An anime feature film from a different time and place is now getting some new streaming for a bit with The Sky Crawlers getting some YouTube distribution below that you can see. The 2008 film was directed by Mamoru Oshii from the screenplay by Chihiro Ito. Tetsuya Nishio handled the character designs with Production I.G. handling the animation.
Check out our review of the film.
The Japanese cast includes Rinko Kikuchi as Suito Kusanagi, Ryo Kase as Yūichi Kannami, Chiaki Kuriyama as Midori Mitsuya, and Shosuke Tanihara as Naofumi Tokino.
The English dub was handled by Sony with a cast that includes Michael Sinterniklaas as Yuichi Kannami, Stephanie Sheh as Suito Kusanagi, Troy Baker as Naofumi Tokino, and Bryce Hitchcock as Mizuki Kusanagi.
Plot Concept: From MAMORU OSHII, the world-acclaimed director of Ghost in the Shell comes an award-winning story of an exciting but endless war with heroes too young to understand the meaning of their battles. A group of eternally young fighter pilots known as Kildren experience the sudden loss of innocence as they battle the enemy in astonishing dogfights above the clouds. With his only childhood memory consisting of intense flight training, the fearless teenage pilot Yuichi’s dogfights coexist with his struggle to find his missing past. When his beautiful, young female commander Suito is reluctant to discuss the fate of the pilot that Yuichi is replacing – or the strangely perfect condition of that pilot’s former aircraft – Yuichi’s curiosity becomes heightened.
