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The Little Flying Fish Gets Sick
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The Little Flying Fish Gets Sick

1982-09-01 · 19 min · Not rated

Animation · History · War

The peaceful passage of daily life in the Pacific Ocean is upended in a flash on March 1, 1954, with the first American nuclear test at Bikini Atoll. The far-reaching fallout forever changes the lives of the ocean’s cheerful inhabitants.

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Directors
Noriyuki Itaya, Kazuya Miyazaki
Production companies
Tsubasa Production
Countries
Japan
Status
Released

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Tomoe HiiroTomoe HiiroNarrator (voice)
Shigeru ChibaShigeru Chiba(Voice)
Satomi OkaSatomi Oka(Voice)
Kazuhiko Ohara(Voice)
Takumi Ito(Voice)

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