Shin seiki Evangelion Gekijô-ban: Shito shinsei (1997)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Directors:

Hideaki Anno
Masayuki

Genre:

Animation | Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Welcome to the Apocalypse

Plot:

The Evangelion saga from TV is artfully recounted, with some additional scenes, in part one see: "Shin...

Plot Keywords:

Alternative Timeline | Anime | Ejaculation | Depression | Surrealism

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Megumi Ogata	...	Shinji Ikari (voice: Japanese version)
Megumi Hayashibara	...	Rei Ayanami / Yui Ikari / Pen Pen (voice: Japanese version)
Yûko Miyamura	...	Asuka Langley Sôryû (voice: Japanese version)
Kotono Mitsuishi	...	Misato Katsuragi (voice: Japanese version)
Fumihiko Tachiki	...	Gendô Ikari (voice: Japanese version)
Yuriko Yamaguchi	...	Ritsuko Akagi (voice: Japanese version)
Kôichi Yamadera	...	Ryôji Kaji (voice: Japanese version)
Tomokazu Seki	...	Tôji Suzuhara (voice: Japanese version)
Motomu Kiyokawa	...	Kôzô Fuyutsuki (voice: Japanese version)
Miki Nagasawa	...	Maya Ibuki (voice: Japanese version)
Hiro Yuuki	...	Makoto Hyûga (voice: Japanese version)
Takehito Koyasu	...	Shigeru Aoba (voice: Japanese version)
Tetsuya Iwanaga	...	Kensuke Aida (voice: Japanese version)
Junko Iwao	...	Hikari Horaki (voice: Japanese version)
Spike Spencer	...	Shinji Ikari (voice: English version)

Also Known As:

Evangelion: Death & Rebirth
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (USA)

Runtime:

101 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Nova Scotia) | Italy:VM14 (DVD rating) | USA:NC-17 | South Korea:15 (cable rating) | Australia:M | Singapore:NC-16 | UK:15 | Germany:16

Company:

Gainax

Movie Connections:

Edited from "Shin seiki evangerion: Saigo no shisha (#1.24)" (1996)

Soundtrack:

Kanon und Gigue in D-Dur für drei Violinen und Basso Continuo

Not a stand-in for the series.

Having seen episodes 5 and 6 from my local library (And also some scattered episodes from when I was small), I decided to pick this one up as well, thinking it was the End of Evangelion (It was wrongly labeled by the library, despite how obvious it wasn't from the big words DEATH AND REBIRTH on the cover). What I got, however, was a rushed and complicated mess of scattered scene after scattered scene. Having not seen much of the series, I was left asking myself "What the heck just happened?". I had no idea who most of the characters were and I couldn't pick up even the slightest idea of the plot.

And that's just the start. Then, you have 20 minutes of EoE. The first scene is more messed up than a raving maniac and from there follows extreme sadistic violence. Don't be fooled, Australians, by its M-rating (as well as EoE)-it's more explicit than it sounds.

To finish, don't watch this unless you've seen all the episodes of Evangelion up to Episode 24. If you don't, you'll be left more confused than I was.