Ihatôbu gensô, Kenji no haru (1996) - full transcript
The story of Kenji Miyazawa, the famous Japanese poet, science-fiction writer, teacher, and amateur scientist. Like "Shakespeare in Love," the movie is a rather-fictionalized account of a brief period in the authors life, culminating with the creation of his most popular work - in this case, "A Night on the Galactic Railroad."
The story of a young man who romped through
the Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras.
In celebration of the 100th
birthday of Kenji Miyazawa
Ihatov Fantasy
KENJI'S SPRING
Ihatov Fantasy KENJI'S
SPRING Ave Maria
Ave Maria
Swimming in the morning light,
Production Supervisor TAKAO ABE (TV
Iwate) Swimming in the morning light,
Swimming in the morning light,
Listen from your soul within.
Special Consultants to the Director TAIJIRO AMAZAWA, HIROSHI
MASUMURA Original Story SHOJI KAWAMORI Listen from your soul within.
Special Consultants to the Director TAIJIRO AMAZAWA, HIROSHI MASUMURA
Original Story SHOJI KAWAMORI Ah... Who is the one I hear... that voice...?
Ah... Who is the one I hear... that voice...?
Character Design 8: Director of Animation TAKAHIRO KISHIDA Art
Director HIROSHI OHNO Ah... Who is the one I hear... that voice...?
Character Design 8: Director of Animation TAKAHIRO KISHIDA Art
Director HIROSHI OHNO Springtime begets the bluish breeze,
Springtime begets the bluish breeze,
Summer's baking sun...
Autumn's darkened clouds,
Music SHANE SHANE TYPHOON
Autumn's darkened clouds,
Autumn's darkened clouds,
As well as winter's snowy days...
Distant blistering dreams of the...
Director of Photography HAJIME NOGUCHI Editor MASASHI
FURUKAWA J.S.E. Distant blistering dreams of the...
Distant blistering dreams of the...
CG Directors TSUNEO MAEDA SHINJI NASU Color Key
MIYOKO ICHINOSE Distant blistering dreams of the...
CG Directors TSUNEO MAEDA SHINJI NASU Color
Key MIYOKO ICHINOSE Illuminance of prayer...
Illuminance of prayer...
Quietly, like gentleness in a smiling face, hut secretly...
Sound Director ATSUMI TASHIRO Sound Effects SHIZUO KURAHASHI Recording Engineer
YASUSHI NAGURA Quietly, like gentleness in a smiling face, hut secretly...
Quietly, like gentleness in a smiling face, hut secretly...
Secret as the gentle stream...
Associate Director HIDEKAZU SATO Animation
Producer KEN FUJITA Secret as the gentle stream...
Secret as the gentle stream...
Tosh!
Secret as the gentle stream...
Tosh!
Formed by the stars above the break of dawn in spring.
Producers YUKINORI FUCHIZAWA (TV Iwate) ATSUMI TASHIRO
Formed by the stars above the break of dawn in spring.
Formed by the stars above the break of dawn in spring.
Production TV IWATE GROUP TAC Formed by
the stars above the break of dawn in spring.
Production TV IWATE GROUP TAC
Directed by
SHOJI KAWAMORI
Hey, don't you think Shere
Kahn-sensei is weird?
You mean master Kenji?
Yeah, he suddenly starts
singing in the middle of class.
He talks about 4-dimensional
spaces which we don't understand.
The night of the last full moon he
was dancing in the schoolyard.
That's not the half of it!
Master Kenji can even
hear the voices of ghosts!
Really?
It's true!
Under the lone cedar tree at the shrine
to foxes, there was a female spirit...
You two should quiet down.
You should be studying
until the teacher gets here.
Shut up. You're such a goody two-shoes.
Why did he...?
Rise and shine, Chusaku!
Yeah...
I'm sorry I'm late.
It was so warm outside.
I was in the sun with the flowers...
and forgot what time it was.
It's spring already.
Do you know why you feel warmth?
Warmth?
Do you understand?
I have NO idea.
Now, let's close our textbooks...
and close our eyes as well.
Close our eyes?
Yes, everyone else close your eyes, too.
Even when your eyes are
closed like they are now,
you can feel it, can't you?
You can feel the warmth of the spring sunlight...
and the softly singing breeze
with your whole body.
Our bodies consist of
invisible, tiny tiny molecules:
hydrogen, oxygen, carbon.
The air, the water, even flower petals...
everything is made of molecules just like us.
Even when we don't move, molecules in
our body are moving at a terrific speed.
Do you have any idea how many times hydrogen
molecules impact other molecules in a second'?
100 million times.
100 million times!
Just in one second, they
collide 100 million times.
The movement of molecules
changes into heat and temperature.
When you are happy or excited,
when you think of your love,
doesn't your chest feel warm?
That's because feelings are moving
the molecules of your body...
and changing the movement into heat.
A human made up of active
molecules... Kind of like a festival.
A festival?
Isn't that Kenji of the Miyazawa family?
L-low can someone like that be a teacher?
Shere Kahn-sensei is weird.
"When it gets warm and molecules
start moving around..."!!
A human is also made of molecules.
Let's romp in the sun," he said.
Yeah, he's REALLY weir--
What?
He took something out!
Hush!
It's coming.
Long stretching blue note
A bird is a blue string
And a string
A blue string...
I lost it.
What the...?
Found them! Found them!
All right...
What does this look like?
What does it look like?
It's just a stone.
That's correct, but is it really only that?
Doesn't it look like someone's face?
This stone is limestone...
smooth and pretty like a movie actress.
Ahh... I see...
This is quartz, rugged and
stubborn looking like our principal.
It really does!
Hey, this looks like you.
Look. This is Kasuke.
And this is Saburo!
There are so many
differences between stones...
just like the differences between us.
Let's talk to them.
They're just rocks!
You are weird!
He's more than weird!
Now... Listen to them.
You'll hear different voices by hitting them.
This is the voice of stone.
This is the voice of the earth!
6 years earlier
A vast field extending as far as you can see.
The sweet and sour smell of grass...
and the fresh breeze wash away all the impurity.
The world is filled with light.
Being in such a place,
don't you feel like you can even become God?
Let's go.
Yeah.
Drawing close together,
The telegraph poles stand hand in hand.
Mental-Sketching" again?
Yeah.
When I come here, images just flow.
Wow! !
I dream of someday having a beautiful
farm, like the starry heavens.
There we'll have plays and festivals, and
create a new form of farming village art.
What's your dream?
My dream?
My dream is...
to find the invisible power
working behind this world,
and solve the riddle of that true power.
That's a nice dream.
But how do you go about doing that'?
I haven't figured it out yet.
I see.
Well, I'm sure you'll find it some clay.
Do you really think so?
Yeah.
In fact, I hope I can take that path with you.
Kane!
A dinosaur!
There!
In the amber colored sky,
There passes the giant reptile of the Mesozoic.
Miyazawa's Pawn Shop
No, I can't offer any more than that.
I know, but...
we need the money to buy bullets.
Otherwise, how can we hunt this winter'?
But you know, you have only
used clothing and a hatchet here.
I know, but these are the
last things we have left.
To look after my sick mother...
62 sen is the limit.
(Sen = 100th of a Yen)
I can't loan you any more than that.
Thank you for your trouble.
Kenji!
Were you wandering around again
collecting junk all night long?
You should help our business instead.
Why?
Why can't you loan him more?
He needs more.
You can't mix sympathy with business.
