Full Theatrical Trailer For Oshii’s SKY CRAWLERS Arrives!

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1. RAF 04/26/2008 @ 11:25am

   Interesting—Any idea if the Japanese Version sold on YesAsia.com hosts English subtitles? Or if it can be sold to North America through a different vendor?

2. GAPS 04/26/2008 @ 11:54am

   Feels like Oshii doing Last Exile. I guess that series had more influence than I thought. It also looks, as I thought, like Oshii wouldn’t be able to escape his particular brand of existentialism when trying to go mainstream (about which I’m pretty happy, actually!). It also looks very good.

   The last bit of the trailer has silly wording: “I finally understand, the reason (something?*), the reason I met you, is… ‘Sky Crawlers’”
   Not to say that it’s anything sillier than any other trailer in existence, just that, just because you can’t understand them, doesn’t mean that they don’t have just as silly voiceovers sometimes.

   * can anyone tell me what the meaning of “kiritorodearu” is? I think that’s what he says, and jdic gives me a breakdown of each word, but I can’t grasp the full phrase…

3. Brian 04/26/2008 @ 12:48pm

   RAF - I think the DVD you’re probably talking about is one of the countdown teaser DVDs they’re releasing in advance of the theatrical premiere in August. (It looks like they’re doing three of them, based on how they’re numbered.) I’m pretty sure they don’t have English subs.

4. fabool 04/26/2008 @ 3:12pm

   I doubt the phrasing at the end of the trailer is meant to be continuous. The particular phrase is left open intentionally, and probably left so in the movie itself. So the last dialogue bit would be “I finally get it, the meaning of kiridore, the meaning of meeting you. It’s ...” and then we get the title of the movie after a slight pause.

   I’m almost sure there’s a scene like this in the end of the movie:
   The girl in the trailer reads a letter by the main character.
   *trailer end voiceover bit begins*
   We see an epic scene as he gets blown to bits in his plane, while the voiceover from the trailer continues in the background.
   Girl cries and realizes the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42.

   About the word kiridore: it’s not an actual word, just something cooked up for this film. From what I quickly gathered kiridore are some kind of artificially created adolescent humans that don’t age and are made to do combat in those planes. Probably a look at the ‘cherry blossom’-ideal of living a short, but beautiful life only to wither away in your prime. So basically a pretty typical Oshii-theme with non-humans pondering what their place in the world is.

5. Don 04/26/2008 @ 4:42pm

   I think Fabool has the right idea according to the meager plot details that are out there. The word is actually “Kirudore”, which appears to be a combination of “kill” and “children” (something like “Killdren”).

6. GAPS 04/26/2008 @ 6:58pm

   Cheers fabool. I know it’s not supposed to flow on, I guess I just got caught up in the monologue

   Going back and watching the trailer again, I feel stupid for missing all that kirudore stuff! You might just be correct about that ending—I know I’ve seen that play more than a few times now… and now I’m even more convinced of it probably being just a fraction more mainstream than, say, Angel’s Egg.

7. Rhythm-X 04/26/2008 @ 8:50pm

   Looks beautiful.  Is Warner Bros. distributing this in the US as well as Japan?  That could be good or it could be bad…

8. Andrew Cunningham 04/27/2008 @ 12:54pm

   Nothing in the trailer that looks to out do Porco Rosso, but that may be a hand drawn vs. CG bias.

9. fetch fox 04/28/2008 @ 9:09am

   The trailer went up on the website today. Go view for better quality.

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