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Spriggan (movie)

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©1998 Hiroshi Takashige• Ryoji Minagawa / Shogakukan • Bandai Visual • TBS • TOHO


Alternative title:
Спригган (Russian)
スプリガン (Japanese)
世界末日 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: action, adventure, science fiction
Themes: Military
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Deep in the Ararat Mountains of Turkey, a secret organization known as ARCAM has found what is believed to be Noah's Ark. However, the U.S. Machine Corps., a rogue organization of the Pentagon, wants to take over the Ark as a means of global supremacy. Only a special ARCAM operative known as a Spriggan stands in their way. Japanese Spriggan Yu Ominae teams up with French Spriggan Jean-Jacques Mondo to combat members of the U.S. Machine Corps. led by Col. MacDougall - a genetically-enhanced boy with deadly psionic powers. However, they must act fast and stop MacDougall before he uses the Ark for his own agenda.
User Ratings: 721 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 14 votes (dub:8, sub:6, edit.dub:0)
 Excellent: 63 votes (dub:33, sub:24, ?:2, edit.dub:1, Ger.dub:1, Dut.sub:1, Ita.sub:1)
 Very good: 136 votes (sub:64, dub:59, ?:4, Spa.dub:2, Rus.dub:1, Dan.sub:1, Ger.dub:1, edit.dub:1, raw:1, Pol.sub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Good: 215 votes (sub:124, dub:84, Ger.dub:2, Spa.sub:2, raw:1, Fre.sub:1, Ita.dub:1)
 Decent: 129 votes (sub:72, dub:50, ?:2, Rus.sub:1, raw:1, Ger.sub:1, Fre.sub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 So-so: 58 votes (sub:34, dub:22, Rus.dub:1, ?:1)
 Not really good: 35 votes (sub:21, dub:11, Por.sub:1, Ger.dub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Weak: 30 votes (sub:17, dub:11, Ger.dub:1, ?:1)
 Bad: 23 votes (sub:15, dub:6, Ita.dub:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Awful: 14 votes (sub:8, dub:5, raw:1)
 Worst ever: 4 votes (sub:3, Ger.dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 1276 users, rank: #427
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.4533 (Decent+.45), std. dev.: 1.9555, rank: #2472
Weighted mean: 6.3875 (Decent+.38), rank: #2397
Bayesian estimate: 6.4015 (Decent+.40), rank: #2149
Running time: 90 minutes
Vintage: 1998
Premiere date:
2002-01-17 (Italy - Future Film Festival)
2008-03-18 (Finland, Nelonen)
Releases: We have 1
Ending Theme:
"Jing Ling" by Saju
Trivia: We have 3
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Hirotsugu Kawasaki

Script:
Hirotsugu Kawasaki
Yasutaka Ito

Storyboard: Hirotsugu Kawasaki

Music: Kuniaki Haishima

Original creator: Hiroshi Takashige

Character Design: Hisashi Eguchi

Art director: Mutsuo Koseki

Animation director:
Hisashi Eguchi
Katsumi Matsuda
Masaaki Endou
Tetsuya Kumagai
Yasuyuki Shimizu

Mechanical design: Kimitoshi Yamane

Sound director: Yota Tsuruoka

Cgi director: Akiko Saito

Director of Photography: Hisao Shirai

Executive producer:
Akito Yamashita
Hiroo Takimoto
Masamichi Fujiwara
Shigeru Watanabe

Producer:
Ayao Ueda
Eiko Tanaka
Haruo Sai
Katsuhiro Otomo
Kazuhiko Ikeguchi
Kazuya Hamana

Assistant director: Koji Aritomi

Assistant recording Engineer: Jiro Miyazawa

Assistant Sound Editor: Minoru Koike

Associate Director: Norihiko Sudo

CGI: Akiko Saito

Color setting: Hisami Akiyama

Gun Designs: Tensai Okamura

Key Animation: Kenichi Yoshida

Mechanical animation director: Masahito Yamashita

Mix Engineer: Toru Okitsu

Music producer: Shin Shibata

Noah's Ark Design: Katsuhiro Otomo

Orchestral Coordination: Yoshitaka Ono

Orchestral Score: Muneo Teruya

Production manager: Yasushi Takahashi

Programmer: Tadashi Yatabe

Recording engineer:
Eiichi Tanaka
Toru Okitsu
Tsutomu Asakura (sound)

Screen Story Structure: Katsuhiro Otomo

Settings: Yasumitsu Suetake

Sound Design: Shoji Hata

Sound Effects:
Hitokazu Tanaka
Hono Ishizaki
Minoru Yamada

Special Effects:
Kiko Itogawa
Kou Yamamoto
Kumiko Taniguchi
Kunji Tanifuji
Marix
Takashi Maekawa
Tomoji Hashizume
Toshio Hasegawa
Toyohiko Sakakibara
Yutaka Chiba

 

