Wonderful Days (2003)

Director:

Moon-saeng Kim

Writers:

Michael Keyes (writer)
Moon-saeng Kim (writer)
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Release Date:

17 July 2003 (South Korea)

Genre:

Action | Fantasy | Animation | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

A fantastic journey to the future begins

Plot:

Civilization has been destroyed by war and pollution, but the survivors have built the last city of Ecoban...

Plot Keywords:

Pollution | Sky | Cloud | Future | Nightmare

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Marc Worden	...	Shua (voice: English version)
Cathy Cavadini	...	Jay / Young Shua / Cheyenne (voice: English version)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Andrew Ableson	...	(voice: English Version)
Joon-ho Chung	...	(voice: Korean version)
David Naughton	...	(voice: English version)
Bob Papenbrook	...	Goliath (voice: English version)
Jamie Simone	...	Dispatcher (voice: English version)
Kirk Thornton	...	Cade (voice: English version)
Karl Wiedergott	...	Moe / Digger Foreman
Hye-jin Yu	...	(voice: Korean version)
Ji-tae Yu	...	(voice: Korean version)

Directed by
Moon-saeng Kim

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Michael Keyes		writer
Moon-saeng Kim		writer
Jay Lender		writer
Jun-Young Park		writer
Sunmin Park		adaptation: English version
Yong-jun Park		writer
Howard Rabinowitz		English Language adaptation
Jeffrey Winter		adaptation: English version
Micah Wright		writer

Produced by
Kay Hwang	....	producer
Kyeong-hak Lee	....	co-producer
J. Ethan Park	....	producer
Sunmin Park	....	producer (English language version)
Jeffrey Winter	....	associate producer

Original Music by
JaeIl Sim
Sam Spiegel
Il Won

Film Editing by
Michael McCusker		(new edition)

Art Direction by
Yoon-cheol Jung
Suk-Young Lee

Production Management
Christopher Bates	....	production manager
Michael Brodersen	....	post-production supervisor
Fred Goeske	....	post-production supervisor

Art Department
Dong-Wook Lee	....	mechanical designer

Special Effects by
Sung-Ho Hong	....	special effects

Visual Effects by
Key Hyung Lee	....	lead animator: vfx
Young-Min Park	....	3D animation supervisor

Animation Department
Yeong-ki Yoon	....	animation director

Other crew
Jeff Abel	....	additional script
Michael Keyes	....	additional script

Production Companies

• End Game Productions Inc.
• Masquerade Films
• Maxmedia
• Tin House Productions

Distributors

• Endgame Entertainment (2004) (USA) (theatrical)
• Future Film (2004) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Tartan Films (2005) (UK) (theatrical)
• Aura Entertainment
• End Game Productions Inc. (2005) (non-USA) (DVD)
• Future Film (2004) (Finland) (DVD)
• Manga Films (Spain)
• Nelonen (2007) (Finland) (TV)
• Palisades Tartan (2009) (UK) (all media)
• Pathé (France)
• Starmedia Home Entertainment (2004) (Germany) (DVD)
• Tartan Video (2005) (UK) (DVD)

Special Effects

• B n B Animation
• Independence Inc.

Also Known As:

Sky Blue (USA)

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

South Korea | USA

Language:

Korean | English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS | Dolby SR (US version)

Certification:

Australia:M | Finland:K-11 | South Korea:All | Germany:12 | UK:15 | USA:Unrated | Ireland:15A | Singapore:PG

Company:

End Game Productions Inc.

Quotes:

Jay: How long is it been raining? Forever. Not forever. No. For a 100 years. They say billions of people once lived on the earth. And the temperatures rose. The great cities fell. And this rain came. This terrible toxic rain. Our ancestors saw it coming. The catastrophe...

Soundtrack:

Smack My Bitch Up

just the English Dub

I had high expectations coming into this and was left feeling somewhat underwhelmed. I've heard that the Korean dub is much better and i wouldn't be surprised because the English dub is woeful. The voice acting is stoic and you can't help but feel that they needlessly manipulated the dialogue to the point where the films tone and message are obliterated. The movie felt cold, I couldn't get involved with any characters, they were well animated, but lacked expression and personality.

However the films saving grace is the animation, an interesting blend of styles that apparently took 7 years to perfect. The backgrounds are stunning, but I think they pushed themselves so far in making it work that they were limited in where they could take the story. I feel that the concept was good but it would have worked better as a series. The characters were under developed and the film felt short and insubstantial considering its ambitious themes.

Despite my disappointment I am eager to see the Korean Dub to see if their is an improvement, but i don't recommend the English Dub.