Cocoon: Aru Natsu no Shoujo-tachi yori

cocoon is structured as an excerpt of a larger wartime chronicle, sectioning a particular piece of the struggle and centering on a specific person's minor development. The scope of the one-hour film, while small, establishes its visual identity well enough to distinguish itself, given it's an NHK TV movie and all. The…

Japan's war movies really are a different beast from other countries' war movies, aren't they? American war movies tend to focus more on the soldiers, the action, the violence and death, or, for some reason, romance. I haven't seen war movies produced by other countries like Italy, Germany, or China, so I don't know…

Good animation, backgrounds and music although some significant rewriting from the manga and a subsequent lack of depth with both characters and themes, as well as a short runtime really held this back as an adaptation - can only assume this was for the intended TV audience. A bolder choice on the artistic style could…