Blue Giant (2023)
High school student Dai Miyamoto has his life is turned upside down the day he discovers jazz. Picking up a saxophone and leaving his sleepy hometown for the bustling nightclubs of Tokyo, Dai will find that the life of a professional musician isn’t for the faint of heart, as he must confront what it truly means to be great.
Director:
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Writer:
NUMBER 8
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Yuki Yamada as Dai Miyamoto (voice) |
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Shotaro Mamiya as Yukinori Sawabe (voice) |
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Amane Okayama as Shunji Tamada (voice) |
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Yusuke Kondoh as Masayuki Miyamoto (voice) |
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Mirei Suda as Ayaka Miyamoto (voice) |
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Kenji Nomura as Yui (voice) |
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Hiroki Touchi as Tyra (voice) |
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Yutaka Aoyama as Kawakita (voice) |
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Masayuki Kato as Isogai (voice) |
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Sayaka Kinoshita as Akiko (voice) |
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Hidenobu Kiuchi as Amanuma (voice) |
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Go Shinomiya as Uchiyama (voice) |
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Shinya Takahashi as Mochizuke (voice) |
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Junya Abe as |
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Mika Doi as |
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Ryosuke Higa as |
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Hana Hishikawa as |
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Ikkyu Juku as |
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Misa Kato as |
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Yasuhiro Kikuchi as |
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Hitomi Kitazaki as |
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Naoto Kobayashi as |
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Tatsuki Kobe as |
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Yohei Matsuoka as |
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Karin Nanami as |
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Keita Nishiyama as |
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Shinya Nishiyama as |
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Yuki Okada as |
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Aruno Tahara as |
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Ryunosuke Yamaguchi as |
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Yuto Yamamoto as |
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Katsuya Yoshida as |
| Writing | NUMBER 8 | Screenplay |
| Directing | Yuzuru Tachikawa | Director |
| Sound | Tomoaki Baba | Musician |
| Sound | Hiromi Uehara | Musician |
| Sound | Hiromi Uehara | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Shun Ishiwaka | Musician |
| Visual Effects | Liu Zihan | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Toshiyuki Komaru | Lead Animator |
| Editing | Kiyoshi Hirose | Editor |
| Visual Effects | Yuichi Takahashi | Character Designer |
| Visual Effects | Yuichi Takahashi | Supervising Animation Director |
| Art | Takao Maki | Prop Designer |
| Art | Natsuki Yokoyama | Prop Designer |
| Visual Effects | Takao Maki | Lead Animator |
| Art | Satoru Hirayanagi | Art Direction |
| Visual Effects | Yoshinori Horikawa | Color Designer |
| Camera | Kasumi Togo | Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Masato Takahashi | 3D Director |
| Sound | Shun Ishiwaka | Theme Song Performance |
| Sound | John Coltrane | Music |
| Sound | Hiromi Uehara | Theme Song Performance |
| Sound | Tomoaki Baba | Theme Song Performance |
| Crew | Kazuma Jinnouchi | Additional Music |
| Art | Satoshi Kimura | Storyboard Artist |
| Visual Effects | Satoshi Kimura | Key Animation |
| Writing | Shinichi Ishizuka | Comic Book |
| Directing | Yuzuru Tachikawa | Second Unit Director |
| Directing | Satoshi Kimura | Second Unit Director |
| Visual Effects | Adam Zheng | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Toshiyuki Komaru | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Ai Ogata | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Taishi Fujimori | Key Animation |
| Directing | Yuki Nishibata | Second Unit Director |
| Art | Iwao Teraoka | Storyboard Artist |
| Art | Hiromatsu Shu | Storyboard Artist |
| Art | Tomomi Mochizuki | Storyboard Artist |
| Directing | Hiromatsu Shu | Second Unit Director |
| Art | Yuzuru Tachikawa | Storyboard Artist |
| Directing | Koyo Ogata | Second Unit Director |
| Directing | Mitsuhiro Ogata | Second Unit Director |
| Visual Effects | Saurabh Singh | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | DogDog | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Yuichi Takahashi | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Shin'ichi Kurita | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Ryota Azuma | Key Animation |
| Directing | Takayuki Yamamoto | Second Unit First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Satoshi Matsubara | Second Unit First Assistant Director |
| Visual Effects | Kazuto Wakayama | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Risa Suzuki | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Kenichi Shima | Animation Director |
