Memories

Anime Gems

Katsuhiro Otomo, Koji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura

1995 / 113’ / Japan

Created by celebrated anime master Katsuhiro Otomo (“Akira”, “Roujin Z”), “Memories” consists of three dazzling stories, each delivered with its own astonishing style. "Magnetic Rose," directed by Koji Morimoto (“Animatrix”) based on a manga short by Otomo, concerns two space travellers following a distress signal drawn into a magnificent world created by one woman's memories. In director Tensai Okamura's (“Wolf’s Rain”) "Stink Bomb," a young chemist accidentally transforms himself into an unstoppable biological weapon set on a direct course for Tokyo. Otomo's own "Cannon Fodder" depicts a day in the life of a city whose entire purpose is the firing of cannons at an unknown enemy.