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Blue Giant (movie)

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Genres: drama
Themes: jazz
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Dai Miyamoto is in the basketball club in middle school. One day, his friend takes him to a live jazz performance, which touches him on a deep level. From that point on, he begins to practice the tenor sax by himself, with no formal education, and no ability to read sheet music. He aims to become the world's best saxophone player. (from manga)
User Ratings: 22 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Excellent: 7 votes (sub:6, others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Very good: 10 votes (sub:7, dub:2, others:1
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Decent: -
 So-so: 2 votes (sub:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Not really good: -
 Weak: -
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 28 users, rank: #7577 (of 9841)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 8.046 (Very good), std. dev.: 1.1862, rank: #542 (of 9981)
Weighted mean: 8.182 (Very good+), rank: #364 (of 9981) (seen all: 8.18)
Bayesian estimate: 7.920 (Very good), rank: #479 (of 7549)
Vintage: 2023-02-17
Premiere date:
2023-02-17 (Japan)
2023-11-25 (Italy, Fantasticon Film Fest)
2024-03-22 (Spain)
Official website:
映画『BLUE GIANT』公式サイト (Japanese)
Review:
Blue Giant (Apr 12, 2023)
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Interview:
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Press Releases:
The Critically Acclaimed Jazz Anime Film Blue Giant on Blu-Ray and Major Digital Platforms on April 30, 2024 (Jan 29, 2024)
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Blue Giant (Sub.Blu-ray) 2024-04-30 (from $19.49)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Yuzuru Tachikawa
Screenplay: NUMBER 8
Storyboard:
Iwao Teraoka
Satoshi Kimura
Tomomi Mochizuki
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Unit Director:
Hiromatsu Shu
Koyo Ogata
Satoshi Kimura
Yuki Nishibata
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Music:
Hiromi Uehara
Kazuma Jinnouchi (Samba Five)
Original creator: Shinichi Ishizuka
Character Design: Yūichi Takahashi
Art Director: Satoru Hirayanagi
Chief Animation Director: Yūichi Takahashi
Animation Director:
Kazuya Miyoshi
Kenichi Shima
Takao Maki
Toshiyuki Komaru
Yūichi Takahashi
3D Director: Masato Takahashi
Director of Photography: Kasumi Tōgō
Executive producer: Kazutaka Yamanaka
Producer:
Eri Isobe
Mikito Bizenjima

