Coordinates | 33°51′35.9″N151°12′40″N |
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name | REDLINE |
director | Takeshi Koike |
producer | Kentarō YoshidaYukiko Koike |
screenplay | Katsuhito IshiiYōji EnokidoYoshiki Sakurai |
story | Katsuhito Ishii |
starring | Takuya KimuraYū AoiTadanobu Asano |
music | James Shimoji |
studio | Madhouse |
distributor | Tohokushinsha FilmManga Entertainment (UK, USA) |
released | |2010|10|9|Japan|2012|||USA}} |
After a total of seven years in production, ''Redline'' was intended to premiere at the 2009 Annecy International Animated Film Festival and follow ''Summer Wars'', ''Mai Mai Miracle'' and ''Yona Yona Penguin'' as the fourth and final feature film Madhouse planned to release between summer 2009 and spring 2010. However, further delays saw its world premiere pushed back a few months to August 14, 2009, at the Locarno International Film Festival and its Japanese release to fall 2010.
According to Tim Maughan of Anime News Network, ''Redline'' was released several years later than originally planned. Its development took seven years and used 100,000 hand-made drawings, which Maughan notes is all the more unusual as it is Koike's directorial debut.
The film opened in Japan on October 9, 2010. Coinciding with this, the film was shown in a San Francisco-based Viz Cinema theater from October 8–14, 2010. Distribution in North America is handled by Manga Entertainment. In the United States, a subtitled version and nationwide screenings are planned for 2011.
After several delays, DVD and Blu-Ray releases are currently slated for November 14, 2011.
Thomas Zoth of Mania.com comments that while the film does not provide "a deep plot or unique premise," it still "demands to be seen." He said that if ''Scott Pilgrim vs. the World'' was "an assault on the senses ... ''Redline'' is a declaration of war." Zoth went on to praise the film for its "imaginative creatures and clever designs", to compare Koike's work to that of Quentin Tarantino, and to compliment the film for its "soundtrack, with its memorable high-energy tracks that greatly complement the chaos onscreen." He concludes by saying that if "the life of the industry has been drained and replaced with rote, cookiecutter shows-by-committee, ''Redline'' shows a path out."
Nicolas Penedo of the French magazine Animeland describes it as the "Paris-Dakar revisited à la ''Ōban Star-Racers''", a remake of Hanna-Barbera ''Wacky Races'' with arts inspired from Jack Kirby comics and know-how, rhythm and energy inherent of the best Japanese anime movies. The reviewer praises the animation quality as breathtaking, and declares that Takeshi Koike made an homage to comics and films of the 70s and 80s. On the negative, he notes the lack of scenario stating "Don't hope to find any scenario in ''Redline''".
Kwenton Bellette and Peter Martin reviewed ''Redline'' for Twitch Film. Bellette describes it as a "truly out of this world experience", "''Speed Racer'' on crack" and praised the supporting characters for being memorable and the background galaxy made of different races and creeds to be very solid. Martin expresses that "it feels like every centimeter of every frame is filled with some kind of kinetic color or action or bit of business, making it an experience that is sure to overload the senses" and asserts that writer Katsuhito Ishii succeeds at making a feature-length anime as insane as his film ''Funky Forest''.
Jon Liang of ''UK Anime Network'' comments that "A sense of the cool and outrageous is seeped into every pore of the design, ... exaggerated is an understatement here", and notes that the film's "cinema-quality smooth animation" makes "even the most alien of things move naturally and the sense of speed that is often achieved is frequently mind-blowing." He remarks that "the visuals and over-the-top action will most likely overload sensitive brain cells," but concludes by calling ''Redline'' "an incredibly exciting cinematic experience that doesn't take itself at all seriously."
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