Hayao Miyazaki - The Essence of Humanity - [by Channel Criswell]

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Fantasy and realism blend perfectly in the world of Miyazaki. Today we look at the genius behind it all.

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HD 1080p Ghost in the Shell 2 - Innocence - [Opening] - [2004]

Source: wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_2:_Innocence

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, known simply as Innocence (イノセンス Inosensu) in Japan, is a 2004 anime/computer-animated sci-fi sequel to the 1995 film Ghost in the Shell. Released in Japan on March 6, 2004, and in the US on September 17, 2004, Innocence had a production budget of approximately $20 million (approx. 2 billion yen).^[1] To raise the sum, Production I.Gstudio's president, Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, asked Studio Ghibli's president, Toshio Suzuki, to co-produce. It is the only Disney/Studio Ghibli film to be animated production by Production I.G.

With a story loosely connected to the manga by Shirow Masamune, the film was written and directed by Ghost in the Shell directorMamoru Oshii. The film was honored best sci-fi film at the 2004 Nihon SF Taisho Awards and was in competition at the 2004Cannes Film Festival. The soundtrack for the film was released under the name Innocence O.S.T. and a related novel called Innocence: After the Long Goodbye was released on February 29, 2004. This film makes many allusions and references to other famous works, such as The Future Eve. The foreign DVD release of the film faced many issue ranging from licensing to audio.

Plot

The story is loosely based on Ghost in the Shell manga chapter "Robot Rondo". Opening in 2032, Public Security Section 9cybernetic operative Batou is teamed with Togusa, an agent with very few cybernetic upgrades, following the events of Ghost in the Shell.

After a series of deaths due to malfunctioning gynoids — doll-like sex robots — Section 9 is asked to investigate. As the gynoids all malfunctioned without clear cause, the deaths are believed to be premeditated murders; Batou and Togusa are sent to investigate possible terrorist or political motives. Additionally, the most recent gynoid's remains show they all contained an illegal "ghost". Section 9 concludes human sentience is being artificially duplicated onto the dolls illegally, making the robots more lifelike, and possibly acting as a motive in the murders.

Called to a homicide scene, Ishikawa explains the victim is Jack Walkson, a consignment officer at gynoid company LOCUS SOLUS, who may have been killed by the Yakuza. A previous Yakuza boss was recently killed by a gynoid, so Ishikawa concludes Walkson was held responsible and killed in an act of revenge. Batou and Togusa enter a Yakuza bar to question the current boss, only to be threatened by the bar occupants. Batou opens fire, killing and wounding numerous gang members, including the cyborg that murdered Walkson. The current boss then admits his predecessor was somehow involved in LOCUS SOLUS, but insists he doesn't know how.

Entering a store on his way home, Batou is then seemingly warned by Major and shot in the arm by an unseen assailant. Caught in a firefight, Batou nearly kills the store owner in confusion, but is subdued when Ishikawa appears. Having his damaged arm replaced, Ishikawa informs Batou his E-brain was hacked, causing him to shoot himself and attack the others. Ishikawa explains that Batou was hacked to try and cause further scandal following his Yakuza assault in an attempt to stop the Section 9 investigation.

Batou and Togusa then head for the mansion of Kim, a soldier-turned-hacker with an obsession with dolls. Seemingly dead, Kim soon reveals he "lives" inside the shell of a human-sized marionette, and discusses philosophy with his visitors. Kim admits ties to LOCUS SOLUS, divulging that the company has secret headquarters in international waters. Warned again by the Major, Batou realizes that Kim has secretly hacked into his and Togusa's e-brains, and is currently trapping them in a false reality. Resetting Togusa's brain, Batou subdues Kim, noting he knows Kim hacked his brain in the store.

Boarding the LOCUS SOLUS headquarters ship, Batou infiltrates it while Togusa hacks its security systems using an unaware Kim as a proxy. Becoming aware of Batou, the ship's security AIs retaliate by fail-deadly means; they cause gynoids to attack everyone aboard indiscriminately, and use counter-hacking to stop Togusa, only to kill Kim in the process. As Batou fights to the ship's center, the Major then appears by controlling a gynoid remotely, helping Batou fight the gynoids and hack the security AIs.

