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Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer (movie 2)

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©1984 Toho Co., Ltd.

Alternative title:
Lamu : Un rêve sans fin (French)
Lamù: Beautiful Dreamer (Italian)
うる星やつら２　ビューティフル・ドリーマー (Japanese)
福星小子 Beautiful Dreamer (Chinese (Taiwan))
Themes: aliens
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Not all is normal in Tomobiki, even by its standards. The students have been preparing feverishly for the first day of the student fair, which is scheduled to go on the next day. However, problems arise when some begin to notice that the next day simply will not come. As the students begin to try to find the reason for the problem, their beliefs about reality and the world of dreams are challenged.
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User Ratings: 436 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 100 votes (sub:77, dub:19, raw:1, others:3
1 Italian dubbed
1 French subtitled
1 Italian edited dub
)
 Excellent: 95 votes (sub:64, dub:29, ?:1, others:1
1 Arabic dubbed
)
 Very good: 97 votes (sub:67, dub:22, raw:2, ?:1, others:5
2 Italian dubbed
1 Chinese Mandarin subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
1 French subtitled
)
 Good: 79 votes (sub:46, dub:26, edit.dub:2, others:5
2 Italian dubbed
2 French subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Decent: 40 votes (sub:27, dub:11, ?:1, others:1
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 So-so: 9 votes (sub:8, dub:1)
 Not really good: 5 votes (sub:4, dub:1)
 Weak: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
 Bad: 5 votes (dub:2, sub:2, edit.dub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 2 votes (sub:1, others:1
1 French dubbed
)
Seen in part or in whole by 778 users, rank: #1537 (of 9775)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 8.053 (Very good), std. dev.: 1.7279, rank: #541 (of 9919)
Weighted mean: 8.011 (Very good), rank: #542 (of 9919) (seen all: 8.03 / seen some: 6.00 / won't finish: 3.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.995 (Very good), rank: #392 (of 7496)
Running time: 95 minutes
Vintage: 1984
Premiere date:
1984-02-11 (Japan)
Release dates: We have 3
Ending Theme:
"Ai wa Boomerang" by Yuuko Matsutani
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 2
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer - Collector's Edition (Blu-ray) 2018-02-27
DVD (Region 0)
    Urusei Yatsura Movie 2: Beautiful Dreamer (DVD) 1998-08-25
DVD (Region 1)
    Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer - Collector's Series (DVD) 2004-06-08 (from $69.99)
    Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer - Collector's Edition (DVD) 2018-02-27 (from $99.95)
LaserDisc
    Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer [Sub] (LD) 1993-05-06
Universal Media Disc
    Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer [Sub] [CD-ROM] (UMD)
VHS
    Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer (Dub.VHS) 1996-12-03
    Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer (Sub.VHS) 1993-11-01

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Script: Mamoru Oshii
Music: Katsu Hoshi
Original creator: Rumiko Takahashi
Character Design: Akemi Takada
Art Director: Shichirō Kobayashi
Animation Director:
Kazuo Yamazaki
Yūji Moriyama
Sound Director: Shigeharu Shiba
Director of Photography: Akio Wakana
Executive producer: Hidenori Taga

