Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer (うる星やつら2 ビューティフルドリーマー, Urusei Yatsura Tsu: Byūtifuru Dorīmā?) is the second film in the Urusei Yatsura franchise. It was produced by Kitty Films and Toho, primarily animated by Studio Pierrot, and released to theaters by Toho on February 11, 1984. It is also the sequel to Only You.
Synopsis[]
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Plot Overview[]
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Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Lum
- Ataru
- Shūtarō Mendō
- Sakura
- Ten
- Onsen-Mark
- Shinobu
- Ryūnosuke Fujinami
- Megane
- Chibi
- Kakugari
- Perm
- Ryūnosuke's Father
- Cherry
Additional cast[]
- Takuya Fujioka as Mujaki
Quotes[]
- I love Darling, I want to live happily ever after with Darling, his Mom and Dad, Ten, Shutaro and Megane and all his friends. That's MY Dream. - Lum
Trivia[]
- Like Only You, Beautiful Dreamer borrowed heavily from the Japanese fairy tale Urashima Tarō.
- The movie might also be the sequel to the TV series episode 21b.
- It was released between the TV series episodes 99 and 100.
- Last movie animated by Studio Pierrot.
- Last movie directed by Mamoru Oshii.
- As Toho was heavily involved, it's no surprise that Godzilla and multiple of his kaiju co-stars appear in the film. During the events of the film, the main cast watch the 1954 film Gojira in the middle of the film.
- Among the cameos are as follows:
- Alien Baltan (Multiple)
- Kemur Man's Head and later seen when Sakura and Onsen Mark show up at the school.
- Pigmon
- Ultraman
- Kanegon (Multiple)
- Zetton
- Mothra(both adult and larval)
- Megalon
- Alien Icarus
- The Xiliens(the Showa variant, multiple)
- Jamila
- Dr. Serizawa
- Gamera
- Minilla
- Miss Namikawa
- Manda
- The Gotengo
- Alien Zarab
- Moguera
- Godzilla (Showa and the Shodai 1954 Godzillas)
- Antlar
- Alien Godola
- Gekko Kamen
- Super Giant
- Dr. Kyohei Yamane
- Alien Guts
- The Oxygen Destroyer
- King Joe
- A Xenomorph alien mask.
- The Frankenstein Monster's mask.
- C-3P0
- Darth Vader
- The production staff make a cameo being pushed in a jail cell marked "STAFF" during the chaotic opening.
- in the scene where Ataru and the rest of the gang are at his house eating breakfast, the insert song "Jidai Okure no Sakaba" (Ancient Tavern) by Katou Tokiko is featured.
Production[]
The production team for the second Urusei Yatsura film had script problems for half a year - another person was supposed to write the script, but the script that person wrote was scrapped. The deadline for completing the film was getting closer, so Oshii decided to write the script himself. In about a month, Oshii wrote up a plot and storyboards were created.[1]
Release[]
Upon its initial release, the film received mixed responses, generally from the fan community. Criticism was especially given towards Oshii, in which several of them sent him letters containing razor blades.[2]
Beautiful Dreamer was released on DVD by Toho in Japan on September 21, 2002.[3] The release featured both the original mono soundtrack as well as an all-new 5.1 surround audio track, both in Japanese, as well as audio commentaries by Mamoru Oshii, associate director Junji Nishimura, and Shigeru Chiba. A Japanese Blu-ray was planned for release in March 2009 before being cancelled.[4] The Blu-ray was eventually released on January 21, 2015, ranking in third place on the weekly Oricon charts during its release week, with 7,860 copies sold.[5] The Blu-ray lacks the audio commentaries featured in the original DVD release.
Central Park Media (U.S. Manga Corps) released the film on VHS in North America on November 1, 1993 and on DVD on June 8, 2004. The DVD contained a "full-length" directors' commentary by Mamoru Oshii as well as an art gallery. AnimEigo is credited with doing the translation and subtitling of the film on the VHS release, as well as designing the DVD packaging to match the other movies in the series. In 2016, Discotek Media announced they had licensed the film in North America and will release it on DVD and Blu-ray.[6] Discotek released the film on February 27, 2018.[7]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ "Interview with Mamoru Oshii on Urusei Yatsura 2 - Beautiful Dreamer" (Transcript)
- ↑ Napier 2001 p.20
- ↑ "うる星やつら2 ビューティフル・ドリーマー"
- ↑ Link
- ↑ "Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, January 19–25"
- ↑ "Discotek Licenses Arcadia of My Youth, Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer Films, More Lupin Specials"
- ↑ "First of all, we've got a release date you've been waiting over a YEAR for!! URUSEI YATSURA MOVIE 2: BEAUTIFUL DREAMER comes to Blu-Ray and DVD on February 27th, 2018."