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Memories Película. 1995. Japón.
『メモリィズ』 超特報 | June 2026
Tonight’s movie was Memories, an anthology anime broken up into three stories. The first story was Magnetic Rose, in which a crew of scrappers in space get a distress call that consists on opera. Investigating they end up sending two crew members into a spaceship with a curiously palatial interior. Something within the place soon has the men tangled into the memories of the opera singer that lived there. The magnetic pull of the space station is no stronger than the pull of memories. It’s a beautifully animated ghost story in space, even if the weirdness is not necessarily supernatural in origin. The memories dredged up from one of the men lends this one an emotional weight. The second story was Stink Bomb. A worker in a lab decides to treat his bad cold with a drug off his boss’ desk. This proves to be a huge mistake as it isn’t what he thinks. As he naps a terrible smell fills the air, killing everyone. Oblivious to his connection to the horror he races to take the data and samples to the company heads in Tokoyo, a deadly cloud following in his wake. This one is a dark and energetic comedy. The final story is Cannon Fodder. It follows a day in the life of a family in a war driven city studded with giant cannons. The father loads cannons, the mother works in a munitions factory, and the little boy goes to school to learn to operate the cannons. Despite the setting and the never named enemy they live life like any family anywhere. It’s the most facinating segment, pushing the designs and animation in less conventional directions than the others. Warfare as normalcy, where causes and enemies matter much less than the job and fitting into your place in society. The boy asks who they are fighting and he is told he will understand when he is older. He will. He will know it doesn’t matter. It’s a wonderful film, and it baffles me it took so long to watch the DVD!
Hi, could you please answer this question? You have this song on your tumblr page that is just called "Memories OST - Chorale". Can you tell me the source of this? I really want to know where this song comes from.
Hi, Anon.
Well to answer you, it comes from a mini-series of 3 animations directed by Katsuhiro Otomo called “Memories” (1995), and that chorale came from “Magnetic Rose”, one of the 3 episodes.
Magnetic Rose is one of the most wholesomely mind-fucking, creepy movies I have ever seen, and watching it when in 2003-2004 really changed my life. The music is just as bitterly lonesome as the movie, and if you like this song, go watch the movie.
In fact, I am not particularly a fan of anime but this really is an exception. Actually, just drop everything and find this. Make it your life goal to watch Magnetic Rose as well as the rest of Memories.
Once upon a time the movie was uploaded in full on Youtube but it wasn’t there anymore. While searching through the piles of fan-made AMV’s I found two actual scenes from the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4f9qlTylKk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y8yVGPuoPE
Some images from the movie