History Trivia / SakuraWarsTheMovie

* CelebrityVoiceActor: Curiously enough and unlike ''VideoGame/TengaiMakyou'' (who used many celebrities in the voice acting), there was only one voice actress who was not a bonafide professional one: Akiko Kuno (Ratchet Altair's VA), whose career as a professional theater actress and singer dated all the way back to 1972. Taking into account Ratchet is also a stage actress, Kuno was actually a natural fit for that role.
* DawsonCasting:
** The late Akiko Kuno was only 50 years old when she voiced the 20-year-old Ratchet Altair.
** The same goes for Ratchet's English VA, Creator/JulieAnnTaylor, who was 37 at the time of the film's North American release.

* DoingItForTheArt: Kohei Tanaka recorded the soundtrack at Sumida Triphony Hall in Tokyo, and the audience's applause was used for the film itself.

** Creator/YujiMitsuya, the voice of Musei Edogawa, was the voice of Masque de Corbeau in ''VideoGame/SakuraWars3IsParisBurning''.

* CreatorChosenCasting: To keep in line with Hiroi's request to cast actors/actresses with experience in voice-over, singing and stage work, Shintarō Sonooka (Kōsuke Dan in the musicals and second OVA) personally suggested Akiko Kuno, who worked with Sonooka in the past, to voice Ratchet.

* FakeAmerican: Akiko Kuno, Creator/KoichiYamadera and Creator/KeiichiNanba play Americans.

* RelationshipVoiceActor:
** From ''Franchise/DragonBall'': [[Creator/MayumiTanaka Kanna Kirishima]] is Krillin, the Imperial Army General (Seiji Sasaki) is Recoome from ''Kai'', [[Creator/DaisukeGori Yokihiko Ota]] is the first Mr. Satan and Ox King, [[Creator/KeijiFujiwara Haruyoshi Tanuma]] is Men-Men from the eleventh film, [[Creator/KeiichiNanba Patrick Hamilton]] is Angira from the fourth film, [[Creator/YujiMitsuya Musei Edogawa]] is the Supreme Kai, and [[Creator/KoichiYamadera Brent Furlong]] is Beerus.
** From ''Manga/OnePiece'': [[Creator/MichieTomizawa Sumire Kanzaki]] is Raki, [[Creator/MayumiTanaka Kanna Kirishima]] is Monkey D. Luffy from the TV series, [[Creator/UraraTakano Maria Tachibana]] is Monkey D. Luffy from the OVA, [[Creator/AkemiOkamura Kasumi Fujii]] is Nami from the TV series, [[Creator/KazueIkura Leni Milchstraße]] is Sentomaru, [[Creator/AiOrikasa Kaede Fujieda]] is Kozuki Momonosuke, the Imperial Army General (Seiji Sasaki) is Blueno and Squard, Ikki Yoneda (Masaru Ikeda) is Cat Viper, [[Creator/TaikiMatsuno Kikunojo Oka]] is Trebol and Lafitte, [[Creator/TakehitoKoyasu Yuichi Kayama]] is Aokiji, [[Creator/KazukiYao Kotone Seiryuin]] is Franky, [[Creator/KeiichiNanba Patrick Hamilton]] is Shepherd and Itomimizu, [[Creator/YujiMitsuya Musei Edogawa]] is Pica, [[Creator/KeijiFujiwara Haruyoshi Tanuma]] is Ryokugyū, Yoritsune Hanakoji (Koichi Kitamura) is Clover, and [[Creator/KoichiYamadera Brent Furlong]] is Donquixote Rocinante.
** From ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'': [[Creator/DaisukeGori Yokihiko Ota]] is the Iron Giant, Yoritsune Hanakoji (Koichi Kitamura) is Earl Stutz, and Ikki Yoneda (Masaru Ikeda) is General Shannon Rogard.
** To keep in line with Hiroi's request to cast actors/actresses with experience in voice-over, singing and stage work, Shintarō Sonooka (Kōsuke Dan in the musicals and second OVA) personally suggested Akiko Kuno, who worked with Sonooka in the past, to voice Ratchet.

* CelebrityVoiceActor: Curiously enough and unlike ''VideoGame/TengaiMakyou'' (who used many celebrities in the voice acting), there's only one voice actress who is not a bonafide professional one: Akiko Kuno (Ratchet Altair's VA), whose career as a professional theater actress and singer dates all the way back to 1972. Taking into account Ratchet is also a stage actress, Kuno's actually a natural fit for that role.

