When Mamoru Oshii, director of Ghost in the Shell 2 made this statement, "This film is going to be something that no one has seen before”, he said a mouth full. The official site for Tachiguishi Retsuden has been update with a trailer and from what I seen in the footage, its definitely unlike anything from Osshii's other films or any animation done before for that matter. Its a comedy with a mixture of animation and elements of live action. Here is the story from Production IG site:
Immediately following the end of the World War II in 1945, or the 20th year of the Showa era, Tokyo was trying to emerge from the rubble. In a black market in one corner of Tokyo stood a flimsy tachigui soba (buckwheat noodle) place.
It was a funny time just before the closing. A man appeared at the threshold. "One Tsukimi (raw egg). With soba". This was none other than the legendary Fast Food Grifter, "Tsukimi" Ginji. His relentless "foul play" quietly initiates.
The time changes. In the midst of the first anti Japan-US Security Treaty movement (1960), the streets rumoured about "Ketsune Croquette" O-Gin, a beautiful Fast Food Grifter lady, who disappeared all of a sudden. Wandering the alleys in the years of skyrocketing economic growth was Crying Inumaru. Then came "Cold Tanuki" Masa, whose scandalous death made people aware of the presence of Fast Food Grifters within the Japanese society. "Gyudon" Ushigoro put an end to a major gyudon (beef and rice bowl) restaurant chain. And it is not possible not to mention "Hamburger" Tetsu, who shocked the entire American fast food industry.
Fast Food Grifters are the phantoms that rise and fall with the shifting diet-styles. They are the dissenting heroes that left their names on the dark side of dietary culture with their glare. Now their legend revives, strong as ever...
The film is slated for release in Japan in Spring 2006.
Official Tachiguishi Retsuden website
Trailer (Embedded flash)
Source: Production IG
looks very "Pythonish".....
Hi Tsuka, your english is perfectly fine. Your from Catsuka.com? Cool! Just wanna say that I been to your site before and I think its awesome. Actually, your site is where I saw the footage on the new Miyazaki animated short.
The film reminds me of a Japanese live action version of Spongebob Squarepants...in a good way of course!
Wolf > Thanks to appreciate my website (I'm the only person on Catsuka, it's a personal website).
I like Twitch a lot too !
Hi Tsuka... I've also been a fan of your site for a couple of years now :)
Wow! Cool concept, GBA style story telling... LOL
Wonder how this will plays out on a feature lenght film.
Interesting, style reminds me of some parts of Mind Game and some other Studio 4°C shorts.
The concept is very odd looking. Bit everytime I see the trailer, the more I am intrigued and wants to see the movie.
This is going to be amazing...
I wouldn't say it's "definitely unlike anything from Oshii's other films" though... It seems to be a fairly direct continuation of ideas from "The Red Spectacles", and despite the unique technique looks like it's going to have a very similar atmosphere, and combination of silliness and melancholy, to that and his other early films...
Also it shares some stylistic similarity to IG's previous oshii-related anime shorts "Mini-Pato" which were in a similar stick -puppet/cutout style but drawn rather than photographic.
Anyway, I can't wait to see it!
Hey Tsuka ! Keep up the good work !
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