Taking control of the ship, the Major then reveals to Batou the truth about the gynoids. Hiring the Yakuza to traffick young girls, LOCUS SOLUS duplicated their consciousnesses into the gynoids, giving them human "ghosts" to make them more realistic. Batou rescues a young girl being duplicated, and she explains Jack Walkson, learning the truth about LOCUS SOLUS, promised to save the girls by tampering with the ghosting process; this caused the gynoids to murder their owners, allowing Walkson to attract police attention and indirectly kill the Yakuza boss. Having solved the case, Batou thanks the Major, and she notes that she'll always be with him, before disconnecting from the gynoid.

Ghost in the Shell 2 - Innocence - [Parade Scene]

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, known simply as Innocence (イノセンス Inosensu) in Japan, is a 2004 anime/computer-animated sci-fi sequel to the 1995 film Ghost in the Shell. Released in Japan on March 6, 2004, and in the US on September 17, 2004, Innocence had a production budget of approximately $20 million (approx. 2 billion yen).^[1] To raise the sum, Production I.Gstudio's president, Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, asked Studio Ghibli's president, Toshio Suzuki, to co-produce. It is the only Disney/Studio Ghibli film to be animated production by Production I.G.

With a story loosely connected to the manga by Shirow Masamune, the film was written and directed by Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii. The film was honored best sci-fi film at the 2004 Nihon SF Taisho Awards and was in competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. The soundtrack for the film was released under the name Innocence O.S.T. and a related novel called Innocence: After the Long Goodbye was released on February 29, 2004. This film makes many allusions and references to other famous works, such as The Future Eve. The foreign DVD release of the film faced many issue ranging from licensing to audio.

Harmagedon - (ハルマゲドン 幻魔大戦 Harumagedon Genma Taisen) [Movie] - [1983]

Sources: animenewsnetwork.com ,wikipedia.org

Genres: action, science fiction

Official website:

Madhouse Studios Harmagedon Page (Japanese)

News:

Nikkei: Ishinomori Work to Get Hollywood Film in 2012 (Update 2) (Nov 6, 2009)

Central Park Media's Licenses Offered by Liquidator (Jun 8, 2009)

New releases, price decreases, moratoriums from CPM (Sep 12, 2003)

AX 2002: CPM Panel (Jul 11, 2002)

CPM Release Dates (Apr 26, 2002)

Traveling to America on a goodwill mission, Princess Luna of Transylvania has a vision. A life form of pure energy named Genma that destroys everything on it's path is heading towards Earth. To save the planet, she must assemble psychics to confront Genma while at the same time she partners with an alien cyborg named Vega who once fought this menace before.

Genma Taisen (Japanese: 幻魔大戦 Hepburn: lit. Genma Wars) is a science fiction manga that began in 1967. It was a collaboration in Weekly Shōnen Magazine by science fiction writer Kazumasa Hirai and Shotaro Ishinomori.

Harmagedon: The Great Battle with Genma (ハルマゲドン 幻魔大戦 Harumagedon Genma Taisen) is a science fiction anime movie released in 1983. The movie was based largely on Kazumasa Hirai's first three Genma Taisen novels. The movie was directed by Rintaro with character designs by Katsuhiro Otomo (of Akira fame.) Keith Emerson was hired to do the rock soundtrack. Madhouse Studio did the animation.

Director: Rintaro

Screenplay:

Chiho Katsura

Makoto Naito

Mori Masaki

Music: Nozomi Aoki

Original story:

Kazumasa Hirai

Shotaro Ishinomori

Character Design: Katsuhiro Otomo

Art Director: Takamura Mukuo

Animation Director: Takuo Noda

Director of Photography: Iwao Yamaki

Executive producer:

Haruki Kadokawa

Shotaro Ishinomori

Producer: Susumu Aketagawa

Animation: Madhouse Studios

Background Art: Mukuo Studio

Distributor: Toho Towa

In-Between Animation:

AIC

Anime Toro Toro

Kusama Art

Magic Bus

Meruhen-Sha

Tezuka Productions

Tiger Production

Production: Kadokawa Shoten

Akira Mutation scene - original Japanese 1988

Kara no Kyoukai: a View ... [2007-2011]

