Genius Party
6.9
The seven short films making up GENIUS PARTY couldn’t be more diverse, linked only by a high standard of quality and inspiration. Atsuko Fukushima’s intro piece is a fantastic abstraction to soak up with the eyes. Masaaki Yuasa, of MIND GAME and CAT SOUP fame, brings his distinctive and deceptively simple graphic style and dream-state logic to the table with “Happy Machine,” his spin on a child’s earliest year. Shinji Kimura’s spookier “Deathtic 4,” meanwhile, seems to tap into the creepier corners of a child’s imagination and open up a toybox full of dark delights. Hideki Futamura’s “Limit Cycle” conjures up a vision of virtual reality, while Yuji Fukuyama’s "Doorbell" and "Baby Blue" by Shinichiro Watanabe use understated realism for very surreal purposes. And Shoji Kawamori, with “Shanghai Dragon,” takes the tropes and conventions of traditional anime out for very fun joyride.
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2 films
Cast
9 people
Tomoko Kaneda
Known for
Digimon Tamers
Girls Bravo
Rinko Kikuchi
Known for
Pacific Rim
Babel
Taro Yabe
Known for
The Naked Director
Yuya Yagira
Known for
Nobody Knows
Gannibal
Nanase Iwai
Known for
In This Corner of the World
Miki Yamamoto
Gakuto Furuhara
Known for
Kamen Rider
One Missed Call 3: Final
Hiroshi Mikami
Known for
Premonition
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Lu Ningjuan
Shinichiro Watanabe Director · Shinji Kimura Director Shoji Kawamori Director
First release July 7, 2007 · Produced in Japan · Languages Chinese, Japanese
Production
STUDIO4℃
Production
Japan
Produced in
Languages
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Chinese · Japanese
Release dates
Japan · July 7, 2007
Physical
No release date listed for United States.
United Kingdom
December 11, 2017 · Physical · Blu-ray
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