Steamboy

Steamboy , Suchmubi? is a 2004 Japanese steampunk animated action film produced by Sunrise, directed and cowritten by Katsuhiro Otomo, his second major anime release, following Akira. The film was released in Japan on July 17, 2004. Steamboy is one of the most expensive Japanese animated movies made to date. Additionally, the film was in production for ten years and utilized more than 180,000 drawings and 440 CG cuts.

Three years later, back in England, Edwards son, Ray Steam, is an avid young inventor who works at a textile mill in Manchester as a maintenance boy, often working on a personal steampowered monowheel at home. While he usually lives alone with his mother, his friend Emma and her brother Thomas have recently been sent over to stay until their mother returns from a business trip. Rays life is suddenly disrupted by the arrival of a package from his grandfather Lloyd the metallic ball seen earlier, along with its schematics and a letter instructing him to guard it. Then, Alfred and Jason, two members from a company called The OHara Foundation arrive and attempt to steal the ball, but Lloyd appears just in time to distract them, allowing Ray to escape with the package. With Emmas help, he manages to activate his monowheel as more agents, operating a large steam automotive, give chase, succeeding in thwarting it on a railway line by putting it in the way of an incoming train. By coincidence, Robert Stephenson, who was the intended recipient of the Steam Ball, was on his way to Manchester to meet with the elder Dr. Steam, and happens to be on the train. However, as the train approaches the station, a zeppelin carrying Alfred descends over their compartment and kidnaps Ray, taking the ball with them.Arriving in London, sometime prior to the 1866 Great Exhibition, during a small dining session Ray meets Scarlett OHara, the spoiled granddaughter of the Foundations head chairman Archibald Simon, an administrator of the company and finally his father Edward, who has been partially mechanized for his severe injuries from the Alaskan experiment. He promptly takes Ray and an insistent Scarlett on a tour of the Steam Castle an elaborate facility run by an army of engineers, and entirely powered by the compressed gas in three Steam Balls, one of which was the one sent to Ray. He is enamored both by the castle, and his fathers vision of using it to enlighten mankind. Ray is then qui

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