Juvenile

Juvenile


BOYS MEET THE FUTURE JUVENILE (ジュブナイル)
Boys Meet the Future: Juvenile (Jubunairu)

Director
Screenplay
VFX
Conceptual Design
Takashi Yamazaki
Music Yasuaki Shimizu
Photography Kozo Shibasaki
Lighting Nariaki Ueda
Art Anri Jojo
Sound Kazuo Miyauchi
Editor Yoshio Kitazawa
Technical Director
Digital Compositor
Kiyoko Shibuya
Production Companies Fuji Television, Media Factory, Shogakukan, IMAGICA, Mitsui & Co., JR East Japan, Shirogumi, ROBOT
Release Date July 15, 2000
Runtime 105 minutes

BOYS MEET THE FUTURE JUVENILE (ジュブナイル)
Boys Meet the Future: Juvenile (Jubunairu)

Director
Screenplay
VFX
Conceptual Design
Takashi Yamazaki
Music Yasuaki Shimizu
Photography Kozo Shibasaki
Lighting Nariaki Ueda
Art Anri Jojo
Sound Kazuo Miyauchi
Editor Yoshio Kitazawa
Technical Director
Digital Compositor
Kiyoko Shibuya
Production Companies Fuji Television, Media Factory, Shogakukan, IMAGICA, Mitsui & Co., JR East Japan, Shirogumi, ROBOT
Release Date July 15, 2000
Runtime 105 minutes

While at summer camp, a group of children stumble upon a small robot, which calls itself Tetra. Yusuke, a robot fan, decides to keep it and takes it home. He collects parts for Tetra, who constructs strange machines to aid it in its mysterious purposes. Tetra’s needs eventually lead Yusuke to Kanzaki, a repairman and amateur physicist who collects the latest technology. Kanzaki is fascinated by Tetra, and allows it to use his internet.

Tetra disappears without warning, and Yusuke is heartbroken. Meanwhile, a shapeshifting alien has appeared and confronted Kanzaki. Yusuke and his friends help subdue the alien and save Kanzaki. Kanzaki learns from studying the alien’s technology that they have the means to capture all of the water in earth’s oceans. The alien’s convoy is here to do just that, in order to revive their dying planet. However, they must first eliminate advanced technology that could hinder their plans, namely Tetra. The alien kidnaps Misaki, one of Yusuke’s friends, and demands they surrender Tetra in exchange for her freedom. Tetra reappears with an armored robot for Yusuke to pilot. Yusuke uses the robot to attack and board the alien’s vessel, where he attempts to free Misaki. The alien captures him instead an recovers a water capturing device to send back to the mothership. The device, however, is already full capacity, and Misaki activates it before the alien transmits it. When the mothership receives it, the device floods a critical part of the alien structure, effectively crippling the aliens’ operation. Tetra helps Yusuke and Misaki escape, but is fatally wounded by aliens. As Tetra shuts down, it ejects a memory disk in a format that has yet to be invented. Yusuke resolves to study hard and gain the skills he needs to repair Tetra in the future.

Twenty years later, when Yusuke is a grown man, he learns of the announcement of the new data format that had been used to build Tetra. Yusuke then realizes that it was he, as an adult, who had created Tetra in the first place. Utilizing Kanzaki’s advanced physics research, he and his old friends develop a wormhole to send a new Tetra back in time to meet with them as kids, while the old Tetra looks on.

Top Billed Cast

Shingo Katori
Soichiro Kanzaki
Miki Sakai
Noriko Kinoshita
Anne Suzuki
Misaki Kinoshita
Yuya Endo
Yusuke Sakamoto
Kyotaro Shimizu
Hidetaka Ono
Yuki
Toshiya Matsuoka
Kinzo Sakura
Junkyard Manager
Katsumi Takahashi
Yusuke's Father
Kuniko Asagi
Yusuke's Mother
Kazue Tsunogae
Candy Shop Woman
Takashi Matsuo
Misawa
Yuji Ogata
Electronics Shop Owner
Hiroshi Tahara
Researcher
Masaomi Hiraga
Captain
Nobuhiko Kuroki
First Mate
Yuo Yamane
Sailor Toyama
Kenichiro Tanabe
Sailor Yamaguchi
Kazushige Komatsu
Takanoda's Father
Laura Umihara
Takanoda's Mother
Jun Mizukami
Mitsuharu Takanoda
Miki Kitabayashi
Woman on Date
Satoshi Tanihata
Man on Date
Shojiro Suzuki
Youth
Kenji Noritomo
Youth
Megumi Hayashibara
Tetra (Voice), Researcher
Isao Takeno
Alien Void (Voice)
Jay Kabira
Hidetaka Ono (Adult)
Ko Takasugi
Toshiya Matsuoka (Adult)
Tamaki Ogawa
Misaki Kinoshita (Adult)
Hidetaka Yoshioka
Yusuke Sakamoto (Adult)
Top Billed Cast

Soichiro Kanzaki
Shingo Katori

Noriko Kinoshita
Miki Sakai

Misaki Kinoshita
Anne Suzuki

Yusuke Sakamoto
Yuya Endo

Hidetaka Ono
Kyotaro Shimizu

Toshiya Matsuoka
Yuki

Junkyard Manager
Kinzo Sakura

Yusuke's Father
Katsumi Takahashi

Yusuke's Mother
Kuniko Asagi

Candy Shop Woman
Kazue Tsunogae

Misawa
Takashi Matsuo

Electronics Shop Owner
Yuji Ogata

Researcher
Hiroshi Tahara

Captain
Masaomi Hiraga

First Mate
Nobuhiko Kuroki

Sailor Toyama
Yuo Yamane

Sailor Yamaguchi
Kenichiro Tanabe

Takanoda's Father
Kazushige Komatsu

Takanoda's Mother
Laura Umihara

Mitsuharu Takanoda
Jun Mizukami

Woman on Date
Miki Kitabayashi

Man on Date
Satoshi Tanihata

Youth
Shojiro Suzuki

Youth
Kenji Noritomo

Tetra (Voice)

Researcher
Megumi Hayashibara

Alien Void (Voice)
Isao Takeno

Hidetaka Ono (Adult)
Jay Kabira

Toshiya Matsuoka (Adult)
Ko Takasugi

Misaki Kinoshita (Adult)
Tamaki Ogawa

Yusuke Sakamoto (Adult)
Hidetaka Yoshioka