Blue Giant (2023) [NR|PG-13]

Release Date:
February 17, 2023

Original Title:
BLUE GIANT

Alternate Titles:
ブルージャイアント
蓝色巨人
蓝色巨星

Genres:
Animation | Drama | Music

Production Companies:
NUT
TOHO

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: G  GB: 12A  HK: IIA  JP: G  KR: 12  PR: NR|PG-13  TH: G  US: NR|PG-13  VI: NR|PG-13 

Runtime: 120

Witness the origin of the next great jazz legend.

High school student Dai Miyamoto has his life is turned upside down the day he discovers jazz. Picking up a saxophone and leaving his sleepy hometown for the bustling nightclubs of Tokyo, Dai will find that the life of a professional musician isn’t for the faint of heart, as he must confront what it truly means to be great.

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3D Director:
Masato Takahashi

Additional Music:
Kazuma Jinnouchi

Animation:
Surasak Phapijit
Dong Chang

Animation Director:
Toshiyuki Komaru
Takao Maki
Kenichi Shima
Kazuya Miyoshi
Yuichi Takahashi

Art Direction:
Satoru Hirayanagi

Character Designer:
Yuichi Takahashi

Color Designer:
Yoshinori Horikawa

Comic Book:
Shinichi Ishizuka

Director:
Yuzuru Tachikawa

Director of Photography:
Kasumi Togo

Editor:
Kiyoshi Hirose

Key Animation:
Liu Zihan
Satoshi Kimura
Vercreek
Saurabh Singh
Dong Chang
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Toshiyuki Komaru
Takao Maki
Yuichi Takahashi
Jiang Zhouyong
Fuminori Tsukida
Hiromatsu Shu
Naoyuki Asano
Toshiro Fujii
Shiomi Yamada
Kanako Maru
Katsutoshi Nakamura
Takeo Shutou
Daiki Nagata
Shin'ichi Kurita
Liang Boya
Eiko Mishima
Ai Ogata
Mitomi Nakayama
Maki Matsuura
Kumiko Onaga
Kazuto Wakayama
Pan Jing
Ryota Azuma
Naoko Minai
Taishi Fujimori
Takuya Yoshihara
Kenichi Shima
Asumi Kato
Kentaro Kawajiri
Serena Koi
Anzu Katsuragi
Toshiyuki Yoshioka
Kanako Awada
Naomi Okita
Nobuhiko Kawakami
Mayumi Nakamura
Akiko Taniguchi
Michiko Notsu
Shinichi Iimura
Hisashi Shimokawa
Risa Suzuki
Yasuhiro Saiki
Kazuya Saito
Tomosato Hosokawa
Kaori Ikeda
Shigenori Taniguchi
Ken Yamamoto
Natsuki Yokoyama
Moe Yoshimura
Mayu Murakata
Nana Yamaguchi
Yuka Fukuchi
Niina Morita
Su Shiyi
Tam Hoikei
Akane Tamai
Shiori Asaka
Yuki Arinaga
Sho Uchida
Takashi Yoshiyama
Fumika Kimura
Misa Matsuoka
Ryushi Tokunaga
Sumire Fukazawa
Lu Qiang
Xu Jiafu
Juneng Binggui
Xu Jingyu
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Fei Hung
Wu Guangxu
Sho Sugai
Jeong Soon-an
Moon Joo-yeon
Andy Zhu
Barkarott
Julius de Belen
Vann Oba
Willie Blue Bussell
Yuria
Hiroyuki Horiuchi
Yuji Hosogoe

Lead Animator:
Toshiyuki Komaru
Takao Maki

Music:
John Coltrane

Musician:
Hiromi Uehara
Tomoaki Baba
Shun Ishiwaka
Marty Holoubek
Miho Hazama

Original Music Composer:
Hiromi Uehara

Prop Designer:
Takao Maki
Natsuki Yokoyama

Screenplay:
NUMBER 8

Second Unit Director:
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Satoshi Kimura
Hiromatsu Shu
Yuki Nishibata
Koyo Ogata
Koyo Ogata

Second Unit First Assistant Director:
Takayuki Yamamoto
Satoshi Matsubara
Kei Miura

Storyboard Artist:
Satoshi Kimura
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Iwao Teraoka
Tomomi Mochizuki
Hiromatsu Shu

Supervising Animation Director:
Yuichi Takahashi

Theme Song Performance:
Tomoaki Baba
Hiromi Uehara
Shun Ishiwaka

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