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City Hunter: The Motion Picture (special)

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© Tsukasa Hojo / Shueisha • YTV • SUNRISE

Alternative title:
City Hunter Special: Good-bye My Sweet Heart
City Hunter Special: La rosa nera (Italian)
City Hunter: Adiós, mi amor (Spanish)
City Hunter: La rosa nera (Italian)
Nicky Larson - Goodbye my Sweetheart (French)
シティーハンター スペシャル グッド・バイ・マイ・スイート・ハート (Japanese)
城市獵人 再見我的甜心 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: action, adventure, comedy
Objectionable content: Intense
Plot Summary: Ryo Saeba (aka the City Hunter), is a private detective in the city of Tokyo. Together with sidekick Kaori Makimura, Ryo is hired by actress Emi Makaze to find her long lost brother. The woman's brother turns out to be "The Professor", a dillusional ex-soldier who's planing to destroy the Shinjuku district of Tokyo. Kaori is assigned to guard Emi, but they both get caught up in the Professor's scheme. The City Hunter must save them, without allowing downtown Tokyo to be destroyed.
User Ratings: 98 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 9 votes (sub:8, raw:1)
 Excellent: 19 votes (sub:15, dub:4)
 Very good: 14 votes (sub:11, dub:3)
 Good: 32 votes (sub:25, raw:2, dub:1, ?:1, others:3
1 Spanish dubbed
1 Spanish subtitled
1 French dubbed
)
 Decent: 17 votes (sub:14, dub:2, others:1
1 German dubbed
)
 So-so: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 222 users, rank: #3617 (of 9585)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.449 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.4923, rank: #2024 (of 9708)
Weighted mean: 7.411 (Good+), rank: #1961 (of 9708) (seen all: 7.41)
Bayesian estimate: 7.420 (Good+), rank: #1655 (of 7289)
Running time: 90 minutes
Vintage:
1997-04-25
2000-04-08 (France)
2006 (Spain)
Opening Theme:
"Ride on the Night" by HUMMING BIRD
Ending Theme:
"GET WILD - City Hunter Special '97" by NAHO
Review:
City Hunter: The Motion Picture (Jan 1, 1970)
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    City Hunter - Movie & TV Special Collection (Blu-ray) 2023-01-31 (from $40.99)
DVD (Region 1)
    City Hunter: The Motion Picture (DVD) 2002-07-23 (from $23.98)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Chief Director: Kazuo Yamazaki
Script: Yuuichi Higurashi
Storyboard: Kazuo Yamazaki
Unit Director:
Keiichi Sugiyama
Tetsuya Watanabe
Music:
Masara Nishida
Tatsumi Yano
Original story: Tsukasa Hōjō
Character Design:
Keiichi Satō
Sachiko Kamimura
Art Director: Mitsuharu Miyamae
Chief Animation Director: Keiichi Satō
Animation Director:
Kenji Hayama
Masaaki Kannan
Mechanical design: Mitsumu Ogi
Sound Director: Yasuo Uragami
Director of Photography: Kazunobu Okeda
Executive producer:
Kazuo Maruyama
Takayuki Yoshii
Producer:
Eiji Sashida (Sunrise)
Michihiko Suwa (Yomiuri TV)

