Clannad (film)

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Clannad
Regular edition DVD cover.
Directed byOsamu Dezaki
Written byMakoto Nakamura
Jun Maeda (visual novel)
Based onClannad
by Key
Produced byHiroshi Takahashi
Takeshi Oikawa
StarringKenji Nojima
Mai Nakahara
Ryō Hirohashi
Houko Kuwashima
Daisuke Sakaguchi
CinematographyTakeshi Fukuda
Tomokazu Shiratori
Edited byMasahiro Goto
Music byYoshichika Inomata
Animation byMegumi Kadonosono
Yōichi Ōnishi
Production
companies
Distributed byToei Company
Release date
  • September 15, 2007 (2007-09-15)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Clannad is a 2007

Nagisa Furukawa
. It was the final film directed by Dezaki before his death in April 2011.

A promotional campaign took to the streets of

high school uniform from Clannad emerged from the bus to hand out flyers and pink and white colored thundersticks to passersby to promote the film.[2]

Plot

Kyou Fujibayashi
, quickly go around defacing the posters and writing 'invalid' on them because of school policy. This angers Youhei greatly and he beats up one of the student council members despite Tomoyo and Kyou's warning; Tomoya takes a stand for Nagisa.

Sanae
. Tomoya is challenged to a baseball match with Akio to see if Tomoya's a man worthy for Nagisa, but he cannot throw the ball due to an injured shoulder he received from his father in a bad fight, and even gets to stay overnight after being heavily persuaded by Akio.

Like Nagisa, Tomoya has also had a recurring dream ever since he was a child. In his dream, he initially is disembodied in an illusionary world where he is the only thing "alive". He finds a discarded human-sized doll and uses it as a body to travel around the world on an old bicycle. After some searching, he finds a large sakura tree known as the "Tree of Promises" where he believes he will meet the person he has felt is with him in this illusionary world.

When the school festival finally begins, Nagisa reveals that she has not finished the script, but still wants to go on with the play since the story is still within her. Nagisa has her performance in the evening, so in the meantime, Nagisa hangs out with Tomoya and Youhei. During lunch, she tells them her story why she wanted to do drama was due to her parents formally having been theater actors, but they both had to give up acting after Nagisa was born. Nagisa wants to do drama so as to continue her parents' dreams in her footsteps. For the play, Sanae gives Nagisa her wedding dress to use as her costume, much to Akio's surprise. Nagisa starts with her monologue without a hitch, and during her recitation, Kouko gives stage directions to Tomoya and Youhei via headsets. Gradually, Tomoya comes to realize that the story Nagisa is reciting is the same dream that he has had, and is shocked to find that Nagisa also had the same dream of the illusionary world. At the play's conclusion, Tomoya believes that he and Nagisa were meant to be together and confesses his love to her.

Shortly after the festival, Nagisa's health falters once again and she has to take another leave of absence from school, meaning it is not until a year after Tomoya's class graduated that Nagisa is able to graduate high school as well. After this, Tomoya and Nagisa start living together in a small apartment in town while Tomoya is recruited full-time at Yusuke's electrical company as well, Nagisa works part-time as a waitress at a local family restaurant, and Youhei becomes a businessman in Tokyo. Eventually, Nagisa becomes pregnant, but her doctor informs her family and Tomoya that if she gives birth to the child, due to having a weak constitution, she may die in the process. After the meeting, they agree on telling Nagisa. Tomoya and Nagisa's parents take her to the beach where she decides the name

Ushio
for the child. Despite the doctor's warning, she insists that she will be fine. One winter night, Nagisa finally gives birth to a baby girl Ushio and Nagisa dies giving birth. This causes Tomoya to go into a deep depression, during which he does not go to work, or even visit his daughter who is now being raised by Nagisa's parents.

For the past five years, Tomoya's friends try to get him out of his depression, but Tomoya is very stubborn. Then one rainy night, Tomoya's father

Naoyuki Okazaki
comes over and tells Tomoya that he is putting Ushio in the same relationship he did when his mother died, which greatly stuns him. Later, Naoyuki requested Tomoya's friends: Youhei, Tomoyo, Kyou, Kouko, and her husband Yusuke to take him out on a retreat for a few days in order to break his depression, and they drag Tomoya out of his house so fast he does not even know what is going on. Once they tell him on the train, Tomoya is dead set on going back home but Yusuke convinces him to stay. When they arrive at their destination, Tomoya searches for another platform at the station, anticipating this, Akio and Sanae were waiting for him with Ushio. Just as Tomoya begins to walk away, his friends arrive blocking his way, then Tomoya turns around back at Ushio, she runs towards him holding a stuffed dango. She trips midway which makes Tomoya leap out and catch her. Picking her up with them smiling, he is able to see the continuation of his old dream once more, and sees Nagisa under the Tree of Promises smiling lovingly at him and Ushio.

Production

The film was first announced to be in production at the Tokyo Anime Fair on March 23, 2006 for a planned 2007 release by

Kanon anime television series in 2002, and the Air film in 2005, two other anime adapted from visual novels originally made by Key. Finally, the film was directed by Osamu Dezaki, who has been involved with animation direction since the first Astro Boy
anime in 1963, and had previously directed the Air film.

Media releases

DVDs

A set of three

drama CD, and a bonus DVD.[4] The Regular Edition contained no special features and was sold in a normal DVD case containing only the film DVD.[4] Anime licensor Sentai Filmworks licensed the film and released the film in both English-subtitled and dubbed format in March 2011.[5]

Music

A

film's original soundtrack
was released on November 21, 2007 by Frontier Works.

References

  1. ^ "Tokyo Anime Fair: New Kanon and Movies". Anime News Network. March 25, 2006. Retrieved July 22, 2007.
  2. ^ "Clannad film promotional campaign in Akihabara" (in Japanese). Retrieved July 24, 2007.
  3. ^ "Preview DVDs released" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on June 15, 2007. Retrieved July 24, 2007.
  4. ^ a b c d "DVD information at the film's official website" (in Japanese). Toei Animation. Archived from the original on October 3, 2010. Retrieved February 4, 2012.
  5. ^ "Sentai Filmworks Adds Clannad Anime Film with Dub, Sub". Anime News Network. November 13, 2010. Retrieved November 14, 2010.

External links

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