Ballad (BALLAD 名もなき恋のうた) 15 years old

Based on the plot of an award-winning Crayon Shin-chan animated movie from 2002, a boy named Shinichi (Takei) does the time-traveling and meets a feared general named Ijiri Matabei (Kusanagi). Ijiri is in love with Princess Ren (Aragaki) who subsequently rejects an arranged marriage to Okura Itakatora (Osawa), a powerful daimyo of northern Kanto. Enraged by the rejection, Okura sends a large army to Ijiri's smaller state and it's up to Shinichi to change their destiny.

Credits

Yui Aragaki as Princess Renheme

Akashi Takei as Shinichi Kawakami

Takao Osawa as Itakatora Ohkura

Tsuyoshi Kusanagi as Matabe Ijiri

Michitaka Tsutsui as Akira Kawakami

Yui Natsukawa as Misako Kawakami

Ballad Cast

Name	Character
Yui Aragaki She was 21, now 36 years old	as Princess Renheme
Akashi Takei He was 11, now 27 years old	as Shinichi Kawakami
Takao Osawa He was 41, now 56 years old	as Itakatora Ohkura
Tsuyoshi Kusanagi He was 35, now 50 years old	as Matabe Ijiri
Michitaka Tsutsui He was 38, now 53 years old	as Akira Kawakami
Yui Natsukawa She was 41, now 56 years old	as Misako Kawakami

Ballad Crew

Name	Department
Takashi Yamazaki as Director. He was 45 (now 60) years old	Directing
Takashi Yamazaki as Screenplay. He was 45 (now 60) years old	Writing
Yoshito Usui as Writer. He was 51 (51) years old when He died	Writing

Ballad (15 years)

Release day: Saturday, September 05, 2009
Runtime: 132 minutes