The Place Promised in Our Early Days

johnny_ultimate

Crappy title, excellent film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381348/

Picked this up after seeing it mentioned at an anime/comic/video game exhibition and really liked it. Its a science fiction war story combined with a coming of age tale, and is a very imaginative, beautifully drawn film. Quite a complex film on top of the accessiable core story too.

Anyone else seen it? And great package too: DVD comes bundled with the director Shinkai's two previous short films (and one of their soundtracks) as well as two detailed production booklets.

Cy_Revenant

I'd say most people here have seen this at this stage. (If you haven't, why the hell not?)

Fabulous stuff.

I picked up a collectors edition with this and the also excellent Voices of a Distant Star recently. Haven't gotten round to watching 5cm per second yet.

Butterscotch

I liked it and I cried. It was a very moving film. Yeah I agree with you on the "crappy" title. I prefer the original title, "Beyond the Clouds."

rejkin

Whats the other two films? any link to where you got it?

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/1098934/The-Place-Promised-In-Our-Early-Days/Product.html

Is this what you got? does this have the films? Is one of them 5 centimetres per second?

tman

Ordered a copy now, for €7 you can't really go wrong!
Thanks for the recommendation

johnny_ultimate

rejkin wrote: »

Whats the other two films? any link to where you got it?

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/1098934/The-Place-Promised-In-Our-Early-Days/Product.html

Is this what you got? does this have the films? Is one of them 5 centimetres per second?

I picked up the Region One boxset. The two short films are Voices of a Distant Star and She and Her Cat. Haven't gotten around to watching them yet. Boxset here.

Theres also a region 2 boxset with the DVDs only, here. Play have it at a good price, although I saw it in town for something ridiculous like 45 euro.

5 centimetres per second seems hard enough to track down. No new copies on amazon anyway.

Cy_Revenant

Never heard of She and her Cat. I was reasonably sure that thsi film was called Beyond the Clouds, the Promised Place. Guess it has a few titles.

Funky

just watched it today, great film

SmileyPaul

I'll watch it tomorrow and tell you my thoughts

owlwink

Johnny you will have to give me a lend of this, sounds interesting. huh

johnny_ultimate

Watched Voices of a Distant Star there, absolutely stunning. Packs a lot of emotion and beauty into twenty five minutes, well worth a watch!

fitz0

Brilliant film, watched it a few years ago. Voices of a Distant Star is a strange one. Its brilliant how it progresses with the time gap and all that, loved it. Havent seen She and her Cat. Any good?

johnny_ultimate

fitz0 wrote: »

Brilliant film, watched it a few years ago. Voices of a Distant Star is a strange one. Its brilliant how it progresses with the time gap and all that, loved it. Havent seen She and her Cat. Any good?

Yeah Voices of a Distant Star really is a fascinating film. Very unique, and for such a short film to seem so epic is really an achievement.

Not really much to She and her Cat (I watched the extended version - five whopping minutes long :pac:) but it looks nice and has an obnoxiously cute feline. A soothing twelveth of an hour, but far lighter than the other two.

Numina

I watched Place Promised In Our Early Days, and it was nothing compared to 5cm Per Second. 5cm is an absolute masterpiece.