is a 1987 Japanese

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Plot

Koichiro Kamishiro is an assistant professor at a university who is highly regarded in the field of archaeology and travels around the world to find various antiquities as well as the "Message of God" which relates to the mysterious Hih Tribe. One day while investigating the ruins in the Middle East, he finds a strange cube-shaped stone despite running into several problems. While investigating the mysterious stone, he receives a visit from Miyabi Koto, the daughter of his former teacher. Initially, Kamishiro is not too keen on the idea, but after listening to Miyabi's story, he decides that it is well worth investigating and decides to get involved. However, he was unaware that this would lead to a major revelation involving the "Ten Commandments", a book of divine prophecy. As he along with Isao, Mina, Ginji and Miyabi travel across Japan repeatedly running into the Japanese government, CIA, KGB and even messengers of the Ten Commandments who will stop at no cost to get the Crystal Triangle back, he comes to a realization that the Crystal Triangle may contain the Message of God he was looking for, which is the potential 11th commandment that will prevent the Earth's destruction.

Cast

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: Koichiro Kamishiro *

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: Juno Cassidy *

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: Grigori Yefimovich / Urga *

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: Miyabi Koto /

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: Isao Murakami *

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: Mina Katsuki * Ichiro Nagai: Kukai *

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: The Old Man of

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: Hih Tribe Priest *

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: Ginji Iwagami * Kan Tokumaru: Yoshioka * Banjo Ginga: Dàrén *

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: Genpo * Shinya Otaki: Numata *

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: Ubanishad Master * Michitaka Kobayashi: Minato *

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: Narrator

Production

''Crystal Triangle'' was released in Japan on VHS on July 1, 1987, and August 26, 1987, for its LaserDisc release. A DVD release by SME Visual Works (now

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) was released on August 21, 2002. The anime was animated by Studio Live and was produced by

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and Sony Music Entertainment Japan. Seiji Okuda handled the OVA's direction, while

Toyoo Ashida was an anime character designer, animation director and director. He was most notable for directing the original ''Vampire Hunter D'' anime, as well as for providing character designs for '' Vifam'', ''Mashin Hero Wataru'', '' Minky Momo'' and '' ...

and

Kazuko Tadano is a Japanese animator, character designer, illustrator and animation director. She's mostly known for her character design work for the first two seasons of the 1990s ''Sailor Moon'' anime series. Career Tadano first worked on as an animatio ...

were character designers in the OVA. The OVA was released in the U.S. on VHS and LaserDisc by Central Park Media under their U.S. Manga Corps label in 1993. The U.S. release has since gone out of print following Central Park Media's bankruptcy in 2009. Note: The English dubbed version was dubbed by the Japanese voice actors.

References

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* 1980s adventure films 1987 anime OVAs 1987 films Animated adventure films Japanese adventure films {{anime-film-stub