Spriggan (1998)

Country of Origin: Japan
Year of Production: 1998
Running Times: 90 mins
Format: colour     35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: Dolby Digital

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Bandai Visual
Executive Producers: Teruto Yamashita, Shigeru Watanabe
Producers: Ayao Ueda, Kazuja Ikeguchi
General Supervisor: Katsuhiro Otomo

SCRIPT
Script: Katsuhiro Otomo
Comic: Hiroshi Takashige, Ryoji Minagawa

DIRECTION
Director: Hirotsugu Kawasaki

ANIMATION
Animation Director: Hisashi Eguchi

PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography: Hisao Shirai

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Takeshi Seyama

MUSIC
Music: Kuniaki Haishima

SOUND
Sound: Yota Tsuruoka
Supervising Sound Editor: Mike Draghi
Re-Recording Mixer: Keith Arem

DESIGN
Production Designer: Mitsuo Koseki

VOICES
Tamagawa Sakiko (Margaret)
Koyasu Takehito (John Jockmond)

ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION VOICES
J.D. Hawkins (ARCAM Guard 2)
Christopher Patton (Yu Ominae)
Kevin Corn (Colonel MacDougall)
Ted Pfister (Dr Meisel)
Andy McAvin (Jean-Jacques Mondo)
Kelly Manison (Margaret)
Mike Kleinhenz (Fattman)
Spike Spencer (little boy)
John Paul Shephard (Yamamoto)
John Swasey (Mr Smith)
C. Markham Anderson, Phil Ross (ARCAM explorers / additional voices)
Ross Bautsch (COSMOS Yu)
Bob Biggerstaff, Victor Carsrud, Kevin Charles, Jason Douglas, Jennifer K. Earhart, Foley Gang, Tiffany Grant, Matt Greenfield, Todd Greenfield, Hilary Haag, Jay Hickman, Junie Hoang, Don'l Johnson, Andrew Klimko, Mark Laskowski, Jason Lee, James Marshall, Randy Sparks, Greg Stanley, Kurt Stoll, Adam Taylor, Kira Vincent-Davis, Brett Weaver, Amanda Winn (additional voices)
Ralph Ehntholt (Pentagon Black Ops / ARCAM explorer)
Bob Elliot, John Kaiser, Frank Page (Pentagon Black Ops / additional voices)
John Gremillion (intelligence officer / additional voices)
Vic Mignogna (Arcam security 1 / additional voices)
Rob Mungle (Pentagon black ops / customs inspector)
Paul Sidello (Turkish ARCAM Agent)

PLOT SUMMARY

Yu is an agent for ARCAM, an organization that roams the world trying to prevent ancient artefacts from being stolen and sold on. Following a serie sof clues, including a warning that Noah will be his death, Yu arrives at Mount Arrat in Turkey where Noah's Ark is said to have come to rest. But was the Ark everything that the Bible claimed it was? Or does it have an even more astonishing secret?

AVAILABILITY

France
Theatrical Distributors: Metropolitan Filmexport

USA
Theatrical Distributors: ADV Films
DVD Distributors: A.D. Vision (DSP001)

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Australia
Rating: MA

Germany
Rating: 16

Spain
Rating: 13

USA
Rating: R (for violence)

TIMELINE

2001
October
12: USA – theatrical release

2002
April
23: USA - DVD release (A.D. Vision (DSP001))

December
Day Unknown: UK - television broadcast (on the Sci-Fi Channel)

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Cinefantastique vol.34 no.1 (February 2002) pp.60-61 (USA)
illustrated review

Entertainment Weekly no.650 (26 April 2002) p.127 (USA)
review (Video: Spriggan (B+) by Marc Bernardin)

If no.46 (August 2002) p.76 (Australia)
illustrated credits, DVD review

KEYWORDS

aliens, animation, anime, artefacts, psychics, super strength

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009