Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37404 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-05-30
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Animated, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, Japanese
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 96 minutes

Additional Features
The "Extras" disc includes brief interviews with director Kazuki Akane, composer Yoko Kanno, voice actress/singer Maaya Sakamoto, English voice actress Kelly Sheridan (Hitomi), and three of the film's producers. Most of the subjects limit their remarks to "we tried to do our best, we hope you like the film." But one really spontaneous moment occurs when Kanno turns to Akane and tells the interviewer, "He's an inarticulate person; he puts into the project whatever he does not say face-to-face in real life." The footage of the first U.S. screening at the 2000 Anime Expo in Anaheim, California, and of a Korean/Japanese preview in Fukoka is awkwardly shot. On the CD of Kanno's eclectic score, the Carmina Burana-esque theme song from the TV series occurs near the end as "Dance of Curse II." This nicely packaged set is for hard-core Escaflowne fans, rather than general viewers. --Charles Solomon