Iโve always been interested in Japanese cinema especially old black and white samurai movies. When visiting my parents for the weekend, I had Yojimbo on. My father was in the room not really paying attention at first.
Gradually, he started watching the movie too. He is a big fan of Clint Eastwood films including his westerns. Once my dad starting to see the obvious old western influences of the movie, he really got into it. Comparing scenes to their western counterparts.
My father doesnโt really share many of my interests, but he loves me and does his best to humor me sometimes. This was probably the first time he really connected with me over one of my more niche interests. It was a good father/son bonding activity that I will probably remember for a long time.
If you are lucky to still have your father around. Give him a call/hug and send him your love while you can.
I had always heard how amazing this movie is. This movie popularized animes in the US if I've read correctly, because before that, animated shows or movies in the US was very carefully catered towards children. But this movie, which now is considered one of the greatest animated movies ever made, changed how the US audience saw animated movies and shows could also be focused towards teens and adults. Now that I've seen this movie, I can wholeheartedly agree that it is one of the greatest animated movies ever made.
I mean first of all, the animation has aged amazingly. The detail in every frame and every shot was amazing. Everything from the first motorbike chase scene to the last devouring and "a new universe"-birth scene was borderline perfect. And if I heard correctly, all of it was hand animated. Which if true, the animators have my utmost respect for eternity. It was so sick. The buildings, didn't just look like your standard "window-concrete-window-concrete" shit. It had detail. It showed age. Some of the lighting sources like the first light cube/box in the first shot had so much detail and almost looked photo real. I thoroughly enjoyed the animation in this movie.
I was surprised at how good the pacing was. The movie does a good job at establishing that Kaneda and his friends are a biker gang, the Capsules, they have rivalry with another gang, the Clowns. And then the general, Takashi, the government intervening, just so much stuff happened and it didn't feel rushed or slow imo. Some things were kinda weird, for example how Kaneda just met Kei for the first time ever, and suddenly he is risking his damn life for someone he barely knows. Kaneda when it came to Kei didn't have any real motivation behind saving her or just being with her. He wanted to save his friend but he couldn't have known that Kei would lead him to Tetsuo. And also, where did he get that damn laser gun from? All of a sudden he has this gun that just pierces through Tetsuo which is conveniently powered by a battery so that it can run out. Like seriously, where did it come from? I was bamboozled.
Imo, american people when it comes to plot, story, and storytelling, they very rarely hit all three imo. But the japanese people and koren people, they hit more often than not every single one of these note with such vigorous force that it's just insanely entertaining to watch everything that unfolds. They have this insane capability of thinking outside the box, they have the best min
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Iโve never watched the movie but Iโm pretty interested in reading the manga
By now, Akira has cemented itself as a classic of cult cinema. It often appears near the top of best anime films lists, let alone best films lists in general. We are all familiar with that fantastic sliding-bike shot, paid homage to in countless subsequent films as a moment of superb camp action. Its influence on modern sci-fi is among an elite cannon.
Nonetheless, it seems a safe bet that Akira could not be made today. Its gorgeous hand-drawn art style could never be matched by computer animation. There is some ineluctable quality about the violence of the film that surpasses what comes out of the anime circuit today, and that is dependent on the simple art style. Bullets enter bodies and erupt in a vibrant, arcade red. When this shade of red erupts out of the bodies of political dissidents, the disturbing novelty of the film appears even more acute.
One such moment occurs towards the start of the film. Akira begins with one of the most mesmerizing opening sequences ever devised. The traditional Japanese music overscoring the biker-gang duel, intercut with scenes of a labor uprising, intercut with some enigmatic agent fleeing with an alien/test-subject/mutant child all works together to achieve a breathtaking sequence. I have seen Akira through to the end only a couple of times, but have returned to this opening on more occasions than I can count. It is really perfect, right up to the pink smoke cloud encasing the troubled city in a jarring, if not relieving, mono-color.
If there were one shot I could point to as a sample of the discordant elements I am speaking about, it must be in this opening sequence, when the enigmatic man is shot, absolutely pulverized by a barrage of bullets. The sight of his body exploding in blood, mangled beyond recognition, always evokes in me a sense of the horrors of political violence. The shot incorporates some surrealist tendencies, a spotlight on the mangled body as the bullets enter, and an askew perspective we take to be the childโs, whom this man has died in an attempt at saving. Immediately, the childโs face appears. His deafening screams erupt, and the subsequent destruction of a whole city block seems a quite rational sequence of events, despite the actual absurdity of the physical world reacting in an emotional manner. Schematically, we might outline these moments as follows: Violence โ horror โ destruction.
The political philosophy of Akira is embedded, I believe, in these three moments. We could also understa
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My absolute favourite songs would have to be "Alone In The Town" from SH2 and "Dance With Night Wind" from SH3. I'll never get tired of listening to them <3
What about you? What are some of your favourite songs by Akira Yamaoka?
Let's discuss! I want more songs to listen to, lol.
Am I the only one who almost always ends up with Akira Kibo? Who do you partner your sims with?
I've finally got around to watch AKIRA and man I was just blown away at the art style, the music, the story. The detail alone in the animation is by far the most spectacular hand drawn animation I've ever seen.
The story leaves you wanting to know more and more about what is going to happen next, what it all means, and pulls you into the Kaneda, Tetsuo, and what Akira is all about.
I'm sad I haven't watched this sooner and just want to watch it again. I know there's so much I've probably missed on the first watch through and just wanted to share my excitement!
hey guys, me and my friend are planning to watch akira high, as our munchies always kick in we will definitely want to order something. im wondering if anyone has any recommendations, which type of food(could be very specific) would compliment, the plot, the art, the soundtrack etc. the most?
Would Akira go to hell with ryo? Or would he be fine considering he is a โgoodโ guy.
I felt stupid at that point (and i clearly was), but to be fair during Episode 1 he is constantly referred to as Akira (only once as Fudo and it's very fleeting) so the fact that everyone was saying "Hey, check out Fudo-kun" wasn't much help. And at the end of Episode 1 we clearly know that he's possesed by Amon, but he's only sort of human looking (and not quite like his normal relaxed state at Episode 2) for a few seconds and goes straight away to full demon form. So his new human appearance (which is totally different) was not printed in my brain by the end of Episode 1.
