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立喰師列伝
Tachiguishi-Retsuden
File:Tachiguishiposter.png
Directed byMamoru Oshii
Written byMamoru Oshii
based on the novel
Produced byToshihiko Nishikubo
StarringKaito Kisshoji
Mako Hyodo
Mitsuhisa Ishikawa
Toshio Suzuki
Shinji Higuchi
Kenji Kawai
CinematographyKeiichi Sakazaki
Edited byMamoru Oshii
Music byKenji Kawai
Distributed byBandai Visual
Release dates
Japan April 8, 2006
Running time
104 min.
LanguageJapanese

Tachiguishi-Retsuden (立喰師列伝), aka Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters, is a 2006 animation movie directed by Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Oshii, who also wrote the eponymous novel this film is based on.

Superlivemation

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Superlivemation renders of Fuyuki Shinada (left) and Kaito Kisshoji (right).

Tachiguishi-Retsuden is a documentary-style animation film created with an innovative technique named "Superlivemation", which was partially used in some TV commercials including the 2005 Renault Espace promo ¹ (featuring Canned Heat's "Going up to the country").

The Superlivemation consists of digitally processing then animating, paper puppet theater-style characters and locations based on real photographies. In Tachiguishi-Retsuden more than 30,000 photographies were processed 20 times, to produce the final composite animated in the movie.

The director describes his new animation film as set between "a simple animation with extremely intense information" and "a live-action movie with extremely limited information".

Terms

Tachiguishi-Retsuden

Tachiguishi-retsuden (立喰師 列伝) can be roughly translated as "tachigui: the amazing lives of the fast food grifters" which is the English title of the movie.

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Moongaze Ginji is a pro of tachigui.

Tachiguishi

Tachiguishi can be translated as "fast food grifters". As tachigui professionals, one of the tachiguishi privileges is to eat in stand-and-eat street restaurants without paying. In the movie, Mamoru Oshii describes these characters as "glorified maverick heroes who have carved their names in the history of dietary culture, sometimes accused of destroying the public order or simply dismissed of being pure fiction". All Tachiguishi names are connected to a specific dinner, which is related to a Japanese culinate era from the '40s its traditional food (月見 or "moongaze", raw egg) up to the '2000s and the americanized fast food ("hamburger").

Tachigui

Tachigui stands for "stand-and-eat", and more loosely for fast food). Tachigui includes soba (noodle bowl) and gyudon (rice with beef bowl).

Story

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Prologue

"I still remember well what I was eating each time something happened [...], so by talking about what we've been eating, I think we can illuminate the age we've lived". (Mamoru Oshii)

Starting from a Proustian approach of food, Oshii tries to recreate 60-years of Japanese dietary history in his "Documentary of Showa underground". This work is actually a false documentary style animation movie, which uses some key elements from his 1987 debut live-action feature, The Red Spectacles, e.g. the stand-and-eat soba, the post-WWII retro background, the avant-garde visuals and screenplay, and even Moongaze Ginji, a returning character (and actor).

  • The tachiguishi, aka Fast Food Grifters.
  • Tachigui restaurant owners.

Plot

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Licensed products

  • Japan 2004.02.XX: Tachiguishi-Retsuden (立喰師列伝) novel by Mamoru Oshii
(Kadokawa Shoten, 287p., 19cm) ISBN：4-04-873516-0
  • Japan 2006.04.05: Tachiguishi-Retsuden O.S.T. (立喰師列伝) original soundtrack by Kenji Kawai (featuring e-mi)
(Victor Entertainment, 24 tracks, VICL-61927)
  • Japan 2006.04.XX: Tachiguishi-Retsuden, gakugo riki. (立喰師、かく語りき。) interview book by Mamoru Oshii
(Tokuma Shoten, 254p., 19cm) ISBN: 4-19-862160-8
  • Japan 2006.09.22: Tachiguichi-Retsuden (立喰師列伝) DVD
(Bandai Visual, 90min. Film, DVD9, DD5.1ch + DD2.0ch)
  • Japan 2006.09.22: Tachiguichi-Retsuden Collectors Set (立喰師列伝 コレクターズセット) L.E. 2DVD
(Bandai Visual, 90min. Film, 2DVD9, DD5.1ch + DD2.0ch, Special Disc: 90min. Making Of, 192p. Script Replica, 62p. Collector Booklet)

Cast

Guest stars

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Cold Badger Masa is the alter ego of South Park's Kenny.
  • Shoji Kawamori: Famous for Macross Plus, etc.
  • Kenji Kawai: Famous composer of Mamoru Oshii feature films (StrayDog, Patlabor the movie 2, GITS, Avalon) and Warp video games, etc.
  • Kenji Kamiyama: Famous director of Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex TV series, etc.
  • Toshio Suzuki: etc.
  • Shinji Higuchi: etc.
  • Katsuya Terada: etc.

Actors

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Kaito Kisshoji is returning from Akai Megane.

Voice actors

Trivia

  • The Tachiguishi-Retsuden logo bears the mention "Tachiguichi Retsuden 1945-2006 A Mamoru Oshii Animation Film".
  • The theatrical release poster, which was later used on the OST and the videos, features several symbols of the Japanese popular culture and modern history. Clockwise, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress passing over in reference to the American bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki cities in 1945, the Tokyo Tower which was completed in 1958, the high-speed train, Shinkansen 0 Series, launched in 1964, at last the standing character eating a gyudong bowl, is Foxy Croquette O-Gin in reference to the popular tachigui practice.

See also

Sources

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