** Akiko Kuno was only 50 years old when she voiced the 20-year-old Ratchet Altair.

* TheOtherDarrin: The English dubs of the [=OVAs=] and TV series were recorded at ADV's Monster Island studio in Austin, Texas. For the film, it was instead dubbed at Creator/BangZoomEntertainment in Burbank, California.

** Toshihiko Nakajima, who also played a member of the Elder's Institute, voiced minor roles in the ''Sakura Wars'' TV series and played the oyakata in the stage musicals.

* RoleReprise: Several voice actors reprised their roles as the characters that they portrayed in the games, including Creator/ChisaYokoyama as Sakura Shinguji and Akio Suyama as Ichiro Ogami. Not to mention Creator/YujiMitsuya returning as Musei Edogawa from the stage plays.

* TheOtherDarrin: None of the original English actors of the [=OVAs=] and TV series reprised their roles. The movie was recorded at Creator/BangZoomEntertainment in Burbank, California, instead of Austin, Texas.

* SequelInAnotherMedium: The film is an interquel, which is set between ''VideoGame/SakuraWars3IsParisBurning'' and ''VideoGame/SakuraWars4FallInLoveMaidens''.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Creator/PioneerEntertainment's North American rights to the film expired after they shut down in 2007, meaning that some of the extras that were included in the release such as the art book and pencil boards are hard to find. Fortunately, the film was picked up by Funimation, who released it in both physical and digital formats in 2013.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Geneon Entertainment's North American rights to the film expired after they shut down in 2007, meaning that some of the extras that were included in the release such as the art book and pencil boards are hard to find. Fortunately, the film was picked up by Funimation, who released it in both physical and digital formats in 2013.

** Geneon licensed the film for a North American release instead of ADV Films (who distributed the first two [=OVAs=] as well as the TV series) in 2002. The film was eventually picked up by Funimation (who rescued many series formerly licensed by Geneon) in June 2013, giving the company a piece of ''Sakura Wars'' history once more.

** The Japanese home media releases were originally handled by King Records, before switching to Creator/KadokawaShoten in 2013. Due to Kadokawa producing the film in the first place, this is also the only animated ''Sakura Wars'' entry not to be distributed on home media Creator/PonyCanyon, who obtained the rights to the first three [=OVAs=] from Bandai and released the Paris and New York [=OVAs=] and ''Anime/SakuraWarsTheAnimation'' outright, or Bandai Visual, who owns the home video rights to the TV series.

** The Japanese home media releases were originally handled by King Records, before switching to Creator/KadokawaShoten in 2013. Due to Kadokawa producing the film in the first place, this is also the only animated ''Sakura Wars'' entry not to be distributed on home media by Creator/PonyCanyon, who obtained the rights to the first three [=OVAs=] from Bandai and released the Paris and New York [=OVAs=] and ''Anime/SakuraWarsTheAnimation'' outright.

** The Japanese home media releases were originally handled by King Records, before switching to Creator/KadokawaShoten in 2013. Due to Kadokawa producing the film in the first place, this is also the only animated ''Sakura Wars'' entry not to be distributed on home media by Creator/PonyCanyon, who obtained the rights to the first three [=OVAs=] from Bandai and distributed the Paris and New York [=OVAs=] outright.

** The Japanese home media releases were originally handled by King Records, before switching to Creator/KadokawaShoten in 2013. Due to Kadokawa producing the film in the first place, this is also the only ''Sakura Wars'' animated entry not to be distributed on home media by Creator/PonyCanyon, who obtained the rights to the first three [=OVAs=] from Bandai and distributed the Paris and New York [=OVAs=] outright.

** As for the Japanese home media releases, they were originally handled by King Records, before switching to Creator/KadokawaShoten in 2013. Due to Kadokawa producing the film in the first place, this is also the only ''Sakura Wars'' animated entry not to be distributed by Creator/PonyCanyon, who obtained the rights to the first three [=OVAs=] from Bandai and distributed the Paris and New York [=OVAs=] outright.

** As for the Japanese home media releases, they were originally handled by King Records, before switching to Kadokawa Shoten in 2013.

** The same goes for Ratchet's English VA, Creator/JulieAnnTaylor, who was 36 when she played the character.

** As for the Japanese home media releases, they were originally handled by King Records, before switching to Creator/{{Kadokawa}} in 2013.

** As for the Japanese home media releases, they were originally handled by King Records, before switching to Creator/KadokawaShoten in 2013.

** Whereas the previous [=OVAs=] were licensed by ADV Films in North America, Geneon picked up the rights to release the film. It was eventually re-released by Funimation in 2013, 6 years after Geneon's shut down.

** Whereas the previous [=OVAs=] were licensed by ADV Films in North America, Geneon picked up the rights to release the film.