The Legend of Manxmouse

This is the fanpage for the movie, The Legend of Manxmouse or Tondemo Nezumi Daikatsuyaku (in Japanese)! It's one of my favorite movies and I want to share it with you!

Themesong lyrics

He came to life one day (he came to life one day)

From a pair of handy hands (pair of handy hands)

He left to see the world not knowing of the legend he should be

 

He travelled through the land (he travelled)

And quickly learned his fate from tigers, ghosts, and girls

And he knew deep down the legend would be changed

 

But the manxcats waited many a day for the mouse to appear

And though they looked just alike in many a way, mister mouse should be in fear

'Cause this is a legend waiting to happen, it had finally come the time for the manxmouse to live again

And the legend to find an end

 

(instrumental break)

 

The manxmouse had the longest of ear, and I almost forgot

His feet made it look like a rabbit at times, but of course he was not

He was a legend waiting to happen, it had finally come the time for the manxmouse to live again

And the legend to find an end

Credits

character design ................................ Yasuji Mori, Yoshiyuki

animation director ................................ Yoshiyuki Momose

art director ..................................... Toshikazu Yamaguchi

color stylist, final checking ............................. Akiko Koyama

camera supervisor .............................. Keishichi Kurori

recording director ................................ Yasuo Uragami

animators ................................... Hirokazu Ishino, Yukiko Terada, Tomoo Sugaya, Mariko Iioka, Kenichi Nakada, Emiko Sato, Shuichi Seki, Yoshishige Kosako, Shunichi Sakai, Sadahiko Sakamaki, Takumi Noda, Nobuyuki Kitajima, Tadashi Shirakawa, Yoshitaka Gogami, Hiroki Sugarawa, Noboru Kominato, Susumu Shiraume

backgrounds ............................... Miyoko Yajima, Nobuo Numai, Masamichi Takano, Shin Sato, Emiko Shimoshige, Kazuhiro Kinoshita, Hiroshige Sawai

camera ................................... Toru Hagiwara, Toshiaki Morita, Satoshi Ono, Kazushi Torigoe, Seiichi Hashitani, Masayuki Shimizu

film editors ...................... Hajime Okayasu, Hidekazu Kakesu, Keiko Onodera

effects ................................ Akihiko Matsuda

sound arrangement ............................ Tsuguo Nakatogawa

directing animator ....................... Noriko Maritomo

assistant director ............................ Kunihiro Inami

assistant producer ............................. Tetsuro Kumase

production assistants .......................... Yuji Miyashita, Nobuaki Hosoda

producer .............................. Takaji Matsudo

director ............................... Hiroshi Saito

executives in charge of post production .......................... Ahmed Agrama, Kent Harrison Hayes

post production coordinators ........................... Oscar I. Diaz, Fabiola Stevenson

chief engineer ................................. Bryan J. Rusenko

Voices ................................. Steve Apostolina, Mikey Godzilla, Colin Philips, Drew Thomas, Wendee Swann, Jefferey Platt

adaption and direction .................................. Richard Epcar

additional original music composition ................................ Parlor Grand Productions

ADR recordist ................................. Maxim

remix engineer ............................... George Bours

video tape operators ................................. Jorge Allia, Hugo Olguin

English version recording .................................. Intersound, Inc. Hollywood, CA

If you want to see this movie, I suggest finding the VHS tape either on eBay or Amazon. It's well worth a little searching around!