Cast & Crew

Directed by

Takeo Nakamura

Writing Credits

Shintarô Tsuji
(story)
E.T.A. Hoffmann
(story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King")
Thomas Joachim
(adaptation) &
Eugene A. Fournier
(adaptation) (as Eugene Fournier)

Cast

Michele Lee
Narrator
Melissa Gilbert
Clara
Lurene Tuttle
Aunt Gerda
Christopher Lee
Uncle Drosselmeyer / Street Singer / The Puppeteer / The Watchmaker (voice)
Jo Anne Worley
Queen Morphia
Ken Sansom
Chamberlain / The Poet Wiseman (voice)
Dick Van Patten
King Goodwin
Roddy McDowall
Franz / Fritz (voice)
Mitchel Gardner
The Indian Wiseman / The Viking Wiseman (voice)
Jack Angel
The Chinese Wiseman / The Executioner / Gar (voice)
Gene Moss
Otto Von'Atra / The French Wiseman / Clovis (voice)
Eva Gabor
Queen of Time
Joan Gerber
Mice Voices
Maxine Fisher
Mice Voices
Robin Haffner
Princess Mary
Kin'ya Aikawa
Executioner
Hisao Dazai
Chamberlain
Arihiro Fujimura
French Wiseman
Shunji Fujimura
Indian Wiseman
Atsuko Ichinomiya
Queen Morphia
Ichiyô Itô
Prussian Wiseman
Shirô Kishibe
Corpulent Rat
Haruko Kitahama
Gypsy Fortuneteller
Shinji Maki
British Wiseman
Kiiton Masuda
King Goodwin
Shûichirô Moriyama
Poet
Hiroyuki Nagato
Doctor of Letters
Shizue Natsukawa
Aunt Gerda
Kô Nishimura
Uncle Drosselmeyer / Strange Old Woman / The Puppeteer / Watchmaker (voice)
Jirô Sakagami
Chinese Wiseman
Tarô Shigaki
Franz / Fritz (voice)
Kaoru Sugita
Clara
Yukari Uehara
Princess Mary
Takao Yamada
Shunruru
Kyosen Ôhashi
Russian Wiseman

Produced by

Walt deFaria
producer
Mark L. Rosen
producer
Atsushi Tomioka
producer (as Arthur Tomioka)
Shintarô Tsuji
executive producer

Cinematography by

Fumio Otani
Aguri Sugita
Ryoji Takamori

Editing by

Takeo Nakamura
Nobuo Ogawa
Jack Woods

Production Management

Tateo Haraya
production manager

Art Department

Masaya Kaburagi
set designer
Hiroshi Yamashita
set designer

Sound Department

Seihachi Andô
sound recordist
Shôhei Hayashi
recording director
Kazumi Inamura
sound recordist
Mitsuru Kashiwabara
sound effects editor
Gregg Landaker
re-recording mixer
Robert J. Litt
re-recording mixer (as Robert Litt)
Charleen Richards
production sound recordist (as Charlene Richards)
Howard S. Wollman
re-recording mixer (as Howard Wollman)
Jack Woods
dialogue supervisor
Gregg Barbanell
foley artist (uncredited) / supervising sound editor (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department

Toshikiyo Nakatani
lighting

Animation Department

Fumiko Magari
key animation director
Takeo Nakamura
key animation director

Music Department

John Caper Jr.
music supervisor
Kentarô Haneda
music adaptor (as Kentaro Haneda) / music arranger (as Kentaro Haneda)
Tomiji Iyobe
music recording engineer
Kazuhiro Koizumi
conductor
Tsuneyoshi Nabeshima
music supervisor
T.E. Sadler
music recording engineer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
based on the works of (as Tchaikovsky)
Akihito Wakatsuki
music adaptor / music arranger
Naozumi Yamamoto
music supervisor

Additional Crew

Yuuki Atai
puppet production
Ichirô Komuro
puppet designer / puppet production
Paula Marchese
production assistant
Sadao Miyamoto
puppet designer
Tadahito Mochinaga
puppet production
Tetsutaro Shimizu
choreographer
Rieko Tazawa
puppet designer
Shozo Tomonaga
puppet production

Thanks

Yoko Morshita
special thanks: featured dancer (as Yoko Morishita)
Tetsutaro Shimizu
special thanks: featured dancer
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