Jeffrey Hartmann

A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).

Coral Reef Legend: Elfie of the Blue Sea (1986) [N/A]

Release Date:
May 19, 1986

Original Title:
サンゴ礁伝説青い海のエルフィ

Alternate Titles:
Elfie a Salvadora do Planeta
Sango-sho densetsu: Aoi umi no Erufî
أبنة البحر
珊瑚礁的传说：蓝色海洋的精灵

Production Companies:
Fuji Television Network
Nippon Animation

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
N/A

Runtime: 72

Overview from TheMovieDB

In the future, the oceans have risen to flood all the continents due to humanity's negligence of the environment. Only a few bits of land have been spared, and one of those is the city-island where Elfie lives with her grandfather. One day, due to an underwater incident, she discovers that she can breathe underwater. Her grandfather reveals that in truth she is one of the mythical sea-people. Using the city folk's xenophobia, local politicians spark a war with this hidden people to distract people from their current resource problems, and Elfie is caught in the middle of it.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Additional information:

The Search Form

Performers

Sumi Shimamoto
エルフィ

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

Production

Art Direction:
Nobuo Numai

Assistant Director:
Tatsuya Hirakawa
Shinya Hanai

Background Designer:
Jun Ikeda

Director:
Yoshio Kuroda

Director of Photography:
Toshiaki Morita

Editor:
Shinichi Natori
Hidetoshi Kadono
Yoshihiro Kasahara
Takeshi Seyama

Music:
Toshiyuki Watanabe

Producer:
Shigeo Endo

Production Manager:
Mitsuru Takakuwa

Screenplay:
Nobuyuki Fujimoto

Sound Effects:
Akihiko Matsuda

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

About the Movie Section

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:

I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

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.