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Toei Animation process video

Toei Animation process video
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oei Animation Co., Ltd (東映アニメーション株式会社, Tōei Animēshon Kabushiki-gaisha?) (JASDAQ: 4816) is a Japanese animation studio owned by Toei Co., Ltd. The studio was originally founded in 1948 as Japan Animated Films (日本動画映画, Nihon Dōga Eiga, often shortened to 日動映画 Nichidō Eiga). In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and it was reincorporated under its current name. Over the years, the studio has created a large number of TV series, and movies, and adapted many japanese comics by renowned authors to animated series, many popular worldwide. Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Go Nagai, and Yoichi Kotabe have all worked with the company in the past. Toei is a shareholder in the Japanese anime satellite television network, Animax, along with other noted anime studios and production enterprises such as Sunrise, TMS Entertainment and Nihon Ad Systems Inc.[1][2][3]

Until 1998, Toei Animation was known as Toei Doga (東映動画株式会社, Tōei Dōga Kabushiki-gaisha?) (although even at that time the company’s formal English name was indeed “Toei Animation Co. Ltd.”), with “dōga” being the native Japanese word for “animation” which was widely used until the 1970s. Their mascot is the cat Pero, from the company's 1969 film adaptation of Puss in Boots.

Toei Animation produced the anime versions of works by many legendary manga artists, including Go Nagai, Akira Toriyama, and Shotaro Ishinomori. In addition, the studio helped propel the popularity of the magical girl and Super Robot genres of anime; among Toei's most legendary and trend-setting TV series include the first magical-girl anime series, Mahoutsukai Sally the anime adaptation of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's manga of the same name, and Go Nagai's Mazinger Z, animated adaptation of his manga, which set the standard for Super Robot anime for years to come.

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Akira - 1988

Akira (アキラ?) is a 1988 Japanese animated film co-written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo based on his manga of the same name. The film is set in a neon-lit futuristic Tokyo in 2019. While most of the character designs and basic settings were directly adapted from the original 2,182 page manga epic, the restructured plot of the movie differs considerably from the print version, pruning much of the last half of the book. Akira is regarded by many critics as a landmark anime film, one that influenced much of the art in the anime world that followed its release.[1] Therefore, Akira is regarded by critics as one of the greatest animated films ever made.

The movie led the way for the growing popularity of anime in the West, with Akira considered a forerunner of the second wave of anime fandom that began in the early 1990s. One of the reasons for the movie's success was the highly advanced quality of its animation. At the time, most anime was notorious for cutting production corners with limited motion, such as having only the characters' mouths move while their faces remained static. Akira broke from this trend with meticulously detailed scenes, exactingly lip-synched dialogue—a first for an anime production (voices were recorded before the animation was completed, rather than the opposite)—and super-fluid motion as realized in the film's more than 160,000 animation cels.[2] Notable themes in the film include youth culture, cyberpunk ,delinquency, psychic awareness, social unrest, the world's reaction towards a nuclear holocaust and Japan's post-war economic revival. The film also explores a number of psychological and philosophical themes, such as the nature of corruption, the will to power, and the growth from childhood to maturity both in individuals and the human race itself. Elements of Buddhist symbolism are also present in the film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(film)

Iconic anime film Akira is being remade as a two-part, live-action, Hollywood blockbuster starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The first part, set in New Manhattan — supposedly rebuilt with Japanese money — will premiere next summer.

The original is credited with helping anime find a market outside Japan. Released in 1988, it tells the story of a teenage biker gang member subjected to government experimentation in a post-apocalyptic New Tokyo. It featured some of the most imaginative motorcycles ever conceived. Let’s hope the new version does too.

The films will mark the directorial debut of Ruairí Robinson, who was able to sell Warner Bros. on his vision of a re-imagined Akira. In addition to starring in them, DiCaprio will also produce the films.

http://hellforleathermagazine.com...onardo-dicaprio-to-star-in-l.html

Director:
Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Writers:
Katsuhiro Ôtomo (comic) and
Izô Hashimoto (written by)

Release Date:
24 July 2001 (USA)
Genre:
Animation / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Tagline:
Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.
Plot Outline:
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psionic psychopath that only two kids and a group of psionics can stop.

Plot Keywords:
Nuclear Explosion / Based On Graphic Novel / Dystopian / Blood / Torso Cut In Half
Awards: 1 win

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Paprika - 2006

Paprika (2006)
- パプリカ Papurika -
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29 year old Dr. Atsuko Chiba is an attractive but modest Japanese research psychotherapist whose work is on the cutting edge of her field. Her alter-ego is a stunning and fearless 18 year old “dream detective,” code named PAPRIKA, who can enter into people’s dreams and synchronize with their unconscious to help uncover the source of their anxiety or neurosis.
At Atsuko’s lab, a powerful new psychotherapy devise known as the “DC-MINI” has been invented by her brilliant colleague, Dr. Tokita, a nerdy overweight genius. Although this state-of-art device could revolutionize the world of psychotherapy, in the wrong hands the potential misuse of the devise could be devastating, allowing the user to completely annihilate the dreamer’s personality while they are asleep.When one of the only four existing DC-MINI prototypes is stolen in the final stages of research around the same time that Dr. Tokita’s research assistant Himuro goes missing, Atsuko suspects it’s not a coincidence. If the DC MINI isn’t found, this could lead to the government’s refusal to sanction the use of the machine for psychotherapy treatment.
When several of the remaining researchers at the lab start to go mad, dreaming while in their waking states, haunted by a Japanese doll which featured heavily in the dreams of one of Himuro’s schizophrenic patients, Atsuko knows for sure that whoever is manipulating the machines has a more evil purpose. The DC MINI is being used to destroy people’s minds.