Otherwise we go bankrupt and
the economy of the society fails.
But- but such work...
What do you want to do instead?
I'm...
I'm going to sell Ukiyo-e (woodblock paintings).
You're being unrealistic.
Who would buy such paintings in a rural town?
Well, then, what about starting
a new business in America?
You're getting too big for your britches.
L-low would you get capital to get started?
Uh...
Oh yeah...
What about making artificial gems?
I work making precious gems for half a year,
and spend the other half
writing children's stories.
Sounds like a pipe dream.
Nobody will read stories that sound like
a foreigner mumbling in their sleep.
Besides, do you plan to sell
the gems as man made?
Why can't I tell them the truth?
The gems will be synthesized
by a proper scientific process.
What's this about science?
Why don"t you quit dreaming?
It's not a dream!
You're dreaming!
Not a dream!!!
You haven't had your baptism by fire.
I suggest you get your feet on the ground.
It's still warm.
The thoughtful way you
held the stone kept it warm.
Toshi! You're home.
Mm-hm.
We took the night train leaving
Ueno at 8 o'clock last night.
You were off collecting stones as usual.
Yeah. We went all the way to
Nametoko mountain creek.
That far?
Here. Put this stone in the
light and take a good look.
Pretty.
The shiny pieces are black mica crystals.
They formed a long, long time ago...
when they were still drifting gas in the galaxy.
All they could see was the
absolute darkness in space.
Now, when I broke the stone in pieces, the
micas for the first time see the blue sky.
Not being able to speak out, they just twinkle.
Very nice.
Hymn number 391.
I learned it at college.
I see.
Did you learn a lot more?
A whole bunch.
Oh, have a look at that.
WOW !
From Sheffield!
Expensive, wasn't it?
I'll bake a cake for you all.
Woohoo!
When the poet Mr. Tagore
came to this country to lecture,
his servant taught me how.
Ho! Sounds great.
You're still writing, huh?
Yeah.
Did you read my poetry
book "Azalea" I sent to you?
Of course.
One of the poems you wrote, it goes,
"Drawing close together,
Telegraph poles stand hand in hand."
Is that you and Kanai-san?
You're so obnoxious.
Bingo!
At any rate, Kanai is a great guy.
He's very decisive, unlike myself.
You two are the only people
who understand me.
You sound like you're in love with the guy.
Hey, come on!
You blushed!
Jeez...
Anyhow, I just feel like we can
be together for a long time.
Yeah, for a long time, long time.
Toshi!
I've left my home town.
Already half a year has passed
since I moved to Tokyo.
Now I work for a small publishing company.
I write, write, and write.
I keep writing.
This Sunday, if convenient for you,
I'd like to meet you in the library in Ueno forest.
We haven't seen each other in three years.
We can talk all day long about literature, plays,
and our long search together
for the path to the “true Way.“
Kanai Hosaka-san...
This is Miyazawa. I wanted
to see you very much.
Miyazawa-san.
Les.
I... can't join you on your search.
Toshi...!
Is Toshi alright?
Oh! Kenji!
Kenji!
Toshi.
That was quick.
Oh look!
Your feet! Your feet!
In a bit of a rush, are we?
Don't be so up-tight.
In the west they wear
shoes indoors all the time.
Oh, Kenji!
What are you doing?
Oh dear.
You can even laugh, so you must be alright.
Don't make me worry about you!
I wrote so much, in lieu of having a family...
This much?!
Too many things to write!
My hand wouldn't stop.
The words hopped out in front of me,
and they even bowed to me!
That sounds like you.
I'll get the light.
I don't want to die yet.
I want to continue to be a school teacher.
I want to have a boyfriend...
Never mind.
I've said strange things.
No, not strange at all.
You can still have those things.
You can even have a boyfriend.
Please stop.
Tell me.
Tell me the stories you wrote.
Tell me.
All right.
We may not have crystal
sugar as much as we want.
We can, however, eat the
delicate translucent breeze,
and drink in pink sunlight of the golden morning.
I've so many times seen in fields and woods. ..
The most beautiful velvet
and studded garments...
spun from the most miserable and torn clothes.
I adore such beautiful food and clothing.
AH of these stories of mine...
are bestowed upon me by
the rainbow and moonlight...
at woods, meadows, and rail road tracks.
When I walk through the oak
forest in the blue sunset,
when I stand shivering in the
November mountain winds,
I really feel this way.
I only wrote what I felt.
I cant stop feeling things like this.
These visions really happen.
Spring and Ashura
By Kenji Miyazawa
No one bought it...
l-low much do you think this cost us'?
I'm sorry.
Go to a bookstore and see what
kind of books are selling most.
But I don't write to sell.
If you won't write to sell, I should
say, "help our family business!"
But I won't say that.
If you take over the family business,
you'd only lose all of our assets.
Concentrate on teaching.
The phenomenon of myself is simply a blue lighting of
hypothetical organic alternating current electric lights.
Together with everyone, the
scenery restlessly palpitates...
Hey, What's "palpitate?"
What's that?
What does it mean?
A transparent complex. ...?
Sensei!
Yes.
I don't understand at all.
Not at all! Not at all!!
There are some things
that you won't understand,
but I don't understand them either.
Why?
Why can't you come with me?
If in this world, the great power really exists,
Why do people fight?
Why do living things eat each other?
Be- Because...
Maybe that's also the will of great power...
No. Shall we go in search of the answer?
You are walking on the clouds.
Yes, clouds of ideals.
Sensei! Sensei! What happened?
Oh, it's just you.
Sensei, are you feeling sick?
No.
By the way, what's the matter?
You're all congregated...
We found the guilty person.
Yeah we did!
The guilty person?
My hat was stolen.
A lamp in our dorm is missing...
Narao saw it at night.
He saw Takagi stealing it!
Let's...
Let's stay on the straight and narrow
for as far as we possibly can.
What the hell, "let's stay on
the straight and narrow."
If you're going to scold me, get
it over with, why don't you!'?
What the hell?!
You didn't run away.
This is karma, that you and
I are teacher and student...
among millions of people on Earth.
Isn't that so?
That means we could be
father and son, or brothers.
No, from now on let's clearly be brothers.
Yes, real brothers.
By the way, why do you
take someone else's stuff?
If you want money or other things, I, your big
brother, will give them to you, my brother.
My salary is 90 Yen and if you need
all 90 Yen, I'll even give it all to you.
If it is not enough, tell me.
No matter what it takes, even if I have
to borrow it, I'll give you what you need.
My brother. Now let me hear your dreams.
What are you going to do
after you finish school?
I want to go live in a big city...
and work for a public government
office or in a bank. And...
Aren't you going to help your family?
Being a peasant doesn't make money.
I... I want to make money.
And...
Sensei!
I want to live without my brother, father, and
mother having to suffer anymore like they have.
Did you hear the rumor that
Shere Kahn is going to quit?
Is that true?
Someone overheard talking
in the teachers' lounge.
But why?
No idea!
It's because you've been too mischievous.
EXCUSE ME!!
But school's gonna be boring without him.
Hey! It's sensei!
In the school yard!
Sensei!
Sensei!
Don't quit!
See you in the fields below.
He's just an amateur.
What can an amateur do?
It's only a rich man's son's
whim. He'll soon give up.
In the new age, the world gathers into a
consciousness and becomes one creation.
Peasant Arts Theory Peasants Modern Science Consciousness The Galaxy In the
new age, the world gathers into a consciousness and becomes one creation.
