Dâti pea: Nôrandia no nazo (1985) (V)

Director:

Masaharu Okuwaki

Writers:

Kazunori Itô (screenplay)
Haruka Takachiho (story)

Release Date:

2 December 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Kei and Yuri travel to a mysterious planet in order to find a missing girl. |

Cast

Kyôko Tongû	...	Kei (voice)
Saeko Shimazu	...	Yuri (voice)
Keiko Han	...	Misuni (voice)
Toshiko Fujita	...	Sakura (voice)
Gara Takashima	...	Konny (voice)
Masaru Ikeda	...	Oran (voice)
Banjô Ginga	...	Yurugis (voice)
Naoki Makishima	...	Mughi (voice)
Mugihito	...	WWWA Superior (voice)
Keaton Yamada	...	Dr. Kishida (voice)
Minoru Inaba	...	Controller (voice)
Hideyuki Umezu	...	Pilot A (voice)
Kenichi Ono	...	Pilot B (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Marta Bechtol	...	Additional Voices (ADV 2003) (voice: English version)
Steve Bulen	...	Dr. Kashida, Officer (Streamline) (voice: English version)
Lara Cody	...	Kei (Streamline) (voice: English version)
Matt Culpepper	...	Additional Voices (ADV 2003) (voice: English version)
Derek Degeyter	...	Co-Pilot (ADV 2003) (voice: English version)
Jason Douglas	...	Additional Voices (ADV 2003) (voice: English version)
John Gremillion	...	Oran (ADV 2003) (voice: English version)
Hilary Haag	...	Missiny (ADV 2003) (voice: English version)
Jay Hickman	...	Pilot (ADV 2003) (voice: English version)
Ron Howald	...	Dr. Kisgida (ADV 2003) (voice: English version)
K.C. Jones	...	Additional Voices (ADV 2003) (voice: English version) (as Kyle Jones)
Eleni Kelakos	...	Samara Galand (Streamline) (voice: English version)
Charles Kennedy	...	3WA Chief (ADV 2003) (voice: English version)
Pam Lauer	...	Kei (ADV 2003) (voice: English version) (as Pamela Lauer Jones)
Wendee Lee	...	Yuri (Streamline) (voice: English version)
George Manley	...	Yullgis (ADV 2003 / Streamline) (voice: English version)
Michael McConnohie	...	Oran Garcia (Streamline) (voice: English version)
Vic Mignogna	...	Sheriff (ADV 2003) (voice: English version)
Don Rush	...	Additional Voices (ADV 2003) (voice: English version) (as Donaldo)
Brianne Siddall	...	Connie Brighton, Misumi (Streamline) (voice: English version)
Melissa Cybele Sparks	...	Cony Brighton (ADV 2003) (voice: English version)
Doug Stone	...	Shuttle Pilot / Taxi Driver (Streamline) (voice: English version)
Allison L. Sumrall	...	Yuri (ADV 2003) (voice: English version)
John Swasey	...	Additional Voices (ADV 2003) (voice: English version)
Shawn Taylor	...	Additional Voices (ADV 2003) (voice: English version)
Shelley Thompson	...	Additional Voices (ADV 2003) (voice: English version) (as Shelly Thompson)
Brett Weaver	...	Mughi (ADV 2003) (voice: English version)
David Williams	...	Additional Voices (ADV 2003) (voice: English version)
Jeff Winkless	...	Chief, Cyborg (Streamline) (voice: English version)

Directed by
Masaharu Okuwaki

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Kazunori Itô		screenplay
Haruka Takachiho		story

Produced by
Tohru Hasegawa	....	producer

Original Music by
Yoshihiro Okamoto

Cinematography by
Toshio Shirai

Art Direction by
Yûko Fujie

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Shigeru Morikawa	....	assistant director

