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Gamba: Gamba to Nakama-tachi (2015)

Gamba: Gamba to Nakama-tachi poster
Original title
GAMBA ガンバと仲間たち
Directed by
Tomohiro Kawamura, Yoshihiro Komori
Genre
adventure film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
PG
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 26 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A brave city mouse named Gamba leads his friends on an adventure to help a new acquaintance. They travel to a distant island to stand up against a group of violent weasels.

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What happens

Gamba: Gamba to Nakama-tachi (Japanese: ガンバと仲間たち), alternately known in English-language releases as Gamba 3D and Air Bound, is a 2015 Japanese 3D CG animated adventure film directed by Tomohiro Kawamura and Yoshihiro Komori, produced by Tetsu Fujimura, Kenichiro Hayafune, Avi Arad and Barry Brooker, and written by Ryota Kosawa. It is based on the 1972 novel Boukenshatachi: Ganba to 15-hiki no Nakama (冒険者たち ガンバと15ひきの仲間, lit. The Adventurers: Gamba and His Fifteen Companions) by Atsuo Saitō and is a remake of the 1975 anime series Gamba no Bouken. It was released in Japan on October 10, 2015. An English-language version was released by SC Films International under the title Gamba 3D in 2015, while retaining the original Japanese names of the characters. Another English-language version was later released in the United States by Lionsgate and Grindstone Entertainment Group under the title Air Bound in 2017 that changed the Japanese names of the characters to English names. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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