Tasmania Story

Tasmania Story
Directed by Yasuo Furuhata
Produced by Hideshi Miyajima
Shinya Kawai
Satoshi Kiyoshi Ichiko
Starring Kunie Tanaka
Hiroko Yakushimaru
Jinpachi Nezu
Music by Joe Hisaishi
Production
company
Distributed by Toho
Release dates
  • June 21, 1990 (1990-06-21)
Running time
110 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Box office 2.5 billion yen

Tasmania Story (タスマニア物語 Tasumania Monogatari) is a 1990 Japanese-language film, which was released on July 21, 1990. It was filmed by Pacific Link Communications Japan, the Fuji Television Network, and by David Hannay Productions. Lasting 110 minutes, the film had Kunie Tanaka and Hiroko Yakushimaru as the starring roles. The movie was filmed in Australia,[1] with filming starting in the Southern Hemisphere's winter of 1989.

The soundtrack to the film was released on July 21, 1990, by Joe Hisaishi, who composed the music for the film.

Plot

A sixth-grade elementary school student, Shoichi, is visiting his divorced father who lives in Australia after retiring from a leading Japanese company in order to find the Tasmanian tiger. Shoichi had run away from home and is in Sydney looking for his father.

Reception

The film made more than 2.5 billion yen in the box office and was the recipient of the eight Golden Gross Award "Silver Excellence" award given out by the Association of Environmental Health. A DVD of the film was released on November 21, 2001; it was released exclusively in Japan.

Staff

Video game

In the Game Boy action video game based on the film, the divorced father is looking for a Tasmanian tiger while trying to survive in the harsh wilderness of Tasmania. Players can choose between two "types" of levels; slow levels or fast levels. Either jumping on the enemies or using the bombs kills them instantly. Players are limited in the number of bombs that they receive in the game. Certain enemies are worth more than others when defeated. Other animals like koalas appear in the game as bonus characters. However, these bonus creatures tend to disappear very quickly.[3]

This game plays similar to the classic arcade game Mappy.[4] All plants must be collected and animals must be cleared off the level before players can begin the next level; there are approximately ten levels in this game. While the "A" button is used to plant bombs on the screen; the "Select" button is used to choose the level (and make the Tasmanian tiger either slower or faster). It is possible to stun the Tasmanian tiger with a bomb attack.[3]

References

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