Steamboy (スãƒ�ーãƒ*ボーイ, SuchÄ«mubÅ�i?) is a Japanese anime film, produced by Sunrise, and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, his second major anime release, following Akira. The film premiered across Japan on July 17, 2004. It was the 2004 recipient of Best Animated Feature Film at the Catalonian International Film Festival. With an initial production cost of $26,000,000, Steamboy is the most expensive full length Japanese anime movie made to date. The movie opens with scenes of Edward and Lloyd working to develop the Steam Ball. They obtain water of "exceptional purity" from a cave in Iceland and then transport it by means of a trans-arctic submarine to Russian Alaska. What is actually happening during this scene isn't explained until later in the movie. As the apparatus strains to perform its function, Edward demands that his father end the experiment. Recklessly, his father won't abort the experiment for fear of wasting the rare water they were using. The apparatus explodes, apparently killing Edward. The Steam Ball remains in the wreckage of the machine. The brief title sequence rolls and the setting shifts to a textile mill in Manchester (1866). Ray is introduced in a sequence where he saves the mill's steam engine and the lives of its operators by heroically crawling into a service compartment below the boiler. Upon emerging, he and the engineer were blamed for the damage to the device by the mill's uncaring manager. According to the English dub, he "pays himself" with a brass valve. On the way home he learns of the London Exhibition and is tormented by the other kids about his "crazy" father and grandfather. During the next scene, a major part of the movie's theme is revealed through a passage that is read by one of his mother's students whom she is tutoring (possibly a younger brother, it isn't clear). The passage is better understood in the subtitled version. It describes the motives of his grandfather and father (before the accident). The plot resumes several scenes later with the arrival of a package, immediately followed by two men in black who introduce themselves as being from the O'Hara Foundation. They never actually say this but Ray's mother says they had come to claim the Steam Ball. Obeying his grandfather's instructions, he refuses and snatches it away from their grasp. Just then Lloyd (the aforementioned grandfather) shows up to help Ray defend the ball. He tells Ray that his father is dead and to flee the scene. Format: [MKV] Dubbed: [English + Japanese + French + Portuguese + Spanish] Subtitles: [English + French + Portuguese + Spanish] Resolution: [704x384] Frame Rate: [23.97] Duration: [2:06:44] Ripped By: [Anime-4Ever] Download: