1995 · animation · sci-fi · drama
Memories (1995)
Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, Koji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura1h 53m1995
Three back-to-back anime films by three different directors make up this sci-fi trilogy three years in the making.
Our read: Memories (1995) (1995) reads as a sombre, kinetic, surreal animation · sci-fi · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, measured animation / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- surreal
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How Memories feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want three anime visions—haunted opera, bio-disaster farce, endless war.”
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