In the new age, the world gathers into a
consciousness and becomes one creation.
Party, party every day all, night long.
He says that's art.
Peasants don't need that crap.
That's something a bored man does.
Fertilizer consultation
- Free -
Flowers don't put food on the table.
It's so delicious!
Take it home.
Why? Mom made it for you.
I can't eat anything better
than what the people here do.
But you're worn to a shadow.
If you become like Toshi...
Go home.
You are such a fraud!
What the hell is your science!
What does an amateur know about fertilizer!
He says he'll pay us for all losses.
Don't patronize us.
Because his family is rich, he
thinks he can fix things with money.
Sensei!
Hey, you two.
Let's start, Takagi.
I'm in the field below.
- Kenji.
All... All stolen. I'm in the field below.
- Kenji.
All... All stolen.
When I came back from the fertilizer
consultation at Miyamori village...
Damn it! It must be the people
of the village downstream.
I wanna go beat them up...
but I don't have the courage to do it.
So I'm trying to calm my
emotions by marking like this.
But, I'm a little bit confused...
because, well, yes, we've
grown them with great care,
but isn't it the same thing that
we would eat the vegetables,
thereby taking their lives?
By the way, I noticed that you
are the only one here tonight.
Takagi left for Tokyo to find a job.
His father is ill and farming doesn't
help them pay back their debts.
So... he wouldn't dare see you.
Good morning.
Helped the whole night again, did you?
Ah, beautiful morning.
Sensei.
Why don't we quit?
Working on things like this...
You working hard alone...
It doesn't change a thing.
What is this?
That's tea.
I arranged a pine leaf in the water of the dawn.
I still think you're weird.
We may not have crystal
sugar as much as we want...
We can, however, eat the
delicate translucent breeze...
...And drink in pink sunlight
of the golden morning.
Peasant life is hard work, certainly.
That's why we should try to enjoy it.
Sensei...
After all, I couldn't even be the village idiot.
My whole body is heavy...
Feeling like sinking to the bottom of the earth.
Trying to eat the same as the common people...
Talking, saying things like
marrying a cloud in the sky...
But probably nothing I thought of was true.
At the bottom of my heart I was
hoping good things would happen.
Hallucination again.
Is this is my end?
In the dark cloud touching the ground...
In the dark cloud touching the ground...
Can't it be me?
Can't I be the one to move the darkness?
Is the world flickering or am I flickering?
The light is kept but its tradition is lost.
Will I change?
I'll change.
Will this change?
It'll change.
How about this?
It won't change.
No, MI change.
It'll change.
After all, what everyone else said was right.
What should I do...
Nothing I do works.
Please get me snow, Kenji.
Please get me snow, Kenji.
Please get me snow, Kenji.
Please get me snow, Kenji.
Here, I got you snow.
Cold...
Cold but warm.
Because you got it for me...
this snow is cold but warm.
Toshi...
Cold but warm...
Cold but warm...
Toshi...
Copernicus of the new age!
Release this galaxy from the
overbearing force of gravity!
In search of true happiness... endlessly.
If I go on a little more...
A meteorite...?
From another star?
It can't be.
Spring is almost here.
Bitterness and blueness of anger...
I am Ashura oh the bottom of the April light...
In an airborne state, coming and going...
Grimacing and clenched with effort.
Ave Maria
Kenji continued writing, even while suffering from a serious illness that left him bedridden. He died a year later, at the age of 37. His writings, some of which
were unfinished, were discovered after his death, and became immensely popular. Today, Miyazawa's writings are some of Japan's best loved literature. Ave Maria
Kenji continued writing, even while suffering from a serious illness that left him bedridden. He died a year later, at the age of 37. His writings, some of which were
unfinished, were discovered after his death, and became immensely popular. Today, Miyazawa's writings are some of Japan's best loved literature. Swimming in the morning light,
Kenji continued writing, even while suffering from a serious illness that left him bedridden. He died a year later, at the age of 37. His writings, some of which were
unfinished, were discovered after his death, and became immensely popular. Today, Miyazawa's writings are some of Japan's best loved literature. Listen from your soul within.
Listen from your soul within.
Ah... Who is the one I hear... that voice...?
CAST Kenji SHIROU SANO Toshi MARIKO KOUDA Kanai HIROSHI ISOBE Tetsuo
MINAMI TAKAYAMA Ah... Who is the one I hear... that voice...?
CAST Mother HIS AKO TATS Ul Takagi MIZUE OOTS UKA Ryouta KAZUE IIKURA
Chusaku NORIKO UEMURA Ah... Who is the one I hear... that voice...?
CAST Mother HISAKO TATSUI Takagi MIZUE OOTSUKA Ryouta KAZUE
IIKURA Chusaku NORIKO UEMURA Springtime begets the bluish breeze,
CAST Narao ITSUKO TAKAHASHI Father MICHIKO OTSUKA Peasant A KEIICHI
FUJIMURA Peasant B MASATO HIRANO Springtime begets the bluish breeze,
CAST Farmer MICHIKO NAKAO Kuni NAOKO HIRAI Hunter TAROU ISHIDA
Taichi SHIHO NIIYAMA Springtime begets the bluish breeze,
CAST Students KEIKO NAKAMURA HIROMI NISHIKAWA
AIRI YOSHIDA Springtime begets the bluish breeze,
CAST Students KEIKO NAKAMURA HIROMI NISHIKAWA
AIRI YOSHIDA Summer's baking sun...
Animation Director TAKAHIRO KISHIDA Key Animators HIDENORI MATSUBARA HIROFUMI SUZUKI TOSHIYUKI TSURU HIROYUKI IWATA
HARUO OGAWARA SHIHO TAKEUCHI TOSHIKO BABA HIROYUKI HORIUCHI TOSHIKO KONNO NORIO MATSUMOTO Summer's baking sun...
Key Animators TOSHIKI YOSHIDA TAKUYA SAITO KAZUTO NAGASAWA NORIYUKI SHOUCHIKU HIDEAKI SHIMADA TAIDOU HASAFUSA
HIROKO KAZUI HIROKI KAWAZOE MAI ENDOU MICHIO ITOU KAZUYA HIROSE AKIHARU ISHII MASAHIKO KUBO Summer's baking sun...
Key Animators TOSHIKI YOSHIDA TAKUYA SAITO KAZUTO NAGASAWA NORIYUKI SHOUCHIKU HIDEAKI SHIMADA TAIDOU HASAFUSA HIROKO
KAZUI HIROKI KAWAZOE MAI ENDOU MICHIO ITOU KAZUYA HIROSE AKIHARU ISHII MASAHIKO KUBO Autumn's darkened clouds,
Key Animators MAI FUJITA TOSHIHIRO UMEHARA TSUNEO WAKABAYASHI ICHIROU ITANO HOROSHI HIRAMA KAORU HIRATA AKIHIRO TAKEDA
Pencil Animation NOBUKO YUKAWA MASAHIRO MAEDA SHOUETSU HANE SONOMI ARAMAKI MANABU OHASHI Autumn's darkened clouds,
Key Animators MAI FUJITA TOSHIHIRO UMEHARA TSUNEO WAKABAYASHI ICHIROU ITANO HOROSHI HIRAMA KAORU HIRATA AKIHIRO TAKEDA
Pencil Animation NOBUKO YUKAWA MASAHIRO MAEDA SHOUETSU HANE SONOMI ARAMAKI MANABU OHASHI As well as winter's snowy days...
