Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Age rating
- U
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
Archeologist and avid puzzle solver Professor Layton and his assistant Luke are caught up in an adventure when a masked figure steals an entire opera house and forces those in attendance to play a high-stakes game. The winner will receive eternal life, but it could mean death for the losers.
- opera
- steampunk
- based on video game
- anime
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Yo Oizumi
Professor Layton (voice)
Maki Horikita
Luke Triton (voice)
Saki Aibu
Emmy Altava (voice)
Nana Mizuki
Janice Quatlane (voice)
- Atsuro Watabe — Jean Descole (voice)
- Hochu Otsuka — Inspector Clamp Grosky (voice)
- Iemasa Kayumi — Oswald Whistler (voice)
- Fumiko Orikasa — Melina Whistler (voice)
- Kikuko Inoue — Celia Raidley (voice)
- Sumire Morohoshi — Nina (voice)
- Shozo Iizuka — Curtis O'Donnell (voice)
- Kenta Miyake — Marco Brock (voice)
- Megumi Toyoguchi — Amelia Ruth (voice)
- Jouji Nakata — Frederick Bargland (voice)
- LiLiCo — Annie Dretche (voice)
- Directed
- Masakazu Hashimoto
- Written
- Aya Matsui
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 149 ratings
- Studio
- LEVEL5, P.A.WORKS, OLM, TBS, Shogakukan, TOHO
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