Audience reviews
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SkyBlue1012
"CHANGE IS THE ONLY CONSTANT IN THIS LIFE" - Heraclitus
This anime beautifully reminds us why humans must learn to adapt to change.
The world is constantly evolving, and if we refuse to grow with it, we risk being left behind.
Video quality looks retro, it fits the theme of the show perfectly.
I never thought a 24 minute short film could make me feel this emotional.
It reminded me that people are always changing, growing, and searching for something better.
Sometimes, moving forward means accepting that not everything, and not everyone, is meant to stay the same. (This review needs more information! according to MAL.)
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Really nice story from eye a side look on technological advances from the commoner eye. It is standard that development of technology is bringing us ease and a better life, but sometimes this advancement take from others.
Short story but I liked it really much. Daily life struggles to live, grasp somethimg to earn for tomorrow, emotions, family.
And hard moments to accept changes in life, to lose something in favor of gaining something else. Characters are behaving realistically.
It's really realistic, art style is soft but lively,
Story shows live of most of us.
You would like it.
Story is solid 9 Art is matching era and flow of show 10
Music is soft, creating nice atmosphere 9
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“Lampu!” The cry rings out over rice paddies and wheat fields, echoed by a the retainer of children smiling in his wake. Once a homeless orphan, dependent upon the town chief’s kindness for the roof of a barn over his head at night and forced to run errands and perform odd tasks about the village he called home in order to eke out a living, Minosuke, now a young man, is a lamp salesman. One of the first in his part of the country, he travels with his cart and family, selling oil lamps in a westernizing Japan eager for the ease of a life enhanced by the latest technologies coming from across the sea. But technological advancement, once indulged, cannot help but continue at a breakneck pace. Some day, even the prescient and savvy will wake to find their trades no more.
The beauty and terror…
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This is very cheesy and mellow-dramatic. People have been dealing with new tech out-dating old tech for centuries it's not something that's particularly unique to electricity or oil. Not to say there's nothing particularly interesting about the history of electric technology itself but based on the dramatic implications that this short film's narrative, which it definitely does not earn implies, it's very bare-bones surface-level take is supposed to suffice.
As a result of the shallow narrative that doesn't get explored any more than some broad strokes emotional levels (of which we have about 10 minutes of screen time to soak in) the story feels woefully underwhelming.
It doesn't feel particularly like movie about love, ancestry, devotion, the passage of time, the real, the supernatura…
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Ojisan no Lamp is a short movie, only at 24 minutes long but is a real simplistic story that can leave you with a bittersweet feeling at the end.
The story follows a young boy who comes across a lamp, which turns out to be his Grandfathers. His Grandfather then sits his Grandson down to tell him a story about when he, himself, came across an oil lamp for the very first time.
The Grandfather then takes the center point in the movie, as it depicts his life. Where he has good fortune as a young boy, and struggles as a grown man, while coping with a cultural shift that affects the whole of Japan.
The grandfather is really the only character you'll get to know throughout this movie, there are a few others but they are really there just to help the plot move along rather than be of any import…
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Overview:
My quest to review the entries of the 2011 Future Animator Contest continues with the one shot anime that won the contest and was widely considered the best. That anime is Grandfather’s Lamp.
The story starts in 1930s Japan when a young boy comes across an old oil lamp and is quick to discard it. This displeases the boy’s grandfather, who proceeds to tell the young boy the importance that the lamp played in his life. When he was his grandson’s age, the grandpa worked in a rice field rather than attend school and had to use flint and tinder to start fires. When the Western technology of the oil lamp was introduced to his rural farming village, he was enthralled with this revolutionary technology and decided to become a lamp salesman. His grandmother saw the oil lamps as demonic…
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From time to time, there are anime which make us think hard and others which convey their message effortlessly. Ojii-san no Lamp falls in the latter category. It is about passion and attachment to the things we love and how at some point of time we are required to look beyond them and move ahead. It is about modernization and the pangs of sorrow which it brings to some people. The story told by the grandfather here to his grandson has a soothing tone. The emotions are conveyed effortlessly. A linear progression of storyline makes it easier to grasp the emotions felt by Minosuke, the lead character.
The story is about an old man who one day finds his grandson playing with a decades-old floor lamp. He had completely forgotten that he still had it. That evening, he tells his grandson a story…
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The main story is about Minosuke, who tells his grandchild of the days when he was younger and how he made a living.
Minosuke was an orphan and he stayed in the barn of the chief of his village. He did odd jobs for everyone in the village as means of income, but the money was always barely enough. All that changed when he helped a trishaw carrier and was able to visit the nearest city. He saw strange yet beautiful glowing things hung up in on the ceilings, known as lamps. In the end, he bought one at a wholesale price and made a living