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King of Thorn (2010) [N/A]

Release Date:
May 1, 2010

Original Title:
いばらの王 -King of Thorn-

Alternate Titles:
A tövisek ura
El rey espino
Ibara no Ou
King of Thorn
Król ciernia
Le roi des ronces
Rei dos Espinhos
Король Терний
いばらの王
古城荊棘王
荆棘之王
가시나무왕

Genres:
Animation | Fantasy | Science Fiction

Production Companies:
Bandai Visual
Enterbrain
KADOKAWA
SUNRISE
Sony PCL
TV Tokyo
dentsu

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: M  CA: 14A  DE: 16  JP: G 

Runtime: 109

Overview from TheMovieDB

A mysterious virus, nicknamed Medusa, is spreading around Japan, turning its victims into stone. Given the impossibility of finding an immediate cure, the government opts for cryopreserving a select group of patients until they come up with a solution. Kasumi, one of the chosen ones, has been asleep for years and her awakening, more than a bed of roses, is a bed of thorns, and happens in the midst of total chaos where monstrous creatures lie in wait all around.

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Additional Storyboarding:
Iwao Teraoka

Animation Director:
Takashi Hashimoto
Katsumi Matsuda
Hiroaki Noguchi
Yukio Iwata
Takao Maki
Takahiro Chiba
Hiroyuki Horiuchi
Tatsuya Suzuki
Hiroki Harada
Tsuyoshi Yoshioka
Kumiko Kawana
Koichi Suenaga
Teiichi Takiguchi

Art Direction:
Hideki Nakamura

CGI Director:
Tomonari Nakajima

Character Designer:
Hidenori Matsubara

Color Designer:
Terumi Nakauchi

Creature Design:
Kenji Ando

Director:
Kazuyoshi Katayama

Director of Photography:
Mitsuhiro Sato

Editor:
Shuichi Kakesu

Key Animation:
Takashi Hashimoto
Atsushi Irie
Akihide Miya
Katsumi Matsuda
Takayoshi Hashimoto
Masahiro Kataoka
Eiji Abiko
Hisashi Saito
Yuki Chika
Yasuhisa Kato
Noriyuki Fukuda
Hiroyuki Horiuchi
Yoshiharu Shimizu
Takahiro Chiba
Yasuyuki Shimizu
Junko Abe
Satoshi Kimura
Tomoshige Inayoshi
Mitsunori Murata
Shuuji Sakamoto
Fumiko Yoshida
Yukie Suzuki
Marie Tagashira
Kenichi Takase
Satomi Watanabe
Kazuyoshi Yaginuma
Fumiaki Kouta
Shuko Murase
Atsushi Shigeta
Tatsumori Imoto
Makiko Fujiwara
Hiroshi Arisawa
Hiroshi Kosuga
Sakiko Uda
Yumi Nakayama
Iwao Teraoka
Mitsuru Obunai
Kiyoshi Komatsubara
Yuhei Murota
Koichi Yagami
Shigeki Iwasaki
Takashi Kojima
Yukiko Aikei
Hanako Mitsubachi
Yosuji Kudō
Toshihiro Nakajima
Hisao Yokobori
Soichiro Matsuda
Fujio Inose
Kentaro Azuma
Aiko Oura
Hiroshi Yamamoto
Satoshi Shigeta
Takashi Ono
Kouichi Hashimoto
Tokuhiro Itagaki
Yukiyo Komido
Yukie Sakou
Seimei Maeda
Yukio Iwata
Kunihiro Abe
Eriko Iida
Takahiro Kimura
Akiko Toyoda
Yuji Hosogoe
Hiroki Harada
Shinya Nishizawa
Yuko Dangi
Hiromitsu Morishita
Keizou Ichikawa
Takao Maki
Tomohiro Kamitani
Keiji Ishihara
Masaaki Yamano
Yusuke Noma

Mechanical Designer:
Kimitoshi Yamane

Original Music Composer:
Toshihiko Sahashi

Original Story:
Yuji Iwahara

Producer:
Junichi Kimura
Yasumasa Tsuchiya

Screenplay:
Hiroshi Yamaguchi
Kazuyoshi Katayama

Second Unit Director:
Hirotaka Endo
Shingo Uchida

Sound Director:
Yota Tsuruoka

Special Effects:
Yukiko Kakita

Storyboard Artist:
Kazuyoshi Katayama
Tsukasa Sunaga

Supervising Animation Director:
Naoyuki Onda

Systems Administrators & Support:
Shinpei Ōsaku

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