Gisaku (2005)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Baltasar Pedrosa

Writer:

Angel E. Pariente (writer)

Release Date:

4 March 2005 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Drama | Fantasy

Tagline:

A legendary key. A samurai lost in time. A world to save.

Plot:

A spell transports a 17th-century samurai to modern-day Spain. |

Plot Keywords:

Martial Arts

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Eduard Farelo	...	Yohei (voice)
Luis Posada	...	Linceto (voice)
Núria Trifol	...	Moira (voice)
Alfonso Vallés	...	Gorkam (voice)

Runtime:

Brazil:100 min

Country:

Spain

Language:

Japanese | Spanish | English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:M (2006) | New Zealand:M

Company:

Filmax Animation

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When receiving the prize for her CIG 4 prototype Moira says "I'm going to be the 7th Spanish Nobel Prize winner before I turn 30". Actually, there has already been seven Spaniards awarded the Nobel Prize: José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (Literature, 1904, shared with Frédéric Mistral), Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Physiology or Medicine, 1906, shared with Camillo Golgi), Jacinto Benavente (Literature, 1922), Juan Ramón Jiménez (Literature, 1956), Severo Ochoa (Physiology or Medicine, 1959, shared with Arthur Kornberg), Vicente Aleixandre (Literature, 1977) and Camilo José Cela (Literature, 1989). William Lawrence Bragg was the youngest-ever laureate, at the very early age of 25 (Physics, 1915) and still remains as the only one who received the prize before 30.

Movie Connections:

References El Cid: La leyenda (2003)

Enjoyable animated movie

good Spanish traditional animated movie, better than a few i've seen in the last months, the voices are all in English, so if you don't like to hear movies spoken in other language then English like me it's an important factor. the movie has a very driven storyline but very well explained, it tells the story of a samurai that awakens from the past to get the key to a magical portal, that opens a door to a dimension of hellish creatures, and it's his job to prevent it from happening, the animation is good if you look it was done on low budget, it refers many historical reference and culture of Spain, since the whole movies takes place in Spain(2004), hope to see in the near future something like this but in my home country Portugal. in conclusion it's a very nice movie to watch hope you like, has much as i did =)