Jiro Itano / Shoichi Yamashita
Hiroshi Kitakubo / Jyunji Abe
Sachi Akimoto / Nami Tsuchiya
Kyoko Godai / Fujiko Mine
Production Supervisor
Gen Handawara
Production Assistants
Toshiki Tahara / Yasuo Handa
Animation Produced in Association with
Studio Dutch / Toriyama Production
Tokyo Movie Piiman / Film 21
Studio Kinpeibai / Tsunoebi Studio
American Grisder / Studio Kintaro
Continental Room / Tohnichi Animation
Office of Hide Idera / Studio Summit
World Animation / Office Mamoru
Morita Editing Office
Produced in Association with
Studio Happyakubariki Ltd.
Assistant Animation Director
Tamiko Kobayashi
Director
Rei Maruwa
"Talking Head" Premiere
Good work.
Just as I thought,
the best apprentice trained by him.
It turned out splendidly.
Maruwa
But you know, I should have realized.
Though we knew of his abnormal
obsession about this project...
...when his bizarre behavior
came to our attention...
...he was already
becoming schizophrenic.
The crew members were confused
and the work was halted.
He couldn't even distinguish
between me complaining and his doctor.
According to the doctor,
it was a second personality conjured up...
...in order to save the one
that had broke-down.
But a "migrant animation director?"
Old habits die hard, as they say.
It was necessary.
Oh?
To begin with, a movie is more than
one director can handle alone.
That's what he taught me.
That if you can't do it by yourself,
you must conjure up a second self.
What the director had to rescue
was not himself.
Maybe, I myself was the
third personality conjured up by him.
Come on, don't give me that.
It's your turn next?
They say a director could occasionally
develop complex feelings toward his crew...
...that's not unlike the urge to kill.
I forced you all to play along
with such an obsession...
...and I'm sorry about that.
He never returned to normal,
but his work is going out into the world.
It also means that
I didn't waste my money after all.
You did well.
You perfectly completed
what your predecessor intended to do.
Indeed, the movie is
right in front of our eyes now.