Ganheddo (1989)

Country of Origin: Japan
Year of Production: 1989
Running Times: 92 mins (Germany)     97 mins (UK)     101 mins (Japan)
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound: Dolby

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: 3D / Bandai Entertainment / GUNHED Production Committee / Graphical Corporation Crowd Inc / Imagica Corp / Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Company Ltd / Q Production / SPFXXStudio / Sunrise Inc / Toho / Toho Eizo Bijitsu
Executive Producers: Tomoyuki Tanaka, Eiji Yamaura
Producers: Yoshishige Shimatani, Tetsuhisa Yamada
Production Co-Ordinator:Hiroshi Yonoguchi

SCRIPT
Script: Masato Harada (Alan Smithee on US prints), James Bannon

DIRECTION
Director: Masato Harada (Alan Smithee on US prints)
1st Assistant Director: Hideyuki Inoue
2nd Assistant Director: Hiroshi Kubo

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Junichi Fujisawa
Camera Operator: Riyuji Wakiya
Lighting: Takeshi Kurikawa
Lighting Assistant: Tatsuo Watanabe
Electrician: Hideo Inagaki
Timing: Masaharu Oomi
Stills: Takashi Nakao, Yoshinori Iwatsuki

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Assistant Editors: Miho Itoga, Sae Tojima
Negative Cutter: Chie Aoki

MUSIC
Music: Toshiyuki Honda
Song: Takayuki Baba (Theme Song for Gunhed)
Lyrics: Aireen (Theme Song for Gunhed)
Song Performed By: Mariko Nagai (Theme Song for Gunhed)
Music Arranger: Takayuki Negishi
Music Producers: Hiroshi Kajiwara, Masao Iwase, Tatsuo Oobu
Music Publishing: Kyoto Isho, Yurika Shimada

SOUND
Sound Recording: Teiichi Saitô
Recording Assistant: Kazuo Miyauchi

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Midori Konuma
Costume Designer: Tokito Yoshida
Wardrobe Supervisor: Keisuke Chiyoda

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Director of Special Effects: Koichi Kawakita
Assistant Director of Special Effects: Kiyotaka Matsumoto
Special Effects: Kazusuke Takasu, Noboru Watanabe
Special Visual Effects: Tsudo Kobo
Computer Graphics: Takeo Ootsuka, Yutaka Tsuchiya
Special Effects Production Manager: Yutaka Zeshi
Motion Control: Mitsuharu Haihara, Sadanori Iraba
Modelling: Moriaki Kaminatsu, Masaharu Ogawa
Special Photography: Toshimitsu Ooneda
Special Effects Lighting Technician: Kaoru Saito
Special Effects Lighting Assistant: Kazumi Kawagoshi
Special Effects Lighting Equipment: Tsuneo Tanaami
Special Effects Camera Operator: Kenichi Eguchi
Special Effects Camera Assistant: Fujio Ookawa
Special Effects Art Designer: Tetsuko Osawa, Noyuki Yoshimara
Special Effects Assistant Art Director: Yuji Terai
Special Effects Set Decorator: Yasuo Nomora
Special Effects Set Dresser: Heizo Kamoshida
Special Effects Script Girl: Yachiyo Kato
Special Effects Production Assistant: Osamu Nakamura
Matte Painting Artists: Yuji Kaida, Shuji Kakuma, Yukio Kaneko, Nobuaki Koga, Hiroshi Matsashima
Optical Effects: Masaaki Hiraoka, Masashi Nakamura, Masaharu Sekiguchi
Laser Cinema: Kôhei Fukuhara
Video Effects: Matsuo Aizawa, Nobubo Ishida
Animation Supervisors: Tatsuya Masuzawa, Terao Tsuda
Effects Animators: Keita Amamiya, Mitsuaki Ishida
Effects Technician: Shizuo Kurahashi
Technical Effects: Tadaaki Watanabe
Assistant Technical Effects: Yasushi Iwata

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Fumio Ogawa
Assistant Art Director: Shiushin Tonshiyo
Set Decorator: Kazo Suzuki
Set Dresser: Yoshiki Kasahara
Prop Master: Skio Tashiro

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Yoshiko Hamada
Arms Advisor: Hiromichi Izumi
Arms Instructor: Hisayoshi Takueda
Production Assistants: Kazuhiko Seda, Kon Ichibashi, Sho Ogawa, Yasuo Nishi
Special Machine: Mitsuo Miyagawa
Equipment Caretaker: Tadaaki Oode

STUNTS
Stunts: Koji Matsumoto
Assistant Stunts: Yasuyoshi Katori

CASTING
Casting Co-Ordinator: Tadao Tanaka

CAST
Masahiro Takashima (Brooklyn)
Brenda Bakke (Texas Air Ranger Sergeant Nim)
James Brewster Thompson (Barabbas)
Aya Enyoji (Babe)
Yujin Harada (Seven)
Kaori Mizushima (Eleven)
Yôsuke Saitô)
Doll Nguyen (Boomerang)
Jay Kabira (Bombay)
Mickey Curtis (Bansho)

ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION VOICES
Randy Reyes (Gunhed)
Michael Yancy (narrator)

In the year 2025, the Cybortech corporation's gigantic supercomputer Kyron 5, housed in a massive hi-tech facility on the Pacific island of 8JO declares war on Mankind and systematically slaughters any human forces sent in to restore the machine to human control. 13 years after the last of the Gunhed units was destroyed trying to storm 8JO, a group of privateers attempts to salvage whatever it can find from the long abandoned Kyron 5 installation. The island has been shrouded in mystery since the end of the Robot War and Kyron 5 has more or less been left to its own devices ever since. And Kyron 5 isn't as dormant as they'd been led to believe...

Some of the ideas in Ganheddo are excellent and the numerous hi-tech guns and gadgets are well designed if not always perfectly realised. Performances vary alarmingly, though Brenda Bakke as the obligatory Westerner does a great turn as the sexy but hard-as-nails Texas Ranger stranded on 8JO. No masterpiece, perhaps, but it passes the time harmlessly enough. (Full Review)

Canada
Video Distributor: A.D. Vision

UK
Theatrical Distributor: Manga
Video Distributor: Manga Live (MANL1001)

USA
Video Distributor: A.D. Vision

Germany
Rating: 16

UK
Rating: 15

1989
July
22: Japan - theatrical release

August
27: USA - theatrical release

1994
June
13: UK - video release (Manga Live (MANL1001))

1998
November
11: USA - video release (A.D. Vision)

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Last Updated: 15 October, 2008