Friday Fun Link Disturbing Dystopian Vision

Jesse Walker | 8.20.2010 5:23 PM

Mermaid (Osamu Tezuka, 1964):

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Fist of Etiquette 16 years ago

I liked this better the first time I saw it, when it was the movie Splash.
Mainer 16 years ago

THREADJACK.

Remember that pinup calendar with the female Czech politicians. I got one. Just sayin...
Apologetic California 16 years ago

Percussions?
Anonymous 16 years ago

Fish tits...
prolefeed 16 years ago

Ten second sound bite synopsis? Don't have 8+ minutes to spend watching this.
Szasz 16 years ago

"In my opinion, Donaldson did not have a constitutional right to treatment, but he did have a constitutional right to his delusions".
SIV 16 years ago

Mermaids at the top of the blog
scroll down for some torture.

(you might need to leave the first page)
Robert 16 years ago

Was I the only one who was LOL throughout the re-education passage?
1. Anonymous 16 years ago
  
  I liked the tickler.
2. Jeffersonian 16 years ago
  
  Stanley Kubrick did that part much better.
SxCx 16 years ago

If Obama had his way...!
Some dude 16 years ago

There... are... FOUR... lights!
Joshua Corning 16 years ago

Sooo...

A crazy teenager sees Mermaids his parents and the state try to treat his delusion but ultimately it is ineffective and he drowns himself...

Also is there a cultural thing here?

Do daydreams and insanity have a closer meaning in japan then in western cultures?
1. Yonemoto 16 years ago
  
  Japanese people have no soul, so no.
orrible racist 16 years ago

Was is it with Japanese artists and seafood fucking?
Cyto 16 years ago

Kinda reminded me of my public school experience.
rac 16 years ago

Debussy rocks.
Inkblots 16 years ago

Simply beautiful.
Adonisus 16 years ago

Ah, Osamu Tezuka.

Cartoonist, graphic novelist, animator, painter, science fiction writer, actor, and sculptor extrordinaire.

His experimental shorts are particularly good. He made quite a few in his career.
Kolohe 16 years ago

That was one of the longer United Airlines commercials I have seen.

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