Sources: wikipedia.org, animenewsnetwork.com

Kara no Kyōkai (空の境界, lit. Boundary of Emptiness), subtitled and alternatively titled as The Garden of Sinners, and also known as Rakkyo (らっきょ), is a Japanese light novel series, authored by Kinoko Nasu and illustrated by Takashi Takeuchi. Originally released as a series of chapters released independently online or at Comiket between October 1998 and August 1999, the chapters were later republished by Kodansha into two volumes in 2004, and again in three volumes between 2007 and 2008. Ufotable produced a series of seven anime films directed by Ei Aoki based on the series between 2007 and 2009, and also produced an original video animation episode in 2011. A final anime film was produced and released in 2013. A manga adaptation illustrated by Sphere Tenku started serialization in September 2010 in Seikaisha's online magazine Saizensen.

Genres: horror, magic, psychological, romance

Themes: absurdity, gore, harem, incest, murder

Official website:

Aniplex USA | The Garden of Sinners

Madman's Official Garden of Sinners Sales Site

空の境界 (Japanese)

Review:

Kara no Kyoukai - the Garden of sinners (Feb 9, 2011)

News:

Madman Entertainment Announces New Acquisitions at Supanova Sydney 2013 (Jun 23, 2013)

Kara no Kyoukai Standard Blu-ray Box Slated for July 10 (Mar 31, 2013)

Kara no Kyoukai: Fukan Fūkei 3D, Mirai Fukuin Slated for Summer, Fall (Mar 29, 2013)

Aniplex USA Delays The Garden of Sinners DVD Box (Nov 8, 2012)

1st Kara no Kyōkai - the Garden of sinners Film Gets 3D Showings (Oct 6, 2012)

Kara no Kyoukai: Mirai Fukuin Epilogue Gets Anime Film (Jul 8, 2012)

Aniplex of America to Rerelease Oreimo, Garden of Sinners on DVD (Apr 6, 2012)

Aniplex Rents Garden of Sinners on PlayStation Network (Jun 11, 2011)

Aniplex Offers Replacements for Garden of Sinners Box (Feb 10, 2011)

Subbed Live-Action Gantz to Screen in San Francisco (Feb 3, 2011)

Press Release:

Aniplex of America Announces the Garden of Sinners Limited Edition DVD Box Set Details and Release Date (Sep 24, 2012)

Other articles:

Anime in America: The Best (and Most Notable) of 2011 (Jan 5, 2012)

Mikiya Kokuto finds himself intrigued by two things. The first is by Shiki Ryougi a beautiful, yet rather unsociable, girl and the other is the strange series of violent deaths that start occuring in his town. As he attempts to get closer to Shiki, he soon learns that the two are connected and that there are many supernatural forces at work which could very likely get him killed as well.

Director:

Ei Aoki (ep 1)

Hikaru Kondo (ep 8)

Mitsuru Obunai (ep 3)

Shinsuke Takizawa (ep 7)

Takahiro Miura (ep 6)

Takayuki Hirao (ep 5)

Takuya Nonaka (ep 2)

Teiichi Takiguchi (ep 4)

Script: Masaki Hiramatsu (ufotable)

Storyboard:

Takayuki Hirao (ep 5)

Tetsuya Takeuchi (part of movie 5)

Music: Yuki Kajiura

Original creator: Kinoko Nasu

Original Character Design: Takashi Takeuchi

Character Design:

Atsushi Ogasawara (ep 4)

Mitsuru Obunai (ep 3)

Takuro Takahashi (eps 1-2, 5)

Teiichi Takiguchi (ep 4)

Tomonori Sudou (eps 1-7)

Art Director:

Kazuo Ogura (ep 3)

Koji Eto (ep 7)

Nobutaka Ike (eps 1-2, 5)

Animation Director:

Atsushi Ogasawara (ep 4)

Mitsuru Obunai (ep 3)

Takuro Takahashi (eps 1-2, 5)

Teiichi Takiguchi (ep 4)

Tomonori Sudou (eps 1-7)

3D Director: Shintaro Nakamura

Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami

Director of Photography:

Seiji Matsuda

Yuichi Terao

Producer:

Atsuhiro Iwakami

Hikaru Kondo

Masayuki Haryu

Tomotaka Takeuchi

2nd Key Animation:

Akira Ono (ep 2)