Assistant producer: Chieo Ohashi
Assistant Unit Director:
Akira Yoshimura
Kazuyoshi Katayama
Background Art:
Atsumi Matsushima
Kazuhiro Hattori
Kunio Kaneshima
Masanori Nishiyama
Masao Ichigaya
Mitsuyoshi Kosugi
Shizuko Kojima
Takao Shimizu
Takayuki Kotani
Yasuhiro Nishimura
Cel Check:
Atsuko Iiyama (MI)
Hiromi Tobita (MI)
Color design: Tomomi Murakami (EMUAI)
Editing: Tomoaki Tsurubuchi
In-Between Animation:
Fumiyo Mori
Hideko Yukino
Hitomi Mori
Ikuo Tama
Keiko Abu
Maya Fujimori
Misa Kuwabara
Rieko Akasaka
Sachiyo Hiraide
Shōichi Eura
Taeko Watanabe
Takumi Ōta
Tatsurō Arai
Terumi Hirajima
Tomoko Araki
Yumiko Ooasa
Yūsei Kawada
Yutaka Matsubara
In-Between Check:
Hatsue Nakayama
Keiichi Watanabe
Minoru Okabe
Yukie Sakō
Key Animation:
Akitoshi Yokoyama
Etsushi Mori
Hirofumi Morimoto
Hiromi Oikawa
Hiromitsu Morishita
Hironori Ishii
Hiroshi Koujina
Katsutoshi Tsunoda
Keisuke Hamada
Kiyoshi Nohji
Masahiro Kase
Michiyo Sakurai
Miho Okiayu
Mitsuru Fujii
Nobuyoshi Nishimura (Studio Dub)
Noriyasu Yamauchi
Ryūji Shiromae
Sachiko Iwamura
Sadatoshi Matsuzaka
Sanjūrō
Satoru Takatsu
Tadashi Abiru
Takahiro Kimura
Takahiro Tanaka
Takenori Tsukuma
Takuji Abe
Tomoaki Chishima
Tomoaki Kado
Tomoaki Sakiyama
Toshiyuki Kono
Tsunenori Saito
Yasuhiro Hayashi
Yasushi Shingō
Yasuzō Iino
Yoshiharu Fukushima
Yoshikazu Shimazu
Yoshiko Kuwano
Yoshinobu Ando
Yuichi Endo
Yūji Takahashi
Layout: Shinya Uchida
Mechanical animation Director: Tsutomu Miyazawa
Music producer:
Keiichi Nozaki
Shiro Sasaki
Photography:
Hidekatsu Ōishi
Hiroshi Fukuda
Masako Nagahara
Masato Tamura
Mikiko Yanagawa
Minako Omori
Setsuko Maruhashi
Shigemi Ogawa
Shinya Sawada
Shuji Fujikura
Takafumi Hirata
Yasuhirou Yoshimoto
Yōichi Ōgami
Planning:
Masao Iki
Masuo Ueda
Michihiko Suwa
Sound Adjustment:
Akiyoshi Tanaka
Hisashi Yamamoto
Takaaki Uchiyama
Sound Effects: Akihiko Matsuda
Special Designer: Chiharu Satō
Theme Song Arrangement:
Hiroshi Uesugi (ED)
HUMMING BIRD (OP)
Tetsuya Komuro (ED) 
Theme Song Composition:
Tetsuya Komuro (ED)
Yoshiki Fukuyama (OP)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Mitsuko Komuro (ED)
Toshiyuki Furuya (OP)
Theme Song Performance:
HUMMING BIRD (OP)
NaHo (ED)
Yoshiki Fukuyama (OP - Humming Bird lead vocal)
Visual Director: Keiichi Satō
Akira Kamiya as Ryo Saeba
Kazue Ikura as Kaori Mikimura

Mami Koyama as Miki
Tesshō Genda as Umibozu
Youko Asagami as Saeko Nogami

George Abe as Erica (Special Appearance)
Hiroshi Ishida as Director
Isao Nakayama as Announcer
Izumi Okami as Female Announcer (NTV Announcer)
Junko Iwao as Emi Makaze
Keiji Fujiwara as Executive 3
Kinryuu Arimoto as Police Chief Nogami
Kōichi Yamadera as Takeaki Muto
Mari Maruta as Opera Member C
Masaharu Satō as Executive 2
Nobuo Tobita as Yamaguchi
Rintarō Nishi as Tatsuoka
Sayuri as Opera Member B
Shōko Saitō as Opera Member D
Takashi Taguchi as Gen
Wataru Takagi as Operator
Yousuke Akimoto as Executive 1
Yumi Touma as Opera Member A
Japanese companies
Backgrounds: Baku Production
Film Developing: Tokyo Laboratory
Finish Animation:
Animation Time
MI
Mizo Planning
Studio Add
Studio Mac
Finish Animation Assistance: Studio DEEN
In-Between Animation Assistance:
Anime Roman
Buyuu
FAI
Studio Boomerang
Studio DEEN
Key Animation: Studio Dub
Lith Work: Maki Production
Photography:
Asahi Production
Tōgen Anime Room
Production:
Sunrise
YTV
Production Cooperation: Studio DEEN
Recording Studio: APU Studio
Sound Effects: Fizz Sound Creation
Sound Production: Audio Planning U
Titles: Maki Production
English cast
English staff
ADR Director: Gary Dehan
Art Director:
Andy Orjuela
Ruby Halipoto
Project Translator:
Chris Hutts
Masako Arakawa
ADR Script:
Gary Dehan
Gray G. Haddock
Executive producer:
John Ledford
Sharon Papa (DVD)
Producer:
David Miranda (Discotek)
Gary Dehan (Dubbed VHS)
Janice Williams (Subbed VHS)

Associate producer: Caleb McPhee (Discotek)
Blu-Ray Authoring: David Miranda (Discotek)
Blu-Ray Compression: Justin Sevakis (Discotek)
DVD Coordination: Janice Williams
DVD Graphics: Larry Koteff
DVD Producer:
David Williams
Janice Williams
Editing: Joey Goubeaud
Menu Design:
Gary Swarer (Discotek)
Veronica Diaz
Packaging Design: Veronica Diaz
Post-Production Manager: Shelly Thomas
Production Assistant:
Andrew Kent
Maki Nagano
Miyuki Kamiya
Quality Control: Marc Levy (Discotek)
Recording engineer: Charles Campbell
Sound Design: Paul Killam
Subtitle Manager: Logan Rebholz (Discotek)
Subtitle Script: Gray G. Haddock
Supervising Producer: Justin Sevakis (Discotek)
Martin Blacker as Joe Saeba

