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Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - The Advent

Original title: Berserk: Ougon jidai-hen III - Kourin
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 50m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
13K
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Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - The Advent (2013)
It's been a year since Griffith's imprisonment by the Kingdom of Midland. Once praised as the saviors of the Midland, the Band of the Hawk has been on the run and is on the brink of breaking apart. Much to everyone's surprise, Guts returns to the Hawks, and the search for Griffith begins!
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A year has passed since Guts parted ways with Griffith. The Band of the Hawk is plotting a rescue mission to save Griffith who is confined to prison.A year has passed since Guts parted ways with Griffith. The Band of the Hawk is plotting a rescue mission to save Griffith who is confined to prison.A year has passed since Guts parted ways with Griffith. The Band of the Hawk is plotting a rescue mission to save Griffith who is confined to prison.

  • Director
    • Toshiyuki Kubooka
  • Writers
    • Kentaro Miura
    • Ichirô Ôkouchi
  • Stars
    • Hiroaki Iwanaga
    • Takahiro Sakurai
    • Toa Yukinari
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.8/10
    13K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Toshiyuki Kubooka
    • Writers
      • Kentaro Miura
      • Ichirô Ôkouchi
    • Stars
      • Hiroaki Iwanaga
      • Takahiro Sakurai
      • Toa Yukinari
    • 23User reviews
    • 15Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 4 nominations total

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    Hiroaki Iwanaga
    Hiroaki Iwanaga
    • Guts
    • (voice)
    Takahiro Sakurai
    Takahiro Sakurai
    • Griffith
    • (voice)
    Toa Yukinari
    • Casca
    • (voice)
    Yûki Kaji
    Yûki Kaji
    • Judeau
    • (voice)
    Yoshiro Matsumoto
    • Corkus
    • (voice)
    Minako Kotobuki
    Minako Kotobuki
    • Rickert
    • (voice)
    Takahiro Fujiwara
    • Pippin
    • (voice)
    Kazuki Yao
    Kazuki Yao
    • Gaston
    • (voice)
    Yûichi Nakamura
    Yûichi Nakamura
    • Silat
    • (voice)
    Aki Toyosaki
    • Charlotte
    • (voice)
    Ayana Taketatsu
    • Erica
    • (voice)
    Ayako Takeuchi
    • Young Griffith
    • (voice)
    Guin Poon Chaw
    • Old Fortuneteller
    • (voice)
    Nobuyuki Katsube
    • Midland King
    • (voice)
    Kenta Miyake
    Kenta Miyake
    • Nosferatu Zodd
    • (voice)
    Akio Ôtsuka
    Akio Ôtsuka
    • Skull Knight
    • (voice)
    • (as Akio Ohtsuka)
    Shinji Ogawa
    • Void
    • (voice)
    Miyuki Sawashiro
    Miyuki Sawashiro
    • Slan
    • (voice)
    • Director
      • Toshiyuki Kubooka
    • Writers
      • Kentaro Miura
      • Ichirô Ôkouchi
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    User reviews23

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    9purpleprinc3

    A good watch

    I loved the original series of Berserk and this movie series has been a great addition. The animation work is superb, crisp, clear and colourful, it's a pleasure to watch. Last review I wasn't too happy but I understand they are fast-forwarding through the story. If you've seen the original series, you'll still enjoy this for it's visual treat, and if you're new you'll like it all the same hopefully. The story of Berserk is great, I hope they stick to it faithfully. Anyhow if you're looking for an entertaining anime series to watch, definitely check this out you won't be disappointed. And now my review has come to 10 lines I can end it respectfully, check this out! :)
    7tuomas_gimli

    Still marred by the same issues, but definitely the best one so far

    Whereas the first two films ranged from merely passable to a downright butchering of the story, Descent finally finds a comfortable groove and is definitely the best one of the films so far.

    Descent has many points in its favor before the film even starts; this movie covers the most important and character-focused part of the story without any massive battles or political plotting. The movie is focused solely on the survival of the Band of the Hawk, with the battles being small-scale skirmishes than entire armies clashing and the story moves away from the mundane and medieval aspects to the (personally) more interesting stuff with demons and the supernatural. This allows for a tighter focus and structure.

    The pacing is far from perfect, but it's finally at least decent. After the first 20-30 minutes, the film finally takes some time with the characters, and actually manages to establish some emotional attachment to them. It's definitely a positive for the film.

    In the first films the blend of hand-drawn animation and CG ranged from looking terrible to at best alright, but here it is finally used rightly. It's not perfect, but it's lightyears ahead of the first two. The studio has cleverly chosen to use CG for the character models, but their faces are animated in 2D. This does a good job of abridging the two different animation styles, and the moments when the two clash are far less numerous than before. The film being more character-focused also gives us more moments where they are animated fully hand-drawn, and it looks great. When the Eclipse begins, the movie really becomes a treat for the eyes: all the various monsters and the surreal landscapes of the demon world look great, and the action scenes are very well directed and animated.

