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Summary: A Personal Favorite
Review: Jin_roh has to be one of the best anime films I have ever seen it is a masterpiece and belongs in every anime fans collection. First off the most important part the story which was the movies strongest foot. The story revolves around Fuse and Kai Fuse is a memeber of a special police unit that deals with the really dangerous situations. In the begining there's a riot and the police is struggling to contain it. Underneath them within the sewers there is a rebel group that is running bombs through the sewer. Needless to say Fuse encourters one of the runners and it's a small girl and she ends up committing suicide to try and take him out with her but due to Fuse's large amount of body armor he survives with minor bumps and scratches. For the rest of the movie he is plagued by her death and is eventually accused of being part of the rebel faction the Wolf Brigade. Part of the reason is the fact that he is seen hanging around the older sister of the suicide bomber. Through the whole movie you think that everyone is using Fuse and the police force he works for is setting him up and that he's falling into their trap but it turns out that they're doing everything he predicted and was using them. You even think that the one dead girl's sister is using him but it turns out she was just one of his pawns as well.
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Summary: The best movie, anime or otherwise.
Review: This was basically an impulse buy for me. I collect DVD's, love anime, and just decided that i would see what it was all about. I mean, any anime that gets a 3-Disc Special Edition is something I want to see.What a treat was in store for me. This movie blew me away. I thought the visual style was dead-on with the gritty tone of the movie, and it helped to keep you in check with the idea that though the characters are animated, the emotions they display are real and within each of us. Like any good movie, you get sucked in and almost lost with the plot twists, but that's how you are supposed to feel. The musical score is astounding, I've never been so touched by a soundtrack(which comes with the special edition). The plot revolves around several philosophical questions that deal with human nature how they relate to the story of little red riding hood, but as with most of ohsii's movies, the answers don't come easily, and often not at all from the movie. Instead, the viewer must find what he/she wants from this movie, because there is a lot there, just watch and you will see.
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Summary: He's a Man!!!!! Not a Wolf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: The Wolf Brigade is a name for the special unit within the Capital Police Deparment; this unit is suppose to help the government combat terrorist groups or any other rebel organizations such as the Red Riding Hood group. Kazuki Fuse is one of the officers in this group whose life is about to change. The Man vs. Beast battle is about to take on a fatalistic meaning.
Kazuki Fuse is a Capital Police Constable who finds himself face to face with any officer's worst nightmare: killing a seemingly harmless child. There are little kids wondering around blowing up buildings and committing mass terrorism. These kids are called "Red Riding Hoods". Red Riding Hoods are little girls used to overthrow the current government. Fuse gets caught in the midst of the battle. After having to kill one of the Red Riding Hoods, he becomes consumed by thoughts of the little girl's face as he shot her. He tells himself that he did the right thing but he continues to obsess about the incident. The main question in his mind is why she wouldn't surrender? Why would she choose to die? He meets Kei (who turns out to be the sister of the girl he killed). Fuse and Kei become close; wandering the city, visiting the most obscure places that wreak of melancholy. Melancholy and sacred silences are the dynamics in Fuse and Kei's relationship; They seem to need each other in order to be able to go on day to day.Fuse (chronically silent at times)has so many things he'd like to say but can't get out; Kei (bizarrely optimistic)talks about too much and gets hurt in the end due to her openness. As far as whether Fuse is apart of a secret cabal group w/n the Capital Police well you'll have to watch the movie to find out for sure. In the end, Fuse has to make a choice between being a man or a wolf. It's an old battle man vs. beast except this time the beast is inside of the man. The story of Little Red Riding Hood gets a twist to chill even macabre fans. Does the wolf win? Will Little Red Riding Hood transform the wolf? Or is Red Riding Hood the villain who must be taken down? Fuse must decide if he will end the story like the fairytale that kids are told or finish the story the way it really would have ended? If you don't know what I'm talking about? Watch this movie! It's more than worth it! You'll be yelling: He's a man!!!!!!!!! Not a Wolf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Oscar Worthy Anime
Review: Last week My DVD copy of "Jin-Roh" finally arrived. I haven't been this blown away with an anime since i finished "Escaflowne." I don't know if i can really classify this as an Anime. I actually have it shelved in my films section of dvds. "Jin-roh" takes place in a fictitious post world war II japan, somewhere in the 1950's. Consistant cival revolts have prompted the govt. to organize a specialized mobile police that fiercly resembles the S.S. & Panzers of Nazi Germany. This is deliberatly done so much to point that all the weapons (excessivly degailed), helmuts, and much of their gear is very much nazi army.
Our main character, "Fuse" (foo-say) is a member of the Special Division of the moblile police, which has recently come under controversy due to a break of discibline in the ranks when Fuse is confronted by a young girl in a red hood, carrying a bomb for her terrorist group. Jin-roh has an excellent set of characters, and is exceptionally well directed and informative for a feature length film. Jin-roh really plays an obvious parallel to the childrens' story, "Little Red Riding Hood." They use the German title, "Rotkappchen," which litterally translates to Red little hood.
The first thing you will notice while watching Jin-Roh is how unlike it is to any anime. The characters are drawn to look VERY japanese. No big eyes and clown smiles; The characters in Jin-Roh have black hair, fair skin, and small eyes. Produced by the same team that put together "Akira," and "Ghost in the shell," (neither of which i am a tremendous fan of)' "Jin-Roh" is Exceptionally detailed, from the characters... but especially the backgrounds. So vidid with detail, but not necessarily bright colors. Jin-Roh isn't a standard Anime filled with humor. In fact, I can't remember laughing one time during my first or second viewing of this film.
