- Who
- Steamboy
- What
- 20000000 US dollar(s)
- Where
- Japan ()
- When
- 2004
The budget for Katsuhiro Otomo's (Japan) Steamboy (Japan, 2004) anime is estimated to have reached 2.4 billion Yen ($20 million; £12 million), making it the most expensive animated movie in Japanese history. Set in Victorian England, Steamboy is a retro science fiction saga in which a powerful new energy source is released into the midst of the steam age.