Animation ·History ·War · Japan · 1982 · 19m

The Little Flying Fish Gets Sick

トビウオのぼうやはびょうきです

The Little Flying Fish Gets Sick poster
Director
Noriyuki ItayaKazuya Miyazaki
Cast
Tomoe Hiiro as Narrator (voice) Shigeru Chiba as (Voice) Satomi Oka as (Voice) Kazuhiko Ohara as (Voice) Takumi Ito as (Voice)
Crew
Kenichi Yoshizaka — Director of Photography Chūji Kinoshita — Original Music Composer Noriyuki Itaya — Screenplay Satoshi Itō — Producer Daisaburou Hayashi — Producer
Tagline

I can really fly!

Synopsis

The peaceful passage of daily life in the Pacific Ocean is upended in a flash on March 1, 1954, with the first American nuclear test at Bikini Atoll. The far-reaching fallout forever changes the lives of the ocean’s cheerful inhabitants.

Mood & Themes
allegoryworld war iinuclear radiationwildlifeanti warmarine lifeanthropomorphic animaldepressingbikini atollsoutheastern pacific ocean
Key Collaborators
Noriyuki Itaya Director Kazuya Miyazaki Director Kenichi Yoshizaka Director of Photography Chūji Kinoshita Original Music Composer Noriyuki Itaya Screenplay Satoshi Itō Producer Daisaburou Hayashi Producer
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