Barefoot Gin Rei

1994 0h 20m JA

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7.0

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★7.0TMDB · 2

AdventureAnimationScience Fiction

Synopsis

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A spin-off of Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still Ginrei notices that her China dress has gone missing, and she must solve this mystery quickly!

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Shozo Iizuka
Tetsugyu (voice)
Sumi Shimamoto
Gin Rei (voice)
Kappei Yamaguchi
Daisaku Kusama (voice)
Kazue Komiya
Youshi (voice)
Masashi Ebara
Professor Go (voice)
Mitsuki Yayoi
Black Ginrei (voice)
Norio Wakamoto
Taiso (voice)
Takeshi Aono
Issei (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Yasuhiro Imagawa
Writers: Yasuhiro Imagawa, Hiroshi Ueda, Takeshi Mori
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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RUNTIME

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Tight 20-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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ERA

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32 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 7

CINEMA

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Part of the "Gin Rei Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Yasuhiro Imagawa, shot by Yutaka Saito. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 7

CAST

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Shozo Iizuka and Sumi Shimamoto and Kappei Yamaguchi carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 7

WILD

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Only 2 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Yasuhiro Imagawa directs. Yutaka Saito behind the camera. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 20-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
232 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Part of the "Gin Rei Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
5Directed by Yasuhiro Imagawa, shot by Yutaka Saito. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Shozo Iizuka and Sumi Shimamoto and Kappei Yamaguchi carry the top of the cast.
7Only 2 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Yutaka Saito
Runtime: 20 min · 0h 20m
Status: Released
Original language: JA

Part of

Gin Rei Collection

In the first part, Ginrei's dress is stolen, only to be used to fool the enemy. The second part deals with a giant robot made exactly in her image. Finally, the third part concerns Tetsugyu and Ginrei investigating a lost research team in a "wild west" desert setting.