• Credits

    Produced and Directed by
    Hironobu Sakaguchi

    Produced by
    Jun Aida

    Co-Director
    Moto Sakakibara

    Produced by
    Chris Lee

    Original story by
    Hironobu Sakaguchi

    Written by
    Al Reinert
    Jeff Vintar

    Music Composed by
    Elliot Goldenthal

    Music Supervisor
    Richard Rudolph

    Associate Producer
    Katsuhiko Toyota

    Casting and Voice Director
    Jack Fletcher

    CAST
    (in order of appearance)

    Doctor Aki Ross
    Ming-Na

    Captain Gray Edwards
    Alec Baldwin

    Ryan
    Ving Rhames

    Neil
    Steve Buscemi

    Jane
    Peri Gilpin

    Doctor Sid
    Donald Sutherland

    General Hein
    James Wood

    Council Member #1
    Keith David

    Council Member #2
    Jean Simmons

    Major Elliot
    Matt McKenzie

    Animation Director
    Andy Jones

    Line Producer
    Deirdre Morrison

    Editor
    Christopher S. Capp

    Staging Director
    Tani Kunitake

    Computer Graphics Supervisor
    Gary Mundell

    Sequence Supervisors
    Eiji Fujii
    Hiroyuki Hayashida
    Kenichi Isaka
    Takumi Kimura
    Claude Precourt
    Steve Preeg
    Teru "Yosh" Yoshida

    Layout Supervisor
    Takashi Kubota

    Character Supervisor
    Taiji Okusawa

    Creature Supervisor
    Takao Noguchi

    Sets & Props Supervisor
    Tadao Odaka

    Lighting Supervisor
    David Seager

    Visual Effects Art Director
    Takahiko Akiyama

    Visual Effects Supervisor
    Remo Balcells

    Compositing Supervisor
    Kazuyuki Hashimoto

    Motion Capture Directors
    Jack Fletcher
    Remington Scott

    Motion Capture Supervisor
    Yoshinobu Shima

    Production Systems Supervisor
    Troy Brooks

    Production Software Supervisor
    Shinichi Soeda

    System Director
    Koichi Ise

    System Administration Supervisor
    Masayuki Kasuya

    Rendering & Shading Supervisor
    Kevin Bjorke

    Image Supervisor
    Michael Gibson

    Computer Graphics Producer
    Cameron Stevning

    ART
    Conceptual Design Artist
    Kazunori Nakazawa

    Concept Artists
    Eric Brown
    Patrick Janicke
    Thomas Roland Johnson
    Tony Kim
    Joseph Moro
    Shuko Murase
    Nobuhito Sue

    Mechanical Designer
    Yoshinori Sayama

    Storyboard Artists
    John Fox
    Trevor Goring
    Raymond Harvie
    Tim Holtrop
    Ed Klautky
    Shinsaku Kozuma
    Mark Moretti
    Akira Oguro
    Masao Okubo
    Marc Vena
    Masahito Yamatrouta

    LAYOUT
    Layout Artists
    Yoshinori Kanada
    Shinichi Kimura
    Yoshihiro Kitano
    Mamoru Kurosawa
    Andrea Maiolo
    Yuichi Nakamura
    Hideki Suda

    Layout Assistant
    Yasushi Matsumura

    ANIMATION
    Lead Character Animators

    Doctor Aki Ross
    Roy Sato

    Captain Gray Edwards
    Toby M. Haruno
    Ben Rush

    Ryan
    Christopher Erin Walsh

    Neil
    Jay Randall

    Jane
    Alice Kaiserian

    Doctor Sid
    Louis LeFebvre

    General Hein
    Matthew T. Hackett

    Major Elliot
    Timothy Heath

    Lead Animator
    Jongbo Kim

    Character Animators
    Robin Akin
    Walton Burgwyn
    Kelly Hartigan Goldstein
    Yoshinobu Inano
    Yung Sheng Jong
    Michael Kitchen
    Kanji Nishida
    Kunihiko Noguchi
    Jeff Schu
    Eric Weiss
    Kazuyoshi Yaginuma
    Cindy Yamauchi

    CHARACTER
    Original Character Design by
    Shuko Murase

    Lead Character Artist
    Steven Eric Giesler

    Character Artists
    Francisco A. Cortina
    Veronique Garcia
    Koichi Iwatsuka
    Tatsuya Kosaka
    Rene Morel
    Jeremy Ray

    Cloth Simulation Artists
    Patricia Pawlak
    Cheryl Rye

    Character Technical Directors
    Benjamin Cheung
    Naotaka Horiguchi
    Ayumu Imaizumi
    Kevin M. Ochs

