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Nine Animators. One Vision.
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An anthology of various tales told in various styles with robots being the one common element among them. full summary | add synopsis
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I rented this movie by accident a decade ago but one short is UNFORGETTABLE more (12 total)
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Kôji Moritsugu | ... | Main Character (segment "Presence") | |
| Yayoi Maki | ... | Girl (segment "Presence") | |
| Keiko Hanagata | ... | Grandma (segment "Presence") | |
| Kumiko Takizawa | ... | Daughter, voice of Small Robot (segment "Presence") | |
| Aya Murata | ... | Daughter (child) (segment "Presence") | |
| Nariko Fujieda | ... | Grandchild (segment "Presence") | |
| Satoru Inagaki | ... | Man A (segment "Presence") | |
| Hideyuki Umezu | ... | Man B (segment "Presence") | |
| Ikuya Sawaki | ... | Man C (segment "Presence") | |
| Hidehiro Kikuchi | ... | Child A, Child D (segment "Presence") | |
| Daisuke Namikawa | ... | Child B (segment "Presence") | |
| Tatsuhiko Nakamura | ... | Child C (segment "Presence") | |
| Kei Tomiyama | ... | Miyoshi (segment "Meiji karakuri bunmei kitan") | |
| Chisa Yokoyama | ... | Yayoi (segment "Meiji karakuri bunmei kitan") | |
| Katsue Miwa | ... | Fukusuke (segment "Meiji karakuri bunmei kitan") |
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Robot Carnival (USA)
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Referenced in Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) more
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I wasn't a die-hard anime fan back then as an 18-year old young man, but I happened upon this movie on VHS at an independent video shop after moving from another state. It was placed semi-obscurely at the bottom rack of the animation section but the strange cover artwork case of the VHS edition made an impression on me.
So I rented the videocassette to pop it into the VCR. I was mildly impressed with all of the 'weird' shorts except one short that is so lyrical and surreal it moved me like no anime ever did (except for Spirited Away years later which I admit to having seen 7 times in theatres). That short is called, if I remember correctly, "Cloud".
Independent video shop have since 'closed' (sold its business to a competitor) a few years later and I never had a chance to see the movie again since it's out of print.
Cloud segment is one of the most haunting films (short or feature-length) I've ever seen. Even though I remember *nothing* about the movie, I still recall the Cloud segment.
It's an unforgettable experience witnessing the aesthetically mind-bending short sitting in the darkened living room in the basement on the sunny afternoon day.
The black & white animation...background...strange but haunting ending. I barely remember what the story is about (must be silent) but I understood what it *is* about -- loneliness and requiem for love.
I think it must be seen on the large screen to experience the full effect of emotional tranquility. One of the best examples of surrealist & moving cinema on the meditation of loneliness and love as conveyed by sublime emotional transcendence, animated or not, and one that stamps indelibly in the memory base of the human brain when the viewer is still youthful as a child or adolescent.
Cloud short is an incredibly transcendent work of art in cinema that make for an utterly unforgettable visual experience. One that have the honor of magnificent art among the grandest 2-D dimension paintings of the 17th century Naples and Golden Age of Dutch Art in conveying profound emotions through the magic of artistic motion picture in silence.