Violence Voyager

Violence Voyager
Directed by	Ujicha
Written by	Ujicha
Starring	Saki Fujita, Kellen Goff, Tomorō Taguchi, Shigeo Takahashi, Naoki Tanaka, Aoi Yūki
Edited by	Max Hoffmann
Animation by	Ujicha
Production; company	A-toys, Katsu-Do, Yoshimoto Creative Agency
Distributed by	Yoshimoto Creative Agency (Japan), Free Stone Production (Worldwide)
Release date	July 20, 2018 (USA); May 24, 2019 (Japan);
Running time	1:23:00
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

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Violence Voyager (Baiorensu boijâ (Japanese: バイオレンス・ボイジャー)) is a 2018 animated horror film, directed by Ujicha.

Plot

Two boys stumble upon a disturbing amusement park named "Violence Voyager".

Production

The film was made using Gekimation, a mix of animation and puppetry in which all the characters are flat drawings that are physically moved around against a drawn background, akin to Toy theater.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Reviews

Rotten Tomatoes gave the film an 86% fresh rating.^[4]

Awards

Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2018 Special Jury Award: Violence Voyager, by Ujicha (Japan)

References

↑ Minto, Evan (24 January 2021). "Violence Voyager Is Unlike Any Anime You've Ever Watched". Otaku USA Magazine. Retrieved 28 February 2021. There’s a good chance you’ve never seen a “gekimation” film before. Independent director Ujicha has made his name on the stuff, but his latest horror film, Violence Voyager, is the first time anyone had created an entire gekimation feature. The term refers to an unusual filmmaking style combining the traditions of Japanese cutout animation, puppetry, and kamishibai paper plays, and is largely associated with the 1976 TV adaptation of The Cat Eyed Boy by horror manga master Kazuo Umezu (The Drifting Classroom).....Most impressively, Violence Voyager is full of ingenious practical effects. At various points, water and other fluids get launched from holes in the cutouts, then land and congeal on other ones. This is incredibly clever, groundbreaking stuff, with far more texture and personality to it than the comparatively plain cutouts of Yamishibai (another project inspired by The Cat Eyed Boy). I would pay good money for an extended behind-the-scenes look into the production!
↑ "Violence Voyager". MIFF Archive: 2019. Melbourne International Film Festival. 2019. Retrieved 28 February 2021. It may look like a child’s picture book thanks to its ‘gekimation’ animation style – using painstakingly hand-painted cardboard cutouts no bigger than playing cards, as well as real fumes and fluids – but this mind trip of a midnight movie definitely isn’t for young eyes. A grotesquely glorious comedy filled with more body horror, visceral violence and limit-testing nastiness than anyone would ever expect from paper puppetry, the second feature from Japanese writer/director/cinematographer/editor Ujicha is definitely not for the easily disturbed, shocked or offended.
↑ Widia, Novita (8 November 2019). "Review: Step Into The Nightmare with "Violence Voyager"". The Display. Retrieved 28 February 2021. Some reviewers pointed out that it looked similar to the animation technique used on popular US TV Series, South Park. “Violence Voyager” gets even more detailed and extreme as each movement or gesture from the character was drawn fully onto the paper. The details involve oil-painting like animation that could be a feast for your eyes. However, the details and unique animation technique gets lost in the stiffness of movement as the character’s facial expressions rarely change in between dialogues. That creeped the hell out of us.
↑ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/search?search=Violence%20Voyager

