochiku
Publicity: Major, Inc.
Recording Studio:
Aoi Studio
AVACO Creative Studios
Sound Production: Cruise, Inc.
Titles: Maki Production
English staff
English cast
Director: Michael Bakewell
Translation:
Neil Nadelman
Toren Smith
Executive producer:
John O'Donnell
Laurence Guinness
Producer: Stephanie Shalofsky

Adaptation: George Roubicek
Casting: Jill Wilmot
DVD Compression: Justin Sevakis (Discotek release, uncredited)
DVD Coordination: Karel Havle
Re-Recording Engineer:
Clive Mitchison
Richard King
Trevor Barber
Ben Fairman as Hiro

Denica Fairman as Susan Sommers

Anna Alba as Maggy
Bob Sessions as Gary
Bradley Cole as Will
Jocelyn Cunningham as Miranda
Michael Morris as Rob
Peter Marinker as General Gerhard Donner
Stacey Gregg as Cathy
William Dufries as Kurtz
English companies
Broadcaster:
iaTV
Sci-Fi Channel
Teletoon
Digital Premastering: Crush Digital Video
Distributor:
Madman Entertainment (Australia)
Manga Entertainment (Australia, UK)
U.S. Manga Corps
Dubbing: Manga Entertainment
DVD Menu Design: Crush Digital Video
Licensed by:
Central Park Media (expired)
Discotek Media (2012)
French staff
French cast
Dubbing Director: Pierre Valmy

Adaptation: Pierre Valmy
Thierry Ragueneau as Hiro Seno

Claire Guyot as Susan Somers

Bertrand Arnaud as Kenny
Gaëlle Bonneau as Cathy
Georges Berthomieu as
Barman
Général
Père de Maggy
Jérome Keen as
Jack
Lieutenant Kurtz
Michelle Buczynski as Miranda
Olivier Korol as Tao
Olivier Marina as Journaliste
Patrice Baudrier as Général Gerhard Donner
Patrick Messe as
Colonel
Gary
Stéphane Godin as Ron
Véronique Soufflet as Maggy
William Coryn as Will
French companies
Distributor: Manga Video
Dubbing: S.T.A.R.T.
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
Executive producer: Luis de Val
Juan Antonio Bernal as Hiro (Spain dub)

Mercedes Montalá as Susan Summer (Spain dub)

Alberto Trifol as Maggie's Father (Spain dub)
Eduard Farelo as Captain Kurtz (Spain dub)
Enrique Encarnación as General Donner (Spain dub)
José Antequera as Gary (Spain dub)
Josep María Zamora as General (Spain dub)
Juan Comellas as Colonel Sims (Spain dub)
Mercedes Diemand-Hartz as Maggie (Spain dub)
Montse Moreno as Miranda (Spain dub)
Oriol Rafel as Will (Spain dub)
Spanish companies
Distributor: Manga Films (Spain)
Dubbing Studio: Q.T. Lever (Spain dub)
Italian staff
Italian companies
(none)
Broadcaster: Man-Ga
Italian cast
(none)
German staff
German cast
(none)
Luise Charlotte Brings as Susan Sommers

Hans-Gerd Kilbinger as Maggie's Father
Ilya Welter as Cathy
Stephan Schleberger as Will
Ulrike Hoetzel as Miranda
Volker Wolf as General Gerhard Donner

Axel Ludwig
German companies
Russian staff
Russian companies
(none)
Distributor: MC Entertainment
Russian cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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