Vexille
| Vexille | |
|---|---|
 Vexille Japanese promotional poster | |
| Directed by | Fumihiko Sori |
| Written by | Haruka Handa Fumihiko Sori |
| Produced by | Kazuya Hamana |
| Starring | Yasuko Matsuyuki Meisa Kuroki Shosuke Tanihara |
| Edited by | Fumihiko Sori |
| Music by | Paul Oakenfold |
| Distributed by |  Shochiku  FUNimation |
Release dates | August 18, 2007 2008 |
Running time | 109 min |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Budget | $10 million |
Vexille (ベクシル 2077日本鎖国, Bekushiru 2077 Nihon sakoku) is a 2007 Japanese CGI anime film, written, directed, and edited by famed Ping Pong director Fumihiko Sori, and features the voices of Meisa Kuroki, Shosuke Tanihara, and Yasuko Matsuyuki.
At the 60th Locarno International Film Festival, where Vexille made its world premiere, the film was sold to 75 countries, including the United States based distributor, FUNimation, however since that time the number increased to 129 countries.[1]
Plot
Japan, 2077: A number of agents from a security agency "SWORD" (one of whom is named Vexille) are assigned the task of infiltrating fortress Japan to investigate whether the Japanese are developing android technology, which has been banned by the U.N. due to its potential threat to humankind.
Cast
Japanese
- Meisa Kuroki as Lt. Cdr. Vexille Serra
- Shosuke Tanihara as Cdr. Leon Fayden
- Yasuko Matsuyuki as Maria
- Takaya Kuroda as Zack
- Akio Ohtsuka as Saito
- Romi Paku as Takashi
- Takahiro Sakurai as Ryo
- Toshiyuki Morikawa as Kisaragi
- Tetsuya Kakihara as Taro
- Takayuki Sugo as Captain Borg
- Kenji Takahashi as Saga
- Jiro Saito as Chairman Itakura
English
- Colleen Clinkenbeard as Lt. Cdr. Vexille Serra
- Travis Willingham as Cdr. Leon Fayden
- Christine Auten as Maria
- Christopher Sabat as Zak
- Jason Douglas as Saito
- Luci Christian as Takashi
- J. Michael Tatum as Kisaragi
- Todd Haberkom as Taro
- John Swasey as Captain Borg
- Phil Parsons as Saga
- Kent Williams as Itakura
Music
The original soundtrack and music to the series features an electronic, techno and trance theme, and features Basement Jaxx, Boom Boom Satellites, Asian Dub Foundation, Dead Can Dance, Carl Craig, The Prodigy, DJ Shadow, M.I.A, with singer Mink providing the theme song Together again and Paul Oakenfold handling the music.
Trivia
- A butterfly is seen several times throughout the film and other advertised Vexille media. It may symbolize a personification of a person's soul, living, dying or dead, and has some importance in the overall theme on humanity in Vexille. Some examples are when Ryo catches a purple butterfly and later lets it go, and (most likely) the same butterfly flying away at the ending scene. Butterflies can be spotted in the official Japanese Vexille website, as well as mink's "Together again" music video.
- Before Vexille unintentionally reveals Kisaragi as a human, there are two scenes that hints at Kisaragi's deception; one can see satellite's read – there are three red dots among beings in Japan: one is Vexille in Tokyo, two other are in Daiwa's base, one being Leon; there's also a scene with Kisaragi and Saito having a discussion while he is feeding bits of scrap metal to a snake-sized Jag in a glass tank, and also stroking it like a pet. If he was an android, he would have been torn apart by the Jag since bio-metal also attracts it. However, earlier in the movie it is mentioned by a SWORD member that Saitos' bio-signature was "confirmed" which would have also shown up on the satellite display if correct. This might be a translation error (the contributer watched a subbed version), a plot error or an error on SWORDS behalf, more likely the former due to the nature of SWORD and their technological capacities.
See also
References
- ^ アニメ映画「ベクシル―」世界１２９か国公開決定！ Sports Hochi Retrieved August 18, 2007