Anime Jin-Roh

My expectation for Jin-Roh (literal translation Man-Wolf) wasn't high as I knew next to nothing about this movie and when my brother loan me this dvd, he said it was only okay. The animation was excellent, the character and the special unit armour designs as seen on the cover was very realistic but the movie was slow moving and not very action-packed. This doesn't make it a bad film at all though I suspect it's why my brother didn't like it as much as I did.

Without given too much of the story away, the basic plot is of (grabbed from imdb) a traumatized member of an elite para-military police force falling for the sister of a female terrorist courier who died in front of him while on duty. As the story unfolds, you'll learn more about the political intrigue and deception involving the special armoured units and the terrorists until the movie ends as a tragic love story. What's most ingenious about the movie was how the story of "Little Red Riding Hood", which was told in a much darker way, was integrated into the movie. If you like your anime dark, atmospheric and intelligent then I highly recommend this.

 

I agree with you completely. This is a very psychological movie. The story is great and you have to watch it through a couple of time to fully get the enitre plot. Just don't watch it late at night, as great as it is, there isnt that much action and falling asleep is a strong possability. :sweat2:

This may not be the movie to introduce people who have never seen anime to, but if you like good movies, period, at least rent this.

 

Personally, I think this movie told some strong stuff about todays society.

There is a scene that has a perosn being eattin by wolves. I took that as how society can do that to a person.

But, the action in this movie is none of Sailor Moon action, the action scenes are some-what disturbing and everything is dark. If there is aciton, there is blood and gore, and i think they flash a beating human heart in a dogs mouth.

Just a fiar warning, this movie is not for the light of heart.

 

When I said it had minimul action, I meant it was no ninja scroll or gundam. It does have action, but the great part is that everything that is in the movie is there for a reason. It's kind of like a poem. Everyline was put their for a reason and it is up to you to analyze it and put it all together.

The action is not so much fight scenes, they are murders and riots. Not a typical anime fight scene. All-in-all, I love this movie. You can watch it over and over again and still pick stuff out of it.

If you dont like this movie, chances are, your not smart enought to understand it lol.

 

I'll take exception to that, thank you.
Jin-Roh just struck me as yet another knock-off of Bradbury's classic Fahrenheit 451. Admittedly, it's a great story with some brilliant themes, but why do so many filmmakers just try to put a different little twist on the book and pretend it's their own?
Not liking this film is not a question of intelligence. It's a question of literacy, if you asked me.

 

i'll never take an insult on jin-roh. lol.
i think it's one of the most supurb animations ever made. the man as a beast/wolf idea was really well done. it wouldn't be an easy idea to pull off. the little red riding hood story is really well handled and fits perfectly into the movie.
it's great to see that there's still animators who will make a film with absolutely no regard as to its sucess, but because it's a film they want to make.
the music is some of the best i've heard. it's as good or better than any of kenji kawaii's stuff.
the art is awsome too. it's kind of annoying to see animators rely so heavily on 3dcg to animate complex objects and backgrounds. jin-roh's cells look really dry and aged. it looks like it came from the post-war era. ^^.
mainly though it's the characters and the way the plot twists and turns that makes it so damn good.

 

wolf me baby

well to say that it's a rip off is completely false, you should search online and you ill find that jin roh creator (sorrry i cannot remember his name, you know he did blood, and of course ghost in the shell,i apologise again he is one of the greatest minds of anime, i can't beleave i forgot his name) totaly admitted that this was a modern retelling of red riding hood, and that alot of his inspiration comes from european folklore and legends, just go and watch his first ever live action film avalon, and you'll see what i'm talking about, in brief jun-roh is brilliant, people expect loads of violence just beacause theres guys in in big metal suits, i mean look at giant robo, big giant robots and monsters fighting each other, but then look at evangelion, a similar idea with big robots and stuff but a complete look at the instrumentality of mankind, and the instrumentality of mankind is taken from another author who wrote books about this new planet called austrailia, so people take ideas from each other all the time, the matrix is a rip off of ghost in the shell, and ghost in the shell is a rip off of bladerunner, even the creator of ghost in the shell admitted this (i'm sorry i still can't remeber his name ,lol)

 

I'm a film student. I know that adaptations are just a part of the industry. Still, the whole idea of this movie has been done so many times. The only difference here is that this film uses references to red riding hood instead of literature (as 451 did), and uses terrorism instead of book-burning.
By the way, have you read 451? If you have and you can't see the parallels to this film, I don't know ... read the book again.
I will admit, of course, that the animation and style of this film are both good. I just didn't much care for the plot.

 

i haven't read the book, so i can't say. to me jin-roh is very original.
even if the idea's been done before, it's still an awsome film in every other respect. especially characters...
the name you're looking for is mamoru oshii.^_^
he says it didn't begin as a re-telling of red-riding hood, but he wanted to use a folk tale in the background, and red-riding hood was perfect. the difference is though, that it's told from the wolf's point of view.

Avalon isn't the 1st live-action film oshii's made. he's as much a live-action director, as an animator. Avalon is the last one he's made. Jin-roh is actually the third film in a trilogy of films about 'Keberos'. He happened to direct the 1st two in live-action. the 1st on i think was called 'panzer cops' or something similar, and the 2nd is the red/scarlet spectacles. most are extreemly low-budget. one of the guns in avalon cost half the production budget alone X_X.
all his live-action stuff are pretty much critically acclaimed failures, and interestingly enough alot of anime critics don't like ghost in the shell either.
guess you can't please everyone. ^_^.

 

wow

wow i had heard that avalon was his first live action film, but did ya notice how much the lead characther looked like a certain lead characther from ghost in the shell, lol

 

lol. that's 'cause the character designer from ghost in the shell directed jin-roh.^_^
although he didn't do the character designs in jin-roh it didn't suprise me that they were similar. there are stylistic differences though.

 

Just because 451 (yes, I read and loved it!) talks about society, does not mean that every thing that talks about society today is ripping off of it. Sure there are links, but the government conspiracies and plot twists are quite different. then you figure out that the main character knew about the girl the whole time. Besides, no one in Jin-roh found a neat little book reading community in a train :sweat: . Jin-roh has alot more elements of a love story in it as well. Did you see the 451 movie? Oh man!!! It is the worst piece of crap I have ever seen and does not do any justice to the great novel!

 

Hey, give 451 a break. It was financed by a Canadian, so of course it sucked.
Anyway, I know that EVERY movie having stuff about governments and society and all that isn't knocking off Bradbury. I'm just saying that the themes used seem terribly similar.
Of course, if you can't just accept my opinion, you can just say so and I'll stop arguing with you. And if you can, I see no need for us to continue this conversation.