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Asura (movie)

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Alternative title:
Ashura (Japanese)
アシュラ (Japanese)
아수라 (Korean)
Genres: drama
Objectionable content: Intense
Plot Summary: In a mid-15th century Kyoto ravaged by successive waves of floods, drought, and famine, Asura was left to fend for himself in the wilderness as an infant and grew up into an axe-wielding child surviving on both animal and human flesh. Asura's life took a turn when he became acquainted with Wakasa, a young village girl who taught Asura words and drew out semblances of empathy from within him. Yet Asura's peaceful moments with Wakasa would not last long, as famine began to take its toll on Wakasa's village.
User Ratings: 142 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 16 votes (sub:16)
 Excellent: 30 votes (sub:25, raw:1, others:4
2 Portuguese subtitled
2 Spanish subtitled
)
 Very good: 43 votes (sub:40, dub:1, others:2
2 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Good: 26 votes (sub:23, dub:1, others:2
2 Spanish subtitled
)
 Decent: 11 votes (sub:8, raw:1, others:2
2 Spanish subtitled
)
 So-so: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Not really good: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Weak: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Bad: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Awful: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 197 users, rank: #3850 (of 9585)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.528 (Very good−), std. dev.: 2.0476, rank: #1716 (of 9708)
Weighted mean: 7.437 (Good+), rank: #1872 (of 9708) (seen all: 7.49 / won't finish: 1.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.441 (Good+), rank: #1572 (of 7289)
Vintage: 2012-09-29
Premiere date:
2012-09-29 (Japan)
Ending Theme:
#1: "Kibō" (希望; Hope) by Yasuha Kominami
#2: "Trash" by Yasuha Kominami
Official website:
映画『アシュラ』公式ページ (Japanese)
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Keiichi Satō
Screenplay: Ikuko Takahashi
Storyboard:
Keiichi Satō
Kōzō Morishita
Takuya Wada
Music:
Norihito Sumitomo
Susumu Ueda
Yoshihiro Ike
Original creator: George Akiyama
Character Design: Yukitoshi Hōtani (2D)
Art Director:
Hiroshi Katō
Hirotsugu Kakoi
Animation Director: Shuichi Kaneko (Key Animation Effects)
Sound Director: Yukio Nagasaki
Cgi Director: Nobuhiro Morita
Executive producer:
Kazumi Kawashiro
Naoya Kinoshita
Takashi Ōya
Takehiko Aoki
Producer: Yoshiyuki Ikezawa

