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Nineteen

Nineteen
The Japanese poster for Nineteen
Directed by Kensho Yamashita
Producer Hitoshi Ogura et al.
Written by Kan Chin Fa
Music by Nobito, Shonentai, et al.
Special
effects by 		Koichi Kawakita
Production companies Toho Pictures, Johnny & Associates
Distributor TohoJP
Rating Not Rated
Running time 98 minutesJP
(1 hour, 38 minutes)
“
A sci-fi rock 'n' roll adventure starring Shonentai (少年隊主演SFロック冒険譚 (アドベンチャー))
In 2001, I turn 19 years old (2001年に、わたしは19才になる)
„ 

— Taglines

Nineteen (19ナインティーン,   Naintīn) is a 1987 Japanese science fiction idol film directed by Kensho Yamashita and written by Kan Chin Fa, with special effects by Koichi Kawakita. Produced by Toho Pictures and Johnny & Associates, it stars boy band Shonentai (consisting of Noriyuki Higashiyama, Kazukiyo Nishikiori, and Katsuhide Uekusa), Natsuki Ozawa, Alexis Hall, Koji Naka, Hiroshi Yagyu, Teppei Yamada, and Toru Sakai. The film was Yamashita's second and penultimate outing as director, preceding Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994). Toho released it to Japanese theaters on August 1, 1987.

Plot

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Staff

Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.

  • Directed by   Kensho Yamashita
  • Written by   Kan Chin Fa
  • Associate writer   Toshihiko Kawai
  • Executive producer   Hitoshi Ogura
  • Produced by   Kan Chin Fa, Yoshinori Tsutsui
  • Music by   Nobito
  • Theme song "Just for You"
    • Performed by   Shonentai
    • Lyrics by   Kan Chin Fa
    • Composed by   Kyohei Tsutsumi
    • Arranged by   Koji Makaino
  • Insert songs by   Toshinobu Kubota, Amazons, Ayumi Nakamura, Junko Yagami, NOBODY, BOφWY, Hitomi Toyama
  • Cinematography by   Masahiro Kishimoto
  • Edited by   Yoshiyuki Okuhara
  • Production design by   Kazuo Takenaka
  • First assistant director   Tsunesaburo Nishikawa
  • Director of special effects   Koichi Kawakita[1]
  • Monster design by   Tomonori Kogawa

Cast

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

Appearances

Monsters

  • Camilla P-19
  • North

Weapons, vehicles, and races

  • Cross Gun
  • Hunting Sensor
  • Time Weather Map
  • Time Gloves
  • Beam Pen
  • Fire Stick
  • Plutonium Capsule
  • Time-Mobile
  • Zeus Machine

Production

In a 1994 interview, director Kensho Yamashita estimated that Nineteen's production budget was double that of his first film, Troubleman Laughs and Kills, but eight times less than that of his third, Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla.[2]

Nineteen was the first collaboration of Yamashita and special effects director Koichi Kawakita, who would later reunite for Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla. Of the two films, Kawakita commented, "The[y] are very different from each other. Nineteen is a teen idol movie. However, the manner in which [Yamashita and I] worked with each other did not change very much. Our intentions both times were to attract young people and take a new approach."[3] According to Yamashita, however, "very few of the scenes in [Nineteen] were shot by the special effects staff."[2] Kawakita is ambiguously credited on the film for "Special Effects," using the Japanese spelling tokushu kōka (特殊効果) which typically referred to pyrotechnics staff in Toho's tokusatsu productions (by contrast, special effects as a whole were referred to as tokushu gijutsu [特殊技術], meaning "special technology"). Kawakita credits himself as the movie's "director of special effects" in his 2010 autobiography The Spirit of Tokusatsu.[1]

Trivia

References

This is a list of references for Nineteen. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kawakita, Koichi (22 January 2010). The Spirit of Tokusatsu: Toho Special Effects Battle Chronicle. Yosensha. p. 294. ISBN 978-4-86248-515-1.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Milner, David (December 1994). "Kensho Yamashita Interview". Kaiju Conversations. Archived from the original on 31 January 2020.
  3. ↑ Milner, David (December 1994). "Koichi Kawakita Interview I". Kaiju Conversations. Archived from the original on 23 January 2015.

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Nineteen/Credits

The following is a transcript of the end credits for Nineteen, which the film presents in both Japanese and English. Spelling errors have been preserved.

???

Natsuki Ozawa

小沢なつき

???

Alexis Hall

アレクシス ホール

???

Robert Vigneau

ロベール ヴィニョー

???

Atsuko Nakanishi

中西敦子

???

Eiko Fujiki

藤木英子

???

Yumi Fukiage

吹上由美

???

Masaaki Toyokawa

豊川正明

???

Ayumi Hirose

広瀬あゆみ

???

Yumiko Fujimaki

藤巻由美子

???

Maiko Kawabe

川辺麻衣子

???

Rie Asano

浅野りえ

???

Kazuo Ide

井手一男

???

Karen Hammer

カレン ハマー

???

Teppei Yamada

山田哲平

???

Naoko Isamu

勇　直子

Turbo

Tohru Nakai

坂井　徹

???

Kohji Naka

中　康治

???

Hiroshi Yagyu

柳生　博

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