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Kenji Imura
Producer
Hayao Miyazaki
Director, Storyboard, Screenplay
Shinji Hashimoto
Key animation
Takeshi Inamura
Animation director
Kenichi Konishi
Key animation
Yuuji Nomi
Music
Akiko Yamaguchi
Key animation
Masaaki Yuasa
Character design, Key animation
The Whale Hunt
#3,602Rank
- Adventure
- Award Winning
Synopsis
A group of elementary school children play in their classroom, imagining that they are on a boat in the ocean. This fantasy becomes reality, and soon all the students find themselves stranded in the deep blue sea, looking for their own Moby Dick. Some of the kids want to harpoon the whale, others want to take its picture, and many of the kids are afraid and just want to return home. In the end, a gentle Totoro-esque whale shows up and plays with the children until their fantasy ends and they are again back in school.
(Source: Nausicaa.net)
(Source: Nausicaa.net)
Background
Winner of the 2001 Oofuji Noburou Award at the Mainichi Film Awards.
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