Background Art:
Ayumi Kugawa
Azusa Kakoi
Hirofumi Sakagami
Izumi Hoki
Kumiko Watanabe
Naoko Yanagita
Naoya Watanabe
Takashi Kurahashi
Tomoki Miura
Calligraphy: Kyōka Ebisawa
Casting Director: Takumi Kohama
CG Animation:
Akinori Gondō
Daisuke Miyake
Emiko Saiki
Hirokazu Moriyama
Hiroki Kanai
Kai Makino
Kazuhisa Kodaira
Kensuke Saitō
Kentarō Yayama
Kouichi Nobuta (Lead)
Kousuke Miyazawa
Makoto Miyahara
Masayuki Koizumi (Chief Animator)
Naoki Miyahara
Nobuo Hosoyama
Ryoichi Matsumoto
Shinsuke Miura (Chief Animator)
Takahiro Nowatari
Takashi Yokotani
Takayoshi Shibata
Yasuhiro Kato
Yoshihisa Sasaki
Yūki Ikeba
Yūki Takenaka
Yusuke Hirota
Yutaka Iwama
CG Composite:
Emiko Nishida
Hidemitsu Masui
Maki Morikawa (Lead)
Mio Nakayama
Natsuki Fujisawa
Yusuke Kawahara
CG Design:
Hajime Takahashi
Haruka Hayashi
Kentaro Kawasaki
Naoya Imai
Satoshi Nōzawa (Lead)
Yasushi Emoto
CG Effect: Tomohiko Takahashi
CG Modeling:
Fumiyasu Takashi
Mariko Yoshitake
Mio Horiuchi
CG Producer: Yukiya Imamura
CGI Assistance: Jae Hoon Jung (Lead)
Collaboration:
Atsushi Suzuki
Tetsuro Kodama
Color: Akito Takahashi
Color Coordination: Ami Kutsuna
Color Correction:
Kumiko Kōno
Yoshihiro Ueno
Digital Cinema Mastering:
Shūzō Hashimoto
Tomomi Satō
Digital Paint:
Hanae Kato
Masakazu Hotta
Sachiko Iura
Yūichi Ashikaga
Yuki Tonegawa
Yumi Takayanagi
Yumi Ushiyama
Yurie Fukuda
Editing: Jun'ichi Masunaga
HD Real Time Recording: Tomoyasu Inagaki
In-Between Animation:
Kayo Murakoshi
Kumiko Atō
Kyoko Satō
Mihoko Tomita
Mihoko Yamazaki
Nozomu Kamiya
Shinobu Nakamura
Takami Ōshima
Takayoshi Mizuguchi
Tomoko Satō
Yukitoshi Yamaguchi
Yūko Morimoto
Yuko Shimohira
Key Animation:
Hideaki Maniwa
Hideki Takahashi (Effects)
Kazunori Akiyama (Effects)
Kazuyuki Ikai (Effects)
Nekomataya (Effects)
Shūhei Hosokawa
Key Animation Supervisor: Tanka Ō
Lab Coordinator: Yuriko Satō
Mix Engineer:
Kunihiko Aoto (FREE MARKET)
Ryūta Matsuda
Yasufumi Sugahara (FREE MARKET)
Music Performance:
Aiko Hosokawa (Viola)
Amiko Watabe (Viola)
Asako Kanno (Violin)
Etsuko Matsui (Pipa)
Hideko Nagaoka (Violin)
Hideyo Takakuwa (Flute)
Hikaru Yamanaka (Violin)
Hiroki Satō (Trombone)
Hiroyuki Koike (Violin)
Hoshihiko Suzuki (Violin)
Jō Kishigami (Horn)
Kazuhisa Saito (Violin)
Kazuki Chiba (Contrabass)
Kazuko Nomiyama (Horn)
Keiko Shiga (Violin)
Ken'ichi Tsujimoto (Trumpet)
Kimie Shigematsu (Clarinet)
Kyōko Itō (Violin)
Makiko Uriruda (Violin)
Makoto Motoi (Violin)
Masanori Hirohara (Trombone)
Masayo Inoue (Cello)
Masayuki Okamoto (Bassoon)
Michiyo Yamanari (Violin)
Mio Noguchi (Flute & Piccolo)
Miyoko Tsubuku (Violin)
Motoko Fujiie (Violin)
Nagisa Kiriyama (Violin)
Otohiko Fujita (Horn)
Rie Arima (Clarinet)
Rie Koike (Violin)
Rieko Kōno (Viola)
Saho Mishima (Viola)
Sekka Ryū (Violin)
Shinsuke Torizuka (Trombone)
Susumu Miyake (Cello)
Tomoki Andō (Trumpet)
Tomoko Fukumoto (Viola)
Tomoyuki Asakawa (Harp)
Tomoyuki Hasegawa (Trumpet)
Toshihiko Tsuchida (Cello)
Tsunehiro Terai (Cello)
Yoshiyuki Uema (Horn)
Yūichi Ise (Percussion)
Yūji Ōnishi (Contrabass)
Yumiko Hirose (Violin)
Yūri Matsumoto (Viola)
Yūta Ōno (Horn)
Yuya Minorikawa (Viola)
Music producer: Takeo Konishi
Music Supervision: Yoshihiro Ike
Musician Coordination:
Eiko Kio (Legato Music)
Mami Seki (Legato Music)
Original Score: Susumu Ueda
Planning: Kōzō Morishita
Poster Design: Gyow-Psy Nagano (For overseas market)
Pre-Production Supervisor: Kōichi Noguchi
Production Advancement:
Atsunari Baba (CGI)
Mitsumasa Ogura (CGI)
Tetsuo Nakamura (CGI)
Yūta Ogura (CGI)
Production Committee:
Hideyuki Nanba (Sotsu)
Junichi Kimura (Bandai Visual)
Kazuhiko Uramoto (Toei Animation)
Mamiko Kondo (Bandai Visual)
Naoto Nakayoshi (Bandai Visual)
Noritada Shimizu (Fields)
Risa Kadekaru (KINOSHITA KOUMUTEN)
Takashi Akatsu (KINOSHITA KOUMUTEN)
Production Desk: Noriyuki Yamada
Production manager:
Munehisa Higuchi (CG)
Takeshi Himi (CG)
Publicity:
Akiko Nishino (Local)
Hiroyuki Sugawara
Ikuko Satō (Local)
Shun'ichi Kawai (Local)
Yōichi Igawa (Local)
Publicity Design:
Kazuhiro Yamamoto
Kensuke Ito
Shun'ichi Shibue
Recording Assistant:
Miki Aragaki
Yuuichi Kaneko (Avaco Creative Studio)
Recording Coordination:
Noriko Sekiya (Face Music Publishing)
Ryūji Nishida (Bright)
Recording engineer:
Mitsuharu Ito
Ryūta Matsuda
Sound Effects: Koji Kasamatsu (Digital Circus)
Special Effects: Rumiko Nagai
Studio Management: Muneyuki Hatakeyama
Systems Management: Kōsuke Yamashita
Theme Song Arrangement: Susumu Nishikawa
Theme Song Composition:
Taku Izumi (ED1)
Yasuha Kominami (ED2)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Toshio Fujita (ED1)
Yasuha Kominami (ED2)
Theme Song Performance: Yasuha Kominami
Title Logo Design: Daisuke Umino
Website: Shiho Tsuyuki
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Toei Animation
Animation Production Assistance: Production I.G
Background Art: Totonyan
CG Production Assistance:
MORISANPEI
Timeline Agency
Toei Animation Philippines
Digital Paint: Kagura
Distributor: Toei Animation
Editing: Imagica
In-Between Animation: Kagura
Music Production:
All Staff
EMI Music Japan
Legato Music
Toei Animation Music Publishing
Production:
Asura Production Committee
Toei Animation
Recording Studio:
AVACO Creative Studios (Sound)
Studio A-Tone (Sound)
Toei Audio Visual Art Center (Sound)
Toei Digital Center (Sound)
Sound Effects: Digital Circus
Sound Mixing: Studio Kitchen
Technical Assistance:
Toei Digital Lab (Motion Capture)
Toei Labo Tech (Motion Capture)
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Broadcaster: Canal+ Xtra (Spain)
Spanish cast
(none)

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