アニメANIMATION

STORY

This is the second long animated piece produced for the charity TV program "Ai wa Chikyu wo Suku," following the previous "Bander Book." Like the previous work, this special animated series is full of popular characters from Tezuka Osamu's works. As the concept of the program is "love saves the Earth," the main theme of this film is environmental destruction. In 2002, a trans-Pacific submarine train, the Marine Express, leaves California for Japan. The doctor who developed this state-of-the-art train, however, plans to explode it because he is worried about the environmental destruction under the sea. The doctor's personality caricaturizes a weakness in nature conservation groups, and imbues this film with profundity.

CREDIT

(c) Tezuka Productions Co., Ltd.

Broadcast via Nippon Television network / 91 minutes / In Color
Tezuka Productions Co., Ltd. / August 26, 1979, Sundays 10:00 - 12:00

CAST

Ban Shunsaku: Tomita Kosei
Milly: Koyama Fumi
Rock: Takeoka Junichi
Black Jack: Nozawa Nachi
Adam: Shimizu Mari
Sasaki: Toyoda Shinji
Nazenkoppu: Kachita Hisashi
Credit: Otsuka Chikao
Sharaku: Kimotsuki Kenta
Dondora: Chiba Koichi
Sapphire: Ota Toshiko
Skunk: Yata Koji

STAFF

Original Plan, Storyline: Tezuka Osamu
Planning: Yoshikawa Akira (Nippon Television), Tsuzuki Tadahiko (Nippon Television)
Executive Producer: Shimakata Michitoshi
Producers: Takei Hidehiko (Nippon Television), Yamamoto Satoru (Tezuka Production)
Rendition: Tezuka Osamu, Dezaki Tetsu
Setting Designs: Sakaguchi Nao
Chief Director: Dezaki Tetsu
Art Director: Makino Mitsunari
General Animation Director: Kiyoyama Shigetaka
Animation Director: Nishimura Hiroshi
Mechanical Supervisor: Shimizu Keizo
Color: Shinohara Hiroshi
Animation Directors: Shibuichi Setsuko, Senda Yukiya, Suzuki Mariko
Staff: Handa Teruo, Kanayama Akihiro, Tsuchida Koichi, Kamimiya Kei, Udagawa Kazuhiko, Murata Shiro, Son Hiroshi, Seya Shinji, Tamaki Tsuyoshi, Nomatoshi, Kano Kaoru, Inoue Satoshi, Komuro Kotaro, Hiramatsu Osamu, Kai Kenji, Hattori Kazuo, Ishihara Shun, Saito Hisao, Miyakoshi Yoshikatsu, Mimori Akira, Ban Toshio, Akashi Sadakazu, Miyamoto Seiji, Akiho Tomie, Koide Hideo, Tazaki Masao, Kosaki Masanori, Terada Norifumi, Sato Mika
Recording Director: Sato Toshio
Camera: Sugaya Nobuyuki, Miyamoto Katsuhiro
Editing: Inoue Kazuo
Rendition Assistant: Yasumura Masakazu, Shimizu Yoshihiro
Production Manager: Minoru Kotoku, Wakai Yoshiharu, Tsuchiya Takahiko, Kamii Hiroyuki
Music: Ono Yuji

Theme Song:
"The Marine Express" Columbia Records
Vocals by Tommy Snider, music and arrangement by Ono Yuji, and words by Narahashi Yoko
Production: Nippon Television, Tezuka Productions Co., Ltd.

CATEGORY
TV special

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