Pencil Animators SHINICHI TSUJI MASAYA FUJIMORI HIROSHI KAWAGUCHI TAKAMITSU YUKAWA
MAZUMI NONAKA Animation Checker TETSUO HARA As well as winter's snowy days...
Animators ATSUSHI ISHIGURO YUMIKO TORIMURA KAZUKO ITAMOTO KAZUE TAMARI MINAKO NAGASAWA YAYOI YOSHIKAWA KAORI HASHIMURA KEIKO
OHASHI AJIADOU BUNSEI ANIMATION MARA ANIMATION STUDIO JUNIO STUDIO OMU ANIME WORLD OSAKA As well as winter's snowy days...
Ail Director HIROSHI ONO Backgrounds STUDIO FUGA KUMIKO ONO KIYOMI ENMOTO YOSHIHIRO HIROTA KAORU NARATORI
EMI KITAHARA KATSUFUMI HARIO MASAHIRO KUBOTA HIROSHI ONO STUDIO YS As well as winter's snowy days...
Ail Director HIROSHI ONO Backgrounds STUDIO FUGA KUMIKO ONO KIYOMI ENMOTO YOSHIHIRO HIROTA KAORU NARATORI
EMI KITAHARA KATSUFUMI HARIO MASAHIRO KUBOTA HIROSHI ONO STUDIO YS Distant flights of fancy and the...
Backgrounds KUSANAGI STUDIO YOSHIMINE AKEMI ARAI MINORU OGAWARA Animaton Supervisor MIYOKO HITOSE
Finishing BUNSEI ANIMATION MARA ANIMATION AJIADOU STUDIO M Distant flights of fancy and the...
Special Effects Animation TAKASHI MAEKAWA Production Work SAT OS HI KATAYAMA
Director of Photography HAJIME NOGUCHI Distant flights of fancy and the...
Photography TAKAHASHI PRODUCTION YASUYOSHI TOYOE TOMOHIRO TAKAHASHI HARUTOSHI MIYAGAWA TAKAHIRO SHISHIDO HIRONOBU HORIKOSHI TOMOKO
FUKUDA ISAMU OGAWA TOSHIYA KIMURA JUN SATOU NAOYA ISHII JUNKO NAGAI MAYU SATOU YUKIKO MARUHASHI Distant flights of fancy and the...
Photography TAKAHASHI PRODUCTION YASUYOSHI TOYOE TOMOHIRO TAKAHASHI HARUTOSHI MIYAGAWA TAKAHIRO SHISHIDO HIRONOBU HORIKOSHI
TOMOKO FUKUDA ISAMU OGAWA TOSHIYA KIMURA JUN SATOU NAOYA ISHII JUNKO NAGAI MAYU SATOU YUKIKO MARUHASHI Rainbow pole high above...
CG Technical Directors YASUO MAEDA SHINJI NASU CG Production SATELLITE (utilizing GIGA CONCEPT SOFTWARE) CG Animators HIDETOSHI
INBA YOSHIKI ITOU AKIRA AKIMOTO KOUICHI SHIMOMURA KAZUYO MASUTANI SEIJI NOMURA MIKIKO YOSHIDA Rainbow pole high above...
CG Animators KENJI YAMADA HIROSHI TAKAHASHI SEAN LEWKIW SOUZOU YOSHIMATSU LESLIE FULTON Digital Coloring Supervisor
KAZUHIRO ITO Digital Coloring RYU TAKIZAWA MAKIKO TAMAI SATSUKI KOHARA TOSHIROU SUNAKO Rainbow pole high above...
CG Animators KENJI YAMADA HIROSHI TAKAHASHI SEAN LEWKIW SOUZOU YOSHIMATSU LESLIE FULTON Digital Coloring Supervisor
KAZUHIRO ITO Digital Coloring RYU TAKIZAWA MAKIKO TAMAI SATSUKI KOHARA TOSHIROU SUNAKO Quietly, submerged in prayer...
Digital Coloring CHIAKI TAKAHASHI AKIYUKI NARAI RITSUKO MAKANISHI TETSU MARUYAMA HARUKO ONISHI KUBIDO FAIR, LTD. HISAE TAGAWA SACHIO
UTSUMI SATROU KATOU TOMONARI SEKIYA TOSHIO TAKAHASHI YASUNOBU HAYAKAWA EIKO NISHII HIDEKO MORIGUCHI Quietly, submerged in prayer...
Digital Coloring KAZUE SAKAKIDA KOUJI YAMAMOTO SUMIKO IMAI YORIKO IMAI YASUHIRO UDAGAWA MARIKO SHIBATA SACHIE MUNECHIKA
JUNICHI FUJITA YUKO TAKADA Digital Backgrounds CHINAMI MATSUBARA MINAKO KUMAGAYA Quietly, submerged in prayer...
Digital Coloring KAZUE SAKAKIDA KOUJI YAMAMOTO SUMIKO IMAI YORIKO IMAI YASUHIRO UDAGAWA MARIKO SHIBATA SACHIE MUNECHIKA
JUNICHI FUJITA YUKO TAKADA Digital Backgrounds CHINAMI MATSUBARA MINAKO KUMAGAYA While light shining so soft, down upon me...
CG Production Producer MICHIAKI SATO CG Executive Producer YASUAKI TAKEUCHI CG Director
YOUJI MAEDA Music SHANG SHANG TYPHOON While light shining so soft, down upon me...
Main Song: AVE MARIA Lyrics: BENIRYU, TOSHIMI SHIROSAKI Music: J. S. EACH Arrangement: TAIFU KAMIGAMI Inset song: DETERMINATION
IN THE RAIN Lyrics: KENJI MIYAZAWA Music: MASARU GOTOU Arrangement: TAIFU KAMIGAMI While light shining so soft, down upon me...
Musical Director ATSUMI TASHIRO Musical Effects SHIZUO KURAHASHI Recording Engineer YASUSHI NAKURA Recording
Studio ABAKO CREATIVE STUDIO Editing MASASHI FURUKAWA While light shining so soft, down upon me...
Musical Director ATSUMI TASHIRO Musical Effects S HIZUO KURAHAS HI Recording Engineer YAS US HI NAKURA
Recording Studio ABAKO CREATIVE STUDIO Editing MASAS l-ll FURUKAWA Secret as the gentle stream...
Assistant Editor SHIAKI S HOUHO Video Editor YAS US HI UVVAMOTO Developing
IMAGICA Titles MAKI PRO Research KAN SASAKI Secret as the gentle stream...
Checking TAIJIROU AMAZAWA HIROSHI MASUMURA Production Supervisor TAKAO ABE Producers NORIYUKI
FUCHIZAWA ATSUMI TASHIRO Animation Producer KEN MORITA Secret as the gentle stream...
Checking TAIJIROU AMAZAWA HIROSHI MASUMURA Production Supervisor TAKAO ABE Producers NORIYUKI FUCHIZAWA
ATSUMI TASHIRO Animation Producer KEN MORITA Formed by the stars above the break of dawn in spring.
Production Managers SHUUYA UENO AKIHARU MORIYA MASAHIRO ITOU Assistant Production Manager YOSHIRO TAMADA Production
TV IWATE GROUP TAKKU Executive Producer EIICHI SATOU Formed by the stars above the break of dawn in spring.
assistant Executive Producer SOUICHI MASUI Director a. Story SHOJI
KAWAMORI Formed by the stars above the break of dawn in spring.
