Tekkon Kinkreet

Tekkon Kinkreet
by Michael Arias

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Actor: Kankur? Kud?, Kazunari Ninomiya, Min Tanaka, Y? Aoi, Yusuke Iseya
Director: Michael Arias
Brand: Sony
Producer: Eiichi Kamagata
Producer: Eiko Tanaka
Producer: Fumio Ueda
Producer: Masarou Toyoshima
Producer: Mikio Ono
Writer: Anthony Weintraub
Writer: Taiyo Matsumoto
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Portuguese (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures

DVD Reviews of Tekkon Kinkreet

DVD Review: One of the Best Anime Ever!
Summary: 5 Stars

When I first saw this movie I was like this looks really dumb. Then after I watched it I wanted to watch it over and over again. The plot is deep and the dub is perfect. The graphics are pretty good and the characters all have their own view of the world. I insist that you pick this movie up and watch it for yourself. I loved it.

DVD Review: Great Art. Lagging Story.
Summary: 3 Stars

The artwork carries the bulk of the weight here. Though the dialog has a wonderful atmosphere but the story itself feels vacant. I made it halfway through this story before giving up. Unfortunate too. Visually, you couldn't ask for more mesmerizing characters. But the trance is broken every 15 minutes when you realize the story hasn't really taken you much further than where you started from the beginning. Three stars for character design and some truly oneiric artistry. But that's about all I can scrounge up for a movie that forced me to abandon it halfway through it.

DVD Review: Good, but could be better
Summary: 3 Stars

From a technical standpoint I think TK sets a very high standard, however the story and directing dips dangerously close to "Animu" in a few areas; unnecessary scenes that feel spliced in just to explain the story, too much time spent developing characters we don't really care about, and characters who occasionally "overact". In short, it feels too formulamatic. I blame this largely on the director, Michael Arias; for the life of me I'll never understand how he came to head a project like this.

Studio4C has, in my opinion, the most talented collection of animators on the planet at it's disposal. Koji Morimoto, Masaaki Yuasa, Shinichiro Watanabe, all fantastic artists with unique visions and talents. This film is definitely worth watching, even owning, if only for the masterful compositing and design. However, I'm disappointed in the way the movie flows and how the story is told; I expected something more unique from Studio4C.

Though it hasn't been released in the west, try to find Mind Game (or to a lesser extent Genius Party) if you want to see what Studio4C is capable of. The beauty of the message of Mind Game moved me to tears, and similarly Yuasa's short in Genius Party said more about human life and death in 15 minutes than most movies accomplish in hours.

DVD Review: tired of typical anime?
Summary: 5 Stars

and all its typical tired cliches? then get this. theres nothing like it out there.

DVD Review: DRM PROTECTED DISC - ABSOLUTELY AVOID THIS
Summary: 1 Stars

This is a wonderful, wonderful movie. I really hate to give it one star, so to be clear, the one star is to draw attention to the fact that Sony has TOTALLY RUINED this disc. This is a copy-protected DVD and will only play in standard DVD players.

I have tried to play this with a number of DVD programs in Windows and it fails every time. This was confusing to me until I looked at the back of the DVD case and saw the little Sony copy protection logo. Makes sense now. It's truly, truly baffling why Sony does this to legitimate, paid for DVD's. I have a hard time convincing myself not to buy bootleg DVD's that work better, everywhere, at a third of the price.

I have since figured out how to play this movie on my computer and the irony of it will keep me entertained well into my sunset years.

Good job, Sony. Last movie I ever buy from you guys.

Description of Tekkon Kinkreet

Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/25/2008 Run time: 111 minutes Rating: R

Tekkonkinkreet (2006) is a landmark in the increasing cross-pollination between Japanese and American animation: Based on a manga by Taiyo Matsumoto, the film was made in Japan at Studio 4C, but directed by American Michael Arrias. The story unfolds in Treasure Town, a scabrous metropolitan slum so gritty it makes the viewer want to clean under his fingernails. Orphans White and Black share an existence at the fringes of an already marginalized subculture. White seems naive, if not learning disabled: at 11, he can't tie his shoes or dress himself. But he has an uncanny sixth sense about what's happening in Treasure Town. Older, streetwise Black looks after White and receives the emotional support he needs in return: They're two halves of a damaged whole. The arrival of a murderous yakuza boss who wants to demolish Treasure Town and build an amusement park draws Black and White into an escalating spiral of physical and emotional violence. Although the ending of Tekkonkinkreet feels needlessly obscure, it's a striking and often powerful film from a first-time director. (Rated R: violence, grotesque imagery, brief nudity, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon

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