Memories (1995)

Original title

MEMORIES

Directed by

Kōji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura, Katsuhiro Otomo

Genre

fantasy film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 53m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 571 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Japanese animated anthology presents three short science fiction stories. A space crew encounters a phantom signal, a chemist becomes a biological weapon, and a city lives to fire a single massive cannon.

surrealunevenvisually inventivemelancholicdarkly comicabsurdistfuturisticatmospheric

What happens

Memories is a 1995 Japanese animated science fiction anthology film with Katsuhiro Otomo as executive producer, and based on three of his manga short stories. The film is composed of three shorts: Magnetic Rose (彼女の想いで, Kanojo no Omoide), directed by Studio 4°C co-founder Kōji Morimoto and written by Satoshi Kon; Stink Bomb (最臭兵器, Saishū-heiki), directed by Tensai Okamura and written by Otomo, and Cannon Fodder (大砲の街, Taihō no Machi), written and directed by Otomo himself. Originally released on home video in North America by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Discotek Media acquired the rights in 2020 along with Mill Creek Entertainment. Their 2021 Blu-ray release includes English subtitles and a new English dub produced by NYAV Post (for Magnetic Rose) and Sound Cadence Studios (for Stink Bomb and Cannon Fodder). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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