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  FR: TP  GB: 12A  HK: IIA  JP: G  KR: 12  NL: 6  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:
Kazuya Miyoshi
Toshiyuki Komaru
Takao Maki
Yuichi Takahashi
Kenichi Shima

Art Direction:
Satoru Hirayanagi

Casting Producer:
Shinnosuke Usui

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

Lead Animator:
Takao Maki
Toshiyuki Komaru

Music:
John Coltrane

Music Producer:
Sayoko Narukawa

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

Original Music Composer:
Hiromi Uehara

Other:
Takuya Tsunoki

Prop Designer:
Takao Maki
Natsuki Yokoyama

Screenplay:
NUMBER 8

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

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

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

Supervising Animation Director:
Yuichi Takahashi

Theme Song Performance:
Shun Ishiwaka
Tomoaki Baba
Hiromi Uehara

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