Amalia Stifter as Micky
Boni Hester as
Bunny
Dancer
Fan
Shinjukuzen
Bonnie Brantley as
Bunny
Dancer
Fan
Shinjukuzen
Catherine Glynn as Amy Makaze
Charles Campbell as
Chief's Aide 2
Cop
Shinjukuzen
Soldier
David Kroll as Gen
David R. Jarrott as Chief Nogami
Donald Sneed as
Cop
Shinjukuzen
Soldier
Douglas Taylor as Tatsuoka
Gary Dehan as
"Professor" Muto
Cop
Shinjukuzen
Soldier
Greg Dorchak as
Chief's Aide 3
Cop
Shinjukuzen
Soldier
Jana Brockman as Sandra Nogami
Kevin Remington as
Cop
Erica
Shinjukuzen
Soldier
Lou Perryman as Falcon
Lowell B. Bartholomee as
Chief's Aide 1
Cop
Shinjukuzen
Soldier
Mark Lovell as Yamaguchi
Pamela Ribon as
Bunny
Dancer
Fan
Kaori Makimura
Shinjukuzen
Tim Wilkins as
Cop
Shinjukuzen
Soldier
English companies
DVD Authoring: M.O.F.C.
Encoding: M.O.F.C.
Internet Streaming:
Crunchyroll (via Discotek Media)
RetroCrush
Licensed by:
ADV Films (Expired)
Discotek Media (2019)
Post Production: Monkey Boy Studios
Recording Studio: Monster Island
Korean staff
Korean cast
(none)
Myeong-Seon Lee as Kaori Makimura
Su Jin Kang as Ryo Saeba
Korean companies
(none)
French staff
French cast
Executive producer: Carlo Levy
Brigitte Aubry as Kaori
Vincent Ropion as Ryo Saeba

Bérangère Jean as Miki
Bruno Magne as le professeur
Claudine Grémy as Emy Sasaka
Gilbert Levy as Falcon
Suzanne Sindberg as Saeko

Bernard Demory as Satoru Yamauchi
Cathy Cerda as Erika
Marie-Annick Mahé as Erika
Mathieu Rivolier as
Nogami
Tatsuoka
Nathalie Bleynie as voix additionnelles
Philippe Roullier as Gen
Tony Joudrier as voix additionnelles

Jean-Marie Boyer
Nathalie Bleynie
Patrick Pellegrin
Tony Joudrier
French companies
ADR Production: Studio Chinkel
Broadcaster:
NRJ12
TF6 (from 8 April 2000)
Distributor: Dybex (France)
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
Dubbing Director: Marisa Marco (Spain dub)
Translation: Bárbara Pesquer (Spain dub)
ADR Script: Marisa Marco (Spain dub)
Executive producer: José Luis Puertas

ADR Engineer: Ramón Cruz (Spain dub)
Mixing: Alberto Ovejero (Spain dub)
Adelaida López as Kaori Makimura (Spain dub)
Pablo Del Hoyo as Ryo Saeba (Spain dub)

Alicia Sáinz De La Maza as Miki (Spain dub)
Antonio Esquivias as Umibozu (Spain dub)
Marisa Marco as Saeko Nogami (Spain dub)

Beatriz Berciano as Emi Makaze (Spain dub)
Cholo Moratalla as Takeaki Muto (Spain dub)
Spanish companies
Dubbing Studio: 103 Todd-Ao Estudios (Spain dub)
Licensed by: Jonu Media (Spain)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Stefania Patruno
Script: Enrica Minini
Translation: Amanda Ronzoni
Guido Cavalleri as Ryo Saeba/City Hunter
Roberta Gallina Laurenti as Kaori Makimura

Alberto Sette as Poliziotto
Alessandra Karpoff as Emi Makaze
Claudio Moneta as Takeaki Muuto/Professor
Elisabetta Cesone as Miki
Flavio Arras as Funzionario di polizia
Luca Bottale as Satoru Yamauchi
Mario Scarabelli as Gen
Maurizia Paradiso as Erika
Maurizio Scattorin as Prefetto Nogami
Patrizia Scianca as Saeko Nogami
Tony Fuochi as Tatsuoka
Vittorio Bestoso as Falcon
Italian companies
Broadcaster:
Italia 2
Man-Ga
MTV Italia
Distributor: Yamato Video
Dubbing: DEA Digital Editing Audio
Internet Streaming:
Amazon Prime Video (Anime Generation)
Anime Generation
German staff
German cast
Dubbing Director: Detlef Klein
ADR Script: Detlef Klein
Michael Pan as Ryo Saeba
Nadja Reichardt as Kaori Makimura

Claudia Galdy as Miki
Karl Schulz as Umibozu
Liane Rudolph as Saeko Nogami

Christian Gaul as Erika
Dascha Lehmann as Emi Makaze
Elmar Gutmann as Polizeipräsident
Gerald Paradies as Kouichi Tatsuoka
Jaron Löwenberg as Professor (Takeaki Muto)
Peter Reinhardt as Satoru Yamaguchi
Wilfried Herbst as Gen
German companies
Distributor:
Anime-Virtual
Kazé Germany (now)
Dubbing: VSI Berlin
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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