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	List Price: $38.96 Our Price: $26.95 You Save: $12.01 *Features* • AC-3 • Animated • Color • Dubbed In Theaters : 2007 DVD Release : 25 September, 2007
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Tekkonkinkreet (2006) is a landmark in the increasing cross-pollination between Japanese and American animation: Based on a manga by Taiyo Matsumoto, the film was made in Japan at Studio 4C, but directed by American Michael Arrias. The story unfolds in Treasure Town, a scabrous metropolitan slum so gritty it makes the viewer want to clean under his fingernails. Orphans White and Black share an existence at the fringes of an already marginalized subculture. White seems naive, if not learning disabled: at 11, he can't tie his shoes or dress himself. But he has an uncanny sixth sense about what's happening in Treasure Town. Older, streetwise Black looks after White and receives the emotional support he needs in return: They're two halves of a damaged whole. The arrival of a murderous yakuza boss who wants to demolish Treasure Town and build an amusement park draws Black and White into an escalating spiral of physical and emotional violence. Although the ending of Tekkonkinkreet feels needlessly obscure, it's a striking and often powerful film from a first-time director. (Rated R: violence, grotesque imagery, brief nudity, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon

Tekkon Kinkreet [Blu-ray] Customer Reviews

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Black, where are you?

Associating this unique bit of animation to "Akira" or "Ghost In The Shell" is misleading. While it is "made by" the same folk who did "The Animatrix", "Tekkon kinkreet" stands alone with it's unique subject matter and presentation. It is akin to a dream. There are elements in the film that suggest this:

1) Both Black and White can "float" (as well as the "Alien" Assassins sent to kill them).
2) Looking through White's eyes, it IS hard to delineate reality, especially near the end.
3) Some laws of physics don't seem to apply in Treasure Town.

Within all this IS a good story, however. There seems to be no "gray" area anywhere in the film. Things are very clear-cut: Good and Bad, Black and White, see where I'm going with this? The film becomes a bit surreal at times, but there is never a point at which you might say "what's happening?" The separation of Black and White also becomes representative of what happens when those two "colors" are removed from the rainbow.

This film is quite good. It is not made in the fashion of American "beat-you-in-the-head-till-you're-numb" sort of fare. It's a film to sit back and relax with. It IS "R" rated, which precludes certain members of the family from seeing it, but it is not a children's film, anyway (as one may be swayed into thinking, because of it's style of animation).

The DVD has the ubiquitous extras, a making of feature, conversations with the Director and the band that contributed some music for the film, and last but not least, film commentary.

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