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| Colorful, the Japanese Animation from directo Keiichi Hara of Summer Days with Coo, won awards and is indeed colorful. |
The Eiga Sai 2011 film festival is quite a
hard act to follow. It was topbilled by no-less than 2010 Oscar-winning Best
Foreign Film Departures. It was also
the first time I enjoyed an animation in a film fest – Summer Days with Coo, and I definitely enjoyed it.
Eiga Sai 2012 is up for a big challenge.
However, it seemed to deliver.
The first film I chanced upon in Eiga Sai
2012 was Colorful. Colorful is a
story about a young soul which was chosen to come back in the real world, this
time he was designated to be a boy in junior high school who just committed suicide.
Regaining life, the soul inhabits the boy’s body and soon finds the true reason
behind his suicide.
The film is not exactly a feel-good
animation as it tackles a serious age-old problem of the Japanese Society --
suicide. Yet the medium has been effective in conveying an unhumorous topic in
a mild manner. It has been successful in saying that, ending one’s life is not
a solution to a problem.
Sometimes, not totally knowing what to expect
on a film since you haven’t read any about its plot nor its achievement is a wonderful
surprise itself. At first, it seems that
suicide is not actually its major focus. After all, the cool old-school cartoon
feel (think Voltes V) mashed up with modern, computerized animation used on
their background and some vintage photos of an old and small railway is a
visual treat.
It’s great that it tackles about family
support and the value of friendship to battle life’s problem – whether for youngsters or adults. The love given by
family and friends are great that it will pull you off through the life’s
biggest challenges. Sometimes, this was what major films and television outfit
misses out when they make movies or shows for the tweens and the youth. They
tend to focus more on the false romantic love than the stable love of family
and friends. After all, when you have a secured sense of love, that’s when you
can also recognize genuine romantic love that’s a sure keeper.
Colorful has garnered awards:
Ø Audience Award and Special Distinction prize at
the 2011 Annecy International Animated Film Festival
Eiga
Sai’s popularity has steadily been growing through the years rivalling that
of Cine Europa, the film festival
organized and sponsored by the European Union and different embassies of
European countries. Film Festivals are
usually held in the Shangri-La Mall and the UP Film Theater.
Colorful
Japanese director Keiichi Hara is also the director of Summer Days with
Coo.
Resource/ Related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6uIGkrBfCI (you tube video courtesy of HazuStark)
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