Gedo senki (2006)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.6/10   

Director:

Goro Miyazaki

Escritores:

Ursula K. Le Guin (novel)
Goro Miyazaki (screenplay) ...
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Fecha de Lanzamiento:

29 julio 2006 (Japan)

Género:

Animación | Aventura | Fantasía

Plot:

Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange...

Plot Keywords:

Dragon | Asian | Earthsea | Anime | Based On Novel

Premios:

2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Suffocated by its source material

Reparto

Junichi Okada	...	Arren (voice)
Aoi Teshima	...	Theru (voice)
Bunta Sugawara	...	Haitaka (voice)
Yûko Tanaka	...	Cob (voice)
Teruyuki Kagawa	...	Hare (voice)
Jun Fubuki	...	Tenar (voice)
Takashi Naitô	...	Hazia dealer (voice)
Mitsuko Baisho	...	The Mistress (voice)
Yui Natsukawa	...	The Queen (voice)
Kaoru Kobayashi	...	The King (voice)
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Jeff Bennett	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Susanne Blakeslee	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Suzanne Blakeslee)
Kathryn Cressida	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Kat Cressida)
Willem Dafoe	...	Cob (voice: English version)
Timothy Dalton	...	Ged / Sparrowhawk (voice: English version)
Pat Fraley	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Jessica Gee	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Jessica Gee-George)
Brian George	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Grant George	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Mariska Hargitay	...	Tenar (voice: English version)
Jess Harnell	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Steve Kramer	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Matt Levin	...	Prince Arren (voice: English version)
David Lodge	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Tress MacNeille	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Cheech Marin	...	Hare (voice: English version)
Liam O'Brien	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Tara Platt	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Blaire Restaneo	...	Therru (voice: English version)
Kevin Michael Richardson	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Mark Silverman	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Terrence Stone	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Karen Strassman	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Russi Taylor	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)

Dirigida por
Goro Miyazaki

Créditos del guión
Ursula K. Le Guin		(novel)
Goro Miyazaki		(screenplay) and
Keiko Niwa		(screenplay)
Hayao Miyazaki		concept

Producida por
Steve Alpert	....	producer
Jim Hubbert	....	associate producer
Tomohiko Ishii	....	assistant producer
Javier Ponton	....	producer
Herbert Primig	....	associate producer
Toshio Suzuki	....	producer

Música original por
Tamiya Terajima

Casting
Ned Lott

Dirección artística
Yôji Takeshige

Dirección de producción
Naoya Fujimaki	....	production manager
Ryoichi Fukuyama	....	production manager
Seiji Okuda	....	production manager

Ayudante de dirección
Akihiko Yamashita	....	assistant director

Departamento de Arte
Goro Miyazaki	....	storyboard artist
Michiyo Yasuda	....	color designer

Departamento de sonido
Chris Foster	....	sound recordist
Victor Garcia	....	sound recordist
Victor Garcia	....	supervising sound editor
Shuji Inoue	....	sound mixer
Koji Kasamatsu	....	sound effects
Michael Semanick	....	sound re-recording mixer
Adrian Spano	....	sound recordist
Tsukuru Takagi	....	sound recording engineer
Kazuhiro Wakabayashi	....	recording director

Departamento de Animación
Takeshi Imamura	....	animation director

Otros miembros del equipo
Ned Lott	....	assistant voice director

Compañías Productores

• Buena Vista Home Entertainment
• DENTSU Music And Entertainment
• GNDHDDT
• Hakuhodo DY Media Partners
• Mitsubishi (as Mitsubishi Shoji Co.)
• Nibariki
• Nippon Television Network Corporation (NTV)
• Studio Ghibli
• Toho Company

Distribuidores

• Studio Ghibli (2006) (worldwide) (all media) (rights)
• Nippon Television Network Corporation (NTV) (2006) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Toho Company (2006) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (BVHE) (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• Bir Film (2007) (Turkey) (all media) (limited)
• Cinema Mondo (2007) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Intercontinental Film Distributors (HK) (2006) (Hong Kong) (theatrical)
• Intercontinental Video (2006) (Hong Kong) (DVD)
• Lucky Red (2007) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Madman Entertainment (2007) (Australia) (all media)
• Madman Entertainment (2007) (Austria) (all media)
• Pan Vision (2008) (Sweden) (DVD)
• Paradiso Entertainment (2007) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Paradiso Home Entertainment (200?) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Sonet Film (2008) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Universum Film (UFA) (2007) (Germany) (theatrical)

