Sword of the Stranger
Twelve Days of Anime, Post 7: Girls + Guns + Canaan
Jackie Brown was a so-so Tarantino. Okay, maybe it’s actually a decent movie, but after Pulp Fiction…it was a let-down. The main thing I remember about it was one of the character’s obsession with bikini girls shooting machine guns and kind of laughing at the guy for watching such cheesy shit. Being a too-smart for [...]
Sword of the Stranger and 2D Power
Producer Masahiko Minami and director Masahiro Ando of studio Bones created Sword of the Stranger as a desire to show the strengths of hand drawn animation in an action film. This is a particularly interesting goal to put forth considering hand drawn animation shrinks in relevance every year. Advances in technology have rapidly eaten up [...]
