Born Again on the Fourth of July and Animation Error
| Colorful | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Keiichi Hara |
| Screenplay by | Miho Maruo |
| Based on | Colorful by Eto Mori |
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| Starring |
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| Cinematography | Kōichi Yanai |
| Edited by | Toshihiko Kojima |
| Music by | Kow Otani |
| Product | Sunrise |
| Distributed by | Toho |
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| Running fourth dimension | 127 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Linguistic communication | Japanese |
| Box office | $three.9 one thousand thousand (Japan) [one] |
Colorful ( カラフル ) is a 2010 Japanese blithe feature film directed by Keiichi Hara. It is based on the novel of the same proper noun written by Eto Mori, produced by Sunrise and blithe by the animation studio Ascension.[2] It too deals with some of the pressures on school children as they come upwards to graduation before entering college or university.
Plot [edit]
Upon reaching the train station to decease, a dejected soul is informed that he is "lucky" and will have another take a chance at life though he does not desire it. He is placed in the torso of a fourteen-year-sometime male child named Makoto Kobayashi, who has just committed suicide past an overdose of pills. Watched over past a neutral spirit named Purapura in the form of a little boy, the soul must figure out what his greatest sin and mistake was in his old life before his half-dozen-month time limit in Makoto'southward body runs out. He as well has a number of other lesser duties he must complete, such as understanding what led Makoto to commit suicide in the offset identify.
He finds Makoto did not like his family unit and he profoundly dislikes them for the same reasons. He is cynical of his father who is an underdog at piece of work, forced to work much overtime. Despite her efforts, he hates his mother who had an affair with a trip the light fantastic toe instructor, something his begetter seems to exist oblivious to. His older brother, Mitsuru, has given up on him because he is too moody and has no friends at school. He discovers that a girl he fancies, Hiroka, sells sex to older men and so she tin accept the dress and things she wants. Shoko is a weird daughter from Makoto's class who becomes suspicious of his unusual behavior, so he tries to stay away from her. Afterwards he gets mugged and beaten up by some delinquents, Shoko comes to visit Makoto at his house, but he scares her off. In one of their subsequent encounters, Purapura explains that Makoto will really dice this time subsequently his six months expire. However, when he befriends Saotome, a male child in his course who accepts outcasts such as him and treats them as equals, Makoto sees the joy in life for the showtime fourth dimension. They spend some fourth dimension together and they even begin studying for their high school entrance exam, something for which neither of them had any ambition before.
Knowing that his brother will never get accepted to a public loftier schoolhouse due to his bad grades and lack of interest, Mitsuru announces that he will postpone his higher entrance exams in order to allow his parents to relieve some money so they can send Makoto to a private school. Makoto refuses and tells his parents and brother that he has already chosen Tamegawa High (a public school he and Saotome agreed on before). An aggravated Mitsuru is unable to encompass his unwillingness to accept his family'southward aid and asks him if he enjoys tormenting his own family unit. Makoto breaks into tears and says that he just wanted to get to the same school his only friend is going to apply to, which leads to his parents accepting his wish. With his deadline reaching its end, Makoto meets with Purapura for one last fourth dimension. He announces that he has found out what his former life'southward mistake was. He reveals that he's none other but the soul of Makoto Kobayashi and his mistake was that he killed himself. Purapura tells him that he will keep on living, but that he will also erase his memories of Purapura in order to brand Makoto non think that he has any more chances. Before wiping his memories, Purapura advises him to live a colorful life.
Phonation cast [edit]
| Character | Bandage | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | English dub | |
| Makoto Kobayashi | Kazato Tomizawa | Greg Ayres |
| Saotome | Jingi Irie | Clint Bickham |
| Hiroka Kuwabara | Akina Minami | Emily Neves |
| Shoko Sano | Aoi Miyazaki | Brittney Karbowski |
| Mitsuru (Makoto'southward Blood brother) | Akiyoshi Nakao | Chris Patton |
| Makoto's Mother | Kumiko Asō | Carli Mosier |
| Makoto'south Father | Katsumi Takahashi | David Wald |
| Purapura | Michael Murakami (credited as Michael) | Luci Christian |
| Mr. Sawada | Keiji Fujiwara | David Matranga |
| Mao | Manatsu Hayashi | Genevieve Simmons |
| Doc | Hideyuki Tanaka | Mark X Laskowski |
Reception [edit]
The moving-picture show won the honor for Excellent Animation of the Year at the 34th Japan Academy Prize and is nominated for Animation of the Year.[iii] It likewise won the Blitheness Flick Award at the 65th Mainichi Film Awards.[iv] Internationally, it received the Audience Award and Special Distinction prize at the 2011 Annecy International Animated Motion-picture show Festival.[5]
See also [edit]
- Homestay, a 2018 Thai live-activeness adaptation of the novel
References [edit]
- ^ "Karafuru (Colorful)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 4, 2012.
- ^ "ストーリー｜Colorful カラフル" (in Japanese). Sunrise. Retrieved February 6, 2012.
- ^ 第 34 回日本アカデミー賞優秀賞 (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. Retrieved December xviii, 2010.
- ^ 第65回毎日映画コンクール 受賞結果発表！ (in Japanese). japan-moving picture.net. Archived from the original on January 20, 2011. Retrieved January 21, 2011.
- ^ "Winners revealed at last!". annecy.org. Annecy International Animated Flick Festival. June 11, 2011. Retrieved June 12, 2011.
External links [edit]
- Official website at the Wayback Auto (archived July 10, 2014) (in Japanese)
- Colorful on Toho'due south website
- Colorful at IMDb
- Colorful (film) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorful_%28film%29
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