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Plot:
The long anticipated feature cost 2.4 billion Yen (US$20.2m)
to produce just a few dollars short of the 2.4 billion Yen
that it cost to produce Spirited Away, the most expensive
Anime feature ever. In contrast, Steam Boy comprises 180 000
cels, 1.5 times as many as Spirited Away.
STEAMBOY follows Rei, a young inventor living in the U.K.
in the middle of the 19th century. Shortly before the first
ever World Expo, a marvelous invention called the "Steam
Ball", behind which a menacing power is hidden, arrives
at his door from his grandfather Roid in the U.S. Meanwhile
the nefarious Ohara Foundation has sent men to acquire the
Steam Ball so that they can use its power towards their own
illicit ends. --- animenewsnetwork.com
DETAILS__________
Studio:
Sony Pictures / Toho Film Distributing Co. Ltd
Release Date:
July 17, 2004 (Japan)
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FAN SITES: (Katsuhiro Otomo)
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