A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
September 5, 1984
Original Title:
バース
Alternate Titles:
BIRTH
Planet Busters
World of the Talisman
Genres:
Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Science Fiction
Production Companies:
Idol
Kaname Productions
Production Countries:
Japan
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 80
Aqualoid was a prosperous planet, but an attack from a mysterious life force, the Inorganics, transforms it into a post-apocalyptic shell of its former self. When Nam finds a mysterious sword, he is suddenly the object of a planet-wide chase. With the Inorganics closing in, will Nam and his friends discover the secret of the sword and save their world? Or will they destroy Aqualoid in favor of a new Birth?
Animation:
Yoshinori Kanada
Mutsumi Inomata
Shinsaku Kozuma
Yuuji Ogata
Keiji Nakamura
Yoshiyuki Tokinaga
Kazunori Takahashi
Kazuhiko Ishii
Kouichi Wada
Atsuko Ishida
Masanori Nishii
Cindy H. Yamauchi
Takuya Wada
Kenichi Ohnuki
Kiyotoshi Aoi
Mahiro Maeda
Takashi Sogabe
Hideaki Anno
Hajime Kamegaki
Masakatsu Iijima
Hirotoshi Sano
Takahiro Toyomasu
Animation Director:
Yoshinori Kanada
Mutsumi Inomata
Art Direction:
Geki Katsumata
Director:
Shinya Sadamitsu
Director of Photography:
Sadafumi Sano
Editor:
Masahiro Matsumura
Shuichi Kakesu
Executive Producer:
Shuuichi Onodera
Yoshiaki Aihara
Original Music Composer:
Joe Hisaishi
Original Story:
Yoshinori Kanada
Producer:
Akihiro Nagao
Screenplay:
Junki Takegami
Sound Director:
Noriyoshi Matsuura
Sound Effects:
Katsumi Itou
Yasuyuki Konno
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.