    CREATURE
    Creature Design by
    Yasushi Nirasawa

    Creature Technical Director
    Yoshinori Moriizumi

    Creature Effects Artists
    Koji Kawamura
    Kengo Takeuchi
    Koji Tanaka
    Takuji Tomooka
    Masahito Yoshioka

    SETS & PROPS
    Lead Sets & Props Artists
    Daniel Casey
    Andrew Harbeck
    Hiroshi "Duck" Kamohara
    Koji Kobayashi
    Tatsuro Maruyama
    Bo Mosley

    Sets & Props Artists
    Sergia Garcia Abad
    Eriko Arata
    Robert Bourgeault
    Karl Coyner
    James Dargie
    Alejandro Gil
    Takuya Hada
    Takehiko Hoashi
    Masahisa Kaneko
    Jae Kim
    Lisa Kim
    Edmund Leo
    Takahiro Matsuhira
    Clear Menser
    Andrea Merlo
    Motohito Nasu
    Behrooz Roozbeh
    Jake Rowell
    Aoya Shigematsu
    Eric Sterner
    Suan Ching Tan
    Michael Withem

    Texture Artists
    Claudia Candia
    Robin Foley
    Takayuki Hayashi
    Hiroshi Mori

    Graphic Designers
    Kanwa Nagafuji
    Osamu Yamazaki

    LIGHTING
    Lead Lighting Artists
    Angela M. Eliasz
    Greg Lev
    John Monos
    Jeff Stern

    Lighting Artists
    Bela Brozsek
    Herman Cheng
    Mark De La Garza
    Michael Foley
    Haskell Friedman
    Riki Fujimoto
    Hsun Ho
    Yoshihito Ikuta
    Ryan Leasher
    Stanley Miskiewicz
    Frank Ritlop
    Saba Roufchaie
    Hiroyuki Setrouta
    Michiko Setrouta
    Don Taylor
    Carlos A. Vidal

    VISUAL EFFECTS
    Lead Visual Effects Artists
    Yasuko Asakura
    Spencer Knapp
    Gustav Melich
    David Tanner
    Joanne Thiel

    Visual Effects Artists
    Jeffrey Benoit
    Andy Chen
    Matthew Davies
    Petronella Evers
    Michael Fadollone
    Steven Galle
    David Howe
    Kenneth Ibrahim
    Muqeem Khan
    Mach Tony Kobayashi
    Hae-Jeon Lee
    Rosa Lin
    Jeffrey Martin
    Sandor Rabb
    Michael Rivero
    Robert Shrider
    Neville Spiteri
    Paul van Camp

    MATTE PAINTING
    Digital Matte Painters
    Ronald Bushaw
    Roger Gibbon
    Roger Kupelian
    Richard Mahon
    Craig Mullins
    Christian Lorenz Scheurer
    Masahiko Tani
    Kazumasa Uchio

    COMPOSITING
    Senior Compositor
    Tim Crosbie

    Lead Compositors
    Miku Kayama
    Stephen R. Lunn
    Ron Roberts
    Yasuharu Yoshizawa

    Compositors
    Jonathan Bowen
    Sonia Calvert
    Feric Yi Feng
    Jerry Hall
    Lily Vasconcellos Ibbotson
    Kory Juul
    Don Klingler
    Tetsuo Maeda
    William McCoy
    Heiji Moritrouta
    Adam K. Moura
    Hideto Ozaki
    Geoffrey Richardson
    Joshua Saeta
    Andrew Schwartz
    Tomoko Shin
    Sharmishtha Sohoni
    Kat Szuminska
    Linda Tremblay

    EDITORIAL
    Associate Editor
    Keiichi Kojima

    First Assistant Editor
    William Steinberg

    Assistant Editor
    Patrick Day Kennedy

    RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
    Manager
    Kaveh Kardan

    Senior Programmers
    Gerard Banel
    Per Christensen
    Li-Han Chen
    Toshi Kato
    Shiro Kawai
    Jack Liao
    Hitoshi Nishimura

    Programmers
    Paolo Costabel
    Tadashi Endo
    Peter Ju
    Junichi Kimura
    Cyriaque Kouadio
    Yong Hwam Lee
    Tamotsu Maruyama
    Bernd Raabe
    Jonathan Rice
    Jun Saito
    Andrei Sherstyuk
    Shawn Taras

    Coordinators
    Ayumi Baba
    Masahiro Yoshida

    MOTION CAPTURE
    Motion Capture Engineers
    Udai Haraguchi
    Matthew Karnes

