Steamboy
is a 2004 Japanese animated steampunk action film produced by Sunrise, directed and co-written by Katsuhiro Otomo, his second major anime release as a director, following Akira (1988). The film was released in Japan by Toho on July 17, 2004. Steamboy was the most expensive Japanese anime film up until then with a production budget, having been in production for ten years and utilizing more than 180,000 drawings and 440 CG cuts.
Plot
In 1863, where an alternate nineteenth century Europe has made tremendous strides in steam-powered technologies, scientist Lloyd Steam and his son, Edward “Eddy” Steam, have succeeded in discovering a pure mineral water in Iceland which they believe can be harnessed as a nearly unlimited power source for steam engines. An experiment in Russian Alaska goes terribly wrong, with Eddy being engulfed in freezing gases, but results in the creation of a spherical device.
More details
author | Katsuhiro Otomo Sadayuki Murai |
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contentLocation | England London Manchester |
director | Katsuhiro Otomo |
editor | Takeshi Seyama |
genre | action adventure science fiction |
keywords | alternate alternate history arms dealing capture control room dirigible discover estrange flee float freeze great exhibition great war how to iceland kill machine monowheel morning nineteenth century paratrooper pass river robert stephenson royal navy russian alaska scar sell weapons of war shoot spoil steam engine steam power tank thames than the the great exhibition turn weapons of war world war i zeppelin |
musicBy | Steve Jablonsky |
producer | Hideyuki Tomioka Shinji Komori |
productionCompany | Bandai Visual Sunrise |
publisher | Toho |
theme | animated anime steampunk transport |