First Squad
Written by Misha Shprits, Aljoscha Klimov | Directed by Yoshiharu Ashino
A collaboration between Russia and Japan, under the auspices of acclaimed animation studio Studio 4°C, creators of The Animatrix and Halo: Legends, First Squad tells the story of Nadya, a very special 14-year-old girl – with amazing psychic powers and trained as an assassin, she is recruited by the Russian army during World War II to become a member of First Squad, a special fighting unit specializing in combating paranormal forces. When she is the last member left standing in a brutal attack, she is returned to the unit for a special project – to bring her comrades back from the dead to fight Von Wolff, a 700-year-old spirit brought back to life to help the Nazis take over the world.
Legend Of The Millennium Dragon
Written by Naruhisa Arakawa | Directed by Hirotsugu Kawasaki
Based on Takafumi Takada’s 2-volume novel of the same name,...
Written by Misha Shprits, Aljoscha Klimov | Directed by Yoshiharu Ashino
A collaboration between Russia and Japan, under the auspices of acclaimed animation studio Studio 4°C, creators of The Animatrix and Halo: Legends, First Squad tells the story of Nadya, a very special 14-year-old girl – with amazing psychic powers and trained as an assassin, she is recruited by the Russian army during World War II to become a member of First Squad, a special fighting unit specializing in combating paranormal forces. When she is the last member left standing in a brutal attack, she is returned to the unit for a special project – to bring her comrades back from the dead to fight Von Wolff, a 700-year-old spirit brought back to life to help the Nazis take over the world.
Legend Of The Millennium Dragon
Written by Naruhisa Arakawa | Directed by Hirotsugu Kawasaki
Based on Takafumi Takada’s 2-volume novel of the same name,...
- 12/26/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Sony have announced the UK Blu-ray release of two new anime movies, both of which are set to debut on Boxing Day. First Squad, from acclaimed animation studio Studio 4°C, creators of the thrilling The Animatrix and Halo: Legends, tells the story of a 14-year-old girl with psychic powers who must travel to another world to bring back her team and stop a 700-year-old ghost from leading the Nazis to victory in World War II; and Legend of the Millenium Dragon (aka Onigamiden), from Studio Pierrot, creators of the classic Naruto and Bleach films, which sees a teenage boy travels 1,200 years back in time into an epic and ancient battle.
Yoshiharu Ashino’s dramatic debut feature Fâsuto Sukuwaddo (in Japanese) tells the compelling and dramatic story of Nadya, a 14-year-old girl who despite her tender years is the last hope for her team and country. Gifted animator Ashino (The Tigger Movie,...
Yoshiharu Ashino’s dramatic debut feature Fâsuto Sukuwaddo (in Japanese) tells the compelling and dramatic story of Nadya, a 14-year-old girl who despite her tender years is the last hope for her team and country. Gifted animator Ashino (The Tigger Movie,...
- 11/17/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
“First Squad: The Moment of Truth” is a Japanese anime about Russians set during World War II, with Nazis as the bad guys trying to do that whole undead army raising thing that they are wont to do. Plus, did I mention Russian kids with superpowers? Yup, sounds like a recipe for carnage to me, too. The fun kind. The movie was written by Misha Shprits and Aljosha Klimov, and is directed by Yoshiharu Ashino, whose credits include ”Pokemon: Jirachi-Wish Maker” and “Piglet’s Big Movie”. Before you judge based on those films, check out the trailers for it below first. Set during the opening days of World War II on the Eastern Front. Its main cast are a group of Soviet teenagers with extraordinary abilities; the teenagers have been drafted to form a special unit to fight the invading German army. They are opposed by a Schutzstaffel (SS) officer...
- 6/9/2010
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Over the years, I've been exposed to a lot of animated filmmaking. You could say that when it comes to feature-length animated works, I'm a connoisseur of sorts. And whether it is the CGI-driven stories of Pixar and Dreamworks or the 2D hand-drawn fairy tales of Walt Disney, I'm always jumping at the chance to see something new and different in the animated world. And that love for animation doesn't end with the borders of the United States, but expands out into the rest of the world, reaching all the way to Japan and even as far as Denmark (as we saw earlier in Fantastic Fest when I reviewed Journey to Saturn). Which brings me to the Russian/Japanese hybrid film First Squad. Writer by Russian scribes Alijosha Klimov and Misha Sprits and animated by the folks at Japan's Studio 4ºC (the same studio that put out Batman: Gotham Knight last year), First Squad follows a young...
- 11/3/2009
- by Neil Miller
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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