Ballad

Overview

Based on the plot of an award-winning Crayon Shin-chan animated movie from 2002, a boy named Shinichi (Takei) does the time-traveling and meets a feared general named Ijiri Matabei (Kusanagi). Ijiri is in love with Princess Ren (Aragaki) who subsequently rejects an arranged marriage to Okura Itakatora (Osawa), a powerful daimyo of northern Kanto. Enraged by the rejection, Okura sends a large army to Ijiri's smaller state and it's up to Shinichi to change their destiny.

Cast

Tsuyoshi Kusanagi

Matabe Ijiri

Yui Aragaki

Princess Renheme

Takao Osawa

Itakatora Ohkura

Yui Natsukawa

Misako Kawakami

Michitaka Tsutsui

Akira Kawakami

Akashi Takei

Shinichi Kawakami

Production Crew

Takashi Yamazaki

Director

Y

Yoshito Usui

Writer

T

Toshiyuki Matsui

Producer

C

Chikahiro Ando

Producer

Shuji Abe

Executive Producer

M

Michihiko Umezawa

Executive Producer