Nick did a little research into the production costs of several movies. If his figures are accurate, what’s astonishing is not how much Princess Mononoke cost but how little Five Centimeters Per Second and Perfect Blue did.
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Since Amaenaideyo!! has been licensed, I dropped it from the poll at right. It makes little difference; it only received one vote of the seventy-one cast so far.
And I updated with some visual representation of the numbers!
Of course, I got the original budget estimates from IMDB, which claimed that Steamboy set “a new record for the most expensive Japanese animated film. It cost about ¥2.1 billion (US$20 million) to make.”, when it also says that the estimated budget for Princess Mononoke was ¥2,400,000,000. Not that these should sound all that high, with The Incredibles budget of $92,000,000, or even Titan A.E.’s budget of $75,000,000
But it doesn’t change the order of magnitude in difference between those movies and Five Centimeters Per Second and Perfect Blue if those estimates are anywhere close!
And I updated with some visual representation of the numbers!
Of course, I got the original budget estimates from IMDB, which claimed that Steamboy set “a new record for the most expensive Japanese animated film. It cost about ¥2.1 billion (US$20 million) to make.”, when it also says that the estimated budget for Princess Mononoke was ¥2,400,000,000. Not that these should sound all that high, with The Incredibles budget of $92,000,000, or even Titan A.E.’s budget of $75,000,000
But it doesn’t change the order of magnitude in difference between those movies and Five Centimeters Per Second and Perfect Blue if those estimates are anywhere close!