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16:43 - It sure looks good...
http://wonderfuldays.co.kr/english/
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There's a new animated Korean film coming out: Wonderful Days.
In the future, after the human civilization ended by war and pollution, only those few people who had the power and technology escaped the disaster.
Those people built the last human city of Ecoban.
As its energy source is the pollutant, the people of Ecoban plan to destroy the inhabitants of Marr to get more pollutant.
Standing against Ecoban is a young man who wants only to clear the skies of the clouds to show the wonderful heavens to the girl he loves.
Hmm. Well, at least it's visually a lot more interesting than "FernGully".
Cool animation style; it's like "anime grown up", with actual facial movement and fluid speech, with a fairly traditional anime-style anatomical construction and shorthand. The line quality is curious-- almost like the characters were traced in MS Paint and colored in Flash. But the CG is excellent, the production values are awesome (this is Korea's most expensive and most ambitious animated movie ever), and it looks like every bit as rich a visual experience as anything by Miyazaki. I wouldn't be surprised, in fact, if he's one of this movie's director's influences, especially considering the, er, theme.
I wanna find out more about this one.
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