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AMER CONCRETE Tekkonkinkreet

Amer Concrete "Tekkonkinkreet" (2006)
of Michael Arias

There's films that makes its way towards you as if fate made you blink of an eye, like that, but "you're gonna watch it either? !. (Yes my destiny speaks to me in voice with a Belgian accent). While I was walking in Paris led me to my feet Junku, a famous and renowned Japanese bookshop. I came across the beautiful Artbook Tekkonkinkreet . Intrigued, I leaf through, it told me a few things, vague recollection goes back to the surface, but no more. Some time later, the turning radii, my DVD seller usual, I find it. Neither one nor two, I get the digital cake. Well, I say thank you to my destiny Belgian, once.

Kuro and Shiro (Black & White in Japanese) are two orphans who make the laws rule, the streets of TrésorTown: they are called "cats" . Shiro is a young boy who lives in his world, almost naive see autistic, he is able to sense danger and events that will occur as a prophet. Shiro aspires only one thing: Be happy. He would be unable to survive in the hard street without Kuro.
Kuro is just the opposite, older and mature, bright and resourceful. It remains small and does the pickpocket strikes. But he is also possessed of a demonic force inside that gives it the taste of addiction to violence, war, destruction. Shiro is his safety net, preventing it from sinking into obscurity. They watch and the one on the other, and leads a life as they see fit. Days or until covet Yakuza neighborhood, to build an amusement park: Kitty Castle.

Amer Concrete is an animated film, taken from the Japanese manga Taiyo Matsumoto. The realization is Michael Arias, an American living in Japan for twenty years (Animatrix producer in 2000). The film produced by Studio 4 ° C, known for letting their freedom of expression and style to its leaders, through their personal projects, many short films. (Memories of Kastuchiro Otomo, Animatrix etc ...).

What impresses at first glance have the beautiful scenery of the streets of Trésorville; Ultra colorful, never falling into kitsch. It's aesthetic, and cosmopolitan living. The city's architecture draws these inspirations in various metropolises: New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo. A melting pot where all mix and it seems to find its place for centuries, since dirt, wear, rust, lived in the city is present in each shot. The details and symbols abound everywhere, whether in the apartment of the girlfriend of a yakuza when there is a sewing machine and a mannequin at a love hotel renovated in hospital for the lost souls of the city . The stories of secondary characters are present, never take precedence over the main frame.

Technical side Nothing to say, 3D is pleasantly well integrated. It allows superb sequence soaring raven , or chases through the streets of the city . The staging oscillates between elation and contemplative scenes of aggressive plans.
's music Plaid (A group of British electronic music) is superb.

artbook Two outputs are:

version KURO: scketchs and graphics research

version Shiro: Finite Sets

In short, a true little masterpiece work to see the eyes wide open! (* O *)

PS: Small wave of nostalgia. I just discovered that the bookstore at Tonkam closed on April 30. It was one of the first places in Paris where you could buy manga in the 90s. I had discovered Video Girl Ai Katsura, Clamp, Rumiko Takahashi Tezuka, Akira, etc. Gumn