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The Whale Hunt (2001)
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Animation · 16m
Kujiratori tells the story of school children pretending they are building a boat. As imagination replaces reality, they find themselves on the ocean, hunting for a whale. A big, gentle whale appears, accompanies them back to land and plays with them. Then the fantasy ends and the children are back in their class room.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Writer
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Novel
- Rieko Nakagawa
- Director of Photography
- Atsushi Okui
- Original Music Composer
- Yuji Nomi
- Editor
- Takeshi Seyama
Details
- Original title
- くじらとり
- Release date
- 2001-10-01
- Runtime
- 16m
- Genres
- Animation
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Studio Ghibli