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From visionary anime auteur Masaaki Yuasa, comes a joyously hallucinogenic but family-friendly take on the classic fairy tale about a little mermaid who comes ashore to join a middle-school rock band and propel them to fame. Kai is talented but adrift, spending his days sulking in a small fishing village after his family moves from Tokyo. His only joy is uploading songs he writes to the internet. When his classmates invite him to play keyboard in their band, their practice sessions bring an unexpected guest: Lu, a young mermaid whose fins turn to feet when she hears the beats, and whose singing causes humans to compulsively dance - whether they want to or not.
As Kai spends more time with Lu, he finds he is able to tell her what he is really thinking, and a bond begins to form. But since ancient times, the people in the village have believed that mermaids bring disaster and soon there is trouble between Lu and the townspeople, putting the town in grave danger. Winner of the Grand Prize at the prestigious Annecy Animation Festival, and premiering in English as an official selection of Sundance 2018, Lu Over the Wall is a toe-tapping, feel-good demonstration of Yuasa's genre-mixing mastery that will leave you humming long after you leave the theater.
Original Release
05/19/2017
US Release
05/11/2018
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Kanon Tani | Lu / Lu (voice) |
Shôta Shimoda | Kai / Kai Ashimoto (voice) |
Minako Kotobuki | Yuho / Yuuho Ebina (voice) |
Soma Saito | Kunio / Kuniko (voice) |
Shin'ichi Shinohara | Lu's Father / Lu's Father (voice) |
Ken'ichi Suzumura | Teruo / Teruo Ashimoto (voice) |
Shizuka Itou | Isaki / Isaki (voice) |
Takayuki Sugo | Chairman / Ebina's Grandfather (voice) |
Chô | President / Ebina's Father (voice) |
Yutaka Aoyama | Granny Octopus |
Directors
Writers
Stephanie Sheh, Reiko Yoshida, Masaaki Yuasa, Amanda Céline Miller
Cast
Name | Character |
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Kanon Tani | Lu / Lu (voice) |
Shôta Shimoda | Kai / Kai Ashimoto (voice) |
Minako Kotobuki | Yuho / Yuuho Ebina (voice) |
Soma Saito | Kunio / Kuniko (voice) |
Shin'ichi Shinohara | Lu's Father / Lu's Father (voice) |
Ken'ichi Suzumura | Teruo / Teruo Ashimoto (voice) |
Shizuka Itou | Isaki / Isaki (voice) |
Takayuki Sugo | Chairman / Ebina's Grandfather (voice) |
Chô | President / Ebina's Father (voice) |
Yutaka Aoyama | Granny Octopus |
Mutsumi Sasaki | Chief Priest of Shrine / Chief Priest (voice) |
Shingo Horii | Homeroom Teacher |
Tomoyuki Shimura | Fuguda |
Ryûji Mizuno | Nodoguro |
Takaaki Seki | Kameda |
Riki Kagami | Kujirai |
Atsuyoshi Miyazaki | Shiira |
Reo Hirabayashi | Chile Grandpa |
Mayumi Shintani | Merdog |
Daigo Naito | Esojima |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Masaaki Yuasa | Executive Producer |
Koji Yamamoto | Executive Producer |
Akihiro Arai | Executive Producer |
Kenji Shimizu | Executive Producer |
Keiji Ôta | Executive Producer |
Michael Sinterniklaas | Producer |
Stephanie Sheh | Producer |
Eric Beckman | Producer |
Eunyoung Choi | Producer |
Junnosuke Itô | Producer |
David Jesteadt | Producer |
Yuka Okayasu | Producer |
Koji Yamamoto | Producer |