    Set Designer
    Ron Perry

    Motion Capture Staff
    James Brennan
    Gemini Burke
    Jamie Dixon
    Tori Mei-Lin Eldridge
    Rod Gnapp
    Wesley Mann
    Matt McKenzie
    Michael Scott Ryan
    Erik Subusch

    Motion Capture Director
    Bradley G. Bate

    SOFTWARE & SYSTEMS
    Production Software Programmers
    Motohisa Adachi
    Scot Brew
    Atsushi Ebisawa
    Junko Igarashi
    Saed Mirsepassi
    Koji Nagashima
    Seymour
    Shinya Yarimizo

    System Administration
    Takaaki Cho
    Tomohiro Haysaka
    Yuji Sato
    Bryce Watanabe
    Yukiko Yamanaka

    System Administration Assistants
    Mikiko Nagakura Cronin
    Etsuko Ono
    Chikako Teratrouta

    RENDERING & TECHNICAL SUPPORT
    Rendering Technical Directors
    Kelly Cowles
    Michael Fu
    Bret Hughes
    Satomi Uchida

    Sequence Technical Directors
    Jay Carina
    Tetsuichiro Kitagawa
    Ken Saito
    Eric Salituro
    Kiyoshi Shigenaga

    Rendering Technical Assistants
    Anthony Higa
    Judith Kazel
    Catherine Mistunaga
    Chih-Chieh (Michael) Yang

    Data Wranglers
    Jason J.K. Antonio
    Michael Bush
    Wai Chi Chan
    Cindy P.Y. Chu
    Duane Joseph Dubuque
    Sean Eyestone
    Christine L. Galiza
    Russell Jaralba
    Ken Kyung Nam Kang
    Michael K. Koga
    Samson Lee
    Ronnie Livingston
    Steve Luh
    Cuong Nguyen
    Reid Oishi
    Christopher Richmond
    Joseph Tumpap
    Holly S. Yokomichi

    PRODUCTION
    Production Managers
    Hiroyoshi Hamada
    Kaoru Hiyama Rogers
    Terri Sasaki
    Kenji Takemoto

    Computer Graphics Managers
    Ivy Agregan
    Rei Matsuoka
    Naoko Muldowney
    Ken Niiyama
    Meghan Nishimizu
    Kay Sasatomi
    Hiroshi Tanaka

    Post Production Manager
    Kerry Shea

    Editorial Manager
    Heather Elisa Hill

    Editorial Coordinator
    Keiko Shinozuka

    VFX Manager
    Christopher Paizis

    Production Coordinators
    Mayumi Arakaki
    Artemio de Pala
    Christina de Silva
    Thomas Hendrickson
    Keiko Jaffuel
    Noriko Wada
    Caroline Winkler

    Production Assistants
    Minori Hashimoto Hung
    Kathy Keegan
    Yoshiko Mayeaux
    Sherry Sasuga
    Maya Zibung

    Associate Producer
    Dan Kletzky

    Additional Production Support by the Following:
    DIGITAL FRONTIER INC.
    Compositor
    Yasuhiro Ohtsuka

    ITOCHU TECHNO-SCIENCE CORPORATION

    KUSANAGI CO., LTD.

    Director
    Yoji Nakaza

    Designers
    Hideyasu Narita
    Tadashi Iwasa
    Kazuo Ogura
    Ken Arai
    Kazuyuki Hashimoto
    Sadahiko Tanaka

    PHOTOGENIC CO., LTD.

    Director
    Kazuki Akane

    POLYGON PICTURES INC.
    Director
    Toshifumi Kawahara

    OVERLOAD CO., LTD.
    Shuji Asano

    OZ COMPANY CO., LTD.
    Ko Yokoyama

    SHIROGUMI INC.
    Producer
    Toshio Yamamoto

    CG Designers
    Shoichi Matsubara
    Takayuki Taketa
    Semin Tho
    Yoshihiro Komori

    Conceptual Designer
    Hitoshi Yoneda

    Mechanical Designers
    Shinji Aramaki
    Rei Nakahara

    Pre Production Writers
    Giti Ohtsuka
    Shigeru Kimiya

    Makeup Artist
    Daisuke Dobashi

    Lighting Artist
    Shigeki Hayashi

    POST PRODUCTION
    Post Production Sound Services provided by
    SKYWALKER SOUND,
    a division of LUCAS DIGITAL LTD., LLC
    Marin County, California

