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...think the film will be received in this kind of environment? I don't want to talk politics, but I think that everybody who sees it will understand what this film is trying to say. This film is not a display of patriotism, it is not an ode to war, and it does not treat the Japanese as tragic victims. It is a testimony to what...
Jump to Hollywood's blaxploitation era in the 1960s, when blacks suddenly were allowed to make movies told from our point of view. Melvin Van Peebles' 1971 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song--an ode to a wronged black man on the run from the cops--introduced the lead character as a "baadasssss nigger coming back to collect some dues!" And that "nigger" in the film, as Van Peebles tells it, snapped the streak of "liberal, sort of nice movies where we always ended up dead...
...find out. While almost no result would surprise, there's a lot pointing to a 2-2 finish, with one or two senior Australians to get the tap on the shoulder during a tense summer. For followers of Australian cricket it's a series to be savored, as an ode to the past, a cold-eyed appraisal of the present, and a glimpse into a challenging future...
...always, Tezuka provides a master class in graphical storytelling. Mercifully printed in left to right format, Ode to Kirihito has many stunning sequences, including one where Dr. Urabe begins going mad. His body disappears and a wedge cleaves his head in two in a psychedelic sequence that wouldn't be out of place in a drug film of the same era. (Kirihito was originally serialized in 1970.) The design of Tezuka's pages endlessly varies in shape and flow to reflect the action of a sequence or a character's state of mind. He never shies away from crazy experimentation...
...most complex book we have yet seen from Osamu Tezuka, Ode to Kirihito uses the core elements of any good horror story, fear, madness, disease and sadism, to explore morals and the broad consequences of an individual's actions. So whether you like your scary stories to be sophisticated like Kirihito, traditional like Museum of Terror, or rude like Octopus Girl, you won't lack for material this Halloween...