Wonderful Days (2003)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Moon-saeng Kim

Writers:

Michael Keyes (writer)
Moon-saeng Kim (writer)
(more)

Release Date:

17 heinäkuu 2003 (South Korea)

Genre:

Action | Fantasy | Animation | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

A fantastic journey to the future begins

Plot:

Civilization has been destroyed by war and pollution, but the survivors have built the last city of Ecoban...

Plot Keywords:

Pollution | Sky | Cloud | Future | Nightmare

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Marc Worden	...	Shua (voice: English version)
Cathy Cavadini	...	Jay / Young Shua / Cheyenne (voice: English version)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Andrew Ableson	...	(voice: English Version)
Joon-ho Chung	...	(voice: Korean version)
David Naughton	...	(voice: English version)
Bob Papenbrook	...	Goliath (voice: English version)
Jamie Simone	...	Dispatcher (voice: English version)
Kirk Thornton	...	Cade (voice: English version)
Karl Wiedergott	...	Moe / Digger Foreman
Hye-jin Yu	...	(voice: Korean version)
Ji-tae Yu	...	(voice: Korean version)

Directed by
Moon-saeng Kim

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Michael Keyes		writer
Moon-saeng Kim		writer
Jay Lender		writer
Jun-Young Park		writer
Sunmin Park		adaptation: English version
Yong-jun Park		writer
Howard Rabinowitz		English Language adaptation
Jeffrey Winter		adaptation: English version
Micah Wright		writer

Produced by
Kay Hwang	....	producer
Kyeong-hak Lee	....	co-producer
J. Ethan Park	....	producer
Sunmin Park	....	producer (English language version)
Jeffrey Winter	....	associate producer

Original Music by
JaeIl Sim
Sam Spiegel
Il Won

Film Editing by
Michael McCusker		(new edition)

Art Direction by
Yoon-cheol Jung
Suk-Young Lee

Production Management
Christopher Bates	....	production manager
Michael Brodersen	....	post-production supervisor
Fred Goeske	....	post-production supervisor

Art Department
Dong-Wook Lee	....	mechanical designer

Special Effects by
Sung-Ho Hong	....	special effects

Visual Effects by
Young-Min Park	....	3D animation supervisor

Animation Department
Yeong-ki Yoon	....	animation director

Other crew
Jeff Abel	....	additional script
Michael Keyes	....	additional script

Production Companies

• End Game Productions Inc.
• Masquerade Films
• Maxmedia
• Tin House Productions

Distributors

• Endgame Entertainment (2004) (USA) (theatrical)
• Future Film (2004) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Tartan Films (2005) (UK) (theatrical)
• Aura Entertainment
• End Game Productions Inc. (2005) (non-USA) (DVD)
• Future Film (2004) (Finland) (DVD)
• Manga Films (Spain)
• Nelonen (2007) (Finland) (TV)
• Palisades Tartan (2009) (UK) (all media)
• Pathé (France)
• Starmedia Home Entertainment (2004) (Germany) (DVD)
• Tartan Video (2005) (UK) (DVD)

Special Effects

• B n B Animation
• Independence Inc.

Also Known As:

Sky Blue (USA)

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

South Korea | USA

Language:

Korean | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS | Dolby SR (US version)

Certification:

Australia:M | Finland:K-11 | South Korea:All | Germany:12 | UK:15 | USA:Unrated | Ireland:15A | Singapore:PG

Company:

End Game Productions Inc.

Quotes:

Jay: How long is it been raining? Forever. Not forever. No. For a 100 years. They say billions of people once lived on the earth. And the temperatures rose. The great cities fell. And this rain came. This terrible toxic rain. Our ancestors saw it coming. The catastrophe...

Soundtrack:

Smack My Bitch Up

Bravo Korea...

Great great movie...tech-wise. Ok, granted it's not the most elaborate or original of movie plots. It's the eternal story about love and jealousy, power and corruption, good and evil but it has got a Miyazaki twist to its story, or at least tries to emulate the master, rather unsuccessfully I might add. The animation is like nothing I have seen before though, and I HAVE seen Final Fantasy. Main problem: the characters are poorly developed, if not at all. And the story doesn't grab you by the collar and throw you in its world, so you're always "aware" of the animation, it being the masterpiece that it is... But again, it's a movie well worth seeing, some shots will even make your jaw drop and eyes bulge, that's how much the scenes are beautifully drawn and animated. The authenticity of the "small" things (rain dropping pattern, eyes watering) is what I personally marvelled at more than anything else. Oh, and an out-of-this-world soundtrack to top it off, with some exquisite pieces that matched the moods perfectly. It was the only thing that really "sucked me in" a few times... All in all, it is a very promising start to all-korean animations.