Memories Memories

In this anime trilogy, a salvage ship crew happens upon a haunted vessel in Magnetic Rose; a cold tablet turns a lab worker into a biological weapon in Stink Bomb; and an urban populace carries on an endless war with an unseen foe in Cannon Fodder. Three years in the making, the thought-provoking anthology features eye-popping action and directorial work by a trio of genre geniuses: Kôji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura and Katsuhiro Ôtomo.

Shigeru Chiba Hisao Egawa Kayoko Fujii Nobuaki Fukuda

Tensai Okamura Katsuhiro Ōtomo Koji Morimoto

Bandai Visual Company (JAPAN)

animation science fiction fantasy foreign

113 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • Souvik Ghosh

    Review by Souvik Ghosh ★★★½

    Wow, this was some experience! Comprised of three segments by three different directors, this one is a mind bender mixed with the kind of satire that's spawned from hopelessness. The first and the last segments are extremely thought provoking and beautiful while the second is humorous, fast and absolutely crazy! Out-of-the-world animation, and the themes explored are of profound relevance. Damn good.

  • Treble

    Review by Treble ★★★½

    Sci-fi anthology by some of the anime super-luminaries. It's not perfect, but the first story - Magnetic Rose - is worth the admission price alone.

  • Adam Cook

    Review by Adam Cook ★★★★ 6

    Memories is an animated anthology series based on three unrelated science fiction stories by the great Katsuhiro Otomo. As with all anthology films the quality between stories is inconsistent but this doesn’t stop Memories from being one of the finest examples of the ‘genre’. Because each story is unconnected they can be watched individually or in any order but this review follows the original intended order.


    Magnetic Rose

    The opening short film, and my personal favourite, is an operatic sci-fi thriller that is indebted to the titans of science-fiction cinema. When a group of salvage workers respond to a distress call in outer space they find themselves trapped on an opulent but nightmarish spacecraft that blends the memories of its…

  • PangBorn

    Review by PangBorn ★★★★

    Magnetic Rose alone makes this worth seeing, absolute perfection from the genius Satoshi Kon. The Animation is beautiful, and the story is amazing, immensely atmospheric, and incredibly suspenseful. It doesn't overstay its welcome in length, but it does leave you wanting a lot more, something that the other two films can't provide. Stink Bomb and Cannon Fodder do, however, serve as great visual treats.

  • yureegasven

    Review by yureegasven ★★★

    Part 1: 4 Stars
    Objectively the best of the 3. Almost scary at parts and very interesting.

    Part 2: 2 Stars
    More of a comedic story.

    Part 3: 3 Stars
    Shorter than the others and would have been cool if we actually saw the enemy, unless the lights at the end were them? I don't know.

  • Fabian

    Review by Fabian ★★★★ 2

    Memories is a series of short stories, each written and directed by different people and hailed personalities in the Anime community. They are vastly different in both content and aesthetics, especially the 3rd one.

    The first segment is in my opinion the best of the three. Satoshi Kon, who is quickly becoming one of my all-time favourite directors, is again at a creative high and manages to create an Alien-esque atmosphere of dread and isolation within the constraints of just 40 odds minutes. Alien is probably Kon's greatest influence when he wrote this and director Morimoto recognized this and adequately designed it. It looks brilliant and make these 40 minutes of Sci-Fi a joy to look at. It's gritty, dark…

  • Rick Vance

    Review by Rick Vance ★★★★

    Good fun anthology, stark differences between the segments.

  • Paul 7String

    Review by Paul 7String ★★

    The first story is fantastic and should be made into a live action movie.
    The other two are boring.