On Your Mark (1995)

Director:

Hayao Miyazaki

Writer:

Hayao Miyazaki

Release Date:

15 July 1995 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Sci-Fi | Short

Plot:

Set in the future: Two men learn that a mysterious winged girl has been taken prisoner, and then decide that they must free her at any cost. |

Plot Keywords:

Future | Anime | Post Apocalypse

Directed by
Hayao Miyazaki

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Hayao Miyazaki

Original Music by
Chage & Aska

Cinematography by
Atsushi Okui

Film Editing by
Takeshi Seyama

Production Management
Nozomu Takahashi	....	production manager
Naomi Yamada	....	production manager
Tamami Yamamoto	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Satoshi Aritomi	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Kouji Abe	....	SR-D re-recording
Noboru Nishio	....	SR-D re-recording

Special Effects by
Tomosa Hashizume	....	special effects
Masahiro Murakami	....	special effects
Shigeru Tanifuji	....	special effects

Visual Effects by
Keiichi Abe	....	CGI producer
Mitsunori Katamichi	....	CGI producer
Hideki Nakano	....	CGI producer
Toshio Saitou	....	CGI producer

Camera and Electrical Department
Tamaki Furushiro	....	photographer
Wataru Takahashi	....	photographer
Junji Yubata	....	photographer

Animation Department
Masashi Ando	....	animation director
Naomi Atsuta	....	finish animation
Masaaki Endo	....	key animator
Kaichi Fukudome	....	background artist
Seiko Higashi	....	inbetween artist
Sayaka Hirabara	....	background artist
Takeshi Imamura	....	key animator
Ryouko Ina	....	background artist
Hiroyuki Inoue	....	inbetween checker
Masatoshi Iseki	....	finish animation inspector
Houkou Ishii	....	key animator
Emiko Iwayanagi	....	inbetween artist
Hitomi Kanno	....	inbetween checker
Naomi Kasugai	....	background artist
Yuriko Katayama	....	finish animation
Toshio Kawaguchi	....	key animator
Hana Kikuchi	....	inbetween artist
Yumiko Kitajima	....	inbetween artist
Komasa	....	inbetween artist
Rie Kondou	....	inbetween artist
Ken'ichi Konishi	....	key animator
Misuzu Kurata	....	inbetween artist
Ikuo Kuwana	....	inbetween artist
Kiyoko Makita	....	inbetween artist
Hisako Matsuda	....	inbetween artist
Mariko Matsuo	....	inbetween artist
Masaru Matsuse	....	key animator
Naomi Mori	....	finish animation
Fumiko Moritomo	....	key animator
Kanako Moriya	....	finish animation
Kyouko Naganawa	....	background artist
Yoko Nagashima	....	inbetween artist
Rie Nakagome	....	inbetween checker
Katsutoshi Nakamura	....	inbetween artist
Sumie Nishido	....	inbetween artist
Takehiro Noda	....	key animator
Kazuo Oga	....	background artist
Mayumi Ohmura	....	inbetween artist
Kazuyoshi Onoda	....	inbetween artist
Shinji Otsuka	....	key animator
Masaya Saitou	....	inbetween checker
Houko Sakano	....	inbetween artist
Shinsaku Sasaki	....	key animator
Kuri Sawa	....	inbetween artist
Eriko Shibata	....	inbetween artist
Tomoko Shibata	....	inbetween artist
Masako Shinohara	....	key animator
Yoshiyuki Shinohara	....	key animator
Asakiko Suzuki	....	inbetween artist
Kouko Suzuki	....	color assignment
Mariko Suzuki	....	inbetween artist
Satoru Taguchi	....	finish animation
Naochika Tanaka	....	background artist
Akiko Teshima	....	inbetween artist
Keiko Tomizawa	....	inbetween artist
Shinobu Tsunegi	....	inbetween artist
Kôjirô Tsuruoka	....	inbetween artist (as Koujirou Tsuraoka)
Keiko Watanabe	....	inbetween artist
Alexandra Weihrauch	....	inbetween artist
Ken'ichi Yamada	....	key animator
Akira Yamagawa	....	background artist
Hideshi Yamamori	....	inbetween artist
Mayumi Yamamoto	....	inbetween artist
Yukari Yamaura	....	inbetween artist
Michiyo Yasuda	....	character color designer
Tomomi Yokoyama	....	inbetween artist
Ken'ichi Yoshida	....	key animator
Hideaki Yoshio	....	key animator

Editorial Department
Tsuneko Mizuta	....	assistant editor
Kei Uchida	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Naoko Asanashi	....	musical director
Teruhiko Ohno	....	music arranger

Other crew
Minako Nagasawa	....	production progress
Tomoaki Nishodou	....	production desk
Kouji Ohtsuka	....	production progress
Chiaki Tanaka	....	production desk

Production Companies

• Real Cast
• Studio Ghibli

Other Companies

• Aoi Studio  recording studio
• Imagica  film processing
• Kyoto Animation  animation finishing
• Links  CG production
• Miyazaki Animation Studio  animation finishing
• Pierrot Fukuoka Office  animation finishing
• Studio Ado  animation finishing
• Studio Moon  sound production
• Studio OZ  animation finishing
• Studio Robin  animation finishing
• Trace Studio M  animation finishing

Runtime:

7 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:PG (original version)

Company:

Real Cast

Trivia:

The first anime Hayao Miyazaki directed to use CG "cels".

Soundtrack:

On Your Mark

Falling Upward

The music's forgettable but will have become part of you, once you've replayed "On Your Mark" enough times to decipher it. Bypassing as much as possible of what's already on this page, what struck me, last viewing, was except for very beginning which is really a flash forward to the very end, nothing takes place at ground level. Everything seems to happen in or between towers. Falling's a big deal. Witness the oh no!/yes go! collapse that ends the rescue sequence. Finally the two rescuers are grounded, though speeding forward, and the `angel' appears to fall, though naturally, with as little trauma as imaginable, upward. The hands' release modifies the Sistine Chapel detail, but also echoes many of Robert Bresson's shots of hands.