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ThE last Megalopolis
The film that we want to review today is something special, it is about Tokyo: the last megalopolis, a Japanese film that tells us an incredible story that we could classify within the horror genre, although not in its more classic concept. Many people will sound due to the anime Doomed megalopolis, but we must tell you that it is not a live action, but this time the anime is based on the movie, and this in turn in the first part of a well-known book. Anyway, even if it is an '80s movie, we have considered it extreme enough to talk about it in this blog, and you will see why.
Tokyo: The last megalopolis
Kato, a tremendous character
The story begins in the distant past, when a powerful man tried to create an independent kingdom in Tokyo, but was stopped, buried and buried behind spells so he would never return. Later, two of his disciples who have learned to use their Taoist powers have two very different purposes, one of them struggling for the progress of Tokyo, while the other just wants to resurrect his teacher and take him out of the grave to destroy the world. ; in this context and with the involvement of some political parties, the two have some confrontation, ending one of them dead when trying to discover when it would be the end of Tokyo, and the other getting to the descendants of the mighty buried lord, to act on them and try to use them to resurrect their lord; in the end he manages to leave a seed in the successor and create some chaos with an immense earthquake that destroys half the city, but the Japanese always recover from these things. After a few years, the wicked returns with more power to finally finish his task; then you will have to face a group of people who were already prepared for your arrival
So told the plot seems a bit messy, and perhaps it has been difficult to describe well what happens in a few lines and without releasing spoilers, but believe me that watching the movie has seemed even more complex than we have told you, with a large number of characters, different relationships between them, jumping to different time moments very spaced from each other ... it has taken us a bit to follow her completely and find out everything, we assume that having seen the anime (a little simpler and above all more spectacular) or having read the book, we would not have had this problem; And although the movie lasts more than two hours, we believe that it falls short to tell everything you want.
Tokyo: The last megalopolis
There is no lack of demons and other beasts
We have been a little unemployed because at first it looks very dedicated to magic, with very fantastic characters and quite extreme, but for almost the entire course of the film we do not see this much more, but we have a somewhat more political plot, of hidden magic, with little fantasy and dedicated to trying to make a great story understand more than the pure spectacle, occasionally leaving some small samples of fantasy like the demons or the phallic being that the girl expels. However, when we reach the final scene we have a great explosion, and everything that the film had not achieved so far releases it at once, getting a fast-paced rhythm, an incredible fantasy level and a very beast tension. We were also surprised that, being a Japanese film, at that time (80s) and with the character of those people, they have dared to mix Taoist and feng shui elements so typical of China, some Western Satanists and progress Even steampunk elements in the final scene.
Apart from that, being a movie from the '80s, all the special effects are very traditional, including models, light effects and stop motion, which we loved, much more impressive than most of today's digital effects in day and helping the film to get that dark image you are looking for, as well as having some fantasy, but very controlled, without going over so that it may seem plausible.
We also loved its main characters, as not succumbing to the charms of Kato, an unforgettable character that was copied exactly identical in the animated version, because there was no way to improve it; brilliantly played by Kyusaku Shimada (Princesss blade, Masked rider: The next) a specialist in roles that are unimportant in principle, but that are well remembered.
In short, a much more interesting story, perhaps not taken to the cinema with all the spectacularity it deserves, but worthy of being admired; a revelation in the year in which it was made, so much that it inspired the anime to be almost traced to the movie, not the other way around.
The best of the movie:
A tremendous end and some hidden bizarre.
The worst of the movie:
Maybe some part of a bit more boring talk.
ThE last Megalopolis
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The film that we want to review today is something special, it is about Tokyo: the last megalopolis, a Japanese film that tells us an incredible story that we could classify within the horror genre, although not in its more classic concept. Many people will sound due to the anime Doomed megalopolis, but we must tell you that it is not a live action, but this time the anime is based on the movie, and this in turn in the first part of a well-known book. Anyway, even if it is an '80s movie, we have considered it extreme enough to talk about it in this blog, and you will see why.
Tokyo: The last megalopolis
Kato, a tremendous character
The story begins in the distant past, when a powerful man tried to create an independent kingdom in Tokyo, but was stopped, buried and buried behind spells so he would never return. Later, two of his disciples who have learned to use their Taoist powers have two very different purposes, one of them struggling for the progress of Tokyo, while the other just wants to resurrect his teacher and take him out of the grave to destroy the world. ; in this context and with the involvement of some political parties, the two have some confrontation, ending one of them dead when trying to discover when it would be the end of Tokyo, and the other getting to the descendants of the mighty buried lord, to act on them and try to use them to resurrect their lord; in the end he manages to leave a seed in the successor and create some chaos with an immense earthquake that destroys half the city, but the Japanese always recover from these things. After a few years, the wicked returns with more power to finally finish his task; then you will have to face a group of people who were already prepared for your arrival
So told the plot seems a bit messy, and perhaps it has been difficult to describe well what happens in a few lines and without releasing spoilers, but believe me that watching the movie has seemed even more complex than we have told you, with a large number of characters, different relationships between them, jumping to different time moments very spaced from each other ... it has taken us a bit to follow her completely and find out everything, we assume that having seen the anime (a little simpler and above all more spectacular) or having read the book, we would not have had this problem; And although the movie lasts more than two hours, we believe that it falls short to tell everything you want.
Tokyo: The last megalopolis
There is no lack of demons and other beasts
We have been a little unemployed because at first it looks very dedicated to magic, with very fantastic characters and quite extreme, but for almost the entire course of the film we do not see this much more, but we have a somewhat more political plot, of hidden magic, with little fantasy and dedicated to trying to make a great story understand more than the pure spectacle, occasionally leaving some small samples of fantasy like the demons or the phallic being that the girl expels. However, when we reach the final scene we have a great explosion, and everything that the film had not achieved so far releases it at once, getting a fast-paced rhythm, an incredible fantasy level and a very beast tension. We were also surprised that, being a Japanese film, at that time (80s) and with the character of those people, they have dared to mix Taoist and feng shui elements so typical of China, some Western Satanists and progress Even steampunk elements in the final scene.
Apart from that, being a movie from the '80s, all the special effects are very traditional, including models, light effects and stop motion, which we loved, much more impressive than most of today's digital effects in day and helping the film to get that dark image you are looking for, as well as having some fantasy, but very controlled, without going over so that it may seem plausible.
We also loved its main characters, as not succumbing to the charms of Kato, an unforgettable character that was copied exactly identical in the animated version, because there was no way to improve it; brilliantly played by Kyusaku Shimada (Princesss blade, Masked rider: The next) a specialist in roles that are unimportant in principle, but that are well remembered.
In short, a much more interesting story, perhaps not taken to the cinema with all the spectacularity it deserves, but worthy of being admired; a revelation in the year in which it was made, so much that it inspired the anime to be almost traced to the movie, not the other way around.
The best of the movie:
A tremendous end and some hidden bizarre.
The worst of the movie:
Maybe some part of a bit more boring talk.
