Movie: TACHIGUISHI RETSUDEN

Posted on 27. Mar, 2006 @ 8:02 am by in Humor, Media Views: 98

I rarely post topics about popular media on this site, but this movie has really caught my attention. The title is TACHIGUISHI RETSUDEN (立喰師列伝) Which roughly translates into, the Legend of the Standing-Eating Masters (please don’t quote me on that). It starts showing April 8th in Japan.

First, some useful Japanese. 意味わからん。 (Imi wakaran) This is the informal way to say, “I don’t know what the heck that’s supposed to mean.” I think you’ll need that phrase after reading about this movie.

There is a English introduction to the movie on this site. Here too. This movie was done by the same director, Mamoru Oshii, who did all kinds of famous anime, like Urusei Yatsura, Patlabor, Ghost in the Shell 1 and 2, etc etc.

Check out the trailer for Tachiguishi here. Done watching? All together now…

“IMI WAKARAN.”

At one point in the trailer…

Girl: ようこそロッテリアへ！ (welcome to Lotteria!)
Customer: ハンバーガー百個。(100 Hamburgers.)
Girl: ハンバーガー単品百個。お持ち帰りでしょうか？(100 Hamburgers. For take out?)
Customer: ここで喰う。(I’ll eat them here.)
[Looks back to see there are only 4 hamburgers ready]

Girl: ハンバーガー 96 please! (96 hamburgers please!)
Cook: え？どんな客です？！ (Eh!? What kind customer is that?!)

This is weird stuff. I’m going to go see it in the theatre!

- Harvey

  • http://www.sparkplugged.net Shay

    The fact of Oshii in the directors chair sells me. I wanna see it!

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