Animation Production Producer: Makoto Kubo
Assistant Animation Checker: Atsuko Horita
Assistant Animation Director: Yasunao Aoki
Associate Director: Junji Nishimura
Associate producer: Hiroshi Hasegawa
Background Art:
Mieko Shimotani
Mitsuo Korenobu
Shinji Kimura
Tadashi Katayama
Chief animator: Makoto Kubo
Color design: Naoyo Tobe
Editing:
Junko Kawano
Masaki Sakamoto
Mikiko Kawauchi
Seiji Morita
Finish Animation:
Akemi Yamaji
Atsuko Kimura
Chieko Takano
Chikara Karino
Eriko Okazaki
Etsuko Tezuka
Fujimi Konishi
Fūya Uchida
Hiromi Yamazaki
Ikuko Takasuga
Kahori Katō
Kahoru Masuko
Kaoru Hagiwara
Katsue Suketomo
Katsutoshi Yamagata
Kayoko Hirayama
Keiko Ikesawa
Kōji Murase
Konomi Fujita
Kumiko Komine
Kyōniko Matsubara
Minako Mori
Minoru Noguchi
Misako Fujii
Misako Takeda
Mito Yakaku
Mitsuru Aoki
Miwa Kadode
Motoaki Satō
Reiko Endō
Reiko Ishibashi
Reiko Kudo
Rieko Asami
Sadako Yonemura
Satoko Shiho
Shiori Mikami
Shuuji Sakata
Sonomi Ōkubo
Sumie Nakamachi
Yoshito Kobayashi
Yukari Abe
Yukiko Satake
Yukitaka Shishikai
Yumi Chigira
Finish Check:
Katsuo Hiroi
Kiyohiko Komori
Minoru Ueno
Noriko Tsubuki
Rie Aoki
Ryōko Tago
Shinichi Tominaga
In-Between Animation:
Akemi Takizawa
Akiko Matsumoto
Akiko Takahashi
Atsuko Matsuda
Chieko Katano
Emiko Satoh
Etsuko Aomura
Fumiko Namiki
Fumiyo Shibata
Gang Hee Lee
Hideki Araki
Hiromi Suzuki
Junko Machida
Junko Maeda
Katsuki Watanabe
Katsutoshi Horie
Kazuhiko Aida
Kazuhiko Tamura
Kazuhisa Takeda
Kazumi Okabe
Kenichi Chikanaga
Kenichi Maejima
Kenji Kanai
Kōichi Kadowaki
Kyōko Machida
Masahiko Fukutome
Masakatsu Sasaki
Masako Aoi
Masato Fukami
Masaya Hasegawa
Masayuki Hiraoka
Mayumi Naitō
Midori Terashima
Mikiko Takanashi
Mitsuhiro Fushida
Miyako Niimiya
Motoko Nagasawa
Motoko Okuno
Mutsuo Horibe
Naoki Ōhira
Norihiko Yamauchi
Noriko Numa
Noriko Yasuda
Rie Nakazato
Takako Kishi
Takako Kitagawa
Taku Nakaya
Teruko Miyata
Tetsurō Aoki
Tetsuya Yoshimura
Tsutomu Ōura
Yōko Inami
Yoshimii Watanabe
Yumiko Kanno
Yuriko Nagaya
Yūsaku Goshiro
In-Between Check: Yasuo Ishii
Key Animation:
Hajime Kamegaki
Hideyuki Motohashi
Ichirō Itano
Ken'ichi Okamoto
Manabu Tanzawa
Masahito Yamashita
Michio Satō
Mitsuko Nara
Naoyuki Yoshinaga
Shōjurō Yamauchi
Toshiyuki Sakurai
Tsukasa Abe
Tsukasa Tannai
Yoshihisa Sakurai
Music Director: Hiroshi Hayakawa
Photography:
Hiroaki Edamitsu
Hisao Kazamura
Katsuya Kozutsumi
Kenji Akazawa
Miho Sakata
Mikiko Ishizuka
Naoyuki Tsuboi
Nobuo Koyama
Shigerō Sugimura
Shōji Aoyagi
Taizo Matsuzaki
Takashi Ikehata
Terumi Sato
Yasunori Hayama
Yoshihiro Takamoto
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Planning: Shigekazu Ochiai
Production Advancement:
Masayuki Hanzawa
Takehito Hobara
Production manager: Yuko Mitsumori
Production Publicity:
Nobuko Yamano
Tomokatsu Yamaguchi
Production Supervision: Akira Watanabe
Sound Effects: Yasufumi Yoda
Sound Engineer: Kunio Kuwabara
Special Effects: Takeshi Saitō
Title Design: Hideki Sugisawa
Fumi Hirano as Lum
Toshio Furukawa as Ataru Moroboshi

