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From Studio 4C, the animation studio that brought you The Animatrix comes this visually-stunning new anime film based on a popular Japanese manga written by Taiyo Matsumoto.
In Treasure Town, where the moon smiles and young boys can fly, life can be both gentle and brutal. This is never truer than for our heroes, Black and White, two street urchins who watch over the city, doing battle with an array of old-world Yakuza and alien assassins vying to rule the decaying metropolis. Tekkonkinkreet is a dynamic tale of brotherhood that addresses the faults of present day society, true love lost and the kindness of the human heart.
"The movie looks fantastic, with Treasure Town a lush forest of rooftops, fire
escapes, cables and signs. The characters who inhabit Treasure Town are angular,
slope-shouldered, asymmetrical and fit right in with the bustling, chaotic city."– Frames
Per Second Magazine
"Arias and his team, however, have gone farther in creating a richly detailed retro cityscape at once fantastic and recognizably real, populated by characters drawn with a spiky, uncutesy individuality. Arias is the Pieter Bruegel of anime." – Mark
Schilling, Japan Times
Official Website and Trailers: http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/tekkonkinkreet/
Best Film, Manichi Film Award 2006
Best Film, Artforum Magazine 2006
Best Animated Film, Fantasia 2007
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Michael Arias
Michael Arias began his filmmaking career more than 20 years ago at Dream Quest Images, where he worked as a motion-control cameraperson on effects-heavy films such as THE ABYSS and TOTAL RECALL.
Mr. Arias then moved to Japan, first to post-production monolith Imagica, and then to game giant Sega, where he co-directed the ridefilm MEGALOPOLICE, exhibited as part of the SIGGRAPH 1993 Electronic Theater. In 1992 Mr. Arias co-founded CG animation boutique Syzygy Digital Cinema, where he created sequences for feature films M. BUTTERFLY, THE HUDSUCKER PROXY, PRET-A-PORTER, and the Spike Lee films CROOKLYN and CLOCKERS.
Most recently, Mr. Arias produced Warner Bros' Matrix-inspired animation anthology ANIMATRIX. Tekkonkinkreet is his debut animated feature.
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