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Undersea Super Train: Marine Express

Story

  • This is the second long animated piece produced for the charity TV program "Ai wa Chikyu wo Suku," following the previous "Bander Book." Like the previous work, this special animated series is full of popular characters from Tezuka Osamu's works. As the concept of the program is "love saves the Earth," the main theme of this film is environmental destruction. In 2002, a trans-Pacific submarine train, the Marine Express, leaves California for Japan. The doctor who developed this state-of-the-art train, however, plans to explode it because he is worried about the environmental destruction under the sea. The doctor's personality caricaturizes a weakness in nature conservation groups, and imbues this film with profundity.
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Characters

STAFF

  • Original Plan, Storyline: Tezuka Osamu
    Planning: Yoshikawa Akira (Nippon Television), Tsuzuki Tadahiko (Nippon Television)
    Executive Producer: Shimakata Michitoshi
    Producers: Takei Hidehiko (Nippon Television), Yamamoto Satoru (Tezuka Production)
    Rendition: Tezuka Osamu, Dezaki Tetsu
    Setting Designs: Sakaguchi Nao
    Chief Director: Dezaki Tetsu
    Art Director: Makino Mitsunari
    General Animation Director: Kiyoyama Shigetaka
    Animation Director: Nishimura Hiroshi
    Mechanical Supervisor: Shimizu Keizo
    Color: Shinohara Hiroshi
    Animation Directors: Shibuichi Setsuko, Senda Yukiya, Suzuki Mariko
    Staff: Handa Teruo, Kanayama Akihiro, Tsuchida Koichi, Kamimiya Kei, Udagawa Kazuhiko, Murata Shiro, Son Hiroshi, Seya Shinji, Tamaki Tsuyoshi, Nomatoshi, Kano Kaoru, Inoue Satoshi, Komuro Kotaro, Hiramatsu Osamu, Kai Kenji, Hattori Kazuo, Ishihara Shun, Saito Hisao, Miyakoshi Yoshikatsu, Mimori Akira, Ban Toshio, Akashi Sadakazu, Miyamoto Seiji, Akiho Tomie, Koide Hideo, Tazaki Masao, Kosaki Masanori, Terada Norifumi, Sato Mika
    Recording Director: Sato Toshio
    Camera: Sugaya Nobuyuki, Miyamoto Katsuhiro
    Editing: Inoue Kazuo
    Rendition Assistant: Yasumura Masakazu, Shimizu Yoshihiro
    Production Manager: Minoru Kotoku, Wakai Yoshiharu, Tsuchiya Takahiko, Kamii Hiroyuki
    Music: Ono Yuji

    Theme Song:
    "The Marine Express" Columbia Records
    Vocals by Tommy Snider, music and arrangement by Ono Yuji, and words by Narahashi Yoko
    Production: Nippon Television, Tezuka Productions Co., Ltd.

    CAST
    Ban Shunsaku: Tomita Kosei
    Milly: Koyama Fumi
    Rock: Takeoka Junichi
    Black Jack: Nozawa Nachi
    Adam: Shimizu Mari
    Sasaki: Toyoda Shinji
    Nazenkoppu: Kachita Hisashi
    Credit: Otsuka Chikao
    Sharaku: Kimotsuki Kenta
    Dondora: Chiba Koichi
    Sapphire: Ota Toshiko
    Skunk: Yata Koji

Descriptions

  • (c) Tezuka Productions Co., Ltd.

    Broadcast via Nippon Television network / 91 minutes / In Color
    Tezuka Productions Co., Ltd. / August 26, 1979, Sundays 10:00 - 12:00

Episodes

  • There is no title for each episode.

Manga

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