Shoji Kawamori's Spring & Chaos - trailer

TOKYOPOP Presents the anime art film Spring & Chaos by esteemed anime director Shoji Kawamori (Macross, Escaflowne). This beautiful piece was created exclusively for Japanese television in Iwate Prefecture and is based on the life-story of Japan's most famous modern poet Kenji Miyazawa.

This is NOT a robot-battle, teen-schoolgirl, ninja or samurai anime (not that those aren't awesome) - so if you're looking for that type of anime, keep moving. Instead, this is a moving, dramatic look into early 20th century Japan and how Kenji Miyazawa, a teacher and poet, touched the lives of many students, challenging their view of the world.

This was dubbed into English before any of the current celebrity voice-actors but it was an earnest attempt to present the beautiful story in as literal a feel to the original as possible - Shoji Kawamori was a big part of the studio English recording.

The DVD of course contains subtitles as well as the dub version.

If you are in the US, you can watch for free at www.HULU.com.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• anime
• macross
• escaflowne
• robotech
• kenji miyazawa
• shoji kawamori
• tokyopop
• japan
• manga
• history
• poetry
• art
• film

[jammersanimovieblog]

Reminds me of Night on the Galactic Railroad

[tokyopoptv]

@jammersanimovieblog Same anime production company actually!

[LizGillispie]

I just watched this on Hulu, and it was really fantastic! It's great for people who love art/poetry and who love to wonder about the universe.

[mwells219]

sounds like the ghost in the shell theme

[noreen05]

I'm about to cry. :')

[fenixgold123]

woooooooouuuu

[AlexTronic777]

the Japanese anime folks are so unique and genius!

[jervey123]

0:07 - 0:20 i thought they would sing an off key version of "Ave Maria" LOL it really sounded like it

[beataferret]

kitties!!! (by the way, beautiful song)

[fangirl1030]

kitty-people! :D