{"id":21775,"date":"2016-08-09T02:12:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T06:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=21775"},"modified":"2020-07-29T11:10:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:10:37","slug":"harmony-2015-fantasia-international-film-festival-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/09\/harmony-2015-fantasia-international-film-festival-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmony (2015) [Fantasia International Film Festival 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/harmony.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21776\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/harmony.jpg\" alt=\"harmony\" width=\"470\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Health and happiness conscious people have found a way to live forever and without despair.\u00a0 In this utopian future, Tuan Kirie is an investigator for the health agency.\u00a0 As she breaks the rules at her outpost position, she is brought back to Japan where a sudden wave of suicides happens as she arrives.\u00a0 Tuan Kirie is dispatched to investigate these and she takes advantage of this to investigate her past as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Harmony is an anime film in the bubbly style of many TV series this reviewer grew up on, reminiscent of Space Pirate Yamato.\u00a0 The big eyes, the colorful characters and background seem like an odd choice for such a subject, but it works, mostly.\u00a0 The film is based on a novel by Project Itoh and adapted into a screenplay by Koji Yamamoto with Deborah Crane doing the English script.\u00a0 This is brought to the screen by directors Michael Arias and Takashi Nakamura with their team of animators.\u00a0 The film looks great, the settings and characters are lush and beautiful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The vocal cast in Japanese is led by Miyuki Sawashiro and Jamie Marchi as Tuan Kirie, Junpei Morita as her father Nuaza Kirie, Reina Ueda as Miach Mihie, and Shin\u2019ichiro Miki as Elliya Vashirof.\u00a0 This experienced group of voice actors imbues their characters with as much personality as they voice work allows them to.\u00a0 Their acting skills come through well and they add a layer of emotions to what is happening on screen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Anime such has Harmony can be hard to review, especially by someone with minimal knowledge of anime such as this reviewer.\u00a0 When your preferred genres are super violent action and super bloody horror, bubbly, happy looking anime is not usually something one goes for.\u00a0 That being said, Harmony is enjoyable and fun to watch.\u00a0 Its style brings back childhood memories of watching Japanese cartoons dubbed into French on TV on weekend mornings.\u00a0 The subject here is however definitely more adult and the themes of survival, death, health, and what type of life is worth staying alive for are something anyone can relate to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Although the film is bubbly and full of happy colors, the subject is much darker and approached in a successful manner. It\u2019s Anime for the adult brain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Fantasia International Film Festival ran from July 14<sup>th<\/sup> until August 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, 2016 and will be back in the summer of 2017.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health and happiness conscious people have found a way to live forever and without despair.\u00a0 In this utopian future, Tuan Kirie is an investigator for the health agency.\u00a0 As she breaks the rules at her outpost position, she is brought back to Japan where a sudden wave of suicides happens as she arrives.\u00a0 Tuan Kirie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2497,1284,12],"tags":[99,100,113,349,367,438,906,1087],"class_list":["post-21775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasia-fest","category-festivalsevents","category-movie-reviews","tag-animation","tag-anime","tag-asian","tag-fantasy","tag-foreign","tag-h","tag-science-fiction","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21978,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21775\/revisions\/21978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}