2007-07-07 - 102 minutes
6.50 / 10
7 Impacts by 7 Directors
The seven short films making up GENIUS PARTY couldn’t be more diverse, linked only by a high standard of quality and inspiration. Atsuko Fukushima’s intro piece is a fantastic abstraction to soak up with the eyes. Masaaki Yuasa, of MIND GAME and CAT SOUP fame, brings his distinctive and deceptively simple graphic style and dream-state logic to the table with “Happy Machine,” his spin on a child’s earliest year. Shinji Kimura’s spookier “Deathtic 4,” meanwhile, seems to tap into the creepier corners of a child’s imagination and open up a toybox full of dark delights. Hideki Futamura’s “Limit Cycle” conjures up a vision of virtual reality, while Yuji Fukuyama’s "Doorbell" and "Baby Blue" by Shinichiro Watanabe use understated realism for very surreal purposes. And Shoji Kawamori, with “Shanghai Dragon,” takes the tropes and conventions of traditional anime out for very fun joyride.
Color Designer - Tomoko Washida
Animation
Science Fiction
Tampopo
1985
7.86
Kuroneko
1968
7.39
The Quiet American
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6.53
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7.40
Genius Party Beyond
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6.29
Waxwork
1988
6.13
Ninja III: The Domination
1984
6.10
Grass
1999
6.50
Kid's Story
2003
7.10
Jungle Jail
2007
5.94
Red Heat
1988
6.20
I Saw the Devil
2010
7.80
Mary Poppins
1964
7.56
Perfect Blue
1998
8.30
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988
7.53
Barbie
2023
6.97
The Shawshank Redemption
1994
8.71
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021
7.94
Oppenheimer
2023
8.06