"SCREENANARCHY: 'VIOLENCE VOYAGER', Review". TriCoast Worldwide. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
"ANIME/FILM REVIEW | Unsettling "Violence Voyager" Mixes Dark Humor & Gruesome Visuals". B3 – The Boston Bastard Brigade. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
"Violence Voyager 2018". New Zealand International Film Festival. New Zealand Film Festival Trust. Retrieved 28 February 2021. (Horror, violence, nudity & content that may disturb) Twisted visions of childhood don’t come more unhinged than Ujicha’s delightfully macabre animated misadventure. Inventive genre thrills and spills abound: who knew cardboard viscera could be so disturbing?
"Violence Voyager - Event Detail, U.S. Premiere". Japan Society. Retrieved 28 February 2021. 18+ This film is unrated, but is not recommended for persons younger than 18 years of age due to disturbing content.
Balmont, James (18 January 2021). "'Gekimation': Japan takes a post-Ghibli leap into another dimension". the Guardian. Retrieved 28 February 2021. The Burning Buddha Man and Violence Voyager offer something wholly more disturbing. They are visceral, Lovecraftian stories built on grotesque Cronenbergian body horror, whose discomfiting feeling is enhanced by the hybrid animation style. As the trailer for the former suggests, they combine “art” and “nightmare”.
Hurtado, J (26 July 2018). "Fantasia 2018 Review: VIOLENCE VOYAGER Will Blow Your Goddamned Mind!". ScreenAnarchy. Retrieved 28 February 2021. The director mashes up influences from all over the science fiction and horror spectrums to create a fresh brew of insanity that the audience never sees coming., and it's always a joy to be surprised these days, when it can feel like everything has already been done.
Adlakha, Siddhant (18 July 2018). "Five Films to Watch at This Year's Japan Cuts Festival". The Village Voice. Retrieved 28 February 2021. Rife with nods to B-horror and kaiju fare, Violence Voyager is a brutally inventive nightmare born of a singular, disturbing vision.
Anelli, Don (27 July 2018). "Anime Review: Violence Voyager (2018) by Ujicha". Asian Movie Pulse. Retrieved 28 February 2021. Victims are shown to be impaled with metal poles, harm their arms ripped off, disemboweled or just ripped to pieces. Non-lethal injuries, from being sprayed with accident or shown with melted body parts, run rampant in the film much like the actual body modification processes shown. On top of it all, the gratuitous and frequent child nudity for both male and female children, many of whom are barely double-digits in age if that, creates such a disturbing and uncomfortable feeling that permeates itself in the latter half when the action kicks up. Coupled with the obscure animation style, there’s not much else to the effort.
NonSequitur (25 July 2018). "Fantasia Film Festival 2018 Review: VIOLENCE VOYAGER". Nightmarish Conjurings. Retrieved 28 February 2021. I’m sure Ujicha has hidden metaphor in there somewhere too. I’d hedge my bets on it being about puberty and coming of age – I mean, the characters’ bodies undergoing radical changes and shooting wads of white goo all over the place has gotta mean something. But then again, it could just be pure insanity. If I had to pitch 'VIOLENCE VOYAGER' to a studio exec, I’d say it’s 'Stand By Me', mixed with 'Pinnochio', mixed with 'Jurassic Park', mixed with 'Battle Royale', mixed with 'The Human Centipede'.
"Film Review – Violence Voyager (2018)". Jordan and Eddie (The Movie Guys). 6 October 2019. Retrieved 28 February 2021. To be clear, Voyager is not for everyone, it’s probably not even for 99 out of 100 of people but for those that are willingly to be participants in this journey to an amusement park that you won’t want to be lining up to visit, Voyager will be an absolute delirious delight.
Matta, Max (11 October 2019). "Violence Voyager, a grotesque children's story [Review]". HorrorBuzz. Retrieved 28 February 2021. 'Violence Voyager' at the start is an enjoyable children’s adventure, that turns into a grotesque body horror story rivaling 'The Fly' remake. Complete with the whole film being in a cute art style where every character is a paper cutout, the film does its best to lull you into a false sense of comfort. By the time the first horror beat appears out of nowhere, you are just awestruck from what you are seeing and experiencing
Harris, Harper (19 November 2018). "Buried Alive Film Festival 2018: VIOLENCE VOYAGER is the grossest children's adventure ever made". ScreenRex. Retrieved 28 February 2021. The film is done in what is called Gekimation, which is sort of a mix of animation and puppetry in which all the characters are flat drawings that are physically moved around against a drawn background. This allows for some really interesting depth that traditional animation can’t achieve, and also means things like real water, blood spatter, etc. can be used in conjunction with the puppets. It also means it must have taken an enormous amount of work (three years from director Ujicha, I believe), as each character has thousands of different drawings to cover each scene in the film.

External links

IMDb
Violence Voyager at Rotten Tomatoes
Official website
TriCoast Studios (10 April 2019). "VIOLENCE VOYAGER TRAILER". vimeo. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
TriCoast Worldwide (June 24, 2019). "Violence Voyager - Trailer". YouTube. Retrieved 28 February 2021. Trapped within the twisted world of Violence Voyager, best friends Bobby and Akkun must battle mutant freaks and a mad scientist, all while trying to keep themselves alive. Director: Ujicha; Writer: Ujicha; Stars: Saki Fujita, Kellen Goff, Nao Hanai;

cited on:

Aoi Yūki
Chad Mullane
Daisuke Ono
Fantastic Fest
Hitoshi Matsumoto
Naoki Tanaka (comedian)
Saki Fujita
Tomorowo Taguchi
Toy theater
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema

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[1] Minto, Evan (24 January 2021). "Violence Voyager Is Unlike Any Anime You've Ever Watched". Otaku USA Magazine. Retrieved 28 February 2021. There’s a good chance you’ve never seen a “gekimation” film before. Independent director Ujicha has made his name on the stuff, but his latest horror film, Violence Voyager, is the first time anyone had created an entire gekimation feature. The term refers to an unusual filmmaking style combining the traditions of Japanese cutout animation, puppetry, and kamishibai paper plays, and is largely associated with the 1976 TV adaptation of The Cat Eyed Boy by horror manga master Kazuo Umezu (The Drifting Classroom).....Most impressively, Violence Voyager is full of ingenious practical effects. At various points, water and other fluids get launched from holes in the cutouts, then land and congeal on other ones. This is incredibly clever, groundbreaking stuff, with far more texture and personality to it than the comparatively plain cutouts of Yamishibai (another project inspired by The Cat Eyed Boy). I would pay good money for an extended behind-the-scenes look into the production!

[2] "Violence Voyager". MIFF Archive: 2019. Melbourne International Film Festival. 2019. Retrieved 28 February 2021. It may look like a child’s picture book thanks to its ‘gekimation’ animation style – using painstakingly hand-painted cardboard cutouts no bigger than playing cards, as well as real fumes and fluids – but this mind trip of a midnight movie definitely isn’t for young eyes. A grotesquely glorious comedy filled with more body horror, visceral violence and limit-testing nastiness than anyone would ever expect from paper puppetry, the second feature from Japanese writer/director/cinematographer/editor Ujicha is definitely not for the easily disturbed, shocked or offended.

[3] Widia, Novita (8 November 2019). "Review: Step Into The Nightmare with "Violence Voyager"". The Display. Retrieved 28 February 2021. Some reviewers pointed out that it looked similar to the animation technique used on popular US TV Series, South Park. “Violence Voyager” gets even more detailed and extreme as each movement or gesture from the character was drawn fully onto the paper. The details involve oil-painting like animation that could be a feast for your eyes. However, the details and unique animation technique gets lost in the stiffness of movement as the character’s facial expressions rarely change in between dialogues. That creeped the hell out of us.

[4] ttps://www.rottentomatoes.com/search?search=Violence%20Voyager

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