Sakura Wars: The Movie
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| Directed by | Mitsuru Hongo |
| Produced by | Tetsuo Uchida |
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Mitsuru Hongō Hiroyuki Nishimura Nobutoshi Terado Ōji Hiroi |
| Story by | Ōji Hiroi |
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Chisa Yokoyama Akio Suyama Michie Tomizawa Urara Takano Kumiko Nishihara Mayumi Tanaka Kazue Ikura Maya Okamoto Akiko Kuno Keiichi Nanba Kōichi Yamadera |
| Music by | Kōhei Tanaka |
| Cinematography | Kōji Tanaka |
| Edited by | Junichi Uematsu |
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| Distributed by | Toei Company |
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85 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Sakura Wars: The Movie (サクラ大戦 活動写真 Sakura Taisen: Katsudō Shashin?) is a 2001 Japanese animated film adaptation of the Sakura Wars series directed and co-written by Mitsuru Hongō. It was first released in Japan on December 22, 2001, along with Slayers Premium, Di Gi Charat - A Trip to the Planet and Azumanga Daioh: The Animation.
The film takes place a few months after Sakura Wars 3. Lachette Altair is dispatched to the Imperial Capital Tokyo from New York to work for the Imperial Assault Force's Flower division while division captain Ichirō Ōgami is in Paris. Under the leadership of mafia member Brent Furlong, the American Douglas-Stewart company unveils a plan to make the division obsolete by using Japhkiels. Soon, the Flower Division and Lachette are drawn into the heart of Douglas-Stewart's plans.
The film was licensed in North America by Geneon (then known as Pioneer). In 2013, the film was licensed by Funimation Entertainment.
On Christmas Eve in 1926 Tokyo, the Imperial Revue celebrating Leni Milchstrasse's 17th birthday following a performance at the Great Imperial Theater. With division captain Ichirō Ōgami in Paris, Moon Division Captain Yūichi Kayama joins in the celebration. The next morning, on Christmas Day, Sumire Kanzaki and Maria Tachibana visit a theater, where Maria finds out that Brent was one of the mafia members in New York when Maria visited the United States years earlier. At the Great Imperial Theater, Ratchet Altair arrives from New York City to be assigned into the Imperial Assault Force Flower Division. Douglas-Stewart president Brent Furlong and his subordinate, Patrick Hamilton, summon the Kouma to obliterate a city. The Flower Division is summoned to the battlefield where the Kouma are at. However, during the battle, Ratchet appears in an Eisenkleid and briefly battles the Kouma. They retreat and the Flower Division is introduced to Ratchet. Meanwhile, Brent and another one of his subordinates, Haruyoshi Tanuma, arrive at the facility where the Japhkiels, robots made by Douglas-Stewart, are made. One of them attacks Tanuma to his horror. Patrick uses a soundwave technique to stop the attacking Japhkiel.
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