Sachiko Itô

After the death of his friend Tetsuji, Ryo (Takashi Naito) and his biker gang drift apart. Ryo runs a bar, while Reiko wants to get married and have a normal job. As the first anniversary of Tetsuji’s death approaches, Zaji, Yuhi, and Nemu work to fix a bike for the legendary “Yokohama Ryo” to ride. Meanwhile, a mysterious man (Hideo Murota) seeks to destroy any remaining biker gangs. Ryo is pulled back into that world by both friends and enemies, and is expected to live up to his own legendary figure that he no longer wants anything to do with.Read More »

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This movie is completely wacky. Completely. Wacky. It concerns the story of a poor water seller in Baghdad who stumbles his way through ali baba and his 40 thieves, the tower of Babel, sinbad the sailor, the island of the sirens and many others stories that either i didn’t recognise from the 1001 nights stories or were just made up by the animation team on one of what must have been many acid binges. The film was made in 1969 with a crew of about 15 animators and others (the same names pop up in multiple roles) and is thus forced to employ a number of techniques to cheapen the animation, using still frames incorporating live action shots (for such hard to animate things as the ocean) and shooting live action footage of miniature models for the landscape shots.Read More »