Steamboy

Steamboy (2004)

スチームボーイ

He will save the future.

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

Date of release
2004-07-17
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (520)
Runtime
2h 6m
Genres
Animation, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Director
Katsuhiro Otomo

Casting

Interesting facts

Steamboy is a 2004 Japanese animated steampunk action film directed and co-written by Katsuhiro Otomo, produced by Sunrise, it is his second major anime as a director, following Akira (1988). The film was released in Japan by Toho on July 17, 2004.

Production

Katsuhiro Otomo first completed a proposal of Steamboy as an original video animation of three 40-minute episodes on June 30, 1994. The pilot storyboard was completed in July of the following year. The film was in production for ten years and utilized more than 180,000 drawings and 440 CG cuts. It had a production budget of ¥2.4 billion, then equivalent to $26,000,000 (equivalent to $44,000,000 in 2025).

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