FILMTALK with POPCORNX (Nov 6.2021)
UPDATED: The Instagram Live has concluded and video currently watchable HERE on my IG (embedded below), for the November 6th session of FILMTALK with POPCORNX. Scroll thru for trailers and additional videos (I'd mention ed in my session), cheers!
The films I’ve shared are:
- Princess Mononoke
- Your Name
- Summer Wars
- Appleseed Ex Machina
- Memories
ABOVE: DVD Cover front/back
BELOW: English Narrated Trailer
FILM: "Princess Mononoke" (1997)
SYNOPSIS: "A prince infected with a lethal curse sets off to find a cure and lands in the middle of a battle between a mining town and the animals of the forest.". (Watchable on Netflix / WATCH on AMAZON).
"もののけ姫" is a 1997 Japanese epic historical fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, animated by Studio Ghibli. Wiki states that "Princess Mononoke" is set in the late Muromachi period of Japan (approximately 1336 to 1573 CE), but it includes fantasy elements, which I was wrong to say in my video session :p
And yes, wiki confirms that the English dubbed version was from a script by Neil Gaiman ("The Sandman", "American Gods" - both of whom are and have been adapted into live action), and that's good enough for me, cheers.
ABOVE: DVD Cover front/back
BELOW: English Subtitled Trailer
FILM: "Your Name" (2016)
SYNOPSIS: "A bored girl in the countryside starts sporadically waking up in the body of a city boy who's living the exciting life she'd always dreamed of.". (Watchable on Netflix / WATCH on AMAZON: English Subbed / Original Japanese version (No Subs))
"Your Name" (Japanese: 君の名は。, Hepburn: Kimi no Na wa.) is a 2016 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film produced by CoMix Wave Films and released by Toho (Wiki). Written and directed by Makoto Shinkai, the anime film has since won numerous accolades, with a live-action remake by Paramount Pictures set in the United States currently in development. Director Makoto followed up with "Weathering with You", an animated film in 2019.
Animation direction is by Masashi Ando, character design by Masayoshi Tanaka, and its orchestral score and soundtrack composed by Radwimps. A light novel of the same name, also written by Shinkai, was published a month prior the film's premiere.
The animation is amazing. And while I've seen smattering of clips featuring the characters' interaction, this is the first time I've found and watched the following clip.
ABOVE: DVD Cover front/back
BELOW: English Subtitled Japanese Trailer
FILM: "Summer Wars" (2009)
SYNOPSIS: "The film tells the story of Kenji Koiso, a timid eleventh-grade math genius who is taken to Ueda by twelfth-grade student, Natsuki Shinohara to celebrate her great-grandmother's 90th birthday. However, he is falsely implicated in the hacking of a virtual world by a sadistic artificial intelligence named Love Machine. Kenji must repair the damage done, and find a way to stop the rogue computer program from causing any further chaos.". (Wiki / WATCH on AMAZON)
"サマーウォーズ" is directed by Mamoru Hosoda, produced by Madhouse, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Prior to this film, 2006's "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" had me a fan, and subsequent 2012's "Wolf Children", 2015's "The Boy and the Beast", and 2018's "Mirai" cemented my fandom LOL Now to try and find his 2021 "Belle"...!
The animation style is a juxtaposition against immaculate backgrounds and "non-sophisticated" animation style, and do not be fooled, as the film is packed with emotion, grounded into humanity, and exploding into the imagination (as Mamoru is exceptional at achieving, IMHO).
Also to note, this is one of the rare films where I'd watched both in it's original Japanese language, and a English-dubbed version, and is one of the more exceptional dubs I've heard from a animation feature, IMHO.
More scenes from Summer Wars, with the following scenes making me tear a bit watching them again now (as I know what happened next), I'll not lie... fkn devastating how a animated feature could do that to me, and that is precious to me enough.
ENGLISH TRAILER:
FANBOY BONUS: The director was in Singapore circa 2009 for Anime Festival Asia, and I was geeking out in the audience OMG!
SECOND BONUS: The film's theme song "Bokura no Natsu no Yume" (僕らの夏の夢), was written and performed by "City Pop" legend, Tatsuro Yamashita.
ABOVE: DVD Cover front/back
BELOW: Japanese Trailer
FILM: "Appleseed Ex Machina" (2007)
WHAT-IS: Appleseed Ex Machina, also known as E.X. Machina (エクスマキナ, Ekusu Makina) is the sequel to the 2004 Appleseed film, (also) directed by Shinji Aramaki, and was produced by Hong Kong director and producer John Woo (WATCH on AMAZON).
Ex Machina was followed by "Appleseed XIII" (2011 animated series directed by Takayuki Hamana and Katsutaka Nanba), and "Appleseed Alpha" (2014 directed by Shinji Aramaki).
And the song I mentioned, is "Rescue" by "HASYMO" which is essentially Yellow Magic Orchestra whom Ryuchi Sakamoto is apart of...!
BONUS: Appleseed (2004 film) in Full:
ABOVE: DVD Cover front/back
BELOW: Trailer
FILM: "Memories" (1995)
WHAT-IS (Wiki): Memories (also Otomo Katsuhiro's Memories) is a 1995 Japanese animated science fiction anthology film with Katsuhiro Otomo as executive producer, and based on three of his manga short stories. The film is composed of three shorts: "Magnetic Rose", "Stink Bomb", and "Cannon Fodder" (WATCH on AMAZON).
ABOVE: "Magnetic Rose" (彼女の想いで, Kanojo no Omoide) is directed by Studio 4°C co-founder Kōji Morimoto and written by Satoshi Kon.
ABOVE: "Stink Bomb" (最臭兵器, Saishū-heiki) is directed by Tensai Okamura of Darker than Black fame and written by Katsuhiro Otomo.
ABOVE: "Cannon Fodder" (大砲の街, Taihō no Machi) is written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo.
One Minuter Trailer:
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