Urusei Yatsura: Raging Sherbet

1988 0h 26m JA

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★6.4TMDB · 9

AnimationComedyScience Fiction

Synopsis

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Lum & her girlfriends are invited to Neptune by Oyuki. There she shows them her new business venture at a ranch of flying sherbets, birds capable of producing sherbet cones from their beaks. Ran convinces Oyuki to let her borrow one, her goal is to make some quick cash selling sherbets on Earth. Unfortunately, the combination of being overworked and a hot summer day has made the sherbet extremely cranky, even from its refrigerated cage. It breaks from its cage and escapes, but not before attacking Ran and Lum, and trashing Benten's brand-new bike by shooting sherbet cones at it. Now it's up to Ran to retrieve the sherbet before Benten blasts it out of the sky, and more importantly, before Oyuki finds out.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Fumi Hirano
Lum (Voice)
Toshio Furukawa
Ataru (Voice)
Akira Kamiya
Mendou (voice)
Saeko Shimazu
Shinobu (voice)
Kazuko Sugiyama
Ten (voice)
Yuko Mita
Benten (voice)
Kazue Komiya
Ran (voice)
Noriko Ohara
Oyuki (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Setsuko Shibuichi
Writers: Machiko Kondo
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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RUNTIME

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Tight 26-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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2 / 8

ERA

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

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Urusei Yatsura OVAs & Specials Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Setsuko Shibuichi, shot by Nobuo Koyama. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Kazuo Inoue shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Fumi Hirano and Toshio Furukawa and Akira Kamiya carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0096352 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Setsuko Shibuichi directs. Nobuo Koyama behind the camera. Kazuo Inoue cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 26-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
238 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Part of the "Urusei Yatsura OVAs & Specials Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
5Directed by Setsuko Shibuichi, shot by Nobuo Koyama. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Editor Kazuo Inoue shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Fumi Hirano and Toshio Furukawa and Akira Kamiya carry the top of the cast.
8IMDB entry: tt0096352 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Only 9 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.