The Sky Crawlers
Mamoru Oshii
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Plot Summary
From Mamoru Oshii, the world-acclaimed director of Ghost in the Shell comes an award-winning story of an exciting but endless war with heroes too young to understand the reality of their battles. A group of eternally young fighter pilots known as Kildren experience the sudden loss of innocence as they battle the enemy in astonishing dogfights above the clouds. With his only childhood memory consisting of intense flight training, the fearless teenage pilot Yuichi's dogfights coexist with his struggle to find his missing past. When his beautiful, young female commander Suito is reluctant to discuss the fate of the pilot that Yuichi is replacing - or the strangely perfect condition of that pilot's former aircraft - Yuichi's curiosity becomes heightened.
Customer Reviews
Thought-provoking
Don't be fooled by the summary splash, it completely miss-sells the movie as an action/adventure title. The movie, like Oshii's other theatrical animated (I haven't seen his live-action stuff) works, is a slow and atmospheric film with a message. This one is equal parts the futiliy of war and peace alongside a veiled criticism of fan culture (specifically anime, but could just as easily be applied to other fan cultures). The animation quality is excellent, the character designs seem somewhat abbreviated, they are animated exceedingly well, and the backgrounds and CG work are also topnotch. Its not for everyone, but the film is still excellent in its own rights, and good for anyone looking for something thought-provoking.
wizards23
Although the movie is visually stunning, it's subtitled in English, but nothing on itunes information page tells you that.
The theme song by Ayaka is cut out of US release
The movie itself is great, but the theme song is gone and replaced by other soundtrack in this version. The theme song title is "Konya mo Hoshi ni Dakarete(今夜も星に抱かれて・・・)," and it was meant to be at the end credits, but was replaced by other soundtrack. The song, which is chosen by the director himself, is great and I think the music is part of the movie, so it is a big deal for me.
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- Genre: Action & Adventure
- Released: 2009
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