2nd Key Animation:
Akane Tamai (Signal.MD)
Anh Nhat (Suzuhana Studio)
Daiki Abe (WHITE FOX Izukōgen Studio)
Haruka Katou (WHITE FOX Izukōgen Studio)
Hiroki Kamomiya (WHITE FOX Izukōgen Studio)
Hitomi Shimodaira (Signal.MD)
Kai Qi Tan (Signal.MD)
Kimikazu Saito (WHITE FOX Izukōgen Studio)
Kotoe Furuno (Signal.MD)
Mizuki Kamomiya (WHITE FOX Izukōgen Studio)
Nobuyuki Hiramatsu (WHITE FOX Izukōgen Studio)
Saki Yamada (CLAP)
Takaharu Kajio (WHITE FOX Izukōgen Studio)
Tomohiro Koga (WHITE FOX Izukōgen Studio)
Yuki Arinaga (Signal.MD)
Animation producer: Takuya Tsunoki
Assistant Animation Director:
Eiko Mishima
Naoko Minai
Assistant Key Animation Director: Ryōta Azuma
Assistant Unit Director:
Kei Miura
Satoshi Matsubara
Takayuki Yamamoto
Yoshifumi Sueda
Casting Producer: Shinnosuke Usui
Chief Producer: Atsushi Takahashi
Color Check: Sayaka Sueshige
Color design: Yoshinori Horikawa
Color Key: Sayaka Sueshige
Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose
Image Board:
Boya Liang
Hiromatsu Shu
Satoshi Kimura
In-Between Check:
Akiko Ikeda (Studio Pierrot)
Yaeko Kodama (Studio Pierrot)
Yue Shan Wang (Studio Pierrot)
Key Animation:
Aditya Uday
Ai Ogata
Akane Tamai (Signal.MD)
Akiko Taniguchi
An Katsuragi
Andy Zhu (GAMBIT)
Asumi Katō
Barkarott (GAMBIT)
Boya Liang
bs_kim
Chang Dong
Chisato Hosokawa
CoachP (Studio Tumble)
Daiki Nagata
Dog Dog Hui
Eiko Mishima
Fei Hung (Feihung Animation)
Fumika Kimura (BAKKKA)
Fuminori Tsukida
Guang Xu Wu (Feihung Animation)
Hiromatsu Shu
Hiroyuki Horiuchi
Hisashi Shimokawa
Jia Fu Xu (Big Firebird Animation)
Jing Pan
Jing Yu Xu (Studio Tumble)
Joo Yeon Moon (Point Pictures)
Ju Neng Binggui (Studio Tumble)
Julius de Belen (GAMBIT)
Kai Qi Tan (Signal.MD)
Kanako Awada
Kanako Maru
Kaori Ikeda
Katsutoshi Nakamura
Kazuto Wakayama
Kazuya Saitō
Ken Yamamoto
Kenichi Shima
Kentarō Kawajiri
Kumiko Onaga
Maki Matsuura
Mayu Murakata (Chiptune)
Mayumi Nakamura
Michiko Notsu
Misa Matsuoka (BAKKKA)
Mitomi Nakayama
Moe Yoshimura (Chiptune)
Nana Yamaguchi (Chiptune)
Naoko Minai
Naomi Okita
Naoyuki Asano
Natsuki Yokoyama (Chiptune)
Niina Morita (Signal.MD)
Nobuhiko Kawakami
Qiang Lu (Big Firebird Animation)
Risa Suzuki
Ryōta Azuma
Ryūshi Tokunaga (BAKKKA)
Satoshi Kimura
Saurabh Singh
Serena Koi
Shi Yi Su (Signal.MD)
Shigenori Taniguchi
Shinichi Iimura
Shinichi Kurita
Shiomi Yamada
Shiori Asaka (Signal.MD)
Shō Uchida (Signal.MD)
Shou Sugai (Point Pictures)
Sumire Fukazawa (BAKKKA)
Sun An Jung (Point Pictures)
Taishi Fujimori
Takao Maki
Takashi Yoshiyama (BAKKKA)
Takeo Shudou
Takuya Yoshihara
teiadam
Toshiro Fujii
Toshiyuki Komaru
Toshiyuki Yoshioka
Vann Oba (GAMBIT)
Vercreek
Willie Blue Bussell (GAMBIT)
Yasuhiro Saiki
Yūichi Takahashi
Yuji Hosogoe
Yuka Fukuchi (Signal.MD)
Yuki Arinaga (Signal.MD)
Yuria Tsu (GAMBIT)
Zhou Yong Jiang
Zi Han Liu (Studio Tumble)
Live Direction:
Hiromatsu Shu
Kiyoshi Hirose
Satoshi Kimura
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Live Part Storyboard:
Hiromatsu Shu
Iwao Teraoka
Satoshi Kimura
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Main Animator:
Takao Maki
Toshiyuki Komaru
Music Performance:
Hiromi Uehara (as Yukinori Sawabe; piano)
Shun Ishiwaka (as Shunji Tamada; drums)
Tomoaki Baba (as Dai Miyamoto; saxophone)
Planning: Katsuhiro Takei
Production Advancement:
Kenshō Teramoto
Rei Kurosawa
Yurika Shinozaki
Production manager:
Genta Shimahara
Takuya Tsunoki
Prop Design:
Natsuki Yokoyama
Takao Maki
Setting Production: Rei Kurosawa
Japanese companies
2D Design Works: Chiptune
2nd Key Animation:
8 bit
animocaramel
BAKKKA
Big Firebird Animation
Chiptune
CLAP
DR Movie
Kyushu Animation
Madhouse
Nakamura Production
Signal.MD
SILVER LINK.
Snow Light Staff
Studio CL
Studio Gimlet
Studio Gram
Studio Lings
Studio Massket
Suzuhana Studio
Team Harada
Triple A
WHITE FOX Izukōgen Studio
Wish
3DCG Cooperation: GEVO ENTERTAINMENT
3DCGI: Chiptune
Animation Production: NUT
Art Setting: Art Studio Zao
Background Art:
Art Studio Zao
Chiptune
CoMix Wave Films
E-cho
FSE Company
J.C. Staff
Studio Touch
Y.A.P. Ishigaki Production
Distributor: TOHO Visual Entertainment
Editing Studio: EditZ
Finish Animation:
Cheng Pin Animation
Chiptune
DEFA
DR Movie
Studio BUS
Studio CL
Studio Massket
Triple A
In-Between Animation:
Cheng Pin Animation
Chiptune
DR Movie
Pierrot
Studio BUS
Studio CL
Studio Massket
Triple A
Wit Studio
In-between Check:
DR Movie
Pierrot
Studio BUS
Key Animation:
BAKKKA
Big Firebird Animation
Chiptune
GAMBIT
Point Pictures
Signal.MD
STUDIO TUMBLE
Photography:
animocaramel
Chiptune
CLAP
Graphinica Sapporo Studio
Seven Arcs
Studio Shamrock
Photography Cooperation:
CASCADE Inc.
DR Movie
Production CK
Studio CL
Studio Giga
Studio hb
Post Production: IMAGICA Entertainment Media Services
special effects: Chiptune
English cast
English staff
Producer: David Jesteadt (GKids)

