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This is the official blog of Akamaru monogatari
赤丸物語 animated movie. Here you can see news about the movie, movie artwork, storyboard and all things that are in any way related to the movie itself.
Akamaru monogatari 赤丸物語 or The Story About Red Circle
Movie tells a story about Japanese history, beginning with wars in 1600 AD. Starting with Japanese civil wars and the falling of Shogunate, after which comes the period of Japanese attacks on Russia and China, through the period of Great War and World War II. To this point the movie is made like a documentary, but after that it becomes a fiction. Japan prospers for the greater good of the mankind to the point when Earth is attacked by an alien force. Japan, trained for war, is the only one who can stand in the way of this much advanced war civilization. This is the time when they activate their robots, to fight against alien threat.
To set the mood of the film I used traditional Japanese prints (in the first part of the movie) and music is planned to be traditional gagaku and bigaku music which is a particular note of that period. In the second segment of the film (Great War and WWII) I used combination of interpreted real life film and propaganda movies from that period, but I never used any films except animations I made. In the final part of the movie I used modern Japanese anime and mange style from the comics and Japanese animated films, making it look modern and fast. Music in this ending part is Hip-Hop, but there is a music theme that is a basic for all music made especially for the film.
The composer of the musical theme is Vladan Ostojic. Dusan Brkovic did sound effects. Epilogue music is done by Jovan Obradovic and Marjan Stancic and the Punk Rock intro is played by a German label published band Red Union.
To contribute the irony of the modern global culture and its spending society I plan to do the whole marketing coverage of the movie, doing all of the propaganda material by myself, including: web site, posters, T-shirts, coffee cups, stickers, stationary and etc... It first started with an online pre-movie selling of T-shirts, which are sold through Berlin based firm called Allmightys.com. One Euro from every T-shirt sold is going to the Children Village Organization which is the organization for children without parents. The T-shirt also won a silver award for design also at Allmightys.com.
During the making of the animation I tried to reach many of the Serbian government and non-government organizations for funding, but none of the organizations ever responded.
Miroslav Kostic
Director
"I survived Akamaru monogatari movie premiere 2009" was printed on a limited edition Kamikaze ribbons, dedicated to first public screening of Akamaru monogatari movie. If you have this ribbon than you are lucky, because there is only 200 of them ever made! This is the first of Akamaru monogatari collectibles, so stick to it.
