Gin Rei's Blue Eyes

1995 0h 30m JA

AdventureAnimationActionScience Fiction

Synopsis

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A spin-off of Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still Ginrei and Tetsugyu take a wild west trip into the desert to find something that is at least semi-serious.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Sumi Shimamoto
Gin Rei (voice)
Kazue Komiya
Youshi (voice)
Masashi Ebara
Professor Go (voice)
Norio Wakamoto
Taiso (voice)
Seizo Kato
Schwartz (voice)
Shozo Iizuka
Tetsugyu (voice)
Takeshi Aono
Issei (voice)
Unsho Ishizuka
Fedine (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Yasuhiro Imagawa
Writers: Michiko Yokote, Yasuhiro Imagawa, Takeshi Mori
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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RUNTIME

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Tight 30-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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ERA

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

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CINEMA

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

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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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CAST

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Sumi Shimamoto and Kazue Komiya and Masashi Ebara carry the top of the cast.

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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

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1Tight 30-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
231 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Part of the "Gin Rei Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Yasuhiro Imagawa, shot by Yutaka Saito. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Sumi Shimamoto and Kazue Komiya and Masashi Ebara carry the top of the cast.

The technical file

Cinematography: Yutaka Saito
Runtime: 30 min · 0h 30m
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.