This film is so clever; it has an ending and a twist that would remind you of an american film like "Memento," "Unbreakable," ..."Fight club" even.
Upon watching the movie a second time, i found myself immediatly recognizing things at the beggining of the film that allude to circumstances revealed later. "Jin-roh" is not for the sensitive viewer. This is a very violent film; however, this is not an action based movie. Excellent Music, and fantastic voice Acting - Jin-Roh, is a heavy drama, and exactly what i have been looking for in an Anime since i started this hobby two or three years ago. In Conclusion, Jin Roh is a Truley engrossing masterpiece of an Anime Film that could satisfy even the most cynical of movie fans. WOW!!
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Summary: Jinroh - Enthralling story made in classic Oshii fashion
Review: A Masterpiece! Its hard for some to understand the Genius of Oshii. This man is a visionary. For those who thought Jinroh slow must not understand Oshii's style. Mamoru Oshii weilds morals, and ethics like a master story teller when creating his scripts. Oshii's movies aren't for the action hungry fan boys. Sure, for some jinroh is a slow paced movie with only bits and pieces of intense action, but the subtle moral drama, the build up of his characters, and the technical detail of this movie makes it worth while. Understanding Oshii isn't difficult. All one has to do is give up all preconcieved notions of what Anime is and should be. Anime like Jinroh, Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor I and II, and Akira define themselves as the anime genre. If you're only interested in watching big breasted girls, and giant robots than skip this movie (don't get me wrong. i enjoy the girls and robots too!). But if you enjoy story and content above action than Jinroh is a must watch.
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Summary: Not enough talent
Review: This is a terrible waste of some interesting ideas. The writer and director once take on more than they can handle with this film. The whole thing is a muddle. The use of the Red Riding Hood fairy tale is clumsy and unnecessary. Rather than deal directly with their subject the writer/director choose to hide behind metaphor. All of the characters are thinly drawn and portrayed with little or no emotion. The film keeps the viewer at a distance by neglecting emotional envolvement. A total waste.
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Summary: I truly love this movie
Review: This is one of the best (anime) movie I have seen for a long time. I was lucky to receive this movie. The plot confused me alot, and though I watched it 100 times I still don't get it some of it : who the heck is who? Why are they enemys? Who shot **** at the ending (I was amazed when i figured out ( a bit of "sixth sense"-ending, how I could miss that)... While you are loughing at my low IQ, I take the time to say that I just can't get enough of this movie. A word of advice ( if you want to listen to my advice, that is ):
**You have to see it for yourselve**
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Summary: A captivating movie by itself
Review: This movie i bought a while back, when it was first released i bought it with Akira, both have meanings to them but Jin-Roh really has meaning to it. its realistic essense to its simplistic outline gives it a touch that really no other DVD has except for some films EX (Grave of The Fireflies,). The story begins with a little gurl and a massive protest riot going on in the middle of the street, while the riot is going on a little gurl who is a (Bomber Girl) she transfers bag bombs to people during protests , shes what you call a runner, anyways shes running under the riot into sewers and a wolf bridgade is patrolling the sewer and shes getting chased, they suddenly corner her and she pulls the bomb but she gets killed before she has the chance to pull it. Thats how the story begins with a guy whos an ex on the wolf brigade. I won't tell you anymore , because really you should spend your well earned money on this great title set in the post WW 2 earra im guessing, spend your money on this title, both Grave of the Fire Flies and Jin-Roh are great together. The only downside is its like a opera with very long sequences, but still give it a chance.
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Summary: Very different than usual.
Review: This movie was very good. It's about a different Tokyo. The situations between the many levels of the Police System are very difficult to understand. Basically There's this special unit that does all the dirty work and they don't get any appreciation. After an incident the Police Brass want to get rid of this special unit by developing a conspiracy.
In my opinion, this movie was written very well. I thought it needed some more emotion and dialog. The characters have these "unemotional" eyes. It's not what I'm used to. If they eyes were less "cold", then I would've rated it much better. Overall it's a good movie.
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Summary: A quality animation in the lines of Ghost in the Shell
Review: Jin-Roh is written by Mamoru Oshii, the director of the famed Ghost in the Shell, who also did the Patlabor TV series, feature films, and recently released Ureusei Yatsura series. Most of the crews also in this film worked with Mamoru in GitS, and other animations. The director himself was the character designer for GitS, and did some key animations. On the quick glance, it is easy to mistake this film as Mamoru's because of those reasons.
Jin-Roh has one of the best atmosphere's that can be found in anime, or even in feature films. The design of the weapons and its mechas are just amazing, and the character development is fabulous. I've seen this film several times, and it just works in a very different way from the typical animes- it works more in a film-esqu manner, and not surprisingly, Mamoru recently directed a live-action film called Avalon. To people who saw Ghost, and liked it, this film with definitely appeal to you as well. The reason it is four stars, instead of five, is the slow pacing of the film, which can lose its audience at some point. I've seen some of my friends lose the film after 30-40 minutes into it. Other than that, it has amazing animation from Production I.G., the studio that is working on the GitS TV show in Japan and the O-Ren Ishii sequence in the latest Quentin Tarantino flick Kill Bill.
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