Harmagedon: Genma taisen (1983)

Country of Origin: Japan
Year of Production: 1983
Running Times: 135 mins
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound: Dolby

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Executive Producers: Shotaro Ishinomori, Haruki Kadokawa
Producer: Susumu Akitagawa

SCRIPT
Script: Chiho Katsura, Mori Masaki, Makoto Naito
Story: Kazumasa Hirai, Shotaro Ishinomori

DIRECTION
Director: Rintaro (real name: Shigeyuki Hayashi)
Assistant Director: Susumu Ishizaki

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Iwao Yamaki

ANIMATION
Character Designer: Katsuhiro Otomo
Assistant Animation Director: Kazuo Tomisawa
Animators: Hitoshi Motoki, Jôji Ôshima, Katsuhiro Otomo, Katsumi Aoshima, Kouji Morimoto, Kyoko Matsubara, Manabu Ôhashi, Nobumasa Arakawa, Osamu Kamijoo, Osamu Nabeshima, Shigenobu Nagasaki, Takashi Nakamura, Takeshi Ozaka, Takuo Noda, Yasuomi Umetsu, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Yoshinori Tanabe
Animation Checkers: Junko Aoyama, Kiyotoshi Aoi
Background Artists: Akira Katô, Akira Yamagawa, Fukiko Hashizume, Hiromasa Ogura, Hiromi Andô, Kaoru Honma, Katsushi Aoki, Kazutoshi Shimizu, Rumiko Minemura, Yôko Yoshida, Yoshiyuki Kano, Yumiko Yamashita, Yutaka Itô
Inbetween Artists: Akemi Watanabe, Akifumi Hosoi, Akiko Matsushima, Chizu Fujimoto, Fumio Kôda, Hiromi Nishibori, Junko Maeda, Kengo Inagaki, Kumiko Saitô, Kyôko Katô, Madoka Yasue, Miyuki Umezu, Noriko Itano, Rikako Mizuno, Sachiko Yoneda, Takayoshi Kaya, Yoshiaki Kubokawa, Yoshihiro Shida, Yoshitaka Koyama
Cel Painters: Akemi Katada, Chinatsu Kuse, Hideko Kudô, Hisako Shibayama, Junko Sano, Kôji Satô, Madoka Katsunuma, Makoto Nishiyama, Tachiko Kimura, Yûko Kubota
Cel Checkers: Emiko Matsumoto, Michiyo Iriomote
Colour Supervisor: Yoshiharu Wakai

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Osamu Tanaka

MUSIC
Music: Nozomu Aoki
Musical Director: Keith Emerson

SOUND
Sound: Ichiro Tsujii

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Animator: Yoshinori Kanada
Titles: Yukio Kumagai
Title Animator: Keiko Yamada

DESIGN
Art Director: Takamura Mukuo
Assistant Art Director: Hiromi Kôno
Art Department Assistants: Kazuo Oga, Tadao Kubota

VOICES
Tôru Furuya (Jô Azuma)
Mami Koyama (Luna)
Masako Ikeda (Michiko Azuma)
Keiko Han (Junko Sawakawa)
Kaneto Shiozawa (Shirô Eda)
Kenji Utsumi (Salamander)
Yasufumi Hayashi (Sonny Lynx)
Hideyuki Tanaka (Asanshi)
Ryûji Saikachi (Yogin)
Tomoyo Harada (Tao)
Kôhei Miyauchi (man on plane)
Kôji Yada (announcer)
Mugihito (Chief O'Reilly)
Masako Ebisu (Young Jô)
Yoku Shioya, Kôzô Shioya (gang members)
Yûko Katô, Noriko Aoki (young women)
Masaharu Satô (Genma the Great)
Takanobu Hozumi (Dr Kafû)
Ichirô Nagai (Zambi)
Junpei Takiguchi (Zamedi)
Akihiro Miwa (Floy)
Kayoko Shiraishi (the astrologer)
Toru Emori (Vega)

ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION VOICES
Russell Arendt (Zamedi)
Matt Black (Zambi)
Tom Clifford (the doctor)
Meryl Pam Cooper (Michiko)
B. Jaye Driscoll (Yogin)
Jeff Eigen (Shiro)
John Hollywood (Vega)
Eric Lamp (Jo)
Nefta Perry (Sonny)
Wendy Walker (Luna)
Sky Watkins (Tao)
Mark Blackburn, Amanda Gallaghre, G.A. Quinn, Jeffrey Stackhouse (additional voices)

PLOT SUMMARY

The unlikely trio of a Transylvanian princess, a Japanese high school student and a 2000 year old warrior are part of an elite force chosen to defend the Earth against attacks from an alien creature who is determined to destroy everything in its path.

AVAILABILITY

Spain
Theatrical Distributors: Selecta Vision S.L.

USA
Theatrical Distributors: Central Park Media
DVD Distributors: US Manga (USMD 1723)

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Spain
Rating: T

TIMELINE

1983
March
12: Japan – theatrical release

1998
August
4: USA - DVD release (US Manga (USMD 1723))

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Armageddon: The Great Battle with Genma
Genma Wars - US reissue title

KEYWORDS

aliens, animation, anime, psychics, robots

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009