    Sound Design
    Randy Thom

    Re-recording Mixers
    Randy Thom
    Gary Rizzo

    Supervising Sound Editor
    Dennis Leonard

    ADR Editor
    Sue Fox

    Sound Effects Editor
    David C. Hughes

    Foley Editor
    Andrea Stelter Gard

    Supervising Assistant
    Erich Stratmann

    Sound Design Assistant
    Stuart McCowan

    Effects Assistant
    Colin O'Neill

    ADR Assistant
    Sam Hinkley

    Sound Design Apprentice
    Mac Smith

    Foley Artists
    Dennie Thorpe
    Jana Vance

    Foley Mixer
    Tony Eckert

    Foley Recordist
    Frank "Pepe" Merel

    Additional Sound Effects Editing
    Bob Shoup
    David Farmer
    Jim McKee
    Chris Scarabosio
    Andea Stelter Gard

    Sound Effects Assistants
    Doug Winningham
    Dee Selby

    Mix Technician
    Grabriel Guy

    Re-Recordist
    Ron Roumas

    Machine Room Operators
    Steve Romanko
    Sean England

    Digital Transfer
    Jonathan Greber
    Christopher Barron
    Tim Burby
    John Countryman

    Video Services
    Ed Dunkley
    John "J.T." Torrijos

    Engineering Services
    John Taylor
    Chris Barnett

    Digital Editorial Services
    David Hunter
    Brian Chumney
    Noah Katz

    Client Services
    Mike Lane
    Eva Napolean
    Megan Fouts
    Gordon NG

    Additional Dialog by
    Jack Fletcher

    Action Sequence Director
    Coling Fong

    Casting Agent
    Anna Fishburn

    ADR Voice Casting
    Barbara Harris

    ADDITIONAL CAST
    BCR Soldier #1, Space Station Technician #2
    John Demita

    BFW Soldier #1
    John Dimaggio

    Space Station Technician #3
    Alex Fernandez

    Space Station Technician #1 & 4
    David Rasner

    Scan Technician
    Dwight Schultz

    Additional Voices
    Matt Adler
    Steve Alterman
    David Arnott
    Catherine Cavadini
    Lanei Chapman
    Vicki Davis
    John Demita
    Judi Durand
    Greg Finley
    Jack Fletcher
    Julia Fletcher
    Barbara Iley
    David McCharen
    Tracy Metro
    David Michie
    Richard Penn
    David Randolph
    Andrea Taylor


    Music Produced by
    Gohl / McLaughlin with Elliot Goldenthal


    Supervising Music Editor
    Curtis Roush


    Orchestration by
    Robert Elhai
    Elliot Goldenthal

    Recorded and Mixed by
    Joel Iwataki

    Electronic Music Producer
    Richard Martinez

    Music Performed by
    London Symphony Orchestra & London Voices

    Solo Vocal by
    Lara Fabian

    Conducted by
    Dirk Brosse

    Recorded at
    Watford Hall & Air Lyndurst,
    England
    Mixed at
    Manhattan Center Studios,
    New York
    Assistant Engineer
    Lawrence Manchester

    Music Preparation
    Vic Fraser

    Soundtrack on
    Sony Classical / Sony Music Soundtrax

    MUSIC
    "The Dream Within"
    Written by Elliot Goldenthal and Richard Rudolph
    Produced by Elliot Goldenthal and Teese Gohl
    Performed by Lara Fabian
    Courtesy of Columbia Records

    "Spirit dreams inside"
    Written by hyde
    English translation by Lynne Hobday
    Performed by L'Arc~en~Ciel
    Produced and Arranged by L'Arc~en~Ciel and Hajime Okano
    Courtesy of Ki/oon Records, a Group of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.

    Negative Cutter
    Gary Burrit

    Color Timers
    Mike Hatzer
    Jim Passon

    Processing by
    Consolidated Film Industries

    Special Thanks to
    Sony Corporation
    Norio Ohga
    Nobuyuki Idei
    Kunitake Ando
    Teruhisa Tokunaka
    Masayuki Nozoe
    Ken Kutaragi

    Thanks to everyone at Square who supported this production

    SQUARE USA
    Senior Vice President
    Akio Sakai

    Senior Vice President/Legal Affairs
    Junichi O. Yanagihara

    Senior Vice President and CFO
    Yoshiyuki Ishiguro

    Vice President and Controller
    Hiroko I. Marcinkowski

    Vice President, OFC Admin
    Shinichiro Kajitani

    Director of Human Resources
    Debbie Yatogo

    Human Resources Assistant
    Yuki Adams

    Public Relations Managers
    Grace McNamee
    Yumi Ozaki

    Administration Manager
    Naoko Tunnicliff

    Administration
    Christopher Flynn
    Stephanie James
    Naoko Kanai
    Miho Kurashina
    Lani Mathews

