Griffith
With the streak of a tear, Like morning dew
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066993/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devils_(film)
This is long overdue, I remember my father first showed me this movie on a crappy old tape after I told him about some scenes from the Conviction Arc. Turned out they reminded him of this, one of his favorite films, a situation bizarrely similar to Flesh + Blood, which he was also a fan of long before I'd ever heard of it, or Berserk for that matter. Anyway, the point, besides that my father is some sort of weird proto-Berserk fan, is that this is another movie Berserk fans should see. While I can't say if Miura himself has seen it or not, I'd certainly like to know; because, what is for certain, is that they definitely draw on a lot of the same sources, and there's plenty of superficial similarities to certain portions of Berserk. It's also just really compelling in it's own right, and has something more in common with Berserk than Flesh + Blood in that they share powerfully twisted perspective at times. It's not Berserk the movie by any means, but sometimes it feels like it.
Unfortunately, unlike Flesh + Blood, it isn't getting a nice re-release to DVD, and finding a decent copy in any format can be difficult. It is however, currently on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBqIBn5NXw&fmt=18
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devils_(film)
This is long overdue, I remember my father first showed me this movie on a crappy old tape after I told him about some scenes from the Conviction Arc. Turned out they reminded him of this, one of his favorite films, a situation bizarrely similar to Flesh + Blood, which he was also a fan of long before I'd ever heard of it, or Berserk for that matter. Anyway, the point, besides that my father is some sort of weird proto-Berserk fan, is that this is another movie Berserk fans should see. While I can't say if Miura himself has seen it or not, I'd certainly like to know; because, what is for certain, is that they definitely draw on a lot of the same sources, and there's plenty of superficial similarities to certain portions of Berserk. It's also just really compelling in it's own right, and has something more in common with Berserk than Flesh + Blood in that they share powerfully twisted perspective at times. It's not Berserk the movie by any means, but sometimes it feels like it.
Unfortunately, unlike Flesh + Blood, it isn't getting a nice re-release to DVD, and finding a decent copy in any format can be difficult. It is however, currently on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBqIBn5NXw&fmt=18