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Steamboy (Japanese: スチームボーイ, Hepburn: Suchīmubōi) is a 2004 Japanese animated steampunk action film produced by Sunrise and directed and co-written by Katsuhiro Otomo, his second major anime release as a director, following Akira (1988).
Mar 18, 2005 · Steamboy: Directed by Shinji Takagi, Katsuhiro Ôtomo. With Anne Suzuki, Masane Tsukayama, Katsuo Nakamura, Manami Konishi. In 1860s Britain, a boy inventor finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict over a revolutionary advance in steam power.
- (19K)
- Animation, Action, Adventure
- Shinji Takagi, Katsuhiro Ôtomo
- 2005-03-18
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Mar 17, 2005 · Too little sci-fi fuel for 'Steamboy'. Steam is created from nothing more than heated water in "Steamboy." "Steamboy" is a noisy, eventful and unsuccessful venture into Victorian-era science fiction, animated by a modern Japanese master. It's like H. G. Wells and Jules Verne meet "Akira."
Katsuhiro Otomo (大友 克洋, Ōtomo Katsuhiro, born April 14, 1954) is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter, animator, and film director. He is best known as the creator of Akira, in terms of both the original 1982 manga series and the 1988 animated film adaptation.
Mar 18, 2005 · Ray (Anna Paquin) is a brilliant young inventor who follows in the footsteps of his father, Eddie (Alfred Molina), and his grandfather, Lloyd Steam (Patrick Stewart). After his grandfather...
- (93)
- Katsuhiro Ohtomo
- PG-13
- Sci-Fi, Anime
The subversion of the typical adolescent male fantasy — caped superhero in Akira, steam-powered tanks and weaponry in Steamboy — is thrown out the window in the final third as the film suddenly pivots to actual capeshit, a narrative tangent that’s summed up through a series of stills…
In 1860s Britain, a boy inventor finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict over a revolutionary advance in steam power. Rei is a young inventor living in the U.K. in the middle of the nineteenth century.
