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Movie Information
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Released in Japan on July 12 1997; 133 min, Color, Vista, Dolby Digital.
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Original Story/Screenplay/Director: Hayao Miyazaki
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Supervising Animators: Masahi Ando, Kitaro Kosaka, Yoshifumi Kondo
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Music: Joe Hisaishi
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The movie grossed more than $150 million, with more than
13.53 million attendance. It became the No.1 movie of all time in Japan, until
surpassed by "Titanic".
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The film uses 144,000 cels - it is one of the most expensive Japanese animation
movies ever made at 2.35 billion yen ($24 million), or twice the cost of Akira.
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International release will be handled by Disney (Miramax).
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US release is reported as Oct 29th, 1999. Neil Gaiman (author of The Sandman)
wrote/adapted the English version!
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