#249: Uchida Shungicu no Noroi no One-Piece (The Cursed One Piece) (1992)

Studio: Kyoto Animation and
Shin-Ei Animation

Director: Yoshiji Kigami

Screenplay: Miho Maruo

Essentially based on the work of Shungicu
Uchida

Disclose Solid: Chisa Yokoyama as
Michiyo, Hiroko Moriguchi as Kaori, Mariko Kouda as Yuuko

Seen in Eastern with English Subtitles

A short terror special in accordance to
the work of Shungicu Uchida, this
manufacturing by Kyoto Animation is
sadly too short to without considerations distribute outdoor of digital streaming or aquire,
which is a shame as making this broadly accessible to non-Eastern anime followers
would lead to some of us embracing this manufacturing, in its thirty minute
manufacture, to their hearts with what it has, a luxurious puny terror anthology
in accordance to gender survey stress. About three ladies in three tales, the tales
are basically based mostly mostly around the titular one piece gown, a thing of terror in magnificence
whose existence additionally comes with issues of gender stereotypes.

Shungicu Uchida herself is positive, any individual I had known in the
least expected procedure but emphasising her as a appealing creator, as she plays
the mother in Takashi Miike’s Customer Q (2001), an sinister movie even
in the career of an sinister cult director bask in Miike’s. A controversial movie, it is miles bask in a retelling of Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s Theorem (1968), in which a particular person (Terrence Note in the Italian movie)
seduced the boys and the ladies folk of a family, even the maid, taking a apparently
valid heart class/upper class family and breaking their facade. Customer Q was once about an already broken
family, a male stranger named Q coming into their lives, and bringing them
together as a gay family even supposing it intelligent break and necrophilia amongst the
many taboos broken onscreen. A satire, Uchida’s
role as the mother was once a fearless one, as alongside baring her body in nude
scenes, thought to be one of many taboos broken, even though it is a pure allotment of the human
body, was once lactation, taken to its indecent with the kitchen flooring covered in
breast milk in the movie’s exaggerated and indecent humour. Hers was once a authorized
efficiency, and it is miles scrumptious to realise this, thought to be one of my few encounters
with her creativity, was once to any individual whose career as an author/manga
artist/singer/essayist/actor was once overtly confrontational even when it came to
her semi-autobiography Father Fucker,
or how thought to be one of her works was once adapted into a genre movie, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (2009).

This adaptation, for its appetizing
style, is a sequence of easy terror tales with twists, trademark for the genre,
which on the opposite hand are all connected by survey stress and expectations of juvenile ladies
to see female, the gown (brought by ghosts of malicious intent to their
door steps barring one) an spruce gown of prettiness. Yuuko’s story is entirely
that, wishing to be elegant to appeal to a boy, a monkey’s paw scenario as to
appeal to him, her dresses her mother aquire having a see contaminated especially next to the
standard lady they’ll the birthday celebration of, who’s ready to see extremely
classy and has an watch on him too. At once as effectively, you search, as this TV
special has been preserved and made accessible in higher definition, how
ultimate it is miles to see at. Sumptuous to see at, Kyoto (with Shin-Ei Animation)
is effectively regarded for shows bask in The
Depression of Haruhi Suzumiya (2006), but here’s a surprise of their early
career for experimentation. It affords an spellbinding difference in the catalogue
of anime terror too as because, even as the tales hang terror beats, the
terror twists here are largely in pure day light in homes and quaint locations,
between teen bedrooms to outdoor in the day, presenting a predominant difference.
Depicted in largely gleaming colours and with positive character designs, what was once
at the muse a shoujo story for younger ladies folk shows terror contrasted by how
ultimate the visuals are, even supposing, with puny time here to account for, the
visuals will win to the items in terms of the terror itself, such as the
gown being cursed and turning one swiftly into a possessed demon.

Kaori, the next sufferer, is
brought the gown by the younger brother of family, discovering herself waking up
wearing the gown continuously as a residing nightmare, literally changing into a skin
as a costume of magnificence can for of us. All of here is in suggestions the impart can
hang scenes drawn bask in pastels, or with positive utilize of dwelling, for simplifying
the image to easiest what needs to be drawn to the viewer’s consideration even supposing
outlines, to win the purpose across completely, a visible style which is positive
and additionally valid for quite straightforward tales, making them work procedure more in the puny
time they’re afforded. When it must be more detailed, the manufacturing
does, and even ends this 2d one on a face of madness manga author Junji Ito would be overjoyed with. Michiyo’s
story, unhappy to know a boy she knew has transferred colleges, emphasises gender
stereotyping as she internalises guilt of by no approach being ready to comment entirely to
him, with emphasis as a teenager who’s a enormous tomboy, no longer authorized at sports activities and
even teased by her bask in mother for no longer becoming the suggestions of being ladylike at
all. Hers is a radio drama twist ready to happen, keen ghosts, but
along with the assorted two shorts, Noroi No One Piece is a compelling
manufacturing which took me without be aware. Tragically, it comes with the guidelines
that Kyoto Animation’s history
involves the July 2019 arson attack that took arena to their studio, one which
took the lifestyles of this manufacturing’s director Yoshiji
Kigami amongst others, an attack which thankfully has no longer undercut their
legacy in producing titles but was once a tragedy no person would want and took the
likes of Kigami who were visibly
ingenious as here. One Piece itself
was once one title I had no knowledge of even in terms of terror anime’s more
imprecise productions, as it was once no longer an OVA both, and it did flooring me without
any expectations. While you happen to would possibly possibly well maybe also procure it, it is miles suggested, and more voices
changing into responsive to this will likely likely maybe maybe also bask in impression the title correctly liked.