Akira Kamiya as Shūtarō Mendō
Issei Futamata as Chibi
Kazuko Sugiyama as Ten
Machiko Washio as Sakura
Mayumi Tanaka as Ryūnosuke Fujinami
Michihiro Ikemizu as Onsen-Mark
Saeko Shimazu as Shinobu Miyake
Shigeru Chiba as Megane
Shinji Nomura as Kakugari
Takuya Fujioka as Mujaki

Akira Murayama as Perm
Ichirō Nagai as Cherry
Kenichi Ogata as Ataru's Father
Masahiro Anzai as Ryūnosuke's Father
Natsumi Sakuma as Ataru's Mother
Sumi Shimamoto as Girl in White Hat
Tomomichi Nishimura as Principal

Hideyuki Tanaka
Rumiko Ukai
TARAKO
Tesshō Genda
Yoku Shioya
Japanese companies
English staff
English cast
ADR Director: Darin Jay Hallinan
Translation: Neil Nadelman
ADR Script: Leslie Alyson
Executive producer: John O'Donnell
Producer:
Brady Hartel (Discotek)
Robert J. Woodhead (Subtitled Version)
Stephanie Shalofsky

Additional Translation:
Elizabeth Ellis (Discotek)
Steven Siddall (Discotek)
ADR Coordination: Darin Jay Hallinan
ADR Engineer:
Allan Gus
Darin Jay Hallinan
Audio Commentary:
John O'Donnell
Mamoru Oshii
Masumi Honma
Audio Editing:
Brady Hartel (Discotek)
Justin Sevakis (Discotek)
Blu-Ray Authoring: Justin Sevakis (Discotek)
Blu-ray Encoding: Justin Sevakis (Discotek)
Commentary Translation: Keisuke Okamoto
Dubbing Supervision: Anthony Salerno
DVD Coordination:
Amber Kusmenko
Karel Havle
Ross Lefko
Editing:
Roe R. Adams III
Toren Smith
Literaray Consultant: Masae Watanabe
Mix Engineer:
Allan Gus
Darin Jay Hallinan
Original Translation:
Mariko Nishiyama
Shin Kurokawa
Tanaka Aki
Production Assistant:
Erik Snyder (Discotek)
Ian Wright (Discotek)
Jessica Neva (Discotek)
Mark Clark (Discotek)
Mike Toole (Discotek)
Reed Nelson (Discotek)
Stephanie Shih (Discotek)
Production Coordination:
Cliff Rosen (Subtitled Version)
Edward S. Whang
Natsumi Ueki (Subtitled Version)
Subtitle Editing: Reed Nelson (Discotek)
Subtitle Timing:
Cecilia Morrigane (Discotek)
Ian Wright (Discotek)
Subtitling: Marc Landers
Subtitling Director: Michael House
Titles: Justin Sevakis
Video Editing: Jose Argumedo (Discotek)
Ann Ulrey as Lum
Vinnie Penna as Ataru Moroboshi

Edward Morrisson Garland as Kakugari
Jeannette Ann Wallace as Shinobu
Marnie Head as Sakura
Matthew Ross as Chibi
Paula Parker as Ten
Vinnie Penna as Shutaro Mendo

Craig Wollman as Magane
Draidyl Roberts as
Mujaki
Principal
Jackie Tantillo as Ataru's Mother
Kimberli Wayman as Ryuunosuke
Larry Robinson as
Ataru's Father
Sakurambo (Cherry)
Michael Walters as Perm
T. Roy Barnes as Onsen-Mark
English companies
ADR Recording: Matlin Recording, Inc.
Blu-Ray Authoring: MediaOCD (Discotek)
Blu-ray Menu Design: TwistyGadget (Discotek)
Broadcaster:
Anime Selects
FUNimation Channel
International Channel
Sci-Fi Channel
Distributor:
Image Entertainment (LaserDisc)
MVM (UK)
Software Sculptors (CD-ROM)
U.S. Manga Corps
DVD Menu Design: Crush Digital Video
DVD Premastering: Crush Digital Video
Encoding: MediaOCD (Discotek)
Internet Streaming:
Amazon Prime Video
AsianCrush
Crackle (Dubbed)
Crunchyroll
Midnight Pulp
Pluto TV
RetroCrush
Tubi TV
Licensed by:
Central Park Media (Expired)
Discotek Media (2016)
Packaging Design: TwistyGadget (Discotek)
Subtitles: AnimEigo
Translation: AnimEigo
French cast
French staff
Translation: Jun'Ichi Takeda (Tonkam video release only)
Benjamin Pascal as Ataru
Dominique Vallee as Lamu

