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Princess Arete (movie)

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Alternative title:

ARITE Hime (Japanese)

Princesa Arete (Spanish)

Princesse Arete (French)

アリーテ姫 (Japanese)

Genres: adventure, fantasy

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Plot Summary: Confined in the castle tower by her father, princess Arete spends her days watching the world outside her window. Sometimes she seeks out to watch the common people at work. The knights of the kingdom compete for the right to marry her and rule the land by competing to see who can find powerful magic objects made by a long dead race of sorcerers. Arete wants none of this. She longs to meet the common people and travel to exotic lands she has only seen in the books she keeps hidden under her bed. One day the sorcerer Boax arrives in a fantastic flying machine and offers to take Arete as his wife and transform her into a proper princess.

User Ratings: 171 ratings have been given [details]

Masterpiece: 8 votes (sub:7, dub:1)

Excellent: 38 votes (sub:34, dub:2, others:2

1 French subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled

)

Very good: 38 votes (sub:37, others:1

1 Italian subtitled

)

Good: 34 votes (sub:27, raw:2, ?:1, others:4

2 Spanish subtitled
1 Spanish edited dub
1 French subtitled

)

Decent: 32 votes (sub:25, dub:2, others:5

1 Spanish subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
1 Czech subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 Swedish subtitled

)

So-so: 11 votes (sub:10, others:1

1 Chinese Mandarin subtitled

)

Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)

Weak: 1 vote (sub:1)

Bad: 4 votes (sub:4)

Awful: -

Worst ever: 3 votes (sub:2, ?:1)

Seen in part or in whole by 253 users, rank: #3380 (of 9856)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.193 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.8928, rank: #3014 (of 10014)
Weighted mean: 7.161 (Good), rank: #2972 (of 10014) (seen all: 7.16)
Bayesian estimate: 7.183 (Good+), rank: #2670 (of 7551)

Running time: 105 minutes

Vintage: 2001-07-21

Premiere date:

2001-07-21 (Japan)

2004-01-15 (Italy - Future Film Festival)

2016-10-20 (UK, Scotland Loves Anime)

Release dates: We have 1

Opening Theme:

"金色の翼 (Kin-iro no Tsubasa; Golden Wing)" by Taeko Onuki

Insert song:

"Krasno Solntse" (Красно Солнце) by ORIGA

Official website:

アリーテ姫 = PRINCESS ARETE = (Japanese)

Links: We have 2

News: Show: 3 +6 ref. +16 unverified

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Japanese staff

Japanese cast

Director: Sunao Katabuchi

Screenplay: Sunao Katabuchi

Music: Akira Senju

Original creator: Diana Coles (novel, "The Clever Princess")

Character Design: Satoko Morikawa

Art Director: Minoru Nishida

Animation Director: Kazutaka Ozaki

Sound Director: Hiroyuki Hayase

Producer: Eiko Tanaka

Advertising: Keisuke Sakurakouji

Assistant Animation Director:
Chie Uratani
Katsuyuki Tsubouchi
Riwako Matsui
Toshiya Washida
Yumi Chiba

Assistant In-between Supervision:
Hideki Sakiguchi
Keiko Watanabe
Sae Nirazuka

Associate producer: Ryoichi Fukuyama

Background Art:
Junko Ina
Kazu Nozaki
Kyoko Tanaka
Masayuki Kaneko
Minoru Aoki
Sagako Itakura
Seiji Miyamoto
Shizue Tanaka
Shukuko Matsuoka
Tōru Hishiyama
Wakazuo Ebizawa
Yamako Ishikawa
Yumi Watanabe

CG Animation Director: Seisuke Sasagawa

CGI Supervision: Keisuke Sasagawa

Chief Backgrounds: Mariko Tazaki

Chief Key Animation: Akiko Yamaguchi

Chief Production Administrator: Masao Yoshida

Color Design Assistant: Kumiko Namiki

Color setting: Akiko Hayashi

Digital I/O: Yuuya Shibata

Editing: Takeshi Seyama

Editing Assistant:
Keiko Mizuta
Megumi Uchida
Mutsumi Takemiya

In-Between Supervision: Mutsuko Kajigaya

Music Director: Daisuke Nagata

Music producer:
Hideki Hyoudou
Hirohiko Tokuda

Planning:
Akito Yamashita
Eiko Tanaka
Nobuyuki Tootani
Toyoyuki Yokohama
Tsutomu Takano

