Eden of the East the Movie I: The King of Eden (2009)
"Higashi no Eden Gekijoban I: The King of Eden" (original title)

Director:

Kenji Kamiyama

Writer:

Kenji Kamiyama (story)

Stars:

Christine M. Auten, John Burgmeier, Leah Clark

Cast

Credited cast:
Christine M. Auten	...	Kuroha Diana Shiratori (voice)
John Burgmeier	...	Haruo Kasuga (voice)
Leah Clark	...	Saki Morimi (voice)
Takuya Eguchi	...	Satoshi Osugi (voice)
John Gremillion	...	Daiju Mononobe (voice)
Saori Hayami	...	Saki Morimi (voice)
Nobuyuki Hiyama	...	Yutaka Itazu (voice)
Rei Igarashi	...	Kuroha Diana Shiratori (voice)
Motoyuki Kawahara	...	Kazuomi Hirasawa (voice)
Ryohei Kimura	...	Akira Takizawa (voice)
Jason Liebrecht	...	Akira Takizawa (voice)
Lydia Mackay	...	Sis (voice)
Atsushi Miyauchi	...	Daiju Mononobe (voice)
Masakazu Morita	...	Ryu Yuki (voice)
Newton Pittman	...	Yutaka 'Panties' Itazu (voice)

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

software company | radiator | apartment | men in black | ramen | 

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Genres:

Animation | Action | Comedy | Drama | Mystery

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Details

Official Sites:

Offical site [jp]

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

28 November 2009 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Eden of the East the Movie I: The King of Eden

Company Credits

Production Co:

Asmik Ace Entertainment, Dentsu, FUNimation Entertainment

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Spun-off from Eden of the East (2009)

User Reviews

Waste of time

I was disappointed by the ending of the Eden of East series because it leaves you nowhere. This movie sequel picks up a few months later, with everything in a similar situation, wanders around for a while and leaves viewers exactly where they started - nowhere.

The movie is shockingly lazy. First off, for no reason that I can see it reuses the amnesiac trick from the series, although with even less motivation for doing so. In fact, motivation is lacking from many characters; who do things with seemingly little rhyme or reason.

Basically, this is a continuation of the TV series that is perhaps the equivalent of three or four episodes plus some padding. Except it actually progresses the overall story *less* than a single episode of the series did. There are some cute ideas, but some of these, like Juiz's increasingly human responses, don't go anywhere. Perhaps the idea is some of this stuff will be used or explained in the next movie, but all that means is that the TV series should have been longer and given viewers a complete story.

After this, I have no hope that anything is ever going to be satisfactorily resolved.