Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Mizu no tabibito: Samurai kizzu AKA Samurai Kids (1993)

Synopsis:
A special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8 year old boy encounters an ancient samurai warrior who is only six inches tall.

Quote:
The New York Times Review
An 8-year-old child finds a 6-inch tall samurai. The little boy is having his troubles with contemporary life and the ancient warrior, lost in the 20th century, is looking for a place to die. They consequently strike up a friendship and in the end the boy grows up and the samurai grows young and, like the Tom Thumb of legend, poles himself away in a teacup. Though not much is made of the attendant allegory, lots is made of this bonding of the generations and all the special effects necessary to illustrate the differences in height and age. Some are, indeed, quite marvelous – a friendly cat towering like an elephant, a bad crow looming like a berserk jet, a trip down a sewer with full detail. These, however, no matter how splendid, are there to make us realize the truly marvelous of the everyday. Director Nobuhiko Obayashi is a real fantasist. Through fast cutting, witty detail and extraordinary care, he effortlessly tosses off his prodigious events and turns a kid movie into emotion-packed magic.
-Donald Richie

Samurai-Kids-1993.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 46 min
Size: 	1.11 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	704x386 
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	1 022 kb/s
BPP: 	0.158
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AC-3 @ 448 kb/s

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English