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Baton (movie)

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Alternative title:
バトン (Japanese)
Themes: cyberpunk, robots
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: It all started with a stowaway... when Apollo, a robot that looks like a human found a Cipher chip. Shortly after that Apollo started to acted strange and Mikaru, his human friend that looks like a robot, took him to the doctors. But nothing is the same as before and soon they're on their run while the truth about the Cipher chip and what had happened to Apollo reveals itself.
User Ratings: 14 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Excellent: -
 Very good: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Good: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Decent: 4 votes (sub:4)
 So-so: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Not really good: 1 vote (others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Weak: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Bad: 1 vote (others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 24 users, rank: #7619 (of 9585)
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 5.143 (So-so), std. dev.: 2.3255, rank: #8777 (of 9708)
Weighted mean: 5.267 (So-so+), rank: #8657 (of 9708) (seen all: 5.28 / won't finish: 5.00)
Bayesian estimate: 6.373 (Decent+), rank: #5624 (of 7289)
Running time: 65 minutes
Vintage: 2009-04-28 to 2009-09-27
Release dates: We have 1
Ending Theme:
"Tsutaete ~ pass it on" by Tomoko Tane
Comment:
Baton is broken into three roughly episode-length segments.
Baton showing exclusively for the 150th anniversary of Yokohama.
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Script: Shunji Iwai
Music: Nobuhiko Morino
Character Design: Masayuki Gotou
Art Director: Antonio Canobbio (Titmouse)
Animation Director: Mark Brooks (Titmouse)
Producer: Shunji Iwai

Animation producer: Eric Calderon (Titmouse)
Attorney: David Smith
Photography: Takumi Furuya
Producer Assistant: Rhona Medina
Theme Song: Tomoko Tane
Aya Ueto as Mikaru
Hayato Ichihara as Apollo
Tatsuya Fujiwara as Cipher

Takashi Naito as Tomboy

Hiroyuki Watanabe as Robot Guard
IZAM as Mysterious Man
Kane Kosugi as Saturn
Kazushi Sakuraba as Robot Guard
Kenji Kohashi as Passenger
Masakatsu Funaki as Hades
Miki Yoshimura as Lucy
Mimura as Hiroko Yazaki
Monsieur Kamayatsu as Observer
NorA as Medusa
Ren Osugi as Dr. Newton
Shintaro Matsubara as Artemis
Japanese companies
Animation: Titmouse
Animation Production Company: Wild Boar Media

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