Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space | |
Genre | Science fiction |
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Anime film | |
Directed by | t.o.L |
Produced by | Seiichi Tsukada,Kazuko Mio,t.o.L |
Written by | t.o.L |
Music by | t.o.L |
Studio | Kinétique |
Released | 19 October 2002 |
Runtime | 92 minutes |
Manga | |
Tamala in Space | |
Magazine | Elle Japon |
Original run | October 2002 –present |
Original video animation | |
Tamala on Parade | |
Directed by | t.o.L |
Written by | t.o.L |
Studio | Catty &Co. Partners |
Released | 24 August 2007 |
Runtime | 35 minutes |
TAMALA 2010:A Punk Cat in Space is a 2002 Japanese animated film [1] written,directed and featuring music by the two-person team t.o.L ("trees of Life"),known individually as K. and kuno. [2] The film features both 2D and 3D computer animation,and is mostly black-and-white. [3] The characters,designed by t.o.L and KentarōKonpon,are reminiscent of Sanrio's Hello Kitty and 1960's anime and manga such as Astro Boy .
TAMALA2010 was originally envisioned as the first episode of a trilogy –the latter two parts were given the working titles TAMALA IN ORION (which would chronicle Tamala's search for her real mother) and TATLA (which was to explore the character of Tatla in greater depth). A colour TV series was also planned,with the working title TAMALA IN SPACE. As of 2020,none of these has surfaced –instead there have been two shorter works,the t.o.L written and directed TAMALA ON PARADE and TAMALA'S "WILD PARTY" –three short stories from different writers,storyboarded and directed by Shūichi Kohara and animated by Studio 4°C. [4] Both of these are included on the TAMALA ON PARADE DVD,released in Japan in August 2007. This DVD does not have English subtitles. [5]
The creators admit that one of the film's central plot points,about a cult operating as a postal service and corporate monopoly,is influenced and adapted from Thomas Pynchon's novel The Crying of Lot 49 . [6]
It begins in Meguro City,Tokyo,Cat Earth,a world of corporations and commercialism,where a giant mechanical Colonel Sanders wanders the streets with an axe embedded in its head,loudly advertising the restaurant. Tamala,bored with the city,leaves her home against the wishes of her human mother and flies away in a personal spaceship bound for her birthplace,Orion. Her ship is shot down by the Mysterious Postcat,and lands on the outskirts of Hate City on the Planet Q,a city populated by a contentious mix of cats and dogs. There she meets a male cat,Michelangelo,who becomes her boyfriend. While visiting a museum,Tamala discovers a mural detailing the sacrificial rituals of the ancient Minerva cult religion and the ruins of a statue of a female cat named Tatla. Later,the couple is pursued by Kentauros,a sadistic dog dressed as a motorcycle cop. Kentauros attacks and eats Tamala while Michelangelo abandons her and cowers nearby.
The film then switches focus to a future presentation given on Cat Earth by Professor Nominos,presumably an elderly Michelangelo Nominos,on the secret history of CATTY &Co. He reveals that the company is an offshoot of the Minerva religion,and that Tamala first appeared in the companies advertising in 1869 and has reappeared sporadically over the next 150 years as their mascot on packaging,print,and filmed advertisements. The presentation is interrupted by an attack,presumably by Minerva/Catty &Co. and the room is burned.
Professor Nominos appears to die in the fire but returns in an undead form,floating down Hate City's river in the film's present time. He approaches the present Michelangelo and while his body falls apart he tells him of Tamala's identity as a recurring reincarnation of Tatla whose recurring ritual sacrifice serves the goals and gives power to The Minerva Cult and its corporate and possibly imperial ambitions. As Hate City dissolves into widespread violence between dogs and cats (including the death of Kentauros) Tamala spontaneously revives under a park bench (much to the seated Michelangelo's surprise) and continues without him on her voyage to Orion,accompanied now by the mouse Penelope,a former sex slave of Kentauros. As she leaves we see through product branding,advertising,newspapers,and street conversation that Hate City is now taken over completely by CATTY &Co.
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