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Ryosuke Takahashi,
Ryosuke Takahashi
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: Not Rated
: US Manga Corps Video
: Anime, Foreign, Anime Feature Films, Animation, Seafaring, Cel
: 100 min.
: English, Japanese
: English
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This Japanese animation is a military thriller in the tradition of The Hunt for Red October, Crimson Tide, and other American films adapted from or inspired by the novels of Tom Clancy. The crew of the Seabat, a highly classified nuclear submarine jointly sponsored by the American and Japanese government, goes renegade. As the Seabat crew declares their independence from their governments, a hunt is on to capture the rogue submarine.
~ Jonathan E. Laxamana, All Movie Guide
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| Anime with intellect
by OKhan1
January 17, 2004 - 2:08 AM PST
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4 out of 5 members found this review helpful
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This is hardly your typical anime film. Based on the 1st installment of the highly popular manga Kaiji Kawaguichi (writer and artist of the award winning Eagle graphic novels) in the last years of the cold war. The story is controversial, yet realistic and intelligent highlighting the dangerous world of nuclear proliferation and containment to say the least.
Theres no rule which says anime has to only be about giant robots, cute girls and fuzzy creatures. Anime can be political, in fact VERY political as Silent Service proves. Reviews, given the current political climate in the US will undoubtably be negative with the smear of "anti-American" hurled. Anybody else who believes that leaders lie and that weapons kill will think otherwise.
Silent Service challenges the often simplistic views Americans have internalized both about themselves and how complexthe world is, and ultimately that in international relations there are no such things as permanent allies or adversaries. Highly recommended. |
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