Cyrille Artaux as Mendo
Nathalie Bleynie as Shinobu
Nathalie Homs as Ten
Olivier Korol as Megane
Taric Mehani as Mujaki

Chantal Baroin as Sakura
Eric Peter as
Cherry
Directeur
Perm
Gilbert Levy as Sensei
Nathalie Homs as Ryûnosuke
Olivier Korol as
Père d'Ataru
Père de Ryûnosuke
Philippe Roullier as Kakugari
Taric Mehani as Chibi
French companies
Broadcaster:
Ciné Cinema Famiz (from 29 Novembre 2009)
Orange Ciné Choc (from February 2011)
TPS Cinefamily (from July 2006)
Distributor:
KAZÉ
Tonkam Vidéo (VHS release only)
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
Translation: Ángel-Manuel Ybáñez (Spain dub)
Executive producer: José Luis Puertas
Angel de Gracia as Ataru Moroboshi (Spain dub)
Gemma Ibáñez as Lamu (Spain dub)

Albert Trifol Segarra as Shuutaro Mendo (Spain dub)
Alfonso Vallés as Megane (Spain dub)
Antonio Lara as Kakuragi (Spain dub)
Azucena Díaz as Sakura (Spain dub)
Berta Cortés as Shinobu (Spain dub)
Jordi Pons as Chibi (Spain dub)
Ramón Hernández as Perm (Spain dub)
Roser Vilches as
Ryuunosuke Fujinami (Spain dub)
Ten (Spain dub)

Aleix Estadella as Mukaji (Spain dub)
Jordi Pineda as Cherry (Spain dub)
Vicente Gil as Onsen (Spain dub)

Antonio Pujós (Spain dub)
Jordi Pineda (Spain dub)
Maria Rosa Guillén (Spain dub)
Spanish companies
Broadcaster: Buzz Channel (Spain)
Distributor: Jonu Media (Spain)
Dubbing Studio: Dubbing Films (Barcelona, Spain)
Translation: Traducciones Imposibles (Spain dub)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Sergio Masieri

Dialogues: Marinella Armagni
Paolo Torrisi as Ataru
Roberta Gallina Laurenti as Lamù

Aldo Stella as Kakugari
Caterina Rochira as Sakura
Davide Garbolino as Chibi
Flavio Arras as Mendo
Giulia Franzoso as Ran
Irene Scalzo as Ryunosuke Fujinami
Luca Semeraro as Megane
Marco Balzarotti as Perma
Marina Massironi as Shinobu
Riccardo Peroni as Sakurambo
Roberta Gallina Laurenti as Ten

Alessandra Karpoff as Benten
Antonio Paiola as Preside
Claudio Ridolfo as Rei
Dania Cericola as Madre di Lamu
Giovanni Battezzato as Padre di Lamu
Mario Scarabelli as Padre di Lamu
Maurizio Scattorin as
Onsen Mark
Padre di Ryunosuke
Orlando Mezzabotta as Padre di Ataru
Rossana Bassani as Madre di Ataru
Sergio Masieri as Mujaki
Italian companies
Distributor: Yamato Video
Dubbing: DDE Divisione Doppiaggio Edizioni
Internet Streaming:
Amazon Prime Video (Anime Generation)
Anime Generation
Swedish staff
Swedish companies
(none)
Distributor: Sandrew Metronome
Swedish cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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