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Arguably the only anime ever made inspired by both Hello Kitty and Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, TAMALA 2010 is a futuristic techno fever dream that flows back and forth in time, following the adorable wide-eyed kitty Tamala on her home world of Meguro City, Cat Earth, a BLADE RUNNER-like mega-city controlled by the Catty & Co. corporation. Escaping into space, she’s waylaid by the God of Death and crash-lands near Hate City on the Planet Q, where she meets a new boyfriend, goes bowling and shopping in a thrift store – and realizes she may be the latest reincarnation of an ancient Greek cat cult with ties to the omnipresent Catty & Co. A heady, conceptual work of psychedelic sci-fi, influenced by the style of classic manga and anime such as Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy and Takashi Murakami’s postmodern art movement Superflat, TAMALA 2010 is also a savage take on modern consumer culture: in Meguro City a giant Colonel Sanders stalks the streets with an axe buried in his head, and Tamala’s eerie cat’s eyes are everywhere, advertising chocolate, toothpaste and drugs for forgetfulness. In Japanese with English subs.
Special Features:
Two original “Tamala” Short Films (both in Japanese w/ English subtitles):
“Tamala On Parade” (2007, 24 min., dir. t.o.L) SD
“Tamala’s Wild Party” (2007, 16 min., dir. t.o.L) SD
New video Interview with TAMALA 2010 co-director/co-creator K. of t.o.L., moderated by Dennis Bartok for Deaf Crocodile. In Japanese with simultaneous English translation by Christian Storms.
‘Doesn’t She Ever Die?’ The Punkification of Late Capitalism” - New visual essay by journalist and physical media expert Ryan Verrill (The Disc Connected) and film professor Dr. Will Dodson.
New commentary track by historian Samm Deighan
LIMITED EDITION Bonus Content:
LIMITED EDITION OF 1500
Slipcase featuring new artwork by Beth Morris
60-page illustrated booklet with essays by Walter Chaw and Jennifer Lynde Barker
Arguably the only anime ever made inspired by both Hello Kitty and Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, TAMALA 2010 is a futuristic techno fever dream that flows back and forth in time, following the adorable wide-eyed kitty Tamala on her home world of Meguro City, Cat Earth, a BLADE RUNNER-like mega-city controlled by the Catty & Co. corporation. Escaping into space, she’s waylaid by the God of Death and crash-lands near Hate City on the Planet Q, where she meets a new boyfriend, goes bowling and shopping in a thrift store – and realizes she may be the latest reincarnation of an ancient Greek cat cult with ties to the omnipresent Catty & Co. A heady, conceptual work of psychedelic sci-fi, influenced by the style of classic manga and anime such as Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy and Takashi Murakami’s postmodern art movement Superflat, TAMALA 2010 is also a savage take on modern consumer culture: in Meguro City a giant Colonel Sanders stalks the streets with an axe buried in his head, and Tamala’s eerie cat’s eyes are everywhere, advertising chocolate, toothpaste and drugs for forgetfulness. In Japanese with English subs.
Special Features:
Two original “Tamala” Short Films (both in Japanese w/ English subtitles):
“Tamala On Parade” (2007, 24 min., dir. t.o.L) SD
“Tamala’s Wild Party” (2007, 16 min., dir. t.o.L) SD
New video Interview with TAMALA 2010 co-director/co-creator K. of t.o.L., moderated by Dennis Bartok for Deaf Crocodile. In Japanese with simultaneous English translation by Christian Storms.
‘Doesn’t She Ever Die?’ The Punkification of Late Capitalism” - New visual essay by journalist and physical media expert Ryan Verrill (The Disc Connected) and film professor Dr. Will Dodson.
New commentary track by historian Samm Deighan
LIMITED EDITION Bonus Content:
LIMITED EDITION OF 1500
Slipcase featuring new artwork by Beth Morris
60-page illustrated booklet with essays by Walter Chaw and Jennifer Lynde Barker