Just as a heads up to any anime fans out there who, like myself, might suffer from a very sparse DVD collection, SBS is showing a (short) series of anime films during their weekly cult movie timeslot at 10:30pm Thursday nights. Starting from the 21st of December, they will be showing:
21/12 -
Jin-Roh:"This film, from Japanese master animator Mamoru Oshii (director of the two
Ghost in the Shell movies), takes place in Japan in an alternative 1960s. Public order has broken down and the National Public Safety Commission has set up the Capital Police Organisation (CAPO) to keep control. The CAPO's elite Special Unit is battling unrest in which anti-government forces, led by a group called the Sect, are using young girls to plant bombs. One special unit member, Kazuki Fuse, is traumatised when he hesitates to kill one of these girls and she blows herself up in front of him, killing several of his colleagues. So when he meets the dead girl's sister, he seemingly falls for her, hoping that she will be able to silence the ghosts which haunt him. But the two are caught up in a three-way battle between police, secret police and terrorists and have to choose between personal and political loyalties."
28/12 -
Cowboy Bebop: the movie:"Based on a successful Japanese television series and set on Mars at the end of the 21st century. The crew of the spaceship Bebop – Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Faye Valentine, Ed and Ein and the corgi data-dog, arrive on mars just as a tanker truck is blown up in the middle of a busy street and a deadly viral infection is released with the explosion. The Bebop crew are instantly after the culprit when the reward of 300,000,000 woolongs is announced. But the case gets stranger and stranger as the cold-blooded Vincent Volaju, who supposedly has been dead for ten years, seems to be the prime suspect. Meanwhile, Spike encounters the dangerous Electra, who too seeks the madman."
4/1/07 -
Grave of the Fireflies:"Adapted by director Isao Takahata (founding partner of
Studio Ghibli) from Akiyuki Nosaka's 1967 semi-autobiographical novel, the film begins with Setsuko and Seita, brother and sister, trying to survive a war ravaged Japan during WWII. After their mother is killed in an air raid they find a temporary home with relatives. Having quarrelled with their aunt they leave the city and make their home in an abandoned shelter. While their father's fate as a soldier is unknown the two must depend on each other to somehow keep a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs. When things become truly desperate, the children's only entertainment is the light of the fireflies."
Those who dislike english dubbing should be warned that the versions SBS have chosen to show all have been dubbed. But still, it's exciting when SBS decided to geek out with their summer movies!
-synopses taken from the SBS website.
