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

Jodorowsky's Dune (2014) - HD Trailer

In 1973, film producer Arthur P. Jacobs optioned the film rights to Dune but died before a film could be developed. The option was then taken over two years later by director Alejandro Jodorowsky, who proceeded to approach, among others, Peter Gabriel, the prog rock groups Pink Floyd and Magma for some of the music, artists H. R. Giger and Jean Giraud for set and character design, Dan O'Bannon for special effects, and Salvador Dalí, Orson Welles, Gloria Swanson and others for the cast.

Frank Herbert traveled to Europe in 1976 to find that $2 million of the $9.5 million budget had already been spent in pre-production, and that Jodorowsky's script would result in a 14-hour movie ("It was the size of a phonebook", Herbert later recalled). Jodorowsky took creative liberties with the source material, but Herbert said that he and Jodorowsky had an amicable relationship. The project ultimately stalled for financial reasons. The film rights lapsed until 1982, when they were purchased by Italian filmmaker Dino DeLaurentiis, who eventually released the 1984 film Dune, directed by David Lynch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodorowsky's_Dune

See also: grantland.com , cinemaviewfinder.com 

Avalon - Mamoru Oshii [Trailer]

Avalon è un gioco di guerra simulata, in cui i giocatori si connettono tramite un'interfaccia visivo/neurale ad un computer centrale che riproduce campi di battaglia, armi, nemici, missioni che possono essere affrontate in solitaria o formando dei gruppi con altri giocatori. Giocare ad Avalon comporta un'alta dose di rischio, sia perché si tratta di un gioco illegale, sia perché esiste la possibilità che la mente del giocatore sviluppi una dipendenza e resti intrappolata nel gioco, lasciandone il corpo in stato vegetativo. Questi giocatori diventano così degli "unreturned", dei "non ritornati"; la loro coscienza resterà per sempre persa fra gli scenari bellici del gioco.
Tuttavia giocare ad Avalon per alcuni costituisce addirittura una fonte di sostentamento, in quanto ad ogni missione completata, e in base al punteggio ottenuto, si ha diritto a una ricompensa.

La protagonista, Ash, è una giocatrice a tempo pieno; non ha amici, non ha vita sociale, la sua vita è completamente assorbita da Avalon. Col tempo nel gioco si è guadagnata la fama di giocatrice solitaria, e di migliore della cosiddetta "classe A", una sorta di "girone avanzato". Tuttavia qualcosa inizia a cambiare quando fa la sua comparsa un misterioso giocatore che sembra essere più in gamba di lei; il passato di Ash torna a galla, insieme ad alcune strane leggende circa il mondo virtuale di Avalon e una "zona segreta"...

(Tratto da: ondacinema.it)

Japan - A film by Momo Ushido [with English Subtitles]

Here is a list of the bits which might interest some viewers:
0.00-2.30 Arriving in Japan, Meiji Jingu　明治神宮
2.30-3.30 Shibuya, meeting Matt 渋谷、　マシューと待ち合わせ
3.30-5.50 Day in Shibuya　渋谷
5.50-11.15 Me and Matt visiting an Abandoned Love Hotel. We found an abandoned shop on the way.　廃墟
11.15-12.30 Going to my grandparents, Grandad doing calligraphy.　宮崎の家族と待ち合わせ
12.30-15.40 Hyottoko Matsuri (funny Japanese festival, typical)　ひょっとこ祭り
17.40-20.00 Visiting a shrine inside a cave 神社
20.00-46.00 Lots of family clips: 家族のビデオ
-Cousins playing in a park いとこが公園で遊ぶ
-Aunts talking and singing おばちゃんが歌ってる
-Me and my cousin visiting his brother and bringing him home いとこを迎えに行く
-Going to a nearby river and swimming 川泳ぎ
46.25-48.00 Japanese Obon (sending away your ancestors spirits)　お盆送り火
50.40-58.15 Typical Japanese 'Ohaka mawari'; visiting ancestors graves, and praying. Also video of Kurashiki, lovely Japanese old town.　お墓周り、　倉敷
58.52-60.30 Making of Okonomiyaki　おこのみやき
62.24-63.40 Walking around Central kyoto　京都
63.47-64.20 Making of Takoyaki　たこやき
64-67 Pool and Karaoke カラオケとビリアード
67-75 Going to Tokyo, visiting second cousins, wii, cousin comes to visit, more wii.　東京え、はとこと待ち合わせ、Wii、いとこが遊びにくる、Wii。
74.40-77.00 Harajuku and Gotanda　原宿、五反田
78.50-81.30 Brass Band Concert　ブラスバンド
82.00-83.30 Akihabara and Nihonterebi　秋葉原、日テレ
83.30-84.50 Graves of the famous 47 Ronin　４７浪人お墓
88.30- Credits! Watch :D　クレジット。

"Jellyfish Eyes" 2013 - [Trailer] - Takashi Murakami

Takashi Murakami's feature-film debut is a loving homage to Japanese popular culture. When a young boy moves with his widowed mother to the Japanese countryside, he discovers that their apartment is inhabited by a strange creature—and that very little is what it appears to be in the sleepy town.
June 1 with Takashi Murakami in person! http://www.filmlinc.com/
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"CASSHERN" - 映画『キャシャーン』予告編 - [Trailer] - [2004]

Casshern (キャシャーン Kyashān) is a 2004 Japanese tokusatsu film adaptation of the anime series of the same name. It was written and directed by Kazuaki Kiriya. It stars Yusuke Iseya as Tetsuya Azuma/Casshern, Kumiko Aso as Luna Kozuki, Toshiaki Karasawa as Burai, Mayumi Sada as Saguree, and Jun Kaname as Barashin.

A fifty-year war between the Eastern Federation and Europa ends, with the Federation taking control of the Eurasian continent. A resistance movement rises in Zone 7 and the Federation mobilizes its military. However, the war and heavy industry have exhausted the Federation and polluted the environment.

Dr. Azuma presents his discovery of Neo Cells, human cells that, in theory, can be converted to regenerate human tissue. The Neo Cells are only found in the genome of "a primitive ethnic group.