Imatoshi, with many animation works with fantastic ideas, has been broadcast on the Movie Channel. His animation is thought-provoking, and he is known as a contemporary Master of Japanese Animation comparable to Miyazaki. In this issue, let's review the classic works written by Imatoshi.
"The House of the Unhemp"
"Reality and dreams are intertwined, so who can be awake?"
When the popular trio girl idol group faced dissolution, the core member Kirikoshi Hades had to quit the group and transform into a TV drama actor under the arrangement of the firm. She was silently under pressure at work and gradually became sullen. At the same time, various threatening letters, the attack on the agent Mr. Tian Suo, and the mysterious person who wrote a diary on the website in his own tone made Wei Ma anxious, and in a trance she even saw another self.
This animation skillfully combines the protagonist's illusion and reality, attracting many people with a confusing story, and many famous scenes in "Black Swan" are also borrowed from this later. It is because of its unique artistic approach that the film won the Best Asian Film at the 1997 Asian Fantasy Film Festival.
Contrast with the later film Black Swan
The Godfather of Tokyo
"Animated film with a different warmth".
The film tells the story of three Tokyo scavengers with different backgrounds, Miyuki, Ah Hana and Kim, who accidentally pick up an abandoned baby girl on Christmas Eve, and while looking for their biological parents for the baby girl, the three scavengers reveal their hearts to each other and gradually resolve their inner contradictions. On a cold Christmas, three people from different identity backgrounds get together to discuss life, analyze life together, taste the sour, sweet and bitter together, and then separate one after another, and return to their own lives. Although the film does not mention religion at all, many of the actions and miracles that appear in the animation also imply that it is a religious film.
Overall, it is a pretty good movie that can definitely give warmth and warmth in winter. The film is now available for viewing at Bilibili.
Millennium Actress
"No matter where you are, I must see you!"
Chiyoko Fujiwara, the heroine of this game, is an actress who suddenly disappears from the screen just when her career is in full swing. Thirty years later, her fan Tachibana Gen also found her and offered chiyoko a key that chiyoko had accidentally lost, which also made chiyoko remember an unknown love. When she was young and crazy, she fell in love with a painter because of one side, and the painter said that this key could open the key to her heart, but it was difficult to see her again. Chiyoko plays a variety of roles on the screen, wanting to follow the figure of the painter and pursue her sincere love, but is deceived by the director and disappears on the screen, and finally only her beautiful memories and the self she wants.
Sincere love is often difficult to speak of. Chiyoko in this work is a woman who strives to pursue her love, and she tells us her sincere and beautiful love story in the movie, and spends her life looking for this painter who has only seen one side. She touched us and deserves respect.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
"What can be used to prove that our lives are not dreams?"
Atsuko Chiba, a beautiful physician who works at a psychiatric research institute, and together with the genius scientist Hirosaku Tokida, invents an instrument called "DC MINI", which can monitor and change the dreams of patients, and Atsuko becomes a red pepper that can be deciphered in the patient's dreams, helping patients overcome their mental problems.
This is a classic work, it relies on the fantasy setting, so that the protagonist Atsuko can change arbitrarily in the dream, the animation of the storyboard is simply beyond imagination, you don't know what it will become next, even the author of the original work, Yasutaka Tsutsui, feels that the animation is more exciting than the novel. Nolan's "Inception" is almost identical in setting to this film.
"Red Hot Chili Peppers" not only tells stories, but also talks about human nature, with the meaning of magical reality, both satirizing reality and warming people's hearts. It still seems to be a commendable work, which can be viewed in Bilibili.
summary
Imatoshi, a name that is about to be forgotten by the times, but his works still live on. This month marks his 58th birthday, and let's remember the director of the animation industry, an animator with a brilliant idea.