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Christopher Columbus (TV)

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Alternative title:
Bōkensha - The Man was from Spain (Japanese)
Christoph Columbus (German)
Christopher Columbus: The Commemorative Series
Cristóbal Colón (Spanish)
Cristoforo Colombo (Italian)
Krzysztof Kolumb (Polish)
Las aventuras de Cristóbal Colón (Spanish)
The Historical Adventures of Christopher Columbus
كريستوف كولومبوس (Arabic)
クリストファー・コロンブス (Japanese)
冒険者 THE MAN WAS FROM SPAIN (Japanese)
Genres: adventure
Themes: historical
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage:
1992-11-28 to 1993-03-30 (Italy)
2002-11-28 to 2003-03-30 (Japan, NHK BS2)
Links: We have 2
Comment:
A joint project between Italian company Doro TV Merchandising S.R.L., Spanish V Centenario and Japanese animation studio Nippon Animation to commemorate the quincentenary of Columbus set foot on the New World (1492-1992). Japanese TV broadcast took place ten years later.
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Fumio Kurokawa
Script:
Miguel Herberg
Nobuyuki Fujimoto (eps 1-24, 26)
Ryūzō Nakanishi (ep 25)
Storyboard:
Akinori Ōrai (ep 24)
Fumio Ikeno (ep 20)
Fumio Kurokawa (eps 1, 3, 5)
Katsumi Takasuga (ep 7)
Kenichirō Watanabe (ep 14)
Masami Furukawa (ep 17)
Michiyo Sakurai (eps 21, 26)
Seiji Arihara (eps 13, 18-19)
Sunao Katabuchi (eps 8-9, 22-23)
Susumu Ishizaki (eps 16, 25)
Takeo Kitahara (ep 12)
Tatsuya Hirakawa (5 episodes
eps 2, 4, 6, 11, 15
)

Yasuo Iwamoto (ep 10)
Episode Director:
Akinori Ōrai (ep 24)
Fumio Kurokawa (5 episodes
eps 1, 3, 5, 8, 26
)

Jiro Saito (eps 12, 14, 22)
Kou Matsuo (eps 19-20)
Masami Furukawa (eps 13, 17)
Susumu Ishizaki (ep 25)
Takashi Asami (eps 9-10)
Tatsuya Hirakawa (9 episodes
eps 2, 4, 6-7, 11, 15-16, 18, 23
)

Yoshihiro Kawabata (ep 21)
Character Design: Sadahiko Sakamaki
Art Director: Masamichi Takano
Animation Director:
Hiroshi Wagatsuma (eps 13, 17)
Masahiro Kitazaki (ep 9)
Masashi Kojima (12 episodes
eps 1-8, 12, 14, 22, 26
)

Nobuaki Nagano (ep 21)
Sadahiko Sakamaki
Takaya Ono (ep 10)
Executive producer: Kōichi Motohashi
Art Setting: Shōhei Kawamoto
Planning: Shōji Satō
Production manager: Junzō Nakajima
Bin Shimada as Christopher Columbus (adult)
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Christopher Columbus (young)

Masashi Sugawara as King Ferdinand
Naoko Matsui as Felipa
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Bartolomeo Columbus (adult)
Yasuo Muramatsu as Father Marchena
Yūko Mizutani as Beatrix

Megumi Urawa as Bartolomeo Columbus (young)
Shōzō Iizuka as Jovanni
Japanese companies
Broadcaster: NHK
Production: Nippon Animation
English cast
English staff
Recording: Andre-Gilles Gagne
Song: Tom Borshuk
Voice Direction: Kathleen Fee
Voice Recording: Eric Ladouceur
English companies
Broadcaster: Smile of a Child TV
Distributor:
Mondo TV (English)
Starmaker Entertainment, Inc. (vhs)
Strand Home Video (VHS Vol. 1)
Dubbing Studio: Cine-Group J.P. Inc.
Internet Streaming: YouTube (English)
French staff
French cast
Theme Song Performance:
Donald Reignoux
Jean-Claude Corbel
David Lesser as Christophe Colomb enfant (eps 1-3)
Gérard Rouzier as Christophe Colomb adulte (eps 13-26)
Stéphane Bazin as Christophe Colomb jeune (eps 4-12)

Dominique Poulain as Isabelle de Castille
Guylaine Gibert as
Bartholomé enfant
Felipa de Perestrello
Jackie Berger as Diego
Josiane Gibert as Mère de Christophe et Bartholomé
Patrick Noerie as Bartholomé adulte (1ère voix)
Yves-Marie Maurin as
Bartholomé adulte (2ème voix)
Diego de Arana

French companies
Broadcaster:
La Cinquième (from 1996)
M6 (from September 1992)
Mangas (from 2003)
Dubbing: Euro Inter Films
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Broadcaster:
Intereconomía TV (Spain)
Levante TV (Spain)
Tele7 (C. Valenciana / 2009)
Television Mexiquense (Mexico)
Distributor: Mondo TV
Internet Streaming: YouTube (Latin America)
Spanish cast
(none)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Enrico Carabelli
Translation: Achille Brambilla

Dialogues: Stefano Cerioni
Dubbing Assistant: Antonella Bracco
Mixing: Luca Porro
Synchronization: Luca Porro
Theme Song Performance: Cristina D'Avena
Diego Sabre as Bartolomeo Colombo
Gabriele Calindri as Cristoforo Colombo (young)
Marco Balzarotti as Cristoforo Colombo (adult)
Maurizio Scattorin as Domenico Colombo
Paolo Marchese as Giovanni
Italian companies
Broadcaster:
Canale 5 (from December 1992)
Italia 1
Mondo TV
Dubbing: Studio PV
Executive Production: Doro TV Merchandising, S.r.i.
Internet Streaming: YouTube (Mondo TV - All'avventura!)
German staff
German cast
(none)
Axel Malzacher as Christoph Columbus

Michael Rüth as König Ferdinand
German companies
(none)
Arabic staff
Arabic cast
Assistant Director: Amal Houaija
Audio Recording:
Al-Harith Ahmad
Louay Gallad
Computer: Anas Jandali
Mixage: Muhammad Hashem
Montage: Samer Abu Hamad
OP Theme Song Performance: Maan Saleh
Preparation: Ayman Bkirati
Production manager: Mahir Al-Hajj Weiss
Revision: Samir Blook Bashi
Supervision: Mannaa Hijazi
Ali Al-Qassem as Christopher Columbus (adult)

Anjy Al-Youssef as
Beatris
Christopher Columbus (young)
Fatima Saad as
Felipa
Queen Isabella
Maamoon Al-Rifai as
Arana
Marchena
Marwan Farhat as
Al-Rayash
Humam
Narrator
Muhammad Kharmasho as
Bezerra
Sanchez
Muhammad Khaundi as Musa Ibn Satie

Mamoon Al-Farkh as various characters (eps 2-3)
Mowaffak Al-Ahmad as Columbus's father (ep 1)
Nedal Segri as various characters (eps 1-7)
Arabic companies
Portuguese staff
Portuguese companies
(none)
Dubbing Studio: BKS
Internet Streaming: Bandplay
Portuguese cast
(none)

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