A Wind Named Amnesia

Atl. Title: Kaze no Na wa Amnesia


Year: 1990


Dubbed (the version I watched also had the translated Japanese subtitles)


Movie


Cat.: Action, Adventure, Post-apocalyptic


Summary:



The Apocalypse didn't come with a bang, but with a whimper. Silently, the amnesia wind swept away all of mankind's knowledge. Thousands of years of human civilization vanished overnight as people forgot how to use the tools of modern civilization: who they were, how to speak—everything. Technology decayed as mankind was reduced to the level of cavemen.



Two years later, a young man—miraculously re-educated after the cataclysm—explores this barbaric world while pursued by a relentless killing machine. He is accompanied by a young mysterious woman who is somehow spared the devastating effects of the amnesia wind.


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The movie is based off a novel the was published in Japan in 1983.


I do not at all like the 80s, early 90s art style of anime. If the art style was still like that I don't think I would really watch that much anime and would be way more pickier about the type I do watch.


Even though this anime has an art style I don't care for, the title and the plot sounded to good to pass up.


The dialogue was pretty cheesy for the most part and the music screamed 80s. The message that the movie delivers is interesting, but the ending kinda made no sense and was awkward.


If this movie was to be remade I would watch it.


I give it a 2.5 out of 5


Below this point is pure SPOILER. So if you have any plans at all to watch this movie stop reading.





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Okay so the whole world gets a weird wind that comes along and makes everyone forget how to do everything. who they are, who they love, just everything. killing and murder take place for food and just basic survival instincts. Man has been turned into primitive beings now.


Wataru (who didn't have a name at the time and was a beast himself Johnny names him. Stealing food from kids and stuff.) meets Johnny who was not effected by the wind because he was a science experiment to make memory more and more. Which is pretty cool because they had lots of other experimental beings that could use telekinesis and whatnot.



Anyway Johnny teaches Wataru how to talk again and do all the things he knew how to before the wind.Then Johnny dies, for just about no reason, he got all sick and then dead. After a little while Wataru (because Johnny gave him the name Wataru which means wandering traveler) he starts traveling because he promised johnny to go to all the big cities in the US. Johnny was all like you can help the others remember and turn stuff around. BS



 A Wataru is trying to get a robot thing with a skeleton in it, he meets this woman  named Sophia who can talk as well and seems to have a power of her own using her mind. She also knows about the robot thing and has a clear understanding about whats going on. Right off the back I don't trust her.



Men of the earth have started to kind of do things like medieval earth as we know. tribes, sacrifices, worship over strange things, and just basic survival of the fittest.



After running around with all these savages for a while Wataru and Sophia end up in a place that the US gov made. it is a self containing city with everything it needs to keep humans alive and well. it's all controlled by a super computer which makes me thing of Appleseed right of way.  the city was mildly affected by the wind but not enough to make people forget their day to day desires.


There are only 2 people there, acting out the lives of everyone who used to live their.


 Near the end Sophia finally admits to Wataru that she is an aliens. And the aliens are the ones  that did in fact send the wind down upon mankind. Not only out of fear of attack, but for mankind's own good in their opinion because now everyone can truly start over from scratch. Wataru totally understands what she is saying, but for some reason they have sex. I have no idea why that happened.


But lets back track, the Aliens that have the technology to come to Earth and wipe everyone's mind, turning us into primitive beings are afraid humans will attack them? Right...



So the end of this is Sophia taking Wataru for a roll in the hay and makes him remember all their travels together and all they meet along the way. Pretty much telling him finally it pointless to help the people because they don't need help.  Wataru continues to travel around the old US cities trying to teach and help some people do things for the better. Sophia goes back to her race to report how mankind is progressing in their current state.


The End. If it wasn't for that alien BS I would have rated this movie higher.

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