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Paprika (パプリカ, Papurika?) is a Japanese animated science fiction film, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1993 novel of the same name, about a research psychologist who uses a device that permits therapists to help patients by entering their dreams.

The film was directed by Satoshi Kon, animated by Madhouse Studios, and produced and distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment. The film's music was composed by Susumu Hirasawa, who also composed the soundtrack for Kon's award-winning film, Millennium Actress, and equally lauded television series, Paranoia Agent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika_(2006_film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851578/

Satoshi Kon is an anime director with a lot to say - an engineer of delirious, dizzy trips through the psyche, but a spiky, tough social critic too. Drop his name in conversation with a group of avid film geeks, and you're likely to find one or two enthusiastic fans, several curious about his hype - and a few blank stares. While Kon is one of the hottest young directors in Japan, he is nothing like as famous as he deserves to be in the west. In fact, the BFI Southbank's upcoming Anime Now weekend will be a rare gem of an opportunity for UK audiences to see his bold, clever, exciting films on the big screen.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/authors/alex_naylor/

http://movieseyes.blogspot.com/2007/12/paprika-2006.html

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Spirited Away - 2001

Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し, Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi?, lit. Sen and Chihiro's Spiriting Away) is a 2001 Japanese anime film written and directed by famed animator Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli.

The film received many awards, including the second Oscar ever awarded for Best Animated Feature, the first anime film to win an Academy Award, and the only winner of that award to be traditionally animated or win among five nominees (in every other year there were three nominees). The film also won the Golden Bear at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival (tied with Bloody Sunday).

Spirited Away overtook Titanic in the Japanese box office to become the highest-grossing film in Japanese history.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirited_Away

The divide between the physical and spiritual worlds moves quite a bit in Miyazaki’s films. Spirited Away is perhaps the most vivid illustration of this philosophy to date. Parents might nitpick whether the film is too dark for little kids, while anime fans can debate the merits of the original Japanese version versus the English version. Daveigh Chase and the English voice cast (including Pixar veteran John Ratzenberger) are said to have listened to the Japanese voice performances to help gauge their own here and are commendable. What’s indisputable is the masterful level of character design, art direction and imagination that Miyazaki invests his world with.

http://thisdistractedglobe.com/2008/09/27/spirited-away-2001/

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Ghost in the Shell - 1995

Ghost in the Shell (GHOST IN THE SHELL／攻殻機動隊, Gōsuto In Za Sheru/Kōkaku Kidōtai?, lit. Ghost in the Shell/Mobile Armoured Riot Police) is a 1995 anime film directed by Mamoru Oshii; an adaptation of the manga Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow, produced by Production I.G, and written by Kazunori Itō. A sequel, Innocence, was released in 2004.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_(film)

fter Akira, a case can be made for Ghost in the Shell being the most influential anime ever. While Akira was the first anime to crack international markets, GITS rose anime to something “real,”, and opened the doors for events like Disney’s pursuit of Miyazaki, and eventually, the truly incredibly pace of anime we see today. More important for cyberpunk films, GITS provided a myriad of thoughts and visuals that have been expanded upon in virtually all subsequent cyberpunk animes. James Cameron refers to GITS as the first truly adult animation film to reach a level of literary and visual excellence.” In addition to a wonderfully complex and introspective story, we get heart-thumping, realistic action, all served up with some incredibly revolutionary animation techniques that places GITS on a juicy platter for all to enjoy.

http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/mo...ade/1990-1999/ghost-in-the-shell/

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Princess Mononoke - 1997

Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫, Mononoke Hime?) is a 1997 Japanese animated historical fantasy feature film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli. It was first released in Japan on July 12, 1997 and in the United States on October 29, 1999 in select cities and on November 26, 1999 in Canada.

It is a jidaigeki (period drama) set specifically in the late Muromachi period of Japan but with numerous fantasy elements and centers on the struggle between the supernatural guardians of a forest and the humans who consume its resources as seen by the outsider Ashitaka. "Mononoke" (物の怪?) is not a name, but a general term in the Japanese language for a spirit or monster.