Art Department
Masaharu Okuwaki	....	storyboard artist

Sound Department
Etsushi Yamada	....	sound director

Animation Department
Hisashi Abe	....	animator
Tsukasa Dokite	....	animation supervisor
Tsukasa Dokite	....	character designer
Yoshimasa Furukawa	....	animator
Kazuo Iimura	....	animator
Yasushi Ishizu	....	mechanical designer: Studio Nue
Kinuko Izumi	....	animator
Toshiaki Kanbara	....	animator
Yoshitaka Katô	....	animator
Yutaka Kawasuji	....	animator
Jun'ichi Kigawa	....	animator (as Jun'ichi Kikawa)
Masahiro Kitazaki	....	animator
Shigetaka Kiyoyama	....	animator
Yukari Kobayashi	....	animation director
Ken'ichi Maeda	....	animator
Yoshiaki Matsuda	....	animator
Mayumi Ogura	....	animator
Motoyoshi Ozono	....	animator
Keishi Sakai	....	animator
Yumi Sakurazawa	....	animator
Masakatsu Sasaki	....	animator
Setsuko Shibuichi	....	animator
Keizo Shimizu	....	animation director
Shinichi Suzuki	....	animator
Akemi Takizawa	....	animator

Production Companies

• Nippon Sunrise
• Studio Nue

Distributors

• ADV Films (2003) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

"Original Dirty Pair #5: Affair of Nolandia" - USA (DVD title)

Runtime:

Japan:57 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Certification:

USA:Not Rated

Company:

Nippon Sunrise

Movie Connections:

Follows "Dirty Pair" (1985)

"Dirty Pair: Affair on Nolandia" – Below-par animated space adventure

"Dirty Pair: Affair on Nolandia" (1985) is an Original Animated Video (OAV) spun off from the Japanese animated "Dirty Pair" TV series from the same year. It's a 57-minute adventure set on a planet where Kei and Yuri, attractive young female crimefighters known as the "Dirty Pair," are investigating the murder of a young woman and the disappearance of a young girl, after the woman had called for help from WWWA, the intergalactic police agency which employs the Dirty Pair (so named for their tendency to leave lots of property damage behind after solving cases). The local police chief, Samara, sends the two to a jungle plateau called Nolandia where the psychic young girl, Mizuni, is believed to have fled. Adventures in the jungle include encounters with all sorts of bizarre animal and vegetable creatures, including a golden pony with a blond mane, as well as surreal nightmares that find the girls under some kind of hypnotic attack. In one of them, a nude Kei is attacked and enveloped by a tentacled tree-like creature. Eventually they find Mizuni and earn her trust by appealing to her childlike instincts. Their pleasant idyll is interrupted by an attack by soldiers working for the planet's powerful tycoon, Olan Garcia, who, it turns out, is involved in bio-genetic experiments to create advanced new beings, like Mizuni.

All this happens in the first 35 min. Then the action shifts back to the city where Kei and Yuri, with the help of Samara, go after Garcia and the bad guys in a padded-out series of urban chase scenes involving all manner of vehicle and public transportation, including bus, subway, monorail, motorcycle, bike, and roller skates, leading to a final confrontation at the city's spaceport. It's all beautifully animated, but none of it advances the narrative much. All it does is take what should have been a 30-minute TV episode and expand it to one-shot OAV length. And it gets really silly at one point when Yuri is confronted by an army of thugs and she dispatches them by pulling out what looks like a plastic playing card and throwing it at them, hitting them all in an unseen maneuver and knocking them out. We've never seen the card before so we know nothing about its properties. It's just a ludicrously contrived moment that diminishes the whole finale. This entry is easily the least compelling of all the "Dirty Pair" anime episodes I've seen. Worse, the scenes on Nolandia require the girls to wear bulky combat suits instead of their trademark bikini-style uniforms. (Which is why, I'm sure, the animators inserted the nightmare nude scene and a semi-nude sunbathing bit into that sequence.)

I've never seen any of the "Dirty Pair" TV episodes, but I've seen the two hour-long OAV episodes (this one and "Flight 005 Conspiracy"), the feature film, PROJECT EDEN (1987) and eight of the ten half-hour OAV episodes from 1989. At this point, I tend to single out the latter OAV series as the best of the "Dirty Pair" that I've seen.