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Spring and Chaos (movie)

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Alternative title:
Ihatov Gensou: Kenji no Haru (Japanese)
Kenji's Spring
イーハトーブ幻想 Kenjiの春 (Japanese)
イーハトーブ幻想〜KENjIの春 (Japanese)
Genres: drama, slice of life
Objectionable content: None
Copyright notice: © TV Iwate, Group TAC.
Plot Summary: Set in the beginning of the 20th century Japan, the film follows the bright and eccentric Kenji from his late student years through his adulthood. Kenji suffers the tragedy of being an artist whose art isn't recognized during his lifetime. Based on the life of the author Kenji Miyazawa, the film depicts his brief but intense existence.
User Ratings: 143 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 12 votes (sub:8, dub:3, others:1
1 German subtitled
)
 Excellent: 25 votes (sub:22, dub:2, ?:1)
 Very good: 38 votes (sub:26, dub:9, others:3
2 Russian subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Good: 39 votes (sub:26, dub:12, others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Decent: 17 votes (sub:11, dub:4, others:2
1 Chinese Mandarin subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 So-so: 7 votes (sub:4, dub:3)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: 2 votes (sub:1, dub:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 250 users, rank: #3369 (of 9585)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.511 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.5414, rank: #1780 (of 9708)
Weighted mean: 7.480 (Good+), rank: #1735 (of 9708) (seen all: 7.48)
Bayesian estimate: 7.480 (Good+), rank: #1449 (of 7289)
Running time: 53 minutes
Vintage:
1996-12-14
2001-05-29 (American Release)
Premiere date:
1996-12-14 (Japan)
Release dates: We have 2
Ending Theme:
"アヴェ・マリア (Ave Maria)" by Shang Shang Typhoon
Official website:
Kenjiの春 (Japanese)
Tokyopop - Spring and Chaos Official
Comment:
TOKYOPOP / Mixx Entertainments first licensed title and dub.
Review:
Spring and Chaos DVD (Jan 1, 1970)
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DVD (Region 0)
    Spring and Chaos (DVD) 2001-05-29 (from $76.81)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Shōji Kawamori
Screenplay: Shōji Kawamori
Music: Shang Shang Typhoon
Original story: Kenji Miyazawa
Character Design: Takahiro Kishida
Art Director: Hiroshi Ōno
Animation Director: Takahiro Kishida
Sound Director: Atsumi Tashiro
Cgi Director:
Shinji Nasu
Tsuneo Maeda
Executive producer: Takao Abe
Producer:
Atsumi Tashiro
Yukinori Fuchizawa

Assistant Director: Hidekazu Sato
Assistant producer: Ken Fujita
Background Art:
Akemi Arai (Studio Miho)
Emi Kitahara (Studio Fuga)
Hiroshi Ōno (Studio Fuga)
Kaoru Narasima (Studio Fuga)
Katsufumi Hariu (Studio Fuga)
Kiyomi Enomoto (Studio Fuga)
Kumiko Ōno (Studio Fuga)
Masahiro Kubota (Studio Fuga)
Yoshihiro Hirota (Studio Fuga)
CG Animation:
Hidetoshi Inaba
Hisashi Akimoto
Kazuyo Masutani
Kenji Yamada
Kouichi Shimomura
Kouji Takahashi
Leslie Fulton
Mikiko Yoshida
Sean Lewkiw
Sozo Yoshimatsu
Yoshiki Ito (伊藤芳樹)
Cinematography: Hajime Noguchi
Color Director: Miyoko Ichinose
Digital Color:
Chiaki Takahashi
Masayuki Narai
Ryu Takizawa
Tetsuo Maruyama
Tetsuyū Maruyama
Editing: Masashi Furukawa
In-Between Animation:
Atsushi Ishiguro
Kazue Tamari
Kazuko Sakamoto
Keiko Ōhashi
Yayoi Yoshikawa
Yumiko Goto
Yumiko Shimamura
In-Between Check: Tetsuo Hara
Key Animation:
Akiharu Ishii
Asami Endo
Haruo Ōgawara
Hideaki Shimada
Hidenori Matsubara
Hirofumi Suzuki
Hiroki Kawazoe
Hiroko Kazui
Hiroyuki Horiuchi
Ichirō Itano
Kahoru Hirata
Kazuchika Kise
Kazuto Nakazawa
Kōdai Iwata
Koji Hirauma
Maki Fujita
Masahiko Kubo
Michio Ito
Norio Matsumoto
Shiho Takeuchi
Takahiro Umehara
Takuya Saitō
Tokuyuki Matsutake
Toshiki Yoshida
Toshiko Baba
Toshiyuki Tsuru
Tsuneo Wakabayashi
Yasutaka Hanabusa
Yoshihiro Takeda
Yoshiko Konno
Pencil Animation:
Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Kazumi Nonaka
Mahiro Maeda
Manabu Ōhashi
Masaya Fujimori
Nobuko Yukawa
Shinichi Tsuji
Sonomi Aramaki
Takamitsu Yukawa
Yukiyoshi Hane
Photography:
Harutoshi Miyagawa (Takahashi Production)
Hironobu Horikoshi (Takahashi Production)
Jun Satō (Takahashi Production)
Junko Nagai (Takahashi Production)
Naoya Ishii (Takahashi Production)
Shunya Kimura (Takahashi Production)
Takahiro Shishido (Takahashi Production)
Takeshi Ogawa (Takahashi Production)
Tomohiro Takahashi (Takahashi Production)
Tomoko Fukuda (Takahashi Production)
Yasuyoshi Toyonaga (Takahashi Production)
Yukiko Maruhashi (Takahashi Production)
Recording engineer: Yasushi Nagura
Sound Effects: Shizuo Kurahashi
Special consultant to the Director:
Hiroshi Masumura
Taijiro Amazawa
Shirō Sano as Kenji

Shiho Niiyama as Taichi

Akane Tomonaga as Seito
Chikao Ohtsuka as Father
Hiroshi Isobe as Kana
Keiichi Fujimura as Peasant A
Mariko Kouda as Toshi
Naoko Hirai as Kuni
Japanese companies
English cast
English staff
Director: Stuart Levy
Translation:
Matthew Galgani
Stuart Levy
Sound Director: John Forbes
Executive producer:
John Parker
Stuart Levy
Producer: Stuart Levy

DVD Menu Design: Rod Sampson
Packaging Design: Juliann Brown
Production Coordination: Victor Chin
Script Editing: James Klein
Sound Editor: Paul Nielson
Special Thanks To:
Atsumi Tashiro
Shōji Kawamori
Ron Jaxson as Kenji

Elissa Sarna as Toshi
Herb Mendelson as Kanai
James Klein as
Chusaku
Student
Janathan Funk as Teikichi
Jenny Subjack as
Farmer
Ryota
Student
Taka
Karen Vered as Intro Naration
Kirk Durham as Tetsuo
Suzan Isaacs as
Farmer
Kuni
Suzan Jaget as Kenji's Mother
Wendel Kimsell as Kenji's Father

Heather Smith as Student
James Klein as Taichi
Jonathan Funk as Hunter
Neil Maclean as
Farmer
Student
Ronald Scovil Jr. as Farmer
Suzan Isaacs as Kenji's Little Sister
Victor Chin as Farmer
English companies
Licensed by: Tokyopop
Production: Tokyopop
Recording Studio: AVACO Creative Studios

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