Steamboy / Memories

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Double Feature contains "Steamboy" and "Memories" "Steamboy (DC)" - From the leader in anime Katsuhiro Otomo (Osamu Tezuka's "Metropolis," "Memories"), comes his first feature-length directorial project since his breakthrough film ("Akira"). Ten years in the making, with a total budget of $22 million, "Steamboy" is the most expensive Japanese anime production ever. A retro science-fiction epic set in Victorian England, "Steamboy" features an inventor prodigy named Ray Steam, who receives a mysterious metal ball containing a new form of energy capable of powering an entire nation, the Steam Ball. Young Ray Steam must use the Steam Ball to fight evil, redeem his family, and save London from destruction. With more than 180,000 drawings and 400 CG cuts, "Steamboy" is one of the most elaborate animated features ever created. "Steamboy" will be brought to life with an outstanding ensemble voiceover cast including Anna Paquin ("X-Men"), Patrick Stewart ("X-Men"), and Alfred Molina ("Spider-Man 2"). "Memories" - Created by celebrated anime master Katsuhiro Otomo ("Akira," "Roujin Z"), "Memories" consists of three dazzling stories, each delivered with its own astonishing style. "Magnetic Rose," directed by Koji Morimoto ("Animatrix") based on a manga short by Otomo, concerns two space travellers following a distress signal drawn into a magnificent world created by one woman's memories. In director Tensai Okamura's ("Wolf's Rain") "Stink Bomb," a young chemist accidentally transforms himself into an unstoppable biological weapon set on a direct course for Tokyo. Otomo's own "Cannon Fodder" depicts a day in the life of a city whose entire purpose is the firing of cannons at an unknown enemy.