Roger Ebert placed the movie sixth on his top ten movies of 1999.[1] Mononoke also became the highest grossing movie in Japan until Titanic took over the spot several months later. Overall, Mononoke is the third highest grossing anime movie in Japan,[citation needed] next to 2001's Spirited Away and 2004's Howl's Moving Castle, both also by Miyazaki.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mononoke

http://thecia.com.au/reviews/p/princess-mononoke.shtml

Hayao Miyazaki's animated Princess Mononoke gives the classic human-versus-nature theme a phantasmagoric spin with a Samurai warrior, larger-than-life wolves, forest spirits and firearms. Don't expect the 90 minutes of sugary song, dance and adorable animals found in so many of Disney's animated features, because for Miyazaki--and his characters--the lines between good and evil, right and wrong, natural and spiritual are not clearly defined. In the haunting world of Princess Mononoke, forest animals, gods and humans search for their place in a constantly shifting reality. The film is both beautiful and violent as Miyazaki's creatures and worlds collide with the broader themes of human nature, survival and morality.
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Known for meticulous animation and a minimal use of computers and graphic technology, Miyazaki and his animation studio, Studio Ghibli, have produced inventive stories and characters reminiscent of such authors as Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Johnathan Swift. As film critic A.O. Scott wrote in the New York Times, "Mr. Miyazaki is both an extravagant fantasist and an exacting naturalist; as a storyteller, he is an inventor of fables that seem at once utterly new and almost unspeakably ancient."

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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence - 2004

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (イノセンス, Inosensu?) is the 2004 sequel to the anime film Ghost in the Shell. Released in Japan on March 6, 2004, with a U.S. release on September 17, 2004, Innocence had a production budget of approximately $20 million (approx. 2 billion yen). To raise such a large amount of money, Production I.G's president Mitsuhisa Ishikawa asked Studio Ghibli's president Toshio Suzuki to work on the project with him as a co-producer. The film is written and directed by Mamoru Oshii, with a story loosely connected to the manga by Shirow Masamune. The movie was produced by Production I.G, which also produced the original movie and the spinoff TV series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

Alongside the film, there was a book published that served as a prequel to Innocence called After the Long Goodbye.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%...%AE%BB%E6%A9%9F%E5%8B%95%E9%9A%8A

The most startling of this engagement of human/machine distortion is within the style of the film. Like many current anime works, Oshii uses both traditional two-dimensional animation and compliments (and sometimes supplements) its limitations with three-dimensional computer animation. In most films the result is tacky and obvious; the two techniques generally do not blend together well and produce an alienating effect. It is no different in Innocence, but the ungainly visual look is one of a myriad of visual cues Oshii provides to reveal the mystery of his themes. For this aspect, the traditional animation, though less realistic looking, has an organic and fluid feel, while the newer computer animation has a inert, artificial lifelessness that convolutes the fact that its very dimensionality should make it appear more natural. This is only one example in a film that contains what seems a near endless amount of engagements with the blurring between man and machine. Others pop up with greater frequency than actual plot elements: the artificial reality of hacked human memory vs. what one presumes are organic perceptions (and the implications of this in movie watching); the idea of a robot keeping a pet and being loved by it; the possibility that an infinitely flexible and omniscient free-willed information based entity could function as a god, etc., etc., and so on.

http://www.d-kaz.com/reviews/review.php?id=177

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The Animatrix - 2003

Development of the Animatrix project began when the film series' writers and directors, the Wachowski brothers, were in Japan promoting the first Matrix film. While in the country, they visited some of the creators of the anime films that had been a strong influence on their work, and decided to collaborate with them.[1]

The Animatrix was conceived and overseen by the Wachowski brothers but they only wrote four of the segments themselves and did not direct any of them; most of the project was created by notable figures from the world of Japanese animation.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animatrix

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Memories - 1995

Memories (also Otomo Katsuhiro's Memories) is an anime produced in 1995 by artist/director Otomo Katsuhiro which were based on three manga. The film is composed of three episodes: Magnetic Rose (彼女の想いで, Kanojo no Omoide?), Stink Bomb (最臭兵器, Saishū-heiki?) and Cannon Fodder (大砲の街, Taihō no Machi?).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memories_(film)

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Æon Flux - 1995

Æon Flux (pronounced /ˌiːɒn ˈflʌks/) is an avant garde American science fiction animated television series that aired on MTV. It premiered in 1991 on MTV's Liquid Television experimental animation show as a six-part serial of short films, followed in 1992 by five individual short episodes. In 1995 a season of ten half-hour episodes aired as a stand-alone series.

The visual style of Æon Flux was deeply influenced by the figurative paintings and drawings of the Austrian artist Egon Schiele. Other key influences on Æon Flux can be found in Japanese anime (especially grittier fare like Akira), and European comic works such as the work of Moebius (particularly in lineforms, color palettes, and figure characterizations). Æon Flux is often erroneously classified as an anime series. Graphic violence and sexuality, including fetishism and domination, are frequently depicted. In the featurette Investigation: The History of Æon Flux (included on the 2005 DVD release), Peter Chung says the visual style also was influenced by the limitations of the animated series Rugrats, which he worked on prior to Æon Flux and found highly frustrating in the limitations of what the characters could do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86on_Flux

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