General Ginger
English title: General Jinjur Attacks
Foreign title: Le Magicien d'Oz (French)
Series title: オズの魔法使い
- Studio
- Itoman, Panmedia, Cinar
- Animation studio
- Itoman
- Distributor
- Toho Company, Ltd.
Characters
Dorôshi, Tin Woodman, Cowardly Lion, Kakashi [Scarecrow]
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Masaru Tenkauchi, Masaharu Endo, Hiromitsu Morita
- Series Director
- Naishô Tonogawa
Producing
- Producer
- Hiro Obayashi
- Executive Producers
- Katsu Denka
- Producer, English Version
- Ronald A. Weinberg
Writing
- Writer
- Akira Miyazaki, Takafumi Nagamine, Horishi Saito
- Based on the Original Novels The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), The Marvelous La
- L. Frank Baum
Animation
- Animator
- Shinya Takahashi, Minoru Kobata, Akio Sakai, Joji Yanase, Toshio Kaneko
Voices
- Voice
- Sumi Shimamoto (Dorôshi), Takumi Kamiyama (Tin Woodman), Ichirô Nagai (Cowardly Lion), Tadashi Yashuhara (Kakashi [Scarecrow])
- Voice Talent, English Cast
- Morgan Hallet (Dorothy), Lee Tockar (Toto), Ian James Corlett (Scarecrow), Michael Donovan (Lion), Cathy Weseluck (Aunt), Doug Parker (Oz), Scott McNeil (Muchikins)
Music
- Music
- K.S. Yoshimura
- Music Director
- Jô (Joe) Hisaishi
Crew
- Based On The Original Novels By
- L. Frank Baum
- Art Director
- Mariko Kadono
- Design
- Shuichi Seki
- Character Designer
- Jun'ichi Seki
- Production Supervisor
- Katsu Denka
- Storyboards
- Mitsuru Morita, Noburu Tsuji
- Sound Re-Recording
- Shizuo Uragami
- Planning
- Den Kiba, Meiyu Sakai, Shin'ya Takahashi
Production notes
The TV series was first broadcast abroad in 1984, but was not aired in Japan until 1986. Dropped by NHK, the 52 episode series was eventually shown on TV Tokyo, with the final two episodes combined into an hour-long special.
The two separate story arcs were condensed into 90 minutes each for video and released in four two-tape sets.
Note that Dorôshi in this TV series has auburn hair; the Dorôshi in the
The two separate story arcs were condensed into 90 minutes each for video and released in four two-tape sets.
Note that Dorôshi in this TV series has auburn hair; the Dorôshi in the