Over The Top Fest 2008 : Hokuro Brothers: Full Throttle

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Hokuro Brothers: Full Throttle

Katsuhito Ishii 2007

Categories: Animation, Comedy, Short Films

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Run time: 36 min. | Japan | Language: Japanese w/ English Subtitles | Film Format: Beta SP

The director of The Taste of Tea, Party 7, and Sharkskin Man and the Peach-Hip Girl’s latest film, Hokuro Brothers: Full Throttle is a series of 7 short animated episodes featuring the Hokuro Brothers, who first appeared in his film, Funky Forest: the First Contact (which you may have seen at Toronto After Dark 2006).

The shorts follow the two white-suited brothers as they perform their slapstick stand-up routine to an audience of intergalactic soldiers, but also as they conduct backstage business with yakuza, engage in a frenzied spaceship battle, have an encounter with a dinosaur, and more.

Hokuro Brothers: Full Throttle is an outright nutty film which is full of energy, insanity and wild animation that needs to bee seen on the big screen. If you’re a fan of Ishii’s (who is also responsible for the animated sequence in Kill Bill Vol. 1) or just of crazy films which seem to have been made for the director’s personal pleasure and bonus if other people enjoy it, then you can’t miss this screening; which will most likely be the only time it ever screens in Toronto.