Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Script: Sadayuki Murai, Katsuhiro Otomo
Aniatmion Superviser: Tatsuya Tomaru
Animation Director: Shinji Tagaki
Artistic Director: Shinji Kimura
Photographer: Mitsuhiro Sato
Sound: Keiichi Momose
Composer: Steve Jablonsky
Music: Yoko Kanno
Production: Toho Company, Bandai Vision
Distribution:
Gaumont Columbia
Tristar Films
131 avenue de Wagram
75017 Paris
France
Teel: 0033 1.44.40.62.30
Fax: 0033 1.44.40.60.00
Year: 2004
Screening: 2005
35 mm, Colour, 126 min
OV Japanese with French Subtitles
Japanese Animation
In 1851, while Victorian England is preparing the World Fair, young Ray is given a highly important mission by his grandfather. He has to handle a revolutionary invention, a mysterious metal sphere, to another scientist named Stephenson. This sphere is in fact a "steam ball", a source of energy with phenomenal power, the key to the mysterious mechanism of the "steam castle", the last and brilliant invention of Eddie, Ray’s father. The invention arises many people’s envy, and the powerful Ohara Foundation is ready to do anything to get hold of this invention they contributed to create. The conflict for its possession will lead Ray to the most exciting and dangerous adventures. From now on, future is in his hands...
Steamboy is a story of adventures poised between different worlds, combining the nostalgia of a time when imagination was fired, to great creativity. Using an original and evocative visual style and great graphic precision, this animation film takes us to a world, unlike any other.
