The story of Kenji Miyazawa, the beloved Japanese poet, who also wrote Night on the Galactic Railroad.The story of Kenji Miyazawa, the beloved Japanese poet, who also wrote Night on the Galactic Railroad.The story of Kenji Miyazawa, the beloved Japanese poet, who also wrote Night on the Galactic Railroad.
Mariko Kôda
- Toshi
- (as Mariko Kouda)
Chikao Ôtsuka
- Kenji's father
- (as Chikao Ohtsuka)
Victor Chin
- Farmer
- (English version)
- (voice)
Kirk Durham
- Tetsuo
- (English version)
- (voice)
Janathan Funk
- Teikichi
- (English version)
- (voice)
Susan Isaacs
- Farmer, Kuni
- (English version)
- (voice)
Susan Jaget
- Kenji's Mother
- (English version)
- (voice)
Ron Jaxson
- Kenji
- (English version)
- (voice)
Wendell Kimsell
- Kenji's Father
- (English version)
- (voice)
James Klein
- Chusaku, Student
- (English version)
- (voice)
Neil Maclean
- Farmer, Student
- (English version)
- (voice)
Herb Mendelson
- Kanai
- (English version)
- (voice)
Elissa Sarna
- Toshi
- (English version)
- (voice)
Ronald Scovil Jr.
- Farmer
- (English version)
- (voice)
Heather Smith
- Student
- (English version)
- (voice)
Jenny Subjack
- Farmer, Ryota, Student, Taka
- (English version)
- (voice)
Karen Vered
- Intro Narration
- (English version)
- (voice)
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- Writers
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDirector Shoji Kawamori is an anime creator and mechanical designer (mecha designer) known for his contributions to the Transformers and Macross franchises, as well as the Patlabor movie and Ghost in the Shell.
- ConnectionsReferences Kenji Miyazawa's Night on the Galactic Railroad (1985)
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Spring and Chaos is an astonishing movie for three reasons. The first one is the apparent antagonism between the form and the substance, a poetry writer biography in a "funny animal" story such as The Aristocats... The second one is the gap between a commercial manga cartoon style and a non figurative painting style with strobe light effect editing, rough draft cartoon sequences and even word's keying ! Last but not least is the strength of the poetical atmosphere that proceeds from all these apparent discrepancies thanks to a subtle script, a perfectly chiseled dialogue and a strong screen presence of main characters.
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- Spring and Chaos
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- Runtime55 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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By what name was Îhatôbu gensô: KENjI no haru (1996) officially released in Canada in English?
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