For this Saturday Anime Night, first up is The Orphan Brother (1961), continuing our journey through the early Toei catalogue. Oddly enough, this one is based on the same source material as Sansho the Bailiff (1954), which we watched last year. Kids are sold into slavery, one of them gets out, and then turns the tables on the slaveowners. It is aesthetically beautiful, as with all of these old Toei movies. Shares a director with Magic Boy (1959) and Journey to the West (1960), which we watched over the last two weeks. After that is Steamboy (2004), the other magnum opus from Akira (1988) director Katsuhiro Otomo, which we somehow have not watched yet. Boy comes into possession of a jetpack; the powers-that-be want to use the tech for war. Conflict ensues. This one is famous for its extremely high-quality animation.

We’ll start at 9PM EST on Hextube, right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• The Orphan Brother: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-orphan-brother/
• Steamboy: https://letterboxd.com/film/steamboy/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• The Orphan Brother: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.
• Steamboy: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/11393

CWs for The Orphan Brother:

• Slavery.
• Death of parent.
• Cartoon violence.
• Deaths of animals.

CWs for Steamboy:

• Child abuse.
• Gaslighting.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Someone falls to their death.
• Someone falls down stairs.
• Kidnapping.
• Plane crash.
• Car crash.
• Explosions.
• Gun violence.

Links to movies:

• The Orphan Brother: https://vimeo.com/860368455
• Steamboy: https://vimeo.com/860508711