Otras Compañías

• Asahi Soft Drinks Company  special support
• Continental Far East  Dolby consultant
• Digital Circus  foley design
• Gal Enterprise  trailer production
• Imagica  digital cinema mastering
• Imagica  film recording
• Imagica  prints
• Lawson  special thanks
• Malin Post  title design
• Movie-Eye Entertainment  promotion
• Pug Point  casting coordination
• Tokyo TV Center  sound recording studio
• Yomiuri Shimbun, The  special thanks

También conocida como:

Tales from Earthsea (International: English title)

Duración:

115 min

País:

Japan

Idioma:

Japonés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital EX | DTS-ES

Clasificación:

Hong Kong:I | Italy:T | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Netherlands:12 | UK:PG | Ireland:12A | Singapore:NC-16 | Germany:6 | Finland:K-11 | South Korea:Todo | Sweden:11

Compañía:

Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Trivialidades:

Initially, "Earthsea" author Ursula K. Le Guin wanted Hayao Miyazaki to direct the film. At the time, however, the elder Miyazaki was tied up working on Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004), and thus could not come on board at the right time. Not wanting to pass up the opportunity to make the film, Miyazaki's son Goro Miyazaki stepped up to the plate and decided to make this his first film.

Citas:

Haitaka: Listen to me Arren. No man nor anything in this world lives forever. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a precious gift. This life that is our torment and our treasure does not endure. It is a wave on the sea. Would you force the sea to grow still, to save one wave? To save yourself?

Conexiones de Película:

Version of Earthsea (2004) (TV)

Suffocated by its source material

Films experiencing production hell are rarely as good as they might have been, no matter how good the director is (c.f. Gangs of New York and AI) and this one is no exception.

Taken on its own terms, Tales of Earthsea is a competent, if not breathtaking, start for Miyazaki junior, and bears comparison to the lesser Gibli canon without scaling the heights of its major work. It is unfair to compare it to My Cousin Totoro, Spirited Away or Graveyard of the Fireflies; but it is also a shame for the fans of Earthsea. They didn't get a top director at the top of his game.

The principal problem with the film is that it doesn't seem to know what to do with the books it is based on. Are they source material to be pillaged? Are they stories to be adapted? Are they concepts to be explored? In the end Miyazaki opts for a mix: the narrative structure is broadly based on the third novel (The Farthest Shore), with a significant sub-plots from both the first (The Wizard of Earthsea) and the fourth (Tehanu). Into the mix he throws some recognisable manga/anime formulae (the arch-enemy; the ronin henchmen; the violence) which cut across the major themes explored by the novels and alluded to by the film.

If this all sounds like a disaster, it isn't exactly. The plot functions: evil wizard, through pride, upsets the balance of Earthsea forcing archmage, Sparrowhawk, in the company of a young prince, to do battle to restore the balance, destroy the evil and face down their own demons. Had Miyazaki been more ruthless all would probably have been well – for anime fans anyway. But there are too many blind alleys, lose ends and needless distractions – all nods to the books - which make the first half of the film in particular feel like a second rate brass band meandering painfully around a Brassed Off version of Adagio for Strings. The narcotic Hazia, for example, which dominates the beginning of the third story, is introduced early in the film and then simply abandoned. Later, Tenar's back-story fades into nothingness leaving the audience with a forcible impression of a producer impatiently looking at his watch. The whole effect is not homage, but distraction – and a film that it is at least 40minutes longer than it needed to be.

Ursula LeGuin, who wrote the Earthsea novels, had suggested to (Hayao) Miyazaki that he create new story for Ged, uncluttered by her previous stories, set in the many years between the first two books. This would have made for a less ponderous film.

Regarding the technical side of animation; it appears the younger Miyazaki was aiming for the dreamlike quality of animation so characteristic of his father's work. Again, he has some partial success in this regard, although it is undeniably more clunky than other Gibli titles. But a lot can be forgiven for his reliance on hand-drawn animation, and there are some moments of real beauty – windblown grasses, rocks on the seashore and chill sunsets. This, along with some strong characters and a much tighter second half, make Tales from Earthsea watchable film, if a slightly underwhelming one. But better than Disney. 6/10