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#22: Gyo - Tokyo Fish Attack (2012)
Director: Takayuki Hirao
Screenplay: Akihiro Yoshida,
Takayuki Hirao
Based on a manga by Junji Ito
(Voice) Cast: Mirai Kataoka (as
Kaori); Ami Taniguchi (as Erika); Hideki Abe (as Shirakawa); Hiroshi Okazaki
(as Professor Koyanagi); Masami Saeki (as Aki); Takuma Negishi (as Tadashi)
Viewed in Japanese with English Subtitles
Abstract Spectrum: Grotesque/Weird
Abstract Rating (High/Medium/Low/None): None
The manga of Junji Ito deserves a cinematic adaption, live action or manga, that
does justice to its weird, sometimes disgusting content, firmly making his
reputation as a horror manga author through idiosyncratically strange, comic
horror stories. His reputation for strangeness, from drawing himself in Uzumaki (1998-9) as a spiral obsessed
shell of a man to writing a manga about
raising two pet cats with the same art style of his horror tales begs for an
appropriately abstract movie from the work. Gyo the anime does its best, but it just misses out of being as strange aesthetically as the manga
itself. It replicates the gross weirdness of the material but in style and
structure it's pretty conventional, while doing very well in getting the tone
right, an adaptation like the live action take of Uzumaki from 2000 having a better chance at scrapping into the Abstract List.
For the full review, following
the link HERE.
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#23: Dead Leaves (2004)
Director: Hiroyuki Imaishi
Screenplay: Takeichi Honda
(Voice) Cast: Kappei Yamaguchi
(as Retro); Takako Honda (as Pandy); Yuko Mizutani (as Galactica); 666 (as
Mitsuo Iwata); 777 (as Kiyoyuki Yanada); Chinko (as Nobuo Tobita)
Viewed in Japanese with English Subtitles
The first of (hopefully) many
tie-in to the 1000 Anime blog and
this one, I won't spoil any of the opinions I had and just provide the link to
the review HERE.
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#24: Yuki Terai - Secrets (2000)
Based on a original premise
Viewed in Japanese with English Subtitles
Abstract Spectrum: Weird
Abstract Rating (High/Medium/Low/None): None
One of the more obscurer things I've
covered for the 1000 Anime blog, the
only segment of this animated short compilation that is unconventional is The Mirror, about the titular
protagonist being menaced by her mirror reflections, the sort of thing that
could've gotten into the Abstract List
for its tone and style but misses out just because of its dated visual
appearance, without any distinct character to it more significantly, and
missing out of using the premise fully. The rest, which you can read about HERE, is far from abstract and a
curiosity only.
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