Assistant Executive Producer SOUICHI
MASUI Director 8: Story SHOJI KAWAMORI
Original Japanese Production (C) TV Iwate, Group TAC
English Fan-Subtitled version by Kodocha Anime, 1998.
the Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras.
In celebration of the 100th
birthday of Kenji Miyazawa
Ihatov Fantasy
KENJI'S SPRING
Ihatov Fantasy KENJI'S
SPRING Ave Maria
Ave Maria
Swimming in the morning light,
Production Supervisor TAKAO ABE (TV
Iwate) Swimming in the morning light,
Swimming in the morning light,
Listen from your soul within.
Special Consultants to the Director TAIJIRO AMAZAWA, HIROSHI
MASUMURA Original Story SHOJI KAWAMORI Listen from your soul within.
Special Consultants to the Director TAIJIRO AMAZAWA, HIROSHI MASUMURA
Original Story SHOJI KAWAMORI Ah... Who is the one I hear... that voice...?
Ah... Who is the one I hear... that voice...?
Character Design 8: Director of Animation TAKAHIRO KISHIDA Art
Director HIROSHI OHNO Ah... Who is the one I hear... that voice...?
Character Design 8: Director of Animation TAKAHIRO KISHIDA Art
Director HIROSHI OHNO Springtime begets the bluish breeze,
Springtime begets the bluish breeze,
Summer's baking sun...
Autumn's darkened clouds,
Music SHANE SHANE TYPHOON
Autumn's darkened clouds,
Autumn's darkened clouds,
As well as winter's snowy days...
Distant blistering dreams of the...
Director of Photography HAJIME NOGUCHI Editor MASASHI
FURUKAWA J.S.E. Distant blistering dreams of the...
Distant blistering dreams of the...
CG Directors TSUNEO MAEDA SHINJI NASU Color Key
MIYOKO ICHINOSE Distant blistering dreams of the...
CG Directors TSUNEO MAEDA SHINJI NASU Color
Key MIYOKO ICHINOSE Illuminance of prayer...
Illuminance of prayer...
Quietly, like gentleness in a smiling face, hut secretly...
Sound Director ATSUMI TASHIRO Sound Effects SHIZUO KURAHASHI Recording Engineer
YASUSHI NAGURA Quietly, like gentleness in a smiling face, hut secretly...
Quietly, like gentleness in a smiling face, hut secretly...
Secret as the gentle stream...
Associate Director HIDEKAZU SATO Animation
Producer KEN FUJITA Secret as the gentle stream...
Secret as the gentle stream...
Tosh!
Secret as the gentle stream...
Tosh!
Formed by the stars above the break of dawn in spring.
Producers YUKINORI FUCHIZAWA (TV Iwate) ATSUMI TASHIRO
Formed by the stars above the break of dawn in spring.
Formed by the stars above the break of dawn in spring.
Production TV IWATE GROUP TAC Formed by
the stars above the break of dawn in spring.
Production TV IWATE GROUP TAC
Directed by
SHOJI KAWAMORI
Hey, don't you think Shere
Kahn-sensei is weird?
You mean master Kenji?
Yeah, he suddenly starts
singing in the middle of class.
He talks about 4-dimensional
spaces which we don't understand.
The night of the last full moon he
was dancing in the schoolyard.
That's not the half of it!
Master Kenji can even
hear the voices of ghosts!
Really?
It's true!
Under the lone cedar tree at the shrine
to foxes, there was a female spirit...
You two should quiet down.
You should be studying
until the teacher gets here.
Shut up. You're such a goody two-shoes.
Why did he...?
Rise and shine, Chusaku!
Yeah...
I'm sorry I'm late.
It was so warm outside.
I was in the sun with the flowers...
and forgot what time it was.
It's spring already.
Do you know why you feel warmth?
Warmth?
Do you understand?
I have NO idea.
Now, let's close our textbooks...
and close our eyes as well.
Close our eyes?
Yes, everyone else close your eyes, too.
Even when your eyes are
closed like they are now,
you can feel it, can't you?
You can feel the warmth of the spring sunlight...
and the softly singing breeze
with your whole body.
Our bodies consist of
invisible, tiny tiny molecules:
hydrogen, oxygen, carbon.
The air, the water, even flower petals...
everything is made of molecules just like us.
Even when we don't move, molecules in
our body are moving at a terrific speed.
Do you have any idea how many times hydrogen
molecules impact other molecules in a second'?
100 million times.
100 million times!
Just in one second, they
collide 100 million times.
The movement of molecules
changes into heat and temperature.
When you are happy or excited,
when you think of your love,
doesn't your chest feel warm?
That's because feelings are moving
the molecules of your body...
and changing the movement into heat.
A human made up of active
molecules... Kind of like a festival.
A festival?
Isn't that Kenji of the Miyazawa family?
L-low can someone like that be a teacher?
Shere Kahn-sensei is weird.
"When it gets warm and molecules
start moving around..."!!
A human is also made of molecules.
Let's romp in the sun," he said.
Yeah, he's REALLY weir--
What?
He took something out!
Hush!
It's coming.
Long stretching blue note
A bird is a blue string
And a string
A blue string...
I lost it.
What the...?
Found them! Found them!
All right...
What does this look like?
What does it look like?
It's just a stone.
That's correct, but is it really only that?
Doesn't it look like someone's face?
This stone is limestone...
smooth and pretty like a movie actress.
Ahh... I see...
This is quartz, rugged and
stubborn looking like our principal.
It really does!
Hey, this looks like you.
Look. This is Kasuke.
And this is Saburo!
There are so many
differences between stones...
just like the differences between us.
Let's talk to them.
They're just rocks!
You are weird!
He's more than weird!
Now... Listen to them.
You'll hear different voices by hitting them.
This is the voice of stone.
This is the voice of the earth!
6 years earlier
A vast field extending as far as you can see.
The sweet and sour smell of grass...
and the fresh breeze wash away all the impurity.
The world is filled with light.
Being in such a place,
don't you feel like you can even become God?
Let's go.
Yeah.
Drawing close together,
The telegraph poles stand hand in hand.
Mental-Sketching" again?
Yeah.
When I come here, images just flow.
Wow! !
I dream of someday having a beautiful
farm, like the starry heavens.
There we'll have plays and festivals, and
create a new form of farming village art.
What's your dream?
My dream?
My dream is...
to find the invisible power
working behind this world,
and solve the riddle of that true power.
That's a nice dream.
But how do you go about doing that'?
I haven't figured it out yet.
I see.
Well, I'm sure you'll find it some clay.
Do you really think so?
Yeah.
In fact, I hope I can take that path with you.
Kane!
A dinosaur!
There!
In the amber colored sky,
There passes the giant reptile of the Mesozoic.
Miyazawa's Pawn Shop
No, I can't offer any more than that.
I know, but...
we need the money to buy bullets.
Otherwise, how can we hunt this winter'?
But you know, you have only
used clothing and a hatchet here.
I know, but these are the
last things we have left.
To look after my sick mother...
62 sen is the limit.
(Sen = 100th of a Yen)
I can't loan you any more than that.
Thank you for your trouble.
Kenji!
Were you wandering around again
collecting junk all night long?
You should help our business instead.
Why?
Why can't you loan him more?
He needs more.
You can't mix sympathy with business.
Otherwise we go bankrupt and
the economy of the society fails.
But- but such work...
What do you want to do instead?
I'm...
I'm going to sell Ukiyo-e (woodblock paintings).
You're being unrealistic.
