Urusei Yatsura 4: Ramu za fôebâ (1986)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Kazuo Yamazaki

Writers:

Toshiki Inoue (writer)
Rumiko Takahashi (comic)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Mendou invites Ataru & Co. to his estate for a viewing of a large, aging cherry tree named "Tarozakura"...

Plot Keywords:

Tree | Teen | Memory | Consciousness | Legend

Cast

Fumi Hirano	...	Lum (voice)
Toshio Furukawa	...	Ataru (voice)
Akira Kamiya	...	Mendou (voice)
Kazuko Sugiyama	...	Ten (voice)
Saeko Shimazu	...	Shinobu (voice)
Shigeru Chiba	...	Megane (voice)
Shinji Nomura	...	Kakugari (voice)
Akira Murayama	...	Perm (voice)
Issei Futamata	...	Chibi (voice)
Kazue Komiya	...	Ran (voice)
Tomomichi Nishimura	...	Principal (voice)
Michihiro Ikemizu	...	Onsen-mark Sensei (voice)
Natsumi Sakuma	...	Ataru's Mother (voice)
Kenichi Ogata	...	Ataru's Father (voice)
Bin Shimada	...	Ton (voice)

Also Known As:

Urusei Yatsura 4: Lum the Forever

Runtime:

Japan:95 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Kitty Films

Trivia:

At the Tarouzakura viewing party, Ataru gives Lum a piece of food from his box-lunch, and she gets angry after tasting it, yelling "What did you feed me?". He had slipped her an umeboshi (pickled plum), which he found out in TV episode #65, makes Oni people intoxicated. He fed it to her as a prank, like some teenagers do at parties when they spike the punch.

Quotes:

[the frozen dreams collapse, Lum returns, and Ataru approaches her]
Shinobu: And from now on, the days repeat on and on as usual, right?
Sakura: No, not necessarily.
Shinobu: Huh?
Sakura: Even if the days go around, in a path of endlessly nearly concentric circles, as a whole, they should ultimately lead us to a new place.
Mendou: That means...
Sakura: Uh-huh, no one knows what lies ahead of us.
Megane: How naive of me to approve of you and Lum, even for a moment. "Mistakes must be corrected at once." DIE ATARU!
[the Stormtroopers all open fire on Ataru]

Movie Connections:

References "Star Trek" (1966)

Soundtrack:

Melancholy no Kiseki (Tracks of Melancholy)

excellent, yet confusing

You'll have to watch this twice in order to truly understand what it's about. Everything is fine in Tomobiki, until they go to some place to make a movie about a weird giant tree. Lum starts to lose her powers, people start to forget about Lum, and everyone begins living very bizarre lives. Lum disappears for a while and ends up meeting some giant talking baby who lives in the tree.

Oh man, my head is spinning. This movie was weird. Even Beautiful Dreamer confused me the first time I saw it, but not like this. It's definitely one of the more bizarre Urusei Yatsura works. But it is also very good, so you should watch it if you're a fan of this stuff. But watch it twice.