    But despite all this, Descent is far from great. The problems are smaller than before, but they're still the same. The biggest one is undoubtedly the pacing; the film still feels like a heavily cut down cliff's notes version of the story. If the film was 30-40 minutes longer, maybe then it could have covered everything that's in the story. The most outrageous examples of this are that a) we never find out what Guts has been doing during his year of absence and b) one scene where Caska seemingly arbitrarily switches between three completely different emotional states in the space of only a few minutes.

    Despite the praise I gave the animation, the CG on the humans still looks jarring and is very easily noticed. It's less problematic than before, but still an issue. The score is a mixed bag; at times it's appropriately booming and ominous and at others bizarrely inappropriate. There are moments where mere silence would have suited some scenes better than the music in the film. In fact, the more ambient-styled score of the original series suited the Eclipse's nightmarish events better, and that's quite an odd thing to say, considering the original's fairly weak score.

    The odd thing about Descent is that for every thing it does better than the series, it seems to get something else wrong. Here we finally see how Guts escapes the Eclipse, but Rickert's own mini-story has been almost entirely cut out. The animation is far better than the series, but the voice acting is clearly inferior. The film completes this part of the story, but so much that is important to future events has been cut out that continuing from this will be quite hard. The definitive animated version of Berserk might lie somewhere between these films and the original series. Perhaps by making a supercut of the two one would end up with a masterpiece.

    Recommendation: Despite all I said, I enjoyed this film. It has its problems, lots of them, but the good ultimately outweighs the bad. Worth watching.

    PS. For all you expecting Wyald and the Black Dogs: they're not here. Sorry.
    8Maxence_G

    Review - Berserk: Ougon jidai-hen III - Kourin

    This is the peak of what the Berserk trilogy has to offer in terms of drama, gore, nudity.

    It is an extraordinary conclusion for this rather disturbing saga. The battles are as abundant in this film then it is predecessor, but they surpass everything, speaking of bloodshed. The motivations of those battles are more than ever relevant to the theme and the plot of the saga so we are enormously concerned about their outcome for our 3 protagonists.

    However, be warned this anime is probably not for everyone. it deals with bizarre imagery, many torture sequences, rape, depression, shattered friendship, etc.
    8ianwagnerwatches

    Gore Galore, Horror and More

    "Berzerk: The Golden Age Arc I-III" = 7.9

    It's not often that I find myself rooting for a man to slaughter people, for any reason. And yet, I never stopped rooting for Guts once. The Berzerk films sport a thoroughly engaging dark fantasy narrative, supported by entertaining and well animated action scenes. This series effortlessly glides between very funny and very serious, whichever it's trying to be at any given moment. The only real problem I have is that the dialogue can be really cheesy, clunky, if not simply detached from reality. Chalk it up to the translation, I suppose. Regardless, this film series is the sort of thing I show to people who think anime is silly, nothing but Dragon Balls and Narootoes, and it rarely fails to open minds to this huge world of animated cinema.
    10darthsitkur

    The golden age arc is incredible

    A year after guts and Griffith part ways, he and the band of the hawk conduct a rescue mission to bail Griffith out of jail. I came across the first movie on Netflix and thought it was great, caught the second one on youtube and thought it was even better than the first, and bought this one off of iTunes and it was so intense and so brutal that it made Dante's inferno: an animated epic look like a walk in the park. The first two were action/adventure/war films, but this one was action, adventure, horror, and dark fantasy all rolled up into one. this is quite honestly the best animated film I've ever seen, and it's even better than the first two if you ask me. I definitely recommend the The berserk trilogy to fellow anime fans, they have great stories, great voice acting, they're filled with brutal action, they're creepy, they're dramatic, they're intense, they're raw, and they have insane amounts of gore. they won't be disappointed

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    • Trivia
      Griffith's face after his torture has never been revealed in any adaptation of Berserk, nor in the source material itself.
    • Quotes

      Skull Knight: Heed my words, Struggler. Soon a rain of blood, the likes of which you cannot imagine, shall fall down upon you. It will be a storm of death. But take heed, Struggler. Struggle, endure, contend. For that alone is the sword of one who defies death. Do not forget these words.

    • Connections
      Followed by Berserk (2016)
    • Soundtracks
      Aria
      (Theme Song)

      Theme song production: Chaos Union/Tesla Kite

      A&R: Rihito Yumoto & Mika Hirano

      Sound engineer: Masanori Chinzei

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    • Release date
      • February 1, 2013 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Official site
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Languages
      • Japanese
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Berserk: The Advent
    • Production companies
      • Lucent Pictures Entertainment
      • Studio 4°C
      • Berserk Film Partners
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $399,445
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 50 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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