Who would buy such paintings in a rural town?
Well, then, what about starting
a new business in America?
You're getting too big for your britches.
L-low would you get capital to get started?
Uh...
Oh yeah...
What about making artificial gems?
I work making precious gems for half a year,
and spend the other half
writing children's stories.
Sounds like a pipe dream.
Nobody will read stories that sound like
a foreigner mumbling in their sleep.
Besides, do you plan to sell
the gems as man made?
Why can't I tell them the truth?
The gems will be synthesized
by a proper scientific process.
What's this about science?
Why don"t you quit dreaming?
It's not a dream!
You're dreaming!
Not a dream!!!
You haven't had your baptism by fire.
I suggest you get your feet on the ground.
It's still warm.
The thoughtful way you
held the stone kept it warm.
Toshi! You're home.
Mm-hm.
We took the night train leaving
Ueno at 8 o'clock last night.
You were off collecting stones as usual.
Yeah. We went all the way to
Nametoko mountain creek.
That far?
Here. Put this stone in the
light and take a good look.
Pretty.
The shiny pieces are black mica crystals.
They formed a long, long time ago...
when they were still drifting gas in the galaxy.
All they could see was the
absolute darkness in space.
Now, when I broke the stone in pieces, the
micas for the first time see the blue sky.
Not being able to speak out, they just twinkle.
Very nice.
Hymn number 391.
I learned it at college.
I see.
Did you learn a lot more?
A whole bunch.
Oh, have a look at that.
WOW !
From Sheffield!
Expensive, wasn't it?
I'll bake a cake for you all.
Woohoo!
When the poet Mr. Tagore
came to this country to lecture,
his servant taught me how.
Ho! Sounds great.
You're still writing, huh?
Yeah.
Did you read my poetry
book "Azalea" I sent to you?
Of course.
One of the poems you wrote, it goes,
"Drawing close together,
Telegraph poles stand hand in hand."
Is that you and Kanai-san?
You're so obnoxious.
Bingo!
At any rate, Kanai is a great guy.
He's very decisive, unlike myself.
You two are the only people
who understand me.
You sound like you're in love with the guy.
Hey, come on!
You blushed!
Jeez...
Anyhow, I just feel like we can
be together for a long time.
Yeah, for a long time, long time.
Toshi!
I've left my home town.
Already half a year has passed
since I moved to Tokyo.
Now I work for a small publishing company.
I write, write, and write.
I keep writing.
This Sunday, if convenient for you,
I'd like to meet you in the library in Ueno forest.
We haven't seen each other in three years.
We can talk all day long about literature, plays,
and our long search together
for the path to the “true Way.“
Kanai Hosaka-san...
This is Miyazawa. I wanted
to see you very much.
Miyazawa-san.
Les.
I... can't join you on your search.
Toshi...!
Is Toshi alright?
Oh! Kenji!
Kenji!
Toshi.
That was quick.
Oh look!
Your feet! Your feet!
In a bit of a rush, are we?
Don't be so up-tight.
In the west they wear
shoes indoors all the time.
Oh, Kenji!
What are you doing?
Oh dear.
You can even laugh, so you must be alright.
Don't make me worry about you!
I wrote so much, in lieu of having a family...
This much?!
Too many things to write!
My hand wouldn't stop.
The words hopped out in front of me,
and they even bowed to me!
That sounds like you.
I'll get the light.
I don't want to die yet.
I want to continue to be a school teacher.
I want to have a boyfriend...
Never mind.
I've said strange things.
No, not strange at all.
You can still have those things.
You can even have a boyfriend.
Please stop.
Tell me.
Tell me the stories you wrote.
Tell me.
All right.
We may not have crystal
sugar as much as we want.
We can, however, eat the
delicate translucent breeze,
and drink in pink sunlight of the golden morning.
I've so many times seen in fields and woods. ..
The most beautiful velvet
and studded garments...
spun from the most miserable and torn clothes.
I adore such beautiful food and clothing.
AH of these stories of mine...
are bestowed upon me by
the rainbow and moonlight...
at woods, meadows, and rail road tracks.
When I walk through the oak
forest in the blue sunset,
when I stand shivering in the
November mountain winds,
I really feel this way.
I only wrote what I felt.
I cant stop feeling things like this.
These visions really happen.
Spring and Ashura
By Kenji Miyazawa
No one bought it...
l-low much do you think this cost us'?
I'm sorry.
Go to a bookstore and see what
kind of books are selling most.
But I don't write to sell.
If you won't write to sell, I should
say, "help our family business!"
But I won't say that.
If you take over the family business,
you'd only lose all of our assets.
Concentrate on teaching.
The phenomenon of myself is simply a blue lighting of
hypothetical organic alternating current electric lights.
Together with everyone, the
scenery restlessly palpitates...
Hey, What's "palpitate?"
What's that?
What does it mean?
A transparent complex. ...?
Sensei!
Yes.
I don't understand at all.
Not at all! Not at all!!
There are some things
that you won't understand,
but I don't understand them either.
Why?
Why can't you come with me?
If in this world, the great power really exists,
Why do people fight?
Why do living things eat each other?
Be- Because...
Maybe that's also the will of great power...
No. Shall we go in search of the answer?
You are walking on the clouds.
Yes, clouds of ideals.
Sensei! Sensei! What happened?
Oh, it's just you.
Sensei, are you feeling sick?
No.
By the way, what's the matter?
You're all congregated...
We found the guilty person.
Yeah we did!
The guilty person?
My hat was stolen.
A lamp in our dorm is missing...
Narao saw it at night.
He saw Takagi stealing it!
Let's...
Let's stay on the straight and narrow
for as far as we possibly can.
What the hell, "let's stay on
the straight and narrow."
If you're going to scold me, get
it over with, why don't you!'?
What the hell?!
You didn't run away.
This is karma, that you and
I are teacher and student...
among millions of people on Earth.
Isn't that so?
That means we could be
father and son, or brothers.
No, from now on let's clearly be brothers.
Yes, real brothers.
By the way, why do you
take someone else's stuff?
If you want money or other things, I, your big
brother, will give them to you, my brother.
My salary is 90 Yen and if you need
all 90 Yen, I'll even give it all to you.
If it is not enough, tell me.
No matter what it takes, even if I have
to borrow it, I'll give you what you need.
My brother. Now let me hear your dreams.
What are you going to do
after you finish school?
I want to go live in a big city...
and work for a public government
office or in a bank. And...
Aren't you going to help your family?
Being a peasant doesn't make money.
I... I want to make money.
And...
Sensei!
I want to live without my brother, father, and
mother having to suffer anymore like they have.
Did you hear the rumor that
Shere Kahn is going to quit?
Is that true?
Someone overheard talking
in the teachers' lounge.
But why?
No idea!
It's because you've been too mischievous.
EXCUSE ME!!
But school's gonna be boring without him.
Hey! It's sensei!
In the school yard!
Sensei!
Sensei!
Don't quit!
See you in the fields below.
He's just an amateur.
What can an amateur do?
It's only a rich man's son's
whim. He'll soon give up.
In the new age, the world gathers into a
consciousness and becomes one creation.
Peasant Arts Theory Peasants Modern Science Consciousness The Galaxy In the
new age, the world gathers into a consciousness and becomes one creation.
In the new age, the world gathers into a
consciousness and becomes one creation.
Party, party every day all, night long.
He says that's art.
Peasants don't need that crap.
That's something a bored man does.
