Clannad (film)

Clannad
Regular edition DVD cover.
Directed byOsamu Dezaki
Written byMakoto Nakamura
Jun Maeda (visual novel)
Based onClannad
by Key
Produced byHiroshi Takahashi
Takeshi Oikawa
StarringKenji Nojima
Mai Nakahara
Ryō Hirohashi
Houko Kuwashima
Daisuke Sakaguchi
CinematographyTakeshi Fukuda
Tomokazu Shiratori
Edited byMasahiro Goto
Music byYoshichika Inomata
Animation byMegumi Kadonosono
Yōichi Ōnishi
Production
companies
Distributed byToei Company
Release date
  • September 15, 2007 (2007-09-15)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Clannad is a 2007 Japanese animated fantasy drama film directed by Osamu Dezaki and based on the visual novel of the same name developed by Key. Toei Animation announced at the Tokyo Anime Fair on March 23, 2006 that an animated film would be produced,[1] and was released theatrically by Toei Company on September 15, 2007. The film is a reinterpretation of the Clannad storyline which centers on the story arc of the female lead Nagisa Furukawa. It was the final film directed by Dezaki before his death in April 2011.

A promotional campaign took to the streets of Akihabara on March 10, 2007 transported in a large black bus with the words "Film Version Clannad" (劇場版CLANNAD, Gekijō-ban Clannad) painted on the sides. A group of young women cosplaying in the female high school uniform from Clannad emerged from the bus to hand out flyers and pink and white colored thundersticks to passersby to promote the film.[2]

  1. ^ "Tokyo Anime Fair: New Kanon and Movies". Anime News Network. March 25, 2006. Retrieved July 22, 2007.
  2. ^ "Clannad film promotional campaign in Akihabara" (in Japanese). Retrieved July 24, 2007.