Hitomi Odashima (ep 2)

Takayuki Mogi (eps 1-5)

Takeshi Hiramatsu (ep 1)

Takeyoshi Omagari (eps 1-2)

Takuya Nonaka (ep 3)

Yasutoshi Niwa (ep 3)

Yoshihiro Maeda (eps 1-2, 4)

Yurie Kuniyuki (ep 2)

Assistant: Keiko Nobuoka (eps 1-5)

Assistant Animation Director:

Atsushi Ogasawara (ep 3)

Go Kimura (ep 4)

Masumi Fujii (eps 2-3)

Mitsuru Obunai (ep 5)

Yasutoshi Niwa (eps 5-6)

Assistant Director: Takuro Takahashi (ep 5)

Assistant Unit Director:

Ei Aoki (ep 3)

Mitsuru Obunai (ep 5)

Color design: Emi Chiba

Key Animation:

Akihiko Uda (eps 3-4)

Akio Shimotsukasa (eps 1-3, 5-6)

Atsushi Itagaki (ep 1)

Atsushi Ogasawara (eps 1, 3, 6)

Chikashi Kadekaru (eps 1, 5)

Daisuke Mataga (ep 1)

Eiji Abiko (ep 3)

Go Kimura (eps 1-7)

Hideaki Isa (ep 1)

Hideki Harada (ep 3)

Hisayuki Tabata (ep 1)

Hitoshi Yoshida (ep 1)

Hokuto Sakiyama (ep 1)

Jun'ya Kikuchi (eps 2-3, 6)

Junpei Mikuriya (ep 5)

Kan Ogawa (ep 2)

Katsuya Kikuchi (eps 1, 5)

Kazuyuki Matsubara (ep 2)

Kei Ajiki (eps 2, 5)

Keiichi Sasajima (eps 3, 6)

Ken Ootsuka (ep 3)

Kiyoshi Tateishi (eps 2, 5)

Kouichi Motomura (eps 1, 5)

Makoto Nakamura (eps 1, 5-6)

Mamiko Nakanishi (ep 5)

Masakazu Saito (ep 3)

Masayuki Kunihiro (eps 1-2, 5)

Masumi Fujii (eps 2-6)

Mitsuru Obunai (eps 1, 3, 5-6)

Nozomu Abe (eps 1, 3)

Ryouichi Kaida (ep 5)

Saburou Mochizuki (ep 5)

Satoshi Takahashi (eps 2-3, 6)

Sei Komatsubara (eps 3, 5)

Shinsuke Yasuda (eps 1-2, 5-6)

Shinya Asanuma (eps 1, 3)

Soichiro Matsuda (ep 3)

Tadashi Shida (ep 3)

Takahiro Miura (eps 1-2)

Takayuki Mogi (ep 6)

Takeshi Yoshioka (ep 3)

Takeyoshi Omagari (eps 2-3, 5-6)

Takuro Takahashi (eps 2, 6)

Takuya Nonaka (ep 2)

Teiichi Takiguchi (ep 4)

Tetsuya Takeuchi (movie 5)

Toshiharu Kudō (ep 5)

Toshimitsu Kobayashi (eps 1, 3)

Yasutoshi Niwa (eps 4-6)

Yoshihide Yuuzumi (ep 2)

Yoshihiro Maeda (ep 3)

Yoshitaka Kohno (ep 3)

Yuka Shibata (eps 3, 5)

Yukiko Kobayashi (eps 3, 5)

Line Producer: Ryu Suzuki

Music Performance:

Hideyo Takakuwa (Flute)

Sachie Ōnuma (Viola)

Music Vocals:

Wakana Ootaki (movie 2, song "M29")

Yuriko Kaida (songs "M01", "M13", "M15+16+17")

Theme Song Arrangement: Yuki Kajiura

Theme Song Composition: Yuki Kajiura

Theme Song Lyrics: Yuki Kajiura

Theme Song Performance:

Kalafina (ED)

Keiko Kubota (ED, as Kalafina)

Wakana Ootaki (ED, as Kalafina)

Animation Production: ufotable

Distributor: Aniplex

HD Video Editing: Sony PCL

Original Creator: Type-Moon

Production:

Aniplex

Kodansha

Notes

ufotable