Purple Rain (film)

Purple Rain is a 1984 musical, fantasy, comedy, drama film, co-produced and directed by Takeshi Shirato, Ron Howard and Don Bluth, from a screenplay by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman. Developed to showcase their talents, it contains some several concert sequences, with the French band The AristoCats.

Produced by Toei Animation, Pathé Distribution and Sullivan Bluth Studios, the film was released by DreamWorks Pictures on December 22, 1984 in the United States.