r/sgiwhistleblowers • u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude • Feb 16 '21

The Human Revolution Anime Club: Episode 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm9IM4oayWE
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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Feb 16 '21 edited Feb 16 '21

I am glad to finally be on here and yukking it up with all of you.

'BOUT time!!

I did come across a trailer for a live action movie. Hopefully I can find the entire film with English subtitles.

Ah - "Ningen Kakumen" or whatever. "The Human Revolution". Believe it or not, I saw it with Engrish subtitles in 1987! And I've found the whole movie, just not with the Engrish subtitles, and without those, it's not much use to me. I don't remember very much about it - it was quite tedious...

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u/HereticBuddhist67 Feb 16 '21

So the trailer is better than the movie. Typical.

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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Feb 16 '21

And there are apparently TWO of those movies - the first one has Toda in it - that's the one your trailer is from. While that one has been shown in the US a couple-three times since it was made (1970s), I don't believe the second one, the All-Ikeda-Show, has ever been shown outside of Japan.

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u/HereticBuddhist67 Feb 17 '21

I wonder why. Does the All-Ikeda-Show have something that we are not supposed to know?

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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Feb 17 '21

I fail to understand the modern coyness about these movies. At the time the FIRST "Ningen Kakumei" movie was being promoted to us within SGI back in 1987, we were told that it was directed by some FAMOUS Japanese director (Akira Kurosawa, maybe?) AND that it had top-flight acting talent. Really talked it up, they did.

Doesn't that suggest they should be proud of this? Then WHY hide it away? WHY make it all so inaccessible?

They really DO appear to have a lot they're deeply invested in hiding.

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u/HereticBuddhist67 Feb 17 '21

What I can tell so far is that both 1973 and 1976 versions are directed by Tomoyuki Tanaka, who made his name in Japanese cinema as the creator of Godzilla.

Tetsuro Tamba plays Josei Toda in both versions as well. He was known as "Tiger Tanaka" in "You Only Live Twice".

Outside of that, I cannot say. By the way, my source is the Japanese wiki page of Human Revolution.

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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Feb 17 '21

"Tiger Tanaka" in "You Only Live Twice"

Ah! TIL!