Sakura Wars: The Movie

Sakura Wars: The Movie

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Mitsuru Hongo
Produced by Tetsuo Uchida
Screenplay by Mitsuru Hongō
Hiroyuki Nishimura
Nobutoshi Terado
Ōji Hiroi
Story by Ōji Hiroi
Starring Chisa Yokoyama
Akio Suyama
Michie Tomizawa
Urara Takano
Kumiko Nishihara
Mayumi Tanaka
Kazue Ikura
Maya Okamoto
Akiko Kuno
Keiichi Nanba
Kōichi Yamadera
Music by Kōhei Tanaka
Cinematography Kōji Tanaka
Edited by Junichi Uematsu
Production
company
Distributed by Toei Company
Release dates
  • December 22, 2001 (2001-12-22)

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Running time
 85 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Sakura Wars: The Movie (サクラ大戦 活動写真 Sakura Taisen: Katsudō Shashin) is a 2001 Japanese animated film adaptation of the Sakura Wars series directed and co-written by Mitsuru Hongō. It was first released in Japan on December 22, 2001, along with Slayers Premium, Di Gi Charat - A Trip to the Planet and Azumanga Daioh: The Animation.

The film takes place a few months after Sakura Wars 3. Lachette Altair is dispatched to the Imperial Capital Tokyo from New York to work for the Imperial Assault Force's Flower division while division captain Ichirō Ōgami is in Paris. Under the leadership of mafia member Brent Furlong, the American Douglas-Stewart company unveils a plan to make the division obsolete by using Japhkiels. Soon, the Flower Division and Lachette are drawn into the heart of Douglas-Stewart's plans.

The film was licensed in North America by Geneon (then known as Pioneer). In 2013, the film was licensed by Funimation Entertainment.

Plot

The film begins with the Imperial Revue celebrating Leni Milchstrasse's 17h birthday following a performance at the Great Imperial Theater. With division captain Ichirō Ōgami in Paris, Moon Division Captain Yūichi Kayama joins in the celebration. The next morning, on Christmas Day, Sumire Kanzaki and Maria Tachibana visit a theater, where Maria finds out that Brent was one of the mafia members in New York when Maria visited the United States years earlier. At the Great Imperial Theater, Ratchet Altair arrives from New York City to be assigned into the Imperial Assault Force Flower Division. Douglas-Stewart president Brent Furlong and his subordinate, Patrick Hamilton, summon the Kouma to obliterate a city. The Flower Division is summoned to the battlefield where the Kouma are at. However, during the battle, Ratchet appears in an Eisenkleid and briefly battles the Kouma. They retreat and the Flower Division is introduced to Ratchet. Meanwhile, Brent and another one of his subordinates, Haruyoshi Tanuma, arrive at the facility where the Japhkiels, robots made by Douglas-Stewart, are made. One of them attacks Tanuma to his horror. Patrick uses a soundwave technique to stop the attacking Japhkiel.

After the division suffers injuries sustained in battles, division commander Ikki Yoneda and count Yoritsune Hakakōji are suddenly captured by Patrick, the army assumes command the theater, and the Flower Division is ordered on indefinite standby. Orihime is ordered to go in her Eisenkleid, but she is ambushed and manipulated by Patrick. Meanwhile, Maria investigates the Douglas-Stewart facility and is injured following an ambush by Patrick. At the Flower Mansion, the seven remaining members of the Flower Division and Yokihiko Ōta of the Rose Division, who reveals that the army was being manipulated by Douglas-Stewart, work together to take back the theater. Using Ri Kohran's Katsuryu-maru, the seven are able to regain control of the theater and overpower the army. Following another battle with the Kouma, the Division battles Orihime. During the struggle, Ratchet inadvertently critically damages Leni's Eisenkleid in the process in an attempt to kill her. Orihime releases power blasts at the division, but they destroy her Eisenkleid and return her to normal. Kayama rescues Yoneda and Hanakōji while the facility is destroyed, but Brent flees. Using the remaining Japhkiels, Brent confronts the Flower Division and overpowers them, destroying Ratchet's Eisenklied in the process. Following an ambush on Brent by division captain Ichirō Ōgami, the division successfully kills Brent. Meanwhile, Maria confronts Patrick once again and defeats him with a spirit powered bullet. Later, the Flower Division performs a play based on Kyōka Izumi's The Sea God's Villa and turns out to be a success. The film ends with Sakura walking down a street filled with cherry blossoms.

Cast

Character Japanese English (pseudonym in parenthesis)
Sakura Shinguji Chisa Yokoyama Wendee Lee
Ichirō Ōgami Akio Suyama Dave Wittenberg (Dave Lelyveld)
Sumire Kanzaki Michie Tomizawa Michelle Ruff
Maria Tachibana Urara Takano Mari Devon (Jane Alan)
Iris Chateaubriand Kumiko Nishihara Carrie Savage
Lachette Altair Akiko Kuno Julie Anne Taylor
Brent Furlong Kōichi Yamadera Crispin Freeman (Joseph McDougal)
Patrick Hamilton Keiichi Nanba Richard Cansino (Edward Villa)
Haruyoshi Tanuma Keiji Fujiwara Kirk Thornton (Ron Allen)
Ri Kohran Yuriko Fuchizaki Dorothy Elias-Fahn (Annie Pastrano)
Kanna Kirishima Mayumi Tanaka Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Melissa Williamson)
Orihime Soletta Maya Okamoto Melissa Fahn (Tina Dixon)
Leni Milchstraße Kazue Ikura Mona Marshall
Kaede Fujieda Ai Orikasa Lia Sargent
Ikki Yoneda Masaru Ikeda Doug Stone (David Orosco)
Kotone Seiryūin Kazuki Yao Liam O'Brien
Yokihiko Ōta Daisuke Gōri Jamieson Price (James Lyon)
Kikunojō Oka Taiki Matsuno Unknown
Yūichi Kayama Takehito Koyasu Steven Blum (David Lucas)
Kasumi Fujii Akemi Okamura Karen Strassman (Kirsty Pape)
Tsubaki Takamura Kyoko Hikami Philece Sampler (Sue Beth Arden)
Yuri Sakakibara Yuki Masuda Lynn Fischer
Yoritsune Hanakōji Kōichi Kitamura Michael McConnohie
Musei Edogawa Yūji Mitsuya Steve Kramer

References

  1. ↑ "『サクラ大戦 活動写真』". Production I.G. 2011-11-29. Archived from the original on November 29, 2011. Retrieved 2014-10-11.

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