Version Details

Cast

• Alfred Molina - Eddie Steam (English Version)
• Patrick Stewart - Lloyd Steam (English Version)
• Anne Suzuki - Ray Steam (Japanese Version)
• Anne Suzuki
• Anna Paquin - Ray Steam (English Version)
• Susumu Terajima
• Kari Wahlgren - Scarlett (English Version)
• Katsuo Nakamura - Lloyd Steam (Japanese Version)
• Katsuo Nakamura
• Kiyoshi Kodama
• Ikki Sawamura
• Satoru Saito
• Manami Konishi - Scarlett (Japanese Version)
• Manami Konishi
• Masatane Tsukayama - Eddie Steam (Japanese Version)
• Masatane Tsukayama
• Moira Quirk - Thomas
• Moira Quirk - Alex
• Peter Lavin
• Julian Stone
• Kim Thomson - Mother
• Kim Thomson - John
• Kim Thomson
• Robin Atkin Downes - David
• Robin Atkin Downes
• David Lee - Jason
• Mark Bramhall - Alfred
• Rick Zieff - Simon
• Rick Zieff
• Paula Jane Newman - Henry
• Paula Jane Newman - Emma
• Oliver Cotton - Robert Stephenson
• Anna Paquin - James 'Ray' Steam
• Rosalind Ayres
• Patrick Stewart - Lloyd Steam
• Kari Wahlgren - Scarlett O'Hara
• William Hootkins
• Alan Shearman
• Susumu Terajima - Freddie
• Anne Suzuki - Ray Steam
• Alfred Molina - Dr Eddie Steam
• Kiyoshi Kodama - Robert Stephenson
• Oliver Muirhead - Admiral
• Manami Konishi - Scarlett O'Hara
• Ikki Sawamura - David
• Katsuo Nakamura - Dr Loyd Steam

Crew

• Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
• Conception: Katsuhiro Otomo
• Screenwriter: Katsuhiro Otomo
• Editor: Takeshi Seyama
• Executive Producer: Shigeru Watanabe
• Screenwriter: Sadayuki Murai
• Sound/Sound Designer: Keichi Momose
• Producer: Hideyuki Tomioka
• Art Director: Shinji Kimura
• Producer: Shinji Komori
• Technical Director: Shinichi Matsumi
• Cinematographer: Mitsuhiro Sato
• Animation Director: Shinji Takagi
• Composer (Music Score): Steve Jablonsky
• Animator: Masahiro Sekino ,Hisashi Eguchi
• Executive Producer: Takehiko Chino
• Associate Producer: Wataru Tanaka
• Animator: Hiroyuki Aoyama ,Koichi Arai ,Toshiyuki Inoue ,Morifumi Naka
• Re-Recording Mixer: Phil Lee
• Animator: Kazuhiro Soeta ,Toshiya Washida ,Kensuke Ishikawa ,Yukie Sakou ,Yutaka Kamogawa ,Tsunenaka Nozaki ,Kunio Katsuki ,Hitomo Tsuruta ,Yoko Sato ,Eiji Komatsu ,Eiji Abiko ,Yasushi Ohara ,Atsuko Otani ,Katsumi Ikeda ,Hideki Kakita ,Masahiko Itojima ,Motonobu Hori ,Yuko Sobu ,Ryuji Shiromae ,Yuichi Takiguchi ,Tsutomu Awada ,Atsushi Irie ,Katsumi Matsuda ,Yasuyuki Shimizu ,Masaaki Endo ,Yasushi Muraki ,Syuichi Kaneko ,Takashi Hashimoto ,Tatsuya Tomaru
• Technical Director: Kohei Endo
• Re-Recording Mixer: Jon Langford
• Art Director: Shinji Kumura
• Executive Producer: Kenji Uchida ,Hiroo Murakami
• Associate Producer: Taro Morishima ,Satoshi Higashi ,Kazuhiko Seta ,Takehisa Kawamata ,Setsuko Azuma
• Production Manager: Isao Minegishi ,Yasumasa Tsuchiya
• Post Production Coordinator: Yuko Shimura
• Animator: Hidetsugu Ito ,Yasuhiro Aoki ,Katsutoshi Tsunoda ,Kazuyoshi Yaginuma ,Takao Maki ,Tatsumori Imoto ,Hirofumi Masuda ,Takahiro Tanaka ,Tadashi Matsuzaki ,Susio Ishizaki ,Soichiro Matsuda ,Takehiro Noda ,Kou Yoshinari ,Yukihiro Iwata ,Masahiko Kubo ,Nobutaka Ito ,Shigeki Sunada ,Mitsuru Ishihara ,Takayuki Gorai ,Manabu Nakatake ,Takashi Hyodo ,Takashi Uchida ,Masahiro Shimanuki ,Shinobu Tagashira ,Chuji Nakajima ,Tomohiro Takayama ,Hironori Sawada ,Shigeto Tsuji ,Nobuaki Nagano ,Mitsuru Obunai ,Makoto Yamada ,Hitoshi Ueda ,Ikuro Kuwana ,Koichi Hatsumi ,Sawako Yamamoto ,Yuji Shigekuni ,Kazunari Kume ,Hideki Araki ,Shinya Takahashi ,Satoru Nakamura ,Yuji Mukoyama ,Tsutomu Suzuki ,Kunihiro Abe
• Re-Recording Mixer: Mark Harris
• Animator: Naoyuki Onda
• Associate Producer: Eiiji Sashida
• Animator: Toru Yoshida ,Yasuhiro Seo ,Atsushi Okuda ,Atsushi Aono ,Hiroyuki Horiuchi ,Takaaki Yamashita
• Associate Producer: Yoshihiro Ueno
• Animator: Akira Takada
• Voice Director: Rick Zieff
• Animator: Hirotsugu Kawasaki [di]
• Executive Producer: Tsutomu Takano ,Ryohei Tsunoda
• Animator: Hidenori Matsubara ,Koji Watanabe ,Tetsuya Nishio ,Koichi Hashimoto
• Conductor: Blake Neely
• Music Producer: Alan Meyerson
• Associate Producer: Tetsuo Gensho
• Re-Recording Mixer: Craig Mann
• Executive Producer: Masao Takiyama
• Animator: Masaki Yamada
• Music Producer: Keichi Momose
• Re-Recording Mixer: Eddie Bydalek ,Melissa Hofmann
• Executive Producer: Kazuya Hamana
• Re-Recording Mixer: J. Stanley Johnston
• Animator: Kazuto Nakazawa ,Hirotsugu Kawasaki