    Executive Assistants
    Mie Reynolds
    Miki Yoshida

    Accounting Manager
    Mikiko Sugihara-Dote

    Accounting
    Michelle Abe
    Misako Kawakami
    Nancy A. Toepfer
    Carolyn Cavins

    SQUARE GROUP COMPANIES
    Masafumi Miyamoto
    Moyuki Takechi
    Tetsuo Mizuno
    Hisashi Suzuki
    Yoichi Wada
    Kenichi Omae
    Makoto Naruke

    Yoko Yasuoka
    Terufumi Mikasa
    Haruhiko Nishida
    Yasuo Nakagawa

    Akitoshi Kawazu
    Hiromichi Tanaka
    Shinji Hashimoto
    Toru Morita
    Koji Yamatrouta
    Koichi Ishii
    Yoshinori Kitase
    Yasumi Matsuno
    Yusuke Hirata
    Masashi Hiramatsu
    Hideaki Moritrouta

    Jun Iwasaki
    Yuji Shibata

    Tom Yoshikai
    Takuya Okada
    Yuko Tomizawa

    Akira Kashiwagi
    Yasutaka Kiriya
    Kazuyoshi Murakawa
    Toshiaki Nagashima
    Tadashi Nomura
    Michio Okamiya
    Yasunori Orikasa
    Yoshinori Suzuki
    Satoshi Tsukamoto
    Izumi Tsukushi

    Kazuhiko Aoki
    Katsunobu Iida
    Hiroyuki Itou
    Hiroshi Kuwabara
    Hideo Minaba
    Yusuke Naora
    Ken Narita
    Tetsuya Nomura
    Shiyu Rimoto
    Takshi Tokita

    Hiroshi Arai
    Mikiko Ebata
    Akira Fujii
    Tomohiro Hayasaka
    Kimie Inagi
    Nobuko Izumida
    Yoshinori Kamei
    Miduki Kubo
    Norimichi Kurosawa
    Hideyuki Matsumoto
    Yasushi Matsumura
    Miyuki Miyazaki
    Mie Mizushima
    Hiromi Nagahara
    Noriko Watanabe

    Andrew Shiozaki
    Yuji Okada
    Kyoko Yamatrouta
    Troy Boren
    Andy Hsu
    Mari Nishikawa
    Yasushi Kurosawa

    SQUARE SOUNDS CO., LTD.
    Nobuo Uematsu
    Masashi Hamauzu
    Ryo Yamazaki
    Hitoshi Sakimoto
    Eiji Nakamura
    Shojiro Nakoka

    FINAL FANTASY FILMPARTNERS
    (in alphabetical order)
    AMUSE INC.
    BANDAI CO., LTD.
    DENTSU INC.
    DIGICUBE CO., LTD>
    GAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    HUMAX PICTURES INC.
    SQUARE CO., LTD.

    Dialog Recorded at
    SCEENMUSIC STUDIOS

    Additional Digital Compositing Services by
    PHOTON VFX

    Editorial and Compositing Tools by
    AVID/SOFTIMAGE

    Rendered by
    RENDERMAN

    Network Hardware and Support by
    Honcad Corporation

    3-D Software
    Maya

    Additional Rendering Services by
    WAM!NET

    Laser Film Recording by
    iFILM

    Special Thanks to
    The United Stats Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
    The State of Hawaii and the People of Hawaii
    Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism Hawaii Film Office
    Nippon Television Network Corporation
    Sony Computer Entertainment INC.
    Sony Hawaii, INC.
    Alias Wavefront
    O'Melveny & Myers LLP
    Stephen Scharf, ESQ.
    Christopher Breaton, ESQ.
    Ilanna Bavli, ESQ.
    Iris R. Okawa, ESQ./The Pacific Law Group
    Brandon C. Valvo, ESQ.
    Signature Theaters, Dole Cannery

    Additional Special Thanks to
    Tokyo Mode Gakuen
    Yakiniku Hiroshi
    First Hawaiian Bank
    T&M Food Service
    Imari Take Out

    Kentaro Kawai
    Kensuke Tanaka
    Kazuhiko Yorishima
    Michael Basket
    Hitoshi Takemura
    Akira Saito
    Norio Hiruma

    Eiko Sakaguchi and Aya Sakaguchi
    Yoko, Yuka and Takuya Aida

    In Memory of
    Jack Liao
    (1967 - 2001)



    Color by Deluxe
    Motion Picture Association of America
    Sony Dynamic Digital Sound
    Digital DTS Sound
    Dolby Surround



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    This motion picture photoplay is protected pursuant to the provisions of the laws of the United States of America and other countries.
    Any unauthorized duplication and/or distribution of this photoplay may result in civil liability and criminal prosection.

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