Production:
Fumio Ueda
Marimi Sakurai
Masafumi Fukui
Takuji Ushiyama
Yoshihiko Chino

Production Administration:
Hiroki Oooka
Keisuke Asami
Shinji Kasai
Takuya Terakura

Production Desk:
Atsushi Hashimoto
Yasushi Takahashi

Public Relations:
Rika Hatakeda
Yuuko Koshiba

Publicity: Oriban Hiromura

Recording engineer:
Naoto Shibuya
Tomoo Suzuki

Sound Design: Mutsunori Nishimura

Sound Effects: Atsushi Harada

Sound Producer: Masakatsu Aida

Special Effects: Marefumi Niibayashi

Theme Song Performance:
Origa
Taeko Onuki

Timer: Hiroaki Hirabayashi

Houko Kuwashima as Arete

Tsuyoshi Koyama as Boax

Minami Takayama as Ample

Satomi Koorogi as Witch

Yūsuke Numata as Grovel

Akio Suyama as Young Boax

Eiji Takemoto as Daraboa

Kōhei Kowada as Guard B

Masaya Takatsuka as Elder Counsellor

Naomi Shindoh as Lady-in-waiting

Nobuko Kotani as Apprentice

Norihisa Mori as Blond Knight

Takashi Nagasako as King

Takkō Ishimori as Elder Counsellor

Tomohisa Asō as Elder Counsellor

Umi Tenjin as Apprentice

Yoshikazu Nagano as Guard A

Yūko Sasaki as Narration

Japanese companies

Film Developing: Imagica

In-Between Animation:
Anime Spot
Anime World Osaka
Double R
Garan
Nakamura Production
Production I.G
Studio Cockpit
Studio Live
Studio Mu
Tamazawa Dogasha
Zero-G

Production:
Beyond C.
Dentsu Inc.
Imagica
Omega Project
Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions
Studio 4°C

Recording Studio:
Tact Studios
Tokyo TV Center

Sound Effects: Fizz Sound Creation

Sound Production: Onkyo Eizo System Co., Ltd.

English staff

English companies

(none)

Licensed by: Anime Limited (UK & Ireland)

English cast

(none)

French cast

French staff

ADR Director: Alexandre Gibert

Sound Engineer: Aaron Baustert

Adeline Chetail as Princesse Arete

Patrick Descamps as Boax

Charlotte Hennequin as Sorcière

Emmanuelle Tonnerieux as Ample

Fabrice Colombéro as Grovel

Antoine Weber as Chevalier Blond

Romain Chapuis as Dullabore

Thierry Reichmut as Roi

French companies

Distributor: @Anime

Dubbing: Soundtastic

Spanish staff

Spanish cast

Executive producer: Jorge Gabarró Frau

Miguel Ángel Jenner as Boax (Spain dub)

Nina Romero as Princess Arete (Spain dub)

Aleix Estadella as Grovel (Spain dub)

Mabel Jimenez as Witch (Spain dub)

Rosa López as Ample (Spain dub)

Álex Moreno as Blond Knight (Spain dub)

Félix Benito as Elder Counsellor (Spain dub)

José Luis Molina as King (Spain dub)

Masumi Mutsuda as Dullabore (Spain dub)

Rosa López as Narrator (Spain dub)

Rubén Felis as Boax (Spain dub; young)

Boris Sanz (Spain dub)

Cari Monrós (Spain dub)

Eva Bau (Spain dub)

Fran de la Torre (Spain dub)

Gabriel Pareja (Spain dub)

Greta Ruiz (Spain dub)

José Manuel Oliva (Spain dub)

Josema Soler (Spain dub)

Josep Manel Casany (Spain dub)

Marta Aparicio (Spain dub)

Rafael Ordóñez Arrieta (Spain dub)

Spanish companies

Broadcaster:
Movistar CineDoc&Roll (Spain)
Movistar+ Xtra (Spain)

Internet Streaming:
Amazon Prime Video (Spain)
Anime Box (Spain)
Filmin (Spain)
Movistar+ (Spain)

Licensed by: Selecta Visión (Spain)

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