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Steamboy

2 Ratings: 2.0

A movie directed by Katsuhiro Ôtomo

The first feature Katsuhiro Otomo has written and directed since his watershedAkira(1988),Steamboyoffers a fantastic, sepia-toned vision of the past-as-future. In place of the dystopic Neo-Tokyo ofAkira,Steamboyis set in England in 1866. … see full wiki

Tags: Movies, Science Fiction Movies

Cast: Robin Atkin Downes, Alfred Molina, Alan Shearman, Oliver Muirhead, Paula Jane Newman, William Hootkins, see all

Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo

Genre: Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Release Date: March 18, 2005

MPAA Rating: PG-13

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Steamboy is a well done film

Dec 16, 2008

by ljaesch
posted in ASIANatomy

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Steamboy is a film directed and co-written by Katsuhiro Otomo. The film was in production for ten years and utilized more than 180,000 drawings and 440 CG cuts. With a production cost of $26,000,000, Steamboy is the most expensive full length Japanese animated movie produced to date.

The animation in Steamboy is very well done, and the viewer can tell that a lot of time was taken to produce the film. As you watch, you can also see how torn Ray is when he's having to decide whether to help his father or his grandfather. A viewer can also tell that an alternate history was utilized. While steam is the main source of power, there are some elements of the technology utilized that either wouldn't have existed yet, or progressed faster than they did in our timeline.

This DVD release of Steamboy contains several special features, and on the special features menu, they are split out into: Featurettes, Animation Onion Skins, Production Drawings, and Previews. Under "Featurettes," there are a total of four items included. The first is an almost nineteen-minute documentary about producing the English dub of Steamboy, which includes interviews with some of the voice actors and some of the crew members involved with the dub. Next is a five-minute interview with director Katsuhiro Otomo. Otomo is speaking in Japanese, but instead of putting subtitles on the bottom of the screen, an American voice-over is dubbed over Otomo's voice. Personally, I found this rather annoying. Next is a "Multi-Screen Landscape Study," which is a nineteen-minute piece that aired on three screens at a Steamboy exhibition. Here, subtitles are utilized to translate the spoken Japanese. "The Adventure Continues" is a textless version of the ending credits, which serve as a kind of epilogue for the film.

The "Animation Onion Skins" runs for about four-and-a-half minutes, and shows the various developmental stages of five scenes (which shows everything from rough animation to final scenes). "Production Drawings" runs for almost six minutes, and it shows paintings that had been done as the sets were developed. The "Previews" menu includes several previews of both anime and non-anime releases from the studio that released Steamboy.

Overall, Steamboy is a great film. It's one I would recommend to anime fans that are thirteen years of age and older.

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