Tekkon Kinkreet
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | 鉄 コ ン 筋 ク リ ー ト Tekkon Kinkreet |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Arias |
| script | Anthony Weintraub |
| production | Eiichi Kamagata , Eiko Tanaka , Masarou Toyoshima , Fumio Ueda |
| music | plaid |
Tekkon Kinkreet ( Japanese 鉄 コ ン 筋 ク リ ー ト , Tekkon Kinkurīto , play on words with tekkin concrete ( 鉄 筋 コ ン ク リ ー ト , tekkin konkurīto ), dt. "Reinforced concrete") is an anime series by Taiya Matsumoto from 2006 , which is based on the Manga Mangō series of the same name based. Studio 4 ° C produced the 111-minute film. Directed by Animatrix -producer Michael Arias .
action
Orphaned brothers Black and White, two opposing characters, live in the seedy town of Treasure Town. The city is being transformed into an entertainment world by windy businessmen. The two brothers, on the other hand, take up the fight to save themselves and the city from change.
backgrounds
The manga by Taiyō Matsumoto was published in Japan from 1993 to 1994 in 33 individual chapters in the manga magazine Big Comic Spirits . The Shogakukan Publishing House also brought out these individual chapters in three edited volumes. The anthologies sold surprisingly well in Japan with over a million copies, Tekkon Kinkreet was Matsumoto's breakthrough as a draftsman. In the USA, the manga was first published under the title Black & White in Pulp magazine and then in three volumes by Viz . In 1995 a theater version of the manga was created.
In 1999 Michael Arias created a pilot film together with Koji Morimoto , a first version of the film. The computer-animated pilot film received, among other things, the prize for excellence at the Japan Media Arts Festival 1999. Arias wanted to create the entire film in 3D, but gave up the project when it proved too difficult. It wasn't until 2003, when Arias was working again on Animatrix with Studio 4 ° C , that the idea was picked up again.
The film premiered on October 21, 2006 at the Tokyo International Film Festival . The film was released in Japanese cinemas on December 23 of the same year. In Germany, the film was shown for the first time on February 10, 2007 in the 14plus competition at the Berlinale 2007 .
Awards
At the 61st Mainichi Eiga Concours in 2006, the film won the Ōfuji Noburō Prize , which, in memory of the animator Noburō Ōfuji , is intended to honor artistically valuable animated films. At the Tōkyō Kokusai Anime Fair 2008, Taiyo Matsumoto was awarded for his screenplay of the anime. The artistic director Shinji Kimura was also honored.
Web links
- Tekkonkinkreet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official Website (Japanese)
- Cinemarama: A review of the film
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- ↑ Tanomi.com ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Award-winning works. Digital Art (Non Interactive Art) Division. Excellence Prize Tekkon Kinkreet. Japan Media Arts Festival, 2006, archived from the original on April 15, 2006 ; accessed on December 28, 2013 .
- ↑ Making Taiyo Matsumoto's "Tekkon Kinkreet" into anime ( English ) PingMag. November 22, 2006. Archived from the original on November 26, 2006. Retrieved on July 23, 2016: “Interview; translated from Japanese by Natsumi Yamane "
- ↑ Anime News Network
- ↑ Eva 1.0 Wins Tokyo Anime Fair's Animation of the Year. Anime News Network , February 26, 2008, accessed December 28, 2013 .
