Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters
| 立喰師列伝 Tachiguishi-Retsuden |
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| Directed by |
Mamoru Oshii Toshihiko Nishikubo (sequence director) |
| Produced by | Toshihiko Nishikubo |
| Written by | Mamoru Oshii (based on the novel) |
| Starring |
Kaito Kisshoji Mako Hyōdō Mitsuhisa Ishikawa Toshio Suzuki Shinji Higuchi Kenji Kawai |
| Music by | Kenji Kawai |
| Cinematography | Keiichi Sakazaki |
| Edited by | Junichi Uematsu |
| Distributed by | Production I.G |
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104 minutes |
| Language | Japanese |
Tachiguishi-Retsuden (立喰師列伝, lit. Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters) is a 2006 live-action/animated hybrid film directed by Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Oshii, who also wrote the eponymous novel on which the film was based. Both works are part of the "Kerberos saga". Live-action film and manga adaptations were produced few months later in Japan.
The Tachiguishi-Retsuden logo bears the mention "Tachiguishi-Retsuden 1945-2006 A Mamoru Oshii Animation Film".
Tachiguishi-Retsuden is a documentary-style animation film created with an innovative technique named "Superlivemation". Oshii first experimented this flat 3D technique in his 2001 live-action feature Avalon as a visual effect for explosions in Ash's game, then he developed it, the following years, in both the MiniPato short films and PlayStation Portable game. Characters have a tiny body and an oversized head which makes them look funny. They are animated like paper dolls (ペープサート人形, papsart ningyou) and are evolving in a pictures based environment in the likes of the JibJab Brothers' (Gregg and Evan Spiridellis) musical comedy cartoons, e.g. 2・0・5 Year In Review, although Mamoru Oshii stated his own work was a "serious comedy".
The Superlivemation consists of digitally processing then animating, paper puppet theater-style characters and locations based on real photographs. In Tachiguishi-Retsuden more than 30,000 photographs were processed 20 times, to produce the final composite to be animated.
The director describes his new animation film as set between "a simple animation with extremely intense information" and "a live-action movie with extremely limited information".
The theatrical release poster, which was later used on the OST and the videos, features several symbols of the Japanese popular culture and modern history. Clockwise, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress passing over, in reference to the American bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki cities in 1945, the Tokyo Tower which was completed in 1958, the high-speed train Shinkansen 0 Series, launched in 1964, at last, the standing character eating a gyudong bowl is Foxy Croquette O-Gin, in reference to the popular tachigui practice.
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