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Japanese | 爆転シュート ベイブレード THE MOVIE 激闘!!タカオ VS大地 |
Hepburn | Bakuten Shoot Beyblade The Movie: Gekitō!! Takao vs Daichi |
Directed by | Tetsuo Yasumi |
Produced by | Hiroya Nishimura Takao Murakami |
Written by |
Yoshio Takeuchi Kouji Miura Yoshifumi Fukushima |
Based on |
Beyblade by Takao Aoki |
Music by | Hiroyuki Hayase |
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Distributed by | Toho |
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70 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | $3.2 million |
Beyblade: Fierce Battle (爆転シュート ベイブレード THE MOVIE 激闘!!タカオ VS大地 Bakuten Shoot Beyblade The Movie: Gekitou!! Takao vs Daichi?) is a 2002 Japanese animated action adventure film directed by Tetsuo Yasumi based on the Beyblade manga series by Takao Aoki. It was released theatrically in Japan on August 17, 2002.
Set between the events of Beyblade V-Force and G-Revolution, the movie is a non-canon story that offers an alternate version of how Tyson (Takao) and Daichi met.
Toho released the film in Japan alongside Ape Escape The Movie: Battle for the Golden Pippo Helmet on August 17, 2002. The film grossed $3,216,050 at the box office to rank as the 68th highest grossing film in the country that year. To promote the movie, Takao Aoki drew a partial adaptation that ran in CoroCoro Comic, which was later republished in the final tankōbon of the Beyblade manga released by Shogakukan and Viz Media.VAP released the film on VHS and DVD in Japan on March 21, 2003.Takara produced movie specific tops that were released via ticket purchase campaigns, preorders for the home video release and through Beyblade blind boxes.Warner Music Japan published a 21 song soundtrack CD on August 7, 2002.