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Main Title 1001 Nights (a5499)
Official Title ja
Type Movie
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Season Spring 1998
Tags demonIn Western lore, demons are often described as minions from Hell, generally known to attack humans and feast on their flesh or possess the bodies of those with weak souls. In Eastern lore, on the other hand, they are generally supernatural, often but not always malevolent beings who can be more mischievous than actually evil, or simply supernatural spirits of no specific alignment., fantasyImaginative or fanciful work, especially one dealing with supernatural elements and themes., mangaManga is the lifeblood that drives the anime industry. Everything and its mother is based on manga. However! There are exceptions where the manga was not the basis for the anime. See also manhua and manhwa., nudityNudity is the state of wearing no clothing and exposing the bare skin or intimate parts. NO FRONTAL NUDITY (visible genitals) = 1.5 STARS OR LESS. Especially gratuitous fanservice shows tend to show their characters frequently without any clothes, though often hiding genitals through the means of additions like steam., romanceRomance describes a story that deals with love between two or more characters typically also having an optimistic ending. Romance is also a difficulty encountered when creating a harem., seinenSeinen, literally "young man", is one of the main demographic classifications applied to manga, and, by extension, to anime, especially manga-based ones. As the name implies, seinen works are marketed primarily to an audience of young men; the age range commonly understood to be the target of such works goes roughly from 17 to somewhere in the 40s. - [similar]
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Rating 4.61 (606)
Average 5.80 (618)
Review Rating 5.66 (1)
Added by hidden on 2008-01-21 09:20
Edited by hidden on 2016-08-29 14:45
Main Title 1001 Nights (a5499)
Official Title ja
Synonym 1001 Nights~ワン・サウザンド・ワン・ナイツ~, A Thousand and One Nights (1998), One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (1998), One Thousand and One Nights, Yoshitaka Amano: 1001 Nights, Тысяча и одна ночь Ёситаки Амано, ألف ليلة وليلة, 一千零一夜
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Direction: マイク・スミス
Music: デヴィッド・ニューマン
* Based on Amano Yoshitaka's book of artwork.

Presented in the form of a feverish love dream, 1001 Nights is the first performance of the ground-breaking "Filmharmonic" series, which presents new orchestral works by film composers in tandem with short films made by A-list directors. Nights is the series' only animated work, and plans originally called for the film to be completely computer animated.

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approx. 25m

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recommended by 3 users - 2 for fans - 1 recommended

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by tessachan on 2012-01-28 14:56
Art was somehow interesting, but the plot was very weak and gave me a strong feeling of deja-vu and not in a good way. Not very enjoyable, but you can give it a try if you have some spare time...
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by bumblebee on 2009-02-04 03:37
Completely mesmerizing, a story of the meeting of two dreams, animated with astonishing originality, and set to fantastic music. Interpretation of imagery is a required skill to enjoy this.

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Rating: 5.66
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NOTE: This is the very first review I wrote three years ago and as such it's basically just an excuse for practicing or a starting point. Nowadays I'm not happy with it but there's no review about on the site so...

1001 Nights is a movie that came out in 1999 and should not be confused with the first hentai film ever that came out thirty years before it. It is loosely based on the famous collection composed of different tales of the same name.

It is necessary to clarify that this movie is essentially a musical film in the likes of Disney’s Fantasia, so its main focus is to present great visuals and music instead of a good story. In fact this movie was thought as an interpretation of an orchestration and nothing more so the visuals and music flows together spectacularly. Speaking of those elements, they consists of classical music and a mix between 2-D and 3-D art, more specifically, colored pencil drawings and early CGI; they somehow managed to make it right, it looks gorgeous. Isn’t it funny how a movie that came out almost two decades ago did it right while the recent attempts at doing the same thing look horrendous? The recent Berserk anime(the movie trilogy too if you want), Asura and Arve Rezzle are a few examples of what I’m talking about.

As for the story…well, it barely has one (if even). If you’ve read the original tales you can find references to some of them thrown in it but if you haven’t all you will see is erotic sequences with a most trippy art style that equals(or even tops) the sex scene from Mind Game. You could think of it as a couple dealing with the internal demons of their relationship…or just them wanted to make love but all of a sudden are being chased by an angry demon in a really intense adventure, what is this, Ghosts n’ Ghoblins?

Anyway, this movie is a great example of art in its pure form both visually and musically and one of the most unique pieces in the medium and that alone makes it worth watching despite not having much of a plot, or any.

2/7/23 update: After watching the likes of Pale Cocoon, Angel's Egg, Cat Soup, Junk Head and Mad God, I decided to stop giving a pass to movies like these that are just visuals, sound, and a setting, if your movie has nothing to say, its plot is very loose, and there are no characters in it, then it doesn't get a base score from me. Bye

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Disney's Fantasia (basically the same thing but for everyone).
Interstella5555 (also a musical film, but it has way more conventional art style and music, and a much more comprehensible plot).
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07.05.2016 Galan_rus complete
1 0 en ja DVD N/A (0) 0
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25m 30.04.1998