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| Released | July 24, 1989 |
| Duration | 33 minutes |
| Director | Kazuya Konaka |
| Written by | Hirotoshi Kobayashi (screenplay) Yū Aku (story) |
| Music | Keiichi Oku |
| Studio | NHK |
The red crow of the title
Red Crow and the Ghost Ship (赤いカラスと幽霊船) is a Japanese short film produced by broadcaster NHK for the 1989 Yokohama Expo. A brother and sister in modern Japan are led by a talking red crow onto a flying ghost ship. The boy, Takuya, must take over steering the vessel from the ailing captain.
The red crow was created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop, with John Stephenson supervising. Neal Scanlan built the mechanical bird and Val Jones made the skin and feathers. The red crow, attached to a pole, was puppeteered by Mak Wilson. The shoot for the crow scenes took three weeks.[1]
For Japanese home video release, the film was accompanied by a making of documentary, including footage of Creature Shop personnel Scanlan, Jones, Stephenson, and Wilson. The ghost ship itself was designed by famed animator Hayao Miyazaki.
Cast[]
- Joe Shishido as the Captain
- Koji Yamamoto as Takuya
- Eriko Togaki as Emi
- Koji Yamaguchi as Hiroshi
- Taichirō Hirokawa as the voice of the red crow
Sources[]
- ↑ Bacon, Matt. No Strings Attached. p. 69.
External links[]
- Allcinema.net - Film info (in Japanese)