Fertilizer consultation
- Free -
Flowers don't put food on the table.
It's so delicious!
Take it home.
Why? Mom made it for you.
I can't eat anything better
than what the people here do.
But you're worn to a shadow.
If you become like Toshi...
Go home.
You are such a fraud!
What the hell is your science!
What does an amateur know about fertilizer!
He says he'll pay us for all losses.
Don't patronize us.
Because his family is rich, he
thinks he can fix things with money.
Sensei!
Hey, you two.
Let's start, Takagi.
I'm in the field below.
- Kenji.
All... All stolen. I'm in the field below.
- Kenji.
All... All stolen.
When I came back from the fertilizer
consultation at Miyamori village...
Damn it! It must be the people
of the village downstream.
I wanna go beat them up...
but I don't have the courage to do it.
So I'm trying to calm my
emotions by marking like this.
But, I'm a little bit confused...
because, well, yes, we've
grown them with great care,
but isn't it the same thing that
we would eat the vegetables,
thereby taking their lives?
By the way, I noticed that you
are the only one here tonight.
Takagi left for Tokyo to find a job.
His father is ill and farming doesn't
help them pay back their debts.
So... he wouldn't dare see you.
Good morning.
Helped the whole night again, did you?
Ah, beautiful morning.
Sensei.
Why don't we quit?
Working on things like this...
You working hard alone...
It doesn't change a thing.
What is this?
That's tea.
I arranged a pine leaf in the water of the dawn.
I still think you're weird.
We may not have crystal
sugar as much as we want...
We can, however, eat the
delicate translucent breeze...
...And drink in pink sunlight
of the golden morning.
Peasant life is hard work, certainly.
That's why we should try to enjoy it.
Sensei...
After all, I couldn't even be the village idiot.
My whole body is heavy...
Feeling like sinking to the bottom of the earth.
Trying to eat the same as the common people...
Talking, saying things like
marrying a cloud in the sky...
But probably nothing I thought of was true.
At the bottom of my heart I was
hoping good things would happen.
Hallucination again.
Is this is my end?
In the dark cloud touching the ground...
In the dark cloud touching the ground...
Can't it be me?
Can't I be the one to move the darkness?
Is the world flickering or am I flickering?
The light is kept but its tradition is lost.
Will I change?
I'll change.
Will this change?
It'll change.
How about this?
It won't change.
No, MI change.
It'll change.
After all, what everyone else said was right.
What should I do...
Nothing I do works.
Please get me snow, Kenji.
Please get me snow, Kenji.
Please get me snow, Kenji.
Please get me snow, Kenji.
Here, I got you snow.
Cold...
Cold but warm.
Because you got it for me...
this snow is cold but warm.
Toshi...
Cold but warm...
Cold but warm...
Toshi...
Copernicus of the new age!
Release this galaxy from the
overbearing force of gravity!
In search of true happiness... endlessly.
If I go on a little more...
A meteorite...?
From another star?
It can't be.
Spring is almost here.
Bitterness and blueness of anger...
I am Ashura oh the bottom of the April light...
In an airborne state, coming and going...
Grimacing and clenched with effort.
Ave Maria
Kenji continued writing, even while suffering from a serious illness that left him bedridden. He died a year later, at the age of 37. His writings, some of which
were unfinished, were discovered after his death, and became immensely popular. Today, Miyazawa's writings are some of Japan's best loved literature. Ave Maria
Kenji continued writing, even while suffering from a serious illness that left him bedridden. He died a year later, at the age of 37. His writings, some of which were
unfinished, were discovered after his death, and became immensely popular. Today, Miyazawa's writings are some of Japan's best loved literature. Swimming in the morning light,
Kenji continued writing, even while suffering from a serious illness that left him bedridden. He died a year later, at the age of 37. His writings, some of which were
unfinished, were discovered after his death, and became immensely popular. Today, Miyazawa's writings are some of Japan's best loved literature. Listen from your soul within.
Listen from your soul within.
Ah... Who is the one I hear... that voice...?
CAST Kenji SHIROU SANO Toshi MARIKO KOUDA Kanai HIROSHI ISOBE Tetsuo
MINAMI TAKAYAMA Ah... Who is the one I hear... that voice...?
CAST Mother HIS AKO TATS Ul Takagi MIZUE OOTS UKA Ryouta KAZUE IIKURA
Chusaku NORIKO UEMURA Ah... Who is the one I hear... that voice...?
CAST Mother HISAKO TATSUI Takagi MIZUE OOTSUKA Ryouta KAZUE
IIKURA Chusaku NORIKO UEMURA Springtime begets the bluish breeze,
CAST Narao ITSUKO TAKAHASHI Father MICHIKO OTSUKA Peasant A KEIICHI
FUJIMURA Peasant B MASATO HIRANO Springtime begets the bluish breeze,
CAST Farmer MICHIKO NAKAO Kuni NAOKO HIRAI Hunter TAROU ISHIDA
Taichi SHIHO NIIYAMA Springtime begets the bluish breeze,
CAST Students KEIKO NAKAMURA HIROMI NISHIKAWA
AIRI YOSHIDA Springtime begets the bluish breeze,
CAST Students KEIKO NAKAMURA HIROMI NISHIKAWA
AIRI YOSHIDA Summer's baking sun...
Animation Director TAKAHIRO KISHIDA Key Animators HIDENORI MATSUBARA HIROFUMI SUZUKI TOSHIYUKI TSURU HIROYUKI IWATA
HARUO OGAWARA SHIHO TAKEUCHI TOSHIKO BABA HIROYUKI HORIUCHI TOSHIKO KONNO NORIO MATSUMOTO Summer's baking sun...
Key Animators TOSHIKI YOSHIDA TAKUYA SAITO KAZUTO NAGASAWA NORIYUKI SHOUCHIKU HIDEAKI SHIMADA TAIDOU HASAFUSA
HIROKO KAZUI HIROKI KAWAZOE MAI ENDOU MICHIO ITOU KAZUYA HIROSE AKIHARU ISHII MASAHIKO KUBO Summer's baking sun...
Key Animators TOSHIKI YOSHIDA TAKUYA SAITO KAZUTO NAGASAWA NORIYUKI SHOUCHIKU HIDEAKI SHIMADA TAIDOU HASAFUSA HIROKO
KAZUI HIROKI KAWAZOE MAI ENDOU MICHIO ITOU KAZUYA HIROSE AKIHARU ISHII MASAHIKO KUBO Autumn's darkened clouds,
Key Animators MAI FUJITA TOSHIHIRO UMEHARA TSUNEO WAKABAYASHI ICHIROU ITANO HOROSHI HIRAMA KAORU HIRATA AKIHIRO TAKEDA
Pencil Animation NOBUKO YUKAWA MASAHIRO MAEDA SHOUETSU HANE SONOMI ARAMAKI MANABU OHASHI Autumn's darkened clouds,
Key Animators MAI FUJITA TOSHIHIRO UMEHARA TSUNEO WAKABAYASHI ICHIROU ITANO HOROSHI HIRAMA KAORU HIRATA AKIHIRO TAKEDA
Pencil Animation NOBUKO YUKAWA MASAHIRO MAEDA SHOUETSU HANE SONOMI ARAMAKI MANABU OHASHI As well as winter's snowy days...
Pencil Animators SHINICHI TSUJI MASAYA FUJIMORI HIROSHI KAWAGUCHI TAKAMITSU YUKAWA
MAZUMI NONAKA Animation Checker TETSUO HARA As well as winter's snowy days...