Ryuji Aigase as Colonel MacDougal

Showtaro Morikubo as Yuu Ominae

Takehito Koyasu as Jean Jacques Mondo

Katsumi Suzuki as Little Boy

Kenji Shiroyama as Dr. Meisel

Kenji Takano as Fat Man

Sakiko Tamagawa as Margaret

Fumihiko Goto as Turkish Agent B

Hiroshi Matsumoto as Manager

Hiroyuki Oshita as Guard B

Ikumi Kimura as Stewardess

Katsuhisa Houki as Turkish Agent A

Kenichi Sakaguchi as N.C.O

Kinryuu Arimoto as Yamamoto

Masaaki Yajima as Narration

Masaki Aizawa as Excavation Research Agent

Masashi Muta as Yuu (Cosmos flashback)

Masayuki Nakata as Guard A

Naoki Makishima as Tanaka

Takashi Yoshida as Announcer

Takayasu Usui as Classmate B

Yoshito Ishinami as General

Yuu Yamazaki as Classmate A

Yuuichi Nagashima as Aide-de-camp

Aya Sugawara

Chiho Ohkawa

Hizuru Kurita

Shizuka Aoki

Umi Tenjin

Japanese companies 

Music Production:
Nichion
Toho Music

Production:
Bandai Visual
Shogakukan Productions Co., Ltd.
TBS
TOHO

Production Studio: Studio 4°C

Recording Studio: TokyoTV Center

Sound Production: Rakuonsha

English cast 
English staff 

ADR Director: Matt Greenfield

Screenplay: Matt Greenfield

Executive producer:
John Ledford
Sharon Papa

Producer: Matt Greenfield

Audio Consultant: Paul Killam

Color Timing: Connie Fielder

DVD Producer: Sharon Papa

Graphic Design: Andy Orjuela

International Coordination: Toru Iwakami

Re-Recording Mixing:
Keith Arem
Mike Draghi

Recording engineer: Christopher Bourque

Sound Design: Keith Arem

Sound Editor: Stephen Robinson

Subtitle Script: Janice Williams

Subtitle Timing: Neal Barnes

Supervising Sound Coordinator: Mike Draghi

Andy McAvin as Jean Jacques Mondo

Christopher Patton as Yu Ominae

Kevin Corn as Colonel MacDougall

Kelly Manison as Margaret

Mike Kleinhenz as Fattman

Spike Spencer as Little Boy

Ted Pfister as Dr. Meisel

Amanda Winn Lee as Flight Attendant

Andrew Klimko as Tanaka

Bob Elliot as Pentagon Black Ops

Brett Weaver as Classmate A

C. Markham Anderson as ARCAM Explorer

Frank Page as Pentagon Black Ops

J.D. Hawkins as ARCAM Guard 2

John Gremillion as Intelligence Officer

John Kaiser as Pentagon Black Ops

John Swasey as Mr. Smith

John Paul Shephard as
Narration
Yamamoto

Kurt Stoll as Classmate B

Paul Sidello as Turkish ARCAM Agent

Phil Ross as ARCAM Explorer

Ralph Ehntholt as
ARCAM Explorer
Pentagon Black Ops

Rob Mungle as
Customs Inspector
Pentagon Black Ops

Ross Bautsch as COSMOS Yu

Vic Mignogna as ARCAM Guard 1

Adam Taylor

Bob Biggerstaff

Don'l Johnson

Greg Stanley

Hilary Haag

James Marshall

Jason Douglas

Jason Lee

Jay Hickman

Jennifer K. Earhart

Junie Hoang

Kevin Charles

Kira Vincent-Davis

Mark X. Laskowski

Matt Greenfield

Randy Sparks

The Foley Gang

Tiffany Grant

Todd Greenfield

Victor Carsrud

English companies 

ADR Recording: Industrial Smoke & Mirrors

Broadcaster: The Anime Network

Distributor:
ADV Films (UK) (UK)
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia)

DVD Authoring & Encoding: M.O.F.C.

Licensed by: ADV Films

Post Production: Monkey Boy Studios

Soundtrack: ADV Music


Italian staff 
(none)
Italian cast 

Angelo Nicotra as Yamamoto

Claudio Fattoretto as Fat Man

Domitilla D'Amico as McDougal

Simone Mori as Jean Jaquemonde

Vittorio Stagni as Little Boy

Italian companies 

Distributor: Dynit

German staff 
German companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster: SF2

Distributor:
ACOG
OVA Films

Dubbing: brandt Film Berlin

German cast 

Sebastian Schulz as Yû Ominae

Rubina Kuraoka as Oberst MacDougall

Dutch staff 
Dutch companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Dybex

Dutch cast 
(none)
Russian staff 
Russian companies 
(none)
 

Production: MC Entertainment

Russian cast 
(none)
Polish staff 
Polish companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: IDG Poland S.A.

Polish cast 
(none)
Swedish staff 
Swedish companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Sandrew Metronome

Swedish cast 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 

Licensed by: Proware Multimedia International Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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