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The Story of the Blue-Eyed Girl (2009) [N/A]

Release Date:
August 13, 2009

Original Title:
青い瞳の女の子のお話

Alternate Titles:
Aoi Hitomi no Onnanoko no Ohanashi
The Girl with Blue Eyes

Genres:
Animation | War

Production Companies:
Shin-Ei Animation
TV Asahi

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 45

Overview from TheMovieDB

The story is set in a village in the southern Japanese prefecture of Kōchi during World War II. Even in this remote mountainous area, the perception of American and British people as "brutes" has taken root, due to the deaths and injuries among the villagers' relatives. A elementary schoolgirl named Eiko transfers from the city of Yokohama to this village. Eiko happens to have blue eyes from her American father, and her classmates make no attempt to rein in their bullying. Other than Eiko's homeroom teacher Akiko, even the teachers view Eiko the same way that the children do. However, a boy named Kenta views Eiko more with curiosity than with hostility. The children's lives change as the injured father of one of Kenta's classmates returns from the battlefield and news of more casualties arrives in the village.

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Production

Animation Director:
Osamu Okubo

Art Direction:
Sachi Takahashi

Character Designer:
Masae Otake

Director:
Minetaro Hirai
Tetsuo Yasumi

Director of Photography:
Kouichi Yanai

Editor:
Kiyotaka Miyake

Original Music Composer:
Masae Sagara

Producer:
Tomomi Imagawa
Noboru Sugiyama
Toshihide Yamada
Yoshio Katou

Sound Director:
Akira Ookuma

Sound Effects:
Akiko Muto

Writer:
Nobuyuki Fujimoto

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