Maboroshi (2023) | Transcript
17/01/2024
A factory explosion plunges a small town into a timeless freeze, leaving 14-year-old Masamune and his pals to grapple with a quickly collapsing reality
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The story follows Mahito, a 12-year-old boy struggling to cope with the loss of his mother during World War II
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A 17-year-old girl named Suzume helps a mysterious young man close doors from the other side that are releasing disasters all over in Japan.
BAREFOOT GEN (1983) – MOVIE SCRIPT
31/05/2020
Barefoot Gen (Hadashi no Gen), is a 1983 Japanese anime war drama film based on the Japanese manga series of the same name by Keiji Nakazawa. It depicts World War II in Japan from a child’s point of view revolving around the events surrounding the bombing of Hiroshima and the main character’s first hand experience of the bomb.
NO MORE WORDS: BAREFOOT GEN, GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES, AND “VICTIM’S HISTORY”
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The historical anime ‘Grave of Fireflies’ and ‘Barefoot Gen’ contain bleak depictions of World War II. In their own way, they present “history as vision”—visions that are both selective and even ideological but that still contain universal images of great power and resonance.
FUTURE BOY CONAN (1978): HAYAO MIYAZAKI’S EARLY MASTERPIECE
24/05/2020
This seminal work of Japanese master of animation Hayao Miyazaki, Future Boy Conan (Mirai Shōnen Konan) is a post-apocalyptic anime series, consisting of 26 unforgettable episodes packed with action, drama, humor.
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THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL [LES HIRONDELLES DE KABOUL, 2019] – SCRIPT
09/05/2020
Summer 1998 – Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.
THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA (2013) – SCRIPT
04/05/2020
Based on the Japanese Folktale “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter”. A bamboo cutter named Sanuki no Miyatsuko discovers a miniature girl inside a glowing bamboo shoot. Believing her to be a divine presence, he and his wife decide to raise her as their own, calling her “Princess”.