Steamboy: AMG Review
Cammila Albertson , AMG

It's easy to see why Steamboy, the long-awaited film by Akira director Katsuhiro Otomo, took over ten years to come to fruition. The movie is positively bursting with words, images, opinions, characters, and sweeping gestures--elements that in their overabundance, all detract from each other. Steamboy takes a science fiction look at the birth of the steam age, heavy-handedly casting this revolutionary source of power in the light of today's conflict over nuclear energy. This controversy within the story ignites endless debate between its characters over the true purpose of science, often depicting the polarization with too much bluster to ring true. While it may be a drawback for the film's subtext to hit like a bag of hammers, there is little fault to find with its dauntless art direction. The movie is stylistically epic, sparing no expense with frame upon frame of ornately detailed imagery that frequently overshadows the film's high-minded commentary. Steamboy's aforementioned themes about scientific ethics generate a lot of dialogue, and it appears that Otomo tries to balance all this talk with lengthy action sequences. Unfortunately, more often than not this dichotomy of flashy movement vs. talky exposition has a herky-jerky, stop-start effect, leaving audiences alternately bored and over-stimulated. It's a shame, because Otomo remains an articulate filmmaker. Many of his narrative choices are clever and skillful, such as his use the pubescent character Ray to illustrate not just youthful idealism, but the inevitability of change. Sadly, even Ray's eloquence is swallowed up by Otomo's huge cinematic appetite, as the less than compelling secondary characters in Steamboy tend to steal focus. Ray's only peer, a little girl named Scarlett, is possibly the most gratingly irritating character to ever appear in an anime feature film, while his grandfather spends most of the movie wandering shirtless through the dark corridors of a power plant, raving in a Scottish accent and just begging to be made into a Saturday Night Live character. Perhaps Steamboy would be less of a disappointment if its creator wasn't considered by many to be one of the most important names in anime. Regardless, it's a film that reflects ambition more than achievement. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide