Tachiguishi Retsuden

Description: Nearly everything about Tachiguishi Retsuden defies easy explanation Like the title for starters It literally means something like The Legendary Masters of Eating While Standing while Production I G has apparently gone with the more spirited Tachigui The Amazing Lives of Fast Food Grifters Unlike the majority of his other films it s a parody It s animated but it isn t anime It s comprised of still photos of actors and settings that have been digitally animated into life stop motion style But that being said there isn t a whole hell of a lot of motion either Major portions of the film consist of long long stretches of narraration over grainy colorized black and white stills Sounds confusing I haven t even gotten to the plot It s like Tampopo meets Jin Roh a sprawling and totally fictional documentary chronicling dine and dashers in Japan s postwar era The story opens in the tiny standing room only noodle shops that sprang up during the occupation and ends among the hamburger stands beef bowl joints and curry restaurants that serve up the majority of Japan s fast food today The various protagonists aren t cast as criminals but as anti heroes and springboards for social satire Sounds simple enough on the surface but this is Mamoru Oshii we re talking about Their amazing lives unfold in an incredibly dense narrative crammed full of trivia pop culture references and Japanese urban legends the vast majority completely unknown to foreign audiences

Country:  Japanese

Released: 2006

Genre: Comedy

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