| Visual Effects | Kanako Awada | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Shigenori Taniguchi | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Wu Guangxu | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Andy Zhu | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Anzu Katsuragi | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Chisato Hosokawa | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Yuka Fukuchi | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Jiang Zhouyong | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Kumiko Onaga | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Yasuhiro Saiki | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Sho Sugai | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Yuji Hosogoe | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Kanako Maru | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Nobuhiko Kawakami | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Michiko Notsu | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Ryushi Tokunaga | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Vercreek | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Aditya | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Eiko Mishima | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Kenichi Shima | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Asumi Kato | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Mayumi Nakamura | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Juneng Binggui | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Xu Jingyu | Key Animation |
| Directing | Kei Miura | Second Unit First Assistant Director |
| Visual Effects | Toshiyuki Komaru | Animation Director |
| Visual Effects | Fuminori Tsukida | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hiromatsu Shu | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Daiki Nagata | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Liang Boya | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Natsuki Yokoyama | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Yuichi Takahashi | Animation Director |
| Visual Effects | Kaori Ikeda | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Shiori Asaka | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Sho Uchida | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Maki Matsuura | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Serena Koi | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Julius de Belen | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hiroyuki Horiuchi | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Kazuya Miyoshi | Animation Director |
| Visual Effects | Dong Chang | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Takeo Shutou | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Shinichi Iimura | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Moe Yoshimura | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Xu Jiafu | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Willie Blue Bussell | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Ken Yamamoto | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Tam Hoikei | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Yuki Arinaga | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Misa Matsuoka | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Lu Qiang | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | bs_kim | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Naoyuki Asano | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Katsutoshi Nakamura | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Pan Jing | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Akiko Taniguchi | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Kazuya Saito | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Yuria | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Takao Maki | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Toshiro Fujii | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Naoko Minai | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hisashi Shimokawa | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Sumire Fukazawa | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | coachP | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Barkarott | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Takao Maki | Animation Director |
| Visual Effects | Shiomi Yamada | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Takuya Yoshihara | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Su Shiyi | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Mitomi Nakayama | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Kentaro Kawajiri | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Toshiyuki Yoshioka | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Naomi Okita | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Mayu Murakata | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Nana Yamaguchi | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Niina Morita | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Akane Tamai | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Takashi Yoshiyama | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Fumika Kimura | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Vann Oba | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Fei Hung | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Jeong Soon-an | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Moon Joo-yeon | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Surasak Phapijit | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Dong Chang | Animation |
| Sound | Marty Holoubek | Musician |
| Sound | Miho Hazama | Musician |
| Sound | Sayoko Narukawa | Music Producer |
| Production | Takuya Tsunoki | Other |
| Production | Shinnosuke Usui | Casting Producer |
| Visual Effects | Shohei Kayaba | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Mayumi Morisato | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Yuko Matsunaga | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Takuya Noshiro | Compositing Artist |
| Production | Yurika Shinozaki | Production Assistant |
| Production | Kazutaka Yamanaka | Executive Producer |
| Production | Eri Isobe | Producer |
| Production | Mikito Bizenjima | Producer |
| Sound | Kenji Shibasaki | Supervising Sound Effects Editor |
| Sound | Tomonari Tokuhisa | Sound Recordist |
| Art | Kim Hyun-soo | Background Designer |
| Production | Naoshi Fujikura | Co-Executive Producer |
| Production | Shin'ichirô Minami | Co-Executive Producer |
| Production | Masanori Yumiya | Co-Executive Producer |
| Production | Ryo Fujita | Co-Executive Producer |
| Production | Nobumasa Sawabe | Co-Executive Producer |
| Production | Keiji Ota | Executive Producer |
| Production | Atsushi Takahashi | Supervising Producer |