Animators ATSUSHI ISHIGURO YUMIKO TORIMURA KAZUKO ITAMOTO KAZUE TAMARI MINAKO NAGASAWA YAYOI YOSHIKAWA KAORI HASHIMURA KEIKO
OHASHI AJIADOU BUNSEI ANIMATION MARA ANIMATION STUDIO JUNIO STUDIO OMU ANIME WORLD OSAKA As well as winter's snowy days...
Ail Director HIROSHI ONO Backgrounds STUDIO FUGA KUMIKO ONO KIYOMI ENMOTO YOSHIHIRO HIROTA KAORU NARATORI
EMI KITAHARA KATSUFUMI HARIO MASAHIRO KUBOTA HIROSHI ONO STUDIO YS As well as winter's snowy days...
Ail Director HIROSHI ONO Backgrounds STUDIO FUGA KUMIKO ONO KIYOMI ENMOTO YOSHIHIRO HIROTA KAORU NARATORI
EMI KITAHARA KATSUFUMI HARIO MASAHIRO KUBOTA HIROSHI ONO STUDIO YS Distant flights of fancy and the...
Backgrounds KUSANAGI STUDIO YOSHIMINE AKEMI ARAI MINORU OGAWARA Animaton Supervisor MIYOKO HITOSE
Finishing BUNSEI ANIMATION MARA ANIMATION AJIADOU STUDIO M Distant flights of fancy and the...
Special Effects Animation TAKASHI MAEKAWA Production Work SAT OS HI KATAYAMA
Director of Photography HAJIME NOGUCHI Distant flights of fancy and the...
Photography TAKAHASHI PRODUCTION YASUYOSHI TOYOE TOMOHIRO TAKAHASHI HARUTOSHI MIYAGAWA TAKAHIRO SHISHIDO HIRONOBU HORIKOSHI TOMOKO
FUKUDA ISAMU OGAWA TOSHIYA KIMURA JUN SATOU NAOYA ISHII JUNKO NAGAI MAYU SATOU YUKIKO MARUHASHI Distant flights of fancy and the...
Photography TAKAHASHI PRODUCTION YASUYOSHI TOYOE TOMOHIRO TAKAHASHI HARUTOSHI MIYAGAWA TAKAHIRO SHISHIDO HIRONOBU HORIKOSHI
TOMOKO FUKUDA ISAMU OGAWA TOSHIYA KIMURA JUN SATOU NAOYA ISHII JUNKO NAGAI MAYU SATOU YUKIKO MARUHASHI Rainbow pole high above...
CG Technical Directors YASUO MAEDA SHINJI NASU CG Production SATELLITE (utilizing GIGA CONCEPT SOFTWARE) CG Animators HIDETOSHI
INBA YOSHIKI ITOU AKIRA AKIMOTO KOUICHI SHIMOMURA KAZUYO MASUTANI SEIJI NOMURA MIKIKO YOSHIDA Rainbow pole high above...
CG Animators KENJI YAMADA HIROSHI TAKAHASHI SEAN LEWKIW SOUZOU YOSHIMATSU LESLIE FULTON Digital Coloring Supervisor
KAZUHIRO ITO Digital Coloring RYU TAKIZAWA MAKIKO TAMAI SATSUKI KOHARA TOSHIROU SUNAKO Rainbow pole high above...
CG Animators KENJI YAMADA HIROSHI TAKAHASHI SEAN LEWKIW SOUZOU YOSHIMATSU LESLIE FULTON Digital Coloring Supervisor
KAZUHIRO ITO Digital Coloring RYU TAKIZAWA MAKIKO TAMAI SATSUKI KOHARA TOSHIROU SUNAKO Quietly, submerged in prayer...
Digital Coloring CHIAKI TAKAHASHI AKIYUKI NARAI RITSUKO MAKANISHI TETSU MARUYAMA HARUKO ONISHI KUBIDO FAIR, LTD. HISAE TAGAWA SACHIO
UTSUMI SATROU KATOU TOMONARI SEKIYA TOSHIO TAKAHASHI YASUNOBU HAYAKAWA EIKO NISHII HIDEKO MORIGUCHI Quietly, submerged in prayer...
Digital Coloring KAZUE SAKAKIDA KOUJI YAMAMOTO SUMIKO IMAI YORIKO IMAI YASUHIRO UDAGAWA MARIKO SHIBATA SACHIE MUNECHIKA
JUNICHI FUJITA YUKO TAKADA Digital Backgrounds CHINAMI MATSUBARA MINAKO KUMAGAYA Quietly, submerged in prayer...
Digital Coloring KAZUE SAKAKIDA KOUJI YAMAMOTO SUMIKO IMAI YORIKO IMAI YASUHIRO UDAGAWA MARIKO SHIBATA SACHIE MUNECHIKA
JUNICHI FUJITA YUKO TAKADA Digital Backgrounds CHINAMI MATSUBARA MINAKO KUMAGAYA While light shining so soft, down upon me...
CG Production Producer MICHIAKI SATO CG Executive Producer YASUAKI TAKEUCHI CG Director
YOUJI MAEDA Music SHANG SHANG TYPHOON While light shining so soft, down upon me...
Main Song: AVE MARIA Lyrics: BENIRYU, TOSHIMI SHIROSAKI Music: J. S. EACH Arrangement: TAIFU KAMIGAMI Inset song: DETERMINATION
IN THE RAIN Lyrics: KENJI MIYAZAWA Music: MASARU GOTOU Arrangement: TAIFU KAMIGAMI While light shining so soft, down upon me...
Musical Director ATSUMI TASHIRO Musical Effects SHIZUO KURAHASHI Recording Engineer YASUSHI NAKURA Recording
Studio ABAKO CREATIVE STUDIO Editing MASASHI FURUKAWA While light shining so soft, down upon me...
Musical Director ATSUMI TASHIRO Musical Effects S HIZUO KURAHAS HI Recording Engineer YAS US HI NAKURA
Recording Studio ABAKO CREATIVE STUDIO Editing MASAS l-ll FURUKAWA Secret as the gentle stream...
Assistant Editor SHIAKI S HOUHO Video Editor YAS US HI UVVAMOTO Developing
IMAGICA Titles MAKI PRO Research KAN SASAKI Secret as the gentle stream...
Checking TAIJIROU AMAZAWA HIROSHI MASUMURA Production Supervisor TAKAO ABE Producers NORIYUKI
FUCHIZAWA ATSUMI TASHIRO Animation Producer KEN MORITA Secret as the gentle stream...
Checking TAIJIROU AMAZAWA HIROSHI MASUMURA Production Supervisor TAKAO ABE Producers NORIYUKI FUCHIZAWA
ATSUMI TASHIRO Animation Producer KEN MORITA Formed by the stars above the break of dawn in spring.
Production Managers SHUUYA UENO AKIHARU MORIYA MASAHIRO ITOU Assistant Production Manager YOSHIRO TAMADA Production
TV IWATE GROUP TAKKU Executive Producer EIICHI SATOU Formed by the stars above the break of dawn in spring.
assistant Executive Producer SOUICHI MASUI Director a. Story SHOJI
KAWAMORI Formed by the stars above the break of dawn in spring.
Assistant Executive Producer SOUICHI
MASUI Director 8: Story SHOJI KAWAMORI
Original Japanese Production (C) TV Iwate, Group TAC
English Fan-Subtitled version by Kodocha Anime, 1998.