Sleepless Oedo (1993)
We are now in the early 18th century, the Kyouhou era, when the merchant culture was flourishing. In Yoshiwara, the red light district of Edo, there is a popular courtesan with good looks and character, called Usugumo. She in fact is a daughter of a Christianized prostitute and Tokugawa Yoshimune (who was a real historical character and the 8th Shogun of Japan), but the power struggle in these times doesn't allow her to be with her father. Her fate is about to change when she meets the blond haired thief, Kikunosuke. With Kikunosuke, a doctor named Aoto Touichirou, who uses the yet unfamiliar Western medicine, and her pet cat, Kotetsu, Usugumo forms a thief group, the Kikugumi. In the meanwhile, a member of a mysterious group appears, aiming for Usugumo...
Director: Koichi Chigira
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Noriko Hidaka as Usugumo (voice) |
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Koichi Yamadera as Kikunosuke Bentenyama (voice) |
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Nobuaki Fukuda as Shigeyoshi (voice) |
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Daiki Nakamura as Kawarabanya (voice) |
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Akimasa Omori as Suzaku (voice) |
| Art | Tatsuya Kushida | Background Designer |
| Camera | Hitoshi Yamaguchi | Director of Photography |
| Art | Hiroshi Kato | Background Designer |
| Art | Hiroshi Kato | Art Direction |
| Visual Effects | Shinichiro Kajiura | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Shigeru Fujita | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hitoshi Kagiyama | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Tensai Okamura | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Kunio Takahide | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Kenji Hayama | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Masahiro Sekino | Character Designer |
| Visual Effects | Yuzo Sato | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Noriko Otake | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Nobutoshi Ogura | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Kahoru Hirata | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Ako Kagiyama | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Masaru Kitao | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Mamoru Kurosawa | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Michio Mihara | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Masahiro Sekino | Animation Director |
| Writing | Mami Watanabe | Writer |
| Directing | Koichi Chigira | Director |
| Art | Yusuke Takeda | Background Designer |
| Visual Effects | Sawako Yamamoto | Key Animation |
