Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987) [1/12]

1987 anime/live-action hybrid film written and directed by Hiroaki Yoshida. Yoshitaka Amano (Vampire Hunter D, Angel's Egg, the Final Fantasy series) worked on the film as a designer. Ripped from a VHS copy of the Streamline Pictures version (sorry for the bad English dubbing).

If you're watching this, you probably saw this movie on Cartoon Network or TNT at some point in the mid-1990s paired with Robot Carnival or Vampire Hunter D (1985).

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Twilight of the Cockroaches
• Anime
• Hiroaki Yoshida
• Yoshitaka Amano
• Streamline Pictures

[Axtlar]

I remember a movie or a short movie that I watched on Cartoon Network that really impressed me 15 years ago or more, it was about these ants (looked like ants to me) they were so realistic but you could tell it was a cartoon...And I have been looking for it ever since, I thoought this one was it for sure since I read in wikipedia that this was showned on Cartoon Network, but now that I see the "ants" which are cockroaches and very cartoony, I can see it's not it, can someone enlighten me?

[MonoAzul]

@Axtlar Hmm, I don't know what that would be.

[BigEOT3]

Rest In Peace Carl Macek

[MonoAzul]

@BigEOT3 Yeah, US anime fans owe him a lot.

[Pozorrogo]

All nostalgia aside.. the way this guy lives with all the bugs is DISGUSTING lol

I dont care how cute the roaches are. EW

[christiantysoe]

I don't see how this movie has anything to do with Japan's bad international relations in the 80's. 

[Necroskull388]

@Axtlar I think it might have been "Antz".

[Matkaizer08]

Holy shit I remember this it was on cartoon network along with Robot Carnival, Vampire Hunter D it was on something called Saturday Japanime in the 90s

[NotOrdinaryInGames]

@Johnlindsey289 Not sure if agree...

[Johnlindsey289]

@NotOrdinaryInGames

What did you think of Final Fantasy The Spirits Within? and have you seen the new stills for the movie TinTin? they look like replicates of cartoon character humanoids instead of looking like real life humans. What did you think of the new Planet of the Apes movie's Mocap on the chimp? there is no dead eye in it

[BlackitoOzora]

God.. I remember this

vaguely

[NotOrdinaryInGames]

@Johnlindsey289 Something traditional animation (good one) had been avoiding for most of its history.

[Johnlindsey289]

@NotOrdinaryInGames

What do you think of the dead eye look?

[NotOrdinaryInGames]

@Johnlindsey289 Avatar looked decent.

Haven't watched the entire film though, and not planning to.

[Johnlindsey289]

@NotOrdinaryInGames

What makes Avatar's Mocap different than Robert Z's? did you love the mocap in Avatar? does it fall in uncanny valley?