Genius Party
2007 · 102 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 1,751 VOTES · DIR. Hideki Futamura, Yoji Fukuyama, Masaaki Yuasa, Atsuko Fukushima, Shinji Kimura, Shoji Kawamori, Shinichiro Watanabe
Overview
The seven short films making up GENIUS PARTY couldn’t be more diverse, linked only by a high standard of quality and inspiration. Atsuko Fukushima’s intro piece is a fantastic abstraction to soak up with the eyes. Masaaki Yuasa, of MIND GAME and CAT SOUP fame, brings his distinctive and deceptively simple graphic style and dream-state logic to the table with “Happy Machine,” his spin on a child’s earliest year. Shinji Kimura’s spookier “Deathtic 4,” meanwhile, seems to tap into the creepier corners of a child’s imagination and open up a toybox full of dark delights. Hideki Futamura’s “Limit Cycle” conjures up a vision of virtual reality, while Yuji Fukuyama’s "Doorbell" and "Baby Blue" by Shinichiro Watanabe use understated realism for very surreal purposes. And Shoji Kawamori, with “Shanghai Dragon,” takes the tropes and conventions of traditional anime out for very fun joyride.
Dialogue Timeline — 392 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:06:01 A snack? Want to buy a snack?
00:06:58 Got a problem! Got a problem! Got a problem! Got a problem!
00:07:43 What did he pick up?
00:09:23 Hey! Get out of the way!
00:10:26 Watch out!
00:12:29 Is anything I'm saying getting through to you?
00:14:39 Idiots!
00:18:28 This is...
00:20:04 Oh no! I already used my most powerful move just now, the Ultra Divine Lightning. It's the strongest...
00:21:54 And 300 years from now, humanity will become too reliant on biotechnology and AI
00:38:42 The front door opened just now, didn't it?
00:42:52 That's not good!
00:44:03 Well, that's not good.
00:45:15 I would like to use that.
00:47:52 He was the previous, clumsy me.
00:48:53 I don't really get it either.
01:24:54 Well, yeah, if you want the complete truth.
01:25:37 Not really.
01:27:13 I tried to use it once.
01:28:10 Do you know the way?
01:29:57 H-'s fast!
01:32:11 Hey, hey, hey!
01:34:22 When I was kid
01:36:16 It's nothing.