Details

Release year: 2004

Storyline

In 1860s Britain, a boy inventor finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict over a revolutionary advance in steam power.

Top credits

Directors

Katsuhiro Ôtomo

Writers

Cast

Anne Suzuki — James Ray Steam
Manami Konishi — Scarlett O'Hara St.Johns
Masane Tsukayama — James Edward Steam
Ikki Sawamura — David Chambers

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Did you know

• Began production in 1995 and, because of financial problems, it was put on hiatus during 1998. Production companies Production I.G. and Sunrise got involved and brought the movie back in production. A total of eight years was spent on making the movie.

• A new record for the most expensive Japanese animated movie. It cost about 2.1 billion yen (twenty million U.S. dollars) to make.

• When Ray is walking through the city of Manchester at the beginning, for a few seconds, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels can be seen talking together on the street (Marx is the smaller one with white hair and beard, Engels is the taller one with the mustache). Both men were living in Britain at the time this movie takes place.