Future Boy Conan (1979)
ActionAdventureScience FictionAnimationTV Movie
In this 1979 condensed-for-film recut of Hayao Miyazaki's 1978 anime series, a young boy named Conan goes on a grand adventure. Conan lives in a world that is mostly oceans; the major land masses having been destroyed by the weapons of the great disaster of 2008. He meets a young girl named Lana, who is kidnapped by the technological city-state of Industria as they attempt to regain those weapons. Together with his friends, Conan sets out to rescue Lana and stop Industria from threatening the rest of the world.
Directors:
Hayao Miyazaki, Hajime Sato.
Writers:
Akira Nakano, Soji Yoshikawa, Satoshi Kurumi.
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Noriko Ohara as Conan (voice) |
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Mieko Nobusawa as Lana (voice) |
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Kazuyo Aoki as Jimsy (voice) |
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Ichiro Nagai as Captain Dyce (voice) |
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Rihoko Yoshida as Monsley (voice) |
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Iemasa Kayumi as Lepka (voice) |
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Takuzō Kamiyama as Dongoroth (voice) |
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Hiroshi Masuoka as Gutch (voice) |
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Masato Yamanouchi as Dr. Briac Lao (voice) |
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Kiyoshi Kobayashi as Narrator (voice) |
| Production | Junzō Nakajima | Producer |
| Visual Effects | Yasuo Otsuka | Animation Director |
| Production | Koichi Motohashi | Producer |
| Sound | Shigeharu Shiba | Sound Director |
| Art | Hayao Miyazaki | Storyboard Artist |
| Sound | Naoko Ken | Theme Song Performance |
| Production | Shigeo Endo | Producer |
| Camera | Katsuji Misawa | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Hayao Miyazaki | Director |
| Art | Nizou Yamamoto | Art Direction |
| Writing | Alexander Key | Novel |
| Writing | Eiichi Imado | Writer |
| Production | Kazuhiko Hoshide | Production Assistant |
| Production | Koji Takeuchi | Production Assistant |
| Production | Kiyofumi Terui | Production Assistant |
| Sound | Koji Fujika | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Koichi Motohashi | Executive Producer |
| Production | Nobuaki Hosoda | Production Assistant |
| Art | Isao Takahata | Storyboard Artist |
| Art | Yoshiyuki Tomino | Storyboard Artist |
| Art | Seiji Okuda | Storyboard Artist |
| Art | Keiji Hayakawa | Storyboard Artist |
| Art | Takayoshi Suzuki | Storyboard Artist |
| Writing | Akira Nakano | Screenplay |
| Writing | Soji Yoshikawa | Screenplay |
| Writing | Satoshi Kurumi | Screenplay |
| Visual Effects | Yasuo Otsuka | Character Designer |
| Visual Effects | Hayao Miyazaki | Character Designer |
| Visual Effects | Hayao Miyazaki | Mechanical Designer |
| Art | Shōhei Kawamoto | Background Designer |
| Art | Taizaburo Abe | Background Designer |
| Art | Junji Kasahara | Background Designer |
| Art | Masamichi Takano | Background Designer |
| Editing | Takeshi Seyama | Editor |
| Editing | Hidetoshi Kadono | Editor |
| Visual Effects | Tatsumasa Shimizu | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Hitoshi Kaneko | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Nobuo Koyama | Compositing Artist |
| Sound | Hidenori Ishida | Sound Effects |
| Sound | Kunio Kuwahara | Sound Mixer |
| Directing | Hajime Sato | Director |