Yuki Yamada

Shotaro Mamiya

Amane Okayama

Yusuke Kondoh

Mirei Suda

Kenji Nomura

Hiroki Touchi

Yutaka Aoyama

Masayuki Katô

Sayaka Kinoshita

Hidenobu Kiuchi

Go Shinomiya

Shinya Takahashi

NUMBER 8

Yuzuru Tachikawa

Tomoaki Baba

Hiromi Uehara

Shun Ishiwaka

Liu Zihan

Toshiyuki Komaru

Kiyoshi Hirose

Yuichi Takahashi

Takao Maki

Natsuki Yokoyama

Satoru Hirayanagi

Yoshinori Horikawa

Kasumi Togo

Masato Takahashi

John Coltrane

Kazuma Jinnouchi

Satoshi Kimura

Shinichi Ishizuka

teiadam

Ai Ogata

Taishi Fujimori

Yuki Nishibata

Iwao Teraoka

Hiromatsu Shu

Tomomi Mochizuki

Koyo Ogata

Saurabh Singh

DogDog

Shin'ichi Kurita

Ryota Azuma

Takayuki Yamamoto

Satoshi Matsubara

Kazuto Wakayama

Risa Suzuki

Kenichi Shima

Kanako Awada

Shigenori Taniguchi

Wu Guangxu

Andy Zhu

Anzu Katsuragi

Tomosato Hosokawa

Yuka Fukuchi

Jiang Zhouyong

Kumiko Onaga

Yasuhiro Saiki

Sho Sugai

Yuji Hosogoe

Kanako Maru

Nobuhiko Kawakami

Michiko Notsu

Ryushi Tokunaga

Vercreek

aditya

Eiko Mishima

Asumi Kato

Mayumi Nakamura

Juneng Binggui

Xu Jingyu

Kei Miura

Fuminori Tsukida

Daiki Nagata

Liang Boya

Kaori Ikeda

Shiori Asaka

Sho Uchida

Maki Matsuura

Serena Koi

Julius de Belen

Hiroyuki Horiuchi

Kazuya Miyoshi

Dong Chang

Takeo Shutou

Shinichi Iimura

Moe Yoshimura

Xu Jiafu

Willie Blue Bussell

Ken Yamamoto

Tam Hoikei

Yuki Arinaga

Misa Matsuoka

Animation

Drama

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BLUE GIANT

TOHO

Japan

日本語

Blue Giant

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I very nearly didn't make the 30-mile schlep to my local Cineworld to watch this film but I'm really glad I did. It's not about a whale, no. It's about the aspirational saxophonist "Dai" who heads to Tokyo with dreams of taking over the world. He arrives, unannounced, on the doorstep of his friend "Tamada" looking for a bed for a few days. Needless to say, that few days turns out to be a bit longer and their friendship starts to strain a bit (the visitor snores!). "Dai" visits a small bar and meets the jazz-loving owner "Akiko" who sends him to a live venue where he encounters the pianist "Sawabe" whom he tries to convince to form a band. They are both eighteen but the latter man has been playing for about fourteen years longer than his new friend, so is a little sceptical! That doesn't last long once he hears him play and they soon decide they need a drummer to keep both from straying into the uncontrollable territory that can be improv jazz! Well, it turns out that his "landlord" isn't half bad at beating time with a stick on a Coke can - but can he up his game and turn this duo into a trio good enough to play at the city's most prestigious club - "So Blue"? The story itself is a bit predicable, with a few temper tantrums, frustrations and fallings out but it does illustrate well just how athletic these musicians must be to perform. Hands are covered in calluses and bruises, the sax takes quite a toll on the breathing and at times it's touch and go as to whether they can make it out of the starting block. There's nothing easy about the task they have set themselves nor the dedication and sacrifices it will take to achieve (or not) their goal. The animation itself it a little hit and miss, the CGI works much less well that the hand drawn scenes, but what really works here is the synchronisation with the musicians and that can be really immersive at times. If you are a fan of this genre of music, then you are in for a treat of Coltrane, Stitt et al. The saxophone (Tomoaki Baba), piano (Hiromi Uehara) and drums (Shun Ishiwaka) are unafraid to start off timidly and (especially the drummer) very rough around the edges, but as the story develops and they improve and become more confident, so do their performances until a tragedy tinged denouement that really does get the toes tapping. I'd have to say - there is no point in watching this is if this style of rambling, meandering and frankly rather musically self-indulgent performance doesn't appeal to you, but the powerful mix of frenetically syncopated animation and music I found really quite compelling. Sure, it's a bit long - but it's well worth a watch.

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Blue Giant

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