A certain genre : Complete Satoshi Kon

Memories

Memorizu

Satoshi Kon

1995
Japan
1h53
Fiction
Col.
Japanese with french subtitles

Memories is made up of three separate science-fiction stories. In the first, Magnetic Rose four space travelers are drawn into an abandoned spaceship that contains a world created by one woman's memories. In Stink Bomb a young lab assistant accidentally transforms himself into a human biological weapon set on a direct course for Tokyo. The final episode, Cannon Fodder depicts a day in the life of a city whose entire purpose is the firing of cannons at an unseen enemy.

Cast
Shigeru Chiba, Hisao Egawa, Kayoko Fujii, Nobuaki Fukuda, Ami Hasegawa
Screenplay
Kōji Morimoto, Satoshi Kon (segment 1) Katsuhiro Ōtomo (segment 2,3)
Photography
Hiroaki Edamitsu (segment 3)
Sound
Shizuo Kurahashi (segment 1)
Music
Yōko Kanno (segment 1), Jun Miyake (segment 2)
Art direction
Yuuji Okiura, Mutsuo Ozeki, Yutaka Yamakawa, Nizō Yamamoto et Satoshi Kon (segment 1), Junko Ina, Katsuhiro Ōtomo, Kazuko Fujī, Masanori Kikuchi, Minoru Nishida, Tsutomu Watanabe, Yamako Ishikawa (segment 3)
Editing
Takeshi Seyama
Production
Bandai Visual Company, Kodamsha Co., Shochiku Company, Studio 4°C

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