QA Translator: Jake Jung
(none)
English companies
Internet Streaming: Netflix
Licensed by: GKIDS
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
Dubbing Director: Ferran Ruiz (Catalan dub)
Translation: Xavier Martí (Catalan dub)

Adaptation: Josep Sobrevia (Catalan dub)
Language Consultant: Jordi Mir (Catalan dub)
Mix Engineer: Joan Ruiz (Catalan dub)
Marcel Navarro as Dai Miyamoto (Catalan dub)

Eva Lluch as Akiko (Catalan dub)
Marc Torrents as Shunji Tamada (Catalan dub)
Toni Mora as Yukinori Sawabe (Catalan dub)

Àngels Ribalta as Aoi (Catalan dub)
Domenech Farell as Kawakita (Catalan dub)
Ivan Canovas as Uchiyama (Catalan dub)
José Posada as Tyler (Catalan dub)
Lluis Marco as Yui (Catalan dub)
Sergio Zamora as Amanuma (Catalan dub)
Tatiana Supervia as Sra. Sawabe (Catalan dub)

Jennifer Zaragoza (Catalan dub)
Joan Ruiz (Catalan dub)
Joaquin Casado (Catalan dub)
Jordi Pineda (Catalan dub)
Luis Gustems (Catalan dub)
Spanish companies
Dubbing Studio: Sik Estudio (Catalan dub)
Licensed by: Selecta Visión
Italian staff
Italian companies
(none)
Italian cast
(none)
German staff
German cast
David M. Schulze as Yukinori Sawabe
Dennis Saemann as Shunji Tamada
Sebastian Fitzner as Dai Miyamoto

Ben Küch as Masayuki Miyamoto
Olaf Reitz as Kousei Amanuma
Petra Glunz-Grosch as Akiko
Rolf Berg as Taira

Christian Eschenauer as Masaru Isogai
Corinna Dörenkamp as Sawabe's Mother
Enya-Maria Stewen as Hanon
Hans-Gerd Kilbinger as Kaneda
Nicole Silbermann as Aoi
Sascha von Zambelly as Moto
Simone Walleck as Tamada's Mother
Thomas Krause as Kawakita
Thomas Balou Martin as Yui
Volker Niederfahrenhorst as Uchiyama

Christoph Lewicki
Lukas Güttes-Veith
Lukas Hüls
Marc Erkens
Oliver Schnelker
Sebastian Hollmann
Stephan Schleberger
Yan Rütten
German companies
Dubbing: G&G Tonstudios
Dutch staff
Dutch companies
(none)
Distributor: Periscoop Film
Dutch cast
(none)

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