It’s a niche classic. A strange blend of a lot of things at once.
It’s sci-fi, it’s action, it’s horror; it’s hand-drawn and computer animation; it’s made in Japan but set in Hong Kong; it’s about evolution but upholds the idea of the soul; and it’s futuristic but looks and feels and sounds like the past.
I wish I liked it, but I don’t; I still think it’s clunky and weird. Here are some previous thoughts (because apparently this is my third blog post on this same movie, omg):
Watched in 2017 (around the time of the remake)
