The following videos aren’t really funny ha ha, more funny strange. Keep in mind, the below clips are from a children’s movie. And I thought Pom Poko was bad, what with all the raccoon scrotums.
Ringing Bell – Clip 8 – Chirin’s Training
Ringing Bell – Clip 9 – Home Again
The above is the loving tale of Chirin the lamb whose mother is slaughtered mercilessly by a wolf. Rather than stay weak and afraid, the lamb begs the wolf to teach him how to be a wolf so that someday, he can get his revenge. The wolf trains Chirin and even becomes a sort of father figure to him. Chirin becomes a beast and kills without mercy. That is, until the wolf takes Chirin to hunt at Chirin’s old home. Seeing the baby lambs there made him see the error of his ways and so he kills the wolf in order to protect his kin. Although he saved them, the sheep see Chirin as a beast and reject him. With his mother and surrogate father now gone, he goes to die in the mountains, cold and alone.
This is definitely not a Disney movie.
It’s so dark I can’t believe that it was even made as a children’s movie. Well, that’s anime for you.
I’m not really sure what the moral of this story is, other than you’re darned if you do and darned if you don’t.
Man, this movie had to mess some kids up.
I heard about this movie from the latest Anime World Order podcast. If you’re into anime, you should give them a listen. They seem to know about all the obscure stuff like this.
Later Bloggies
Tags: Japan