Almanac of Four Short Films – Love, Death and Robots in Japanese
The introduction is unusual, not musical and at the same time long. It is obvious that they took the creation of the almanac seriously. For some reason (or even the name) it evokes associations with “Memories of the Future”.
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Meeting in the night forest with the yokai, presumably in the Edo era. Unlike classical stories, traditional yokai work a little differently here. You can recognize mokumokuren, caracas and the huge compound tsugumogami.
The plot is quite simple and predictable, but filmed well. Attention to detail and directing is at its best.
The suitcase of the main character is excellent, sometimes you want such a convenient tool storage system.
Separately, I want to note that, unlike Western animators, here they guessed not to draw dynamic shadows on three-dimensional characters, which makes everything look cool and stylish, and at the same time, without twitching 12 fps shadows does not cut your eyes.
Beware of fire.
Another story about the Edo era. Made in the style of engravings Ukiyo-E.
As parents choose an unsuitable future for their children, someone does not have the status to go to the fire department, and someone’s parents pick up a husband.
Drawn stylishly, though some characters behave extremely stupid, for which minus.
And here is a stylish demonstration of the work of Japanese firefighters plus.
Surprisingly, living in fully wooden cities, the Japanese did not learn to respect the work of fire brigades. This seems like nonsense, given the density and material of their urban areas.
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Just an action movie without a big plot: a samurai and a polar bear fight each other, and even then with an ogre, who took every day a girl from the village to continue their kind with them. The villagers turned to the samurai when the last girl remained in the village.
They all fight, and then the army comes.
The graphics are nice, the fight scenes are well staged, but without some sane plot behind it all, it looks more like a show-reel than a full-fledged work. It would be very good in Love, Death and Robots.
Goodbye, guns.
Another fighter in the almanac. Combat actions of a group of Marines in exoskeletons are detailed and well filmed.
The only question is the purpose of their operation and the modest composition of their group sent on such a mission.
Towards the end, in the absence of an explanation for what is happening, even watching a well-arranged fight becomes boring. But here, fortunately, everything comes to the expected but funny ending.