California-based distribution firm Deaf Crocodile confirmed on Instagram on Friday that it’s going to launch the Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space anime movie on dwelling video in October. The corporate moreover revealed on Thursday that the movie is screening from September 13-18 at AFS Cinema in Austin, Texas. The corporate additionally posted a trailer for the movie on Friday.
The corporate describes the discharge:
Arguably the one anime ever made impressed by each Hi there Kitty and Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, TAMALA 2010 is a futuristic techno fever dream that flows backwards and forwards in time, following the lovely wide-eyed kitty Tamala on her dwelling world of Meguro Metropolis, Cat Earth, a BLADE RUNNER-like mega-city managed by the Catty & Co. company. Escaping into house, she’s waylaid by the God of Dying and crash-lands close to Hate Metropolis on the Planet Q, the place she meets a brand new boyfriend, goes bowling and buying in a thrift retailer – and realizes she often is the newest reincarnation of an historical Greek cat cult with ties to the omnipresent Catty & Co. A heady, conceptual work of psychedelic sci-fi, influenced by the type of traditional manga and anime comparable to Osamu Tezuka‘s Astro Boy and Takashi Murakami‘s postmodern artwork motion Superflat, TAMALA 2010 can also be a savage tackle fashionable client tradition: in Meguro Metropolis an enormous Colonel Sanders stalks the streets with an axe buried in his head, and Tamala’s eerie cat’s eyes are all over the place, promoting chocolate, toothpaste and medicines for forgetfulness. Written, directed and composed by the two-person group of t.o.L – their extremely addictive electronica / space-lounge rating is well worth the value of admission alone – TAMALA 2010 is equal components Philip K. Dick, METROPOLIS and A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (with just a few sly nods to THE SHINING thrown in for good measure.) In Japanese with English subtitles.
The movie initially launched in Japan in 2002, and has not beforehand had an English launch.
t.o.L directed the movie, wrote the screenplay, and designed the characters. Kentaro Nemoto additionally designed the characters and dealt with 2D animation.
Sources: Deaf Crocodile‘s X/Twitter account and Instagram account, Austin Chronicle by way of @WTK
