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Directed by | Katsuhiro Otomo |
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Story by | Katsuhiro Otomo[1] |
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Cinematography | Mitsuhiro Satô |
Edited by | Takeshi Seyama[2] |
Music by | Steve Jablonsky |
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Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 126 minutes[2] |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Budget | ¥2.4 billion ($26 million) |
Box office | $18.9 million |
Steamboy (Japanese: スチームボーイ, Hepburn: Suchīmubōi) is a 2004 Japanese animated steampunk action film produced by Sunrise and 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 ¥2.4 billion ($26 million) production budget, having been in production for ten years and utilizing more than 180,000 drawings and 440 CG cuts.