A mushroom-fueled fever dream where a rice bowl gets golden hour and sushi saves the day.
Baikinman and Dokin-chan crash the annual mushroom festival and kidnap Kamameshidon’s sweetheart, Kinoko. Kamameshidon is powered up by a lake fairy and turned into Super Gold Kamameshidon. Then he and the rest of the Donburiman-Trio try to rescue Kinoko, but they end up in Mushroom Valley, under the influence of dangerous mushrooms, and Sushi-roll Maki-chan shows up to help save the day.
Visual Effects
That Super Gold transformation sequence hits harder than it has any right to.
Acting
Koichi Yamadera doing double duty as Cheese AND Kamameshidon? Legend behavior.
Director
Shunji Oga
Keiko Toda
Anpanman (voice)
Ryusei Nakao
Baikinman (voice)
Rei Sakuma
Batako-san (voice)
Koichi Yamadera
Cheese (voice) / Kamameshidon (voice)
Hiromi Tsuru
Dokin-chan (voice)
Hiroshi Masuoka
Oji-san (voice)
Chika Sakamoto
Tendonman (voice)
Kaneta Kimotsuki
Horrorman (voice)
Kenichi Ogata
Izumi no sei (voice)
Yuji Mitsuya
Katsudonman (voice)
Masako Katsuki
Tekka's Maki-chan (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 2002 short is part of Anpanman's 14th theatrical release, which explains why it crams a full hero's journey into 20 minutes.
The Donburiman-Trio represents different Japanese rice bowl dishes—Kamameshidon (kettle-cooked rice), Tendon (tempura bowl), and Katsudon (pork cutlet bowl)—making this secretly a food education PSA.
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