A Detective Story

A Detective Story is written and directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, with animation by Kazuto Nakazawa and a direct prequel to first film. It follows the story of a down-on-his-luck private detective, Ash (James Arnold Taylor), on what he calls the "case to end all cases". Ash receives an anonymous phone call to search for a hacker that goes by the alias "Trinity" (Carrie-Anne Moss). Ash traces Trinity and learns that other detectives have failed in the same task before him; one had committed suicide, one had gone missing, and one had gone insane. He then attempts to speak with the insane detective but cannot get anything substantial out of him. This detective is an African American with a thin mustache who shows a resemblance to Walter Mosley's detective character 'Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins'. This is a possible homage to the character as Mosley's detective series is set in a similar Noir type setting and there were not many black detectives at the time.

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animatrix
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328832/

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Film & Animation

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• Animatrix
• Detective
• Story