Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer

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Anime movie
title Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer
Original title う る 星 や つ ら 2 ビ ュ ー テ ィ フ ル ・ ド リ ー マ ー
transcription Urusei Yatsura 2: Byūtifuru Dorīmā
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1984
Studio Pierrot
length 98 minutes
Rod
Director Mamoru Oshii
script Mamoru Oshii
music Katsu Hoshi
synchronization

Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer ( Japanese う る 星 や つ ら 2 ビ ュ ー テ ィ フ ル ・ ド リ ー マ ー ) is an anime film from 1984. It is the second of six films for the anime television series Urusei Yatsura that are on a manga series by Rumiko Takahashi based. The animation studio Studio Pierrot produced the film.

action

The film begins with the construction of a play from the Second World War in the Tomobiki school, which should take place the next morning. But the day does not want to end, and when the teacher Onsen-Mark, Ataru, Lum and their friends want to go home, they cannot achieve their goal. The teacher arriving home sees mushrooms growing there and realizes that years must have passed there. In the school but against the preparations continue and the day does not want to end. More mysterious events happen at the school and soon the friends flee to find out that only tomobiki on the back of a giant turtle still exists. Only Ataru's house is left of their homes and they begin to explore their isolated world. More characters gradually disappear.

Eventually, Mendō discovers that all of this arose out of Lum's dream to live with Ataru and his family. The dream spirit Mujaki made her wish come true. The friends summon the dream eater Baku to free them from the dream. But this Ataru first falls into a series of other dreams. In order for Ataru to finally wake up, he has to say the name of a person he loves. When he names Lum, he is finally redeemed and wakes up.

analysis

In contrast to the first film and the television series, the title plays an important role in the film.

Beautiful Dreamer is based on the Japanese fairy tale Urashima Taro , in which a fisherman spends time in a palace underwater and when he returns many years have passed in his village. Other archetypal images from Japanese mythology are also used.

production

The film was produced by the Pierrot studio and directed by Mamoru Oshii . Shichiro Kobayashi was the artistic director and the music was composed by Katsu Hoshi.

This film is the last to be animated by Studio Pierrot and directed by Mamoru Oshii. Because Mamoru Oshii was dissatisfied with the first film, he decided to go his own way with the second film and thus discarded the original script by Rumiko Takahashi.

synchronization

The Japanese dubbing was produced by New Japan Studios .

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Ataru Moroboshi Toshio Furukawa
Lum Invader Fumi Hirano
Shinobu Miyake Saeko Shimazu
Shutaro Mendo Akira Kamiya
Jariten / Ten Kazuko Sugiyama
Ryūnosuke Fujinami Mayumi Tanaka
Cherry / Sakurambō Ichirō Nagai
Sakura Machiko Washio
Onsen mark Michihiro Ikemizu
Megane Shigeru Chiba
Kakugari Shinji Nomura
Perm Akira Murayama
Mujaki Takuya Fujioka

Publications

Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer was released in Japanese theaters on February 11, 1984.

The film was later released on VHS and LaserDisc. The first DVD was published in 1998 by the English publisher Central Park Media, and a DVD was also released in Japan in 2001, with the difference that the image material was newly restored from the negative and the image format is 16: 9, i.e. the original cinema format. A Blu-ray should have been released on March 20, 2009, but Tōhō stopped distribution on January 26, 2009. In the second attempt, the Blu-ray has now been released on January 21, 2015.

The film also appeared in France, Italy and Spain.

reception

Reactions

Mamoru Oshii's version, which differed widely from Rumiko Takahashi's original, earned him heavy criticism from fans. This went so far that some of them enclosed razor blades in their letters to him.

analysis

According to Susan Napier, the elegiac form of Japanese culture is found together with the apocalyptic in the film . Overcoming impermanence is a central theme of the film. He keeps the festive component of the television series and creates a unique and beautiful work. The celebration of friendship and community that Takahashi has taken on is complemented with an apocalyptic undertone and a poetic narrative structure. In its plot, the film opens up a refuge from the hectic hustle and bustle of modern society and at the same time shows this refuge as a problem. The film combines apocalyptic scenarios with the exuberant, happy behavior of the protagonists. Seriousness and drama are covered over by parodies and comedy, but they seem all the more subtle. Beautiful Dreamer is therefore a perfectly successful postmodern work, in which Lum's self-centered desire first leads in a compassionate way to a surreal yet attractive world, until the viewer, alienated and fragmented, longs to return to reality. The film can also be seen as a self-reflection of the anime: one festive, beautiful and another's dream, whose transience makes it all the more seductive.

literature

  • Susan J. Napier : Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation . Palgrave 2001. (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Napier, 2001, p. 230
  2. ^ Napier, 2001, p. 231
  3. ↑ Urusei Yatsura - Movie 2 - Beautiful Dreamer. In: Amazon.com . Retrieved July 25, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Urusei Yatsura 2 - Beautiful Dreamer Animation (Blu-ray). In: cdjapan.co.jp. Retrieved October 11, 2010 .
  5. ↑ ブ ル ー レ イ 「う る 星 や つ ら ２ ビ ュ ー テ ィ フ ル ・ ド リ ー マ ー」 (TBR19048D) 発 売 中止 の お 知 ら せ. In: toho-a-park.com. Retrieved October 11, 2010 (Japanese).
  6. ↑ う る 星 や つ ら 2 ビ ュ ー テ ィ フ ル ・ ド リ ー マ ー 【デ ジ タ ル リ マ ス タ ー 版】. In: amazon.co.jp. Retrieved January 26, 2015 (Japanese).
  7. ^ Napier, 2001, p. 20; Reference is made to Oshii Mamoru, in Conversation , New York, January 1998.
  8. ^ Napier, 2001, p. 32
  9. ^ Napier, 2001, p. 221 f.
  10. ↑ Napier, 2001, p. 228 f.
  11. ^ Napier, 2001, pp. 231-234.

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