![]() It’s a siren scream of a musical: angry and beautiful, rapturously animated and highly infectious. ![]() “Inu-Oh” may get messy with its plotting, but that never dulls its impact. It’s a celebration and a tragedy, and they feed each other - and need each other - to survive. It’s a story about why some stories go untold, and why some people tell them anyway, no matter what the cost. While she spends her time doodling endless ideas and settings in her sketchbook, she hasnt taken the first step to creating anime, insisting that she cant do it alone. During both the Motion Picture Club's dinner out and her meeting with the Art Club, Asakusa can be seen tightly clinging to a stuffed rabbit from her childhood for comfort, affects a rigid and closed-off posture, and in the latter event speaks very tersely and waveringly, apparently going off of a memorized script at first before being just barely able to back up her decisions in the face of the Art Club's members questioning the logic behind them (i.e. “Inu-Oh” is a story about using art to speak truth to power, but it’s not a story about how an anachronistically glam rock biwa act unified feudal Japan in the defiance of social traditions. Every aspect of the show from its eclectic score to its quick, quippy dialogue is charged with a wacky, frenetic, creative energy that flows straight from the screen to the viewer through each lovingly crafted frame. Had it simply ended with its dazzling and brutal musical explosions, this film would have been marvelously memorable, but the story has a few more beats to kick out, quite a few gut punches and very uncomfortable and important points to make. Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken is pure passion for animation. Thank goodness that once the bass kicks in there’s no turning back, and Yuasa’s film is - for most of the running time - nothing but fireworks. ![]() It’s fair to say that “Inu-Oh” takes more time than it needs to get to its headbanging musical performances, establishing multiple storylines with an ambiguity that, granted, pays off later, but they can be genuinely confusing in the moment. Midori Asakusa sees the world a bit differently. ‘Minari’ Director Lee Isaac Chung Exits Live-Action ‘Your Name’ Adaptation at Paramount and Bad Robot
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