Steamboy / Triumph Films and Destination Films present ; a Steamboy Committee production; Animation studio, Sunrise ; a Katsuhiro Otomo film ; [ ; produced by Shinji Komori, Hideyuki Tomioka ; screenplay by Sadayuki Murai, Ōtomo Katsuhiro ; conceived & directed by Ōtomo Katsuhiro.]
Edition:
Director's cut, anamorphic widescreen.
Publisher:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
Copyright Date:
c2006
Description:
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 picture post card (12 x 19 cm.)
Videodisc release of a 2004 motion picture. Special features: "Re-voicing 'Steamboy" featurette; interview with Katsuhiro Ōtomo; multi-screen landscape study; ending montage; production drawings; animation onion skins. English language voices: Anna Paquin, Alfred Molina, Patrick Stewart, Kari Wahlgren. Japanese language voices: Suzuki Anne, Konishi Manami, Tsukayama Masane, Sawamura Ikki, Saitō Satoru, Terajima Susumu, Kodama Kiyoshi, Nakamura Katsuo.
Summary:
Ray Steam receives a Steam Ball, a mysterious, powerful device, from his inventor grandfather. Governments and businesses around the world covet Ray's Steam Ball, and he finds himself in a murderous conflict over its possession. He's also caught between his father who builds terrible weapons for an American arms merchant, and his grandfather, who believes science should improve people's lives.
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