Spriggan

Original title: Supurigan

1998
R
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

4.4K

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An elite superhuman agent must stop a foreign military unit from seizing control of an ancient artifact that holds the key to ultimate power.An elite superhuman agent must stop a foreign military unit from seizing control of an ancient artifact that holds the key to ultimate power.An elite superhuman agent must stop a foreign military unit from seizing control of an ancient artifact that holds the key to ultimate power.

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IMDb RATING

6.5/10

4.4K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Fat Man
(voice)

Fumihiko Gotô

Turkish Agent B
(voice)
(as Fumihiko Goto)

Dai Matsumoto

Manager
(voice)

Hiroyuki Oshida

Guard B
(voice)

Ikumi Kimura

Stewardess
(voice)

Katsuhisa Hôki

Turkish Agent A
(voice)

Kenichi Sakaguchi

N.C.O
(voice)

Kinryû Arimoto

Yamamoto
(voice)

Masaaki Yajima

Narrator
(voice)

Masaki Aizawa

Excavation Research Agent
(voice)

Masashi Muta

COSMOS Yu
(voice)

Masayuki Nakata

Guard A
(voice)

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Trivia
When ADV Films submitted the film to the MPAA, they were worried it would come back with a PG-13 rating. So if that did happen, they had a few extra changes of dialog with extra some stronger profanity in the script need be it.

Goofs
During the fight with Colonel MacDougal Ominae's arm was broken in multiple places and left hanging limp. However, when he was falling with Jean after escaping the Ark he used the broken arm to shoot his grappling hook and hung from it, then after landing was using his 'broken' arm as if it weren't injured at all.

Quotes
Yu Ominae: Yeah, well we can't all be Schwarzenegger.

Crazy credits
"The Spriggan Ice Cream Social Club"

Alternate versions
The sound of a school bell after Yu's flashback in class was added for the English dub.

Connections
Featured in Anime Network Commercial Version 1 (2004)

Soundtracks
Jing Ling
Performed by Saju, Dennis Gunn, Nitza
Composed by Kuniaki Haishima

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Featured review

Hollywood style action in an animated film

The movie starts out with a fairly typical premise: Japanese High School student, Yu, is actually a super-soldier (A "Spriggan") and part of a secret army that recovers and protects ancient artifacts. From there, however, the movie is anything but typical. Lots of wild, incredibly animated action and over-the-top fighting with an actual plot behind it.

In short, the secret army's just found Noah's Ark on Mt. Ararat, Turkey, and they dispatch their best agent, our Yu, to check out what's up. The enemy, the naughty United States military forces, sends their best agents in the U.S. Cybercorps to stop the project and recover the ark. Interestingly enough, these agents are codenamed 'Fatman' and 'Littleboy' - the same names of the two A-bombs that dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The movie veers madly between plot scenes and wild, edge-of-your-seat action sequences until it gets to it's stunning, and CGI-assisted finale. Highly recommended, even with it's vague anti-US slant.