Written by Sadayuki Murai & Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Directed by Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Starring the Voices of Anne Suzuki, Masane Tsukayama, Katsuo Nakamura, Manami Konishi, Kiyoshi Kodama

My Advice: Rent it. Cheaply.

It's Victorian London. In fact, it's Great Exhibition time. Ray (Suzuki) is a young, precocious, bright-as-hell kid whose father and grandfather are off in America doing work with steam. This only makes sense, seeing as how their last name is Steam. Maybe they named it after them, I don't know. Anyway, Ray gets picked on by his peers for being a whackjob prodigy-type. Then, one day a package shows up at their house, sent by their grandfather, with explicit instructions: don't give the contents to anybody, including the folks Grandad works for--the O'Hara Foundation. And, what timing, they're at the door. And they're armed. And have a giant self-propelled tractor train thing to help get whatever's in that package. So things just sort of snowball from there.

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