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Our parents are dead!
Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of their emotions.
We Are Little Zombies
2019 ‘ウィーアーリトルゾンビーズ’ Directed by Makoto Nagahisa
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Keita Ninomiya Satoshi Mizuno Mondo Okumura Sena Nakajima Kuranosuke Sasaki Youki Kudoh Sosuke Ikematsu Eriko Hatsune Jun Murakami Naomi Nishida Shiro Sano Rinko Kikuchi Masatoshi Nagase Go Riju Takashi Yamanaka Shingo Mizusawa Daisuke Kuroda Shugo Oshinari Bokunou Tetsuya Morita Seikô Itô Risa Yoshiki
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Wī ā ritoru zonbīzu, Wî â ritoru zonbîzu, WE ARE LITTLE ZOMBIES ウィーアーリトルゾンビーズ, Little Zombies, 위 아 리틀 좀비, Мы – маленькие зомби, Ми маленькі зомбі, 我们是小僵尸, 喪青獻世樂團, 爸媽死了，我卻不想哭
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The first words of Nagahisa Makoto’s “We Are Little Zombies” are spoken by a deadpan and disembodied 13-year-old Game Boy addict named Hikari (Ninomiya Keita) as he watches his parents waft out the smokestack of a Tokyo crematorium. “Today, Mommy turned to dust. So did Daddy. Dusty as parmesan on a plate of Bolognese.” A gleaming wad of spaghetti appears over the giant chimney as if Photoshopped into the sky. Hikari lost both members of his small family a few days earlier when they were killed in a bus crash during the “worst-named package tour of all time: Destination Happiness!” The short-sighted tween — whose emotionless vibe falls somewhere between Detective Conan and a serial killer — isn’t impressed by…
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"We are zombies, but alive."
In the third grade, I was placed in my elementary school's gifted program. Essentially, it was a program designed to pull all the "smartest kids" from each grade, and give them a class where they could learn more "advanced" education, that the rest of the class was deemed too unintelligent to learn. Being an elementary schooler, I obviously didn't think twice about this, but looking back, I find this idea of a "gifted" education pretty absurd. It's kind of insane to me that a group of child educators can look at a group of children not older than 10 years old, and think for a second that the best thing to do is to separate…
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“perfect movies don’t exist,” they say.
“is that so?” i ask as i unsheathe my copy of makoto nagahisa’s we are little zombies. i hold the blu-ray up for all to see. “then how do you explain this?!”
a collective gasp resounds from the crowd of disbelievers.
“that’s what i thought.”
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“Please cry. Please feel. Just kidding. All together now.”
Batshit bonkers movie, a coming of age/a coming to terms with grief like nothing I’ve ever seen
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"Life is like The Castle. I don't have a good feeling about it."
Find a girl that will cry unexpectedly at the lyrics of We Are Little Zombies as performed the first time.
And it isn't lost on me either that I missed this at MIFF 2019 due to being a single player.
This film hurts a bunch if you know what it feels like to lose your emotion to harsh circumstances.
It's an endlessly inventive film that therefore holds your attention.
Hikari cut me the most.
I like to imagine that this is the thought process that Kenzaburō Ōe and his wife went through while naming their son.
I don't know if I can trust Makoto Nagahisa around my feelings again!
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This is the story of four unemotional people.
Just like the quote said, We Are Little Zombies is the story of four emotionless orphan teens. It's about their life, their friendship and the band they start together.
It is a nice story and a really innovative coming of age. We Are Little Zombies is extremely surreal, frenetic and fantastic. I was really enchanted by its satire and its sense of humor, the visuals are incredible as well; the colorful neon letters and the dark humor contrast the depressing parts. It is also extremely meta, which surprised me a lot. The experimental angles and cameras movements, the popping pictures between scenes, the punk and profligate style. Everything is so…
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Life is like a SHIT GAME!
• Japanuary 2022 #20 🇯🇵
Wenn der Kreativität scheinbar keine Grenzen gesetzt werden kommt wohl sowas hier dabei heraus. We Are Little Zombies ist trotz des Titels definitiv KEIN Zombiefilm, sondern ist am ehesten vergleichbar mit sowas wie Scott Pilgrim versus the World, nur eben mit jeder Menge Japanischer Craziness im 4-Spieler Multiplayer Modus. Verantwortlich für dieses wild/charmante 8-Bit-Chiptune-Super-Musical-RPG-Adventure-Movie ist der mit den Goldfischen im Pool, Makoto Nagahisa. Er hat schon mit seinem Kurzfilm bewiesen das er alles andere als konventionelle Filme macht. Sein erster Langfilm führt diese Tradition auf alle Fälle fort.
Dabei steckt unter all der Knallbunten Optik und Retro 8-Bit Videogame Ästhetik auch in We Are Little Zombies eine ernsthafte Story…
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In the year 20XX, the band We Are Little Zombies was created. Chiptune and keygen beats overload. A kick-ass band. Want to continue? What will we do when we're just living zombies? The catchiest soundtrack. Wonderful character and musical chemistry. Getting quest items. Dark thematic elements presented from your Famicom console. The dad boss fight. A rather unsatisfying ending for a stylized 8-bit journey, I get what it was trying to say but it doesn't work as well as it should. Dreamers who aren't stuck in the sadness of the Cell-Scape and can feel now, we wish you luck and 1-ups on the paths you choose.
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A little too enamored with its own quirky gamer nihilism, all over the place and way too long, overflowing with ideas and flashes of brilliance throughout. I don't think I liked it much, but I will definitely check out whatever the director does next
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Now that all the movies have been cancelled this year, can we just give We Are Little Zombies like...everything?
We Are Little Zombies is a film from Japan about 4 kids who meet at all of their parents funerals and they begin to hang out and eventually form a band together. So on a first glance, just from the poster and that description, it seems like it'd be a hyper stylised "band movie" told with this fictional band... and it is, for a while. But We Are Little Zombies has way more going on.
It's a blunt, anarchic look at the world through the eyes of kids who feel totally unloved and emotionally disconnected to by the world around them,…
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Meine Fresse, das spottet so hart jeder Beschreibung, was sich da ohne Unterlass in die Netzhaut brennt, das muss man selbst gesehen haben.
Wenn ihr eine 'Top 100 an Dingen, die du ihr noch erleben wollt, bevor ihr stirbt' Liste führt, dann packt das Ding ruhig mal in die Top 10 rein.
Trailer: youtu.be/O_-9wNeRLSs
