Serge Bromberg, a former artistic director of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, is facing a four-year prison sentence for his role in a deadly fire involving nitrate film reels.
08.11.2022 - 22:07 / deadline.com
As a movie tie-in, it takes some beating. One Piece Film Red has been released as the manga comic strip on which it is based celebrates 25 years of existence and its 1000th published episode, every one of which has been authored by Eiichiro Oda, executive producer of the new film. Think about that. There are people who have grown up with One Piece which has also run as a weekly television series since 1999 — and there have been 14 films in the franchise before this one.
That adds up to a tremendous number of characters with bizarre back stories – and many millions of fans, not all of them in Japan. One Piece Film Red has topped the Japanese box office for 12 weeks, is the biggest movie of 2022 there and just opened at number two in North America.
Outside Japan, it is being promoted as a gateway experience for the uninitiated because it is a stand-alone story. I’m not sure about that. If you’re a newcomer, as I am, you can’t possibly catch up on a thousand episodes of regular characters – many of whom appear here, sometimes only for nanosecond – and dense mythologies. Just accept this barrage of images barreling out of the screen at breakneck speed for the anime-tastic thing that it is. Top tip: it may help to close your eyes every now and again.
A brief but helpful prologue tells us that we are plunging into a world dominated by pirates: adventurers on the high seas looking for a legendary treasure and doing a lot of sword-fighting and general swashbuckling along the way.
Aficionados know that the series revolves around youthful sea captain Monkey D. Luffy and his Straw Hat People, who are nice pirates, but there is also a significant minority that rejoices in plundering the poor, leaving people starving,
Serge Bromberg, a former artistic director of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, is facing a four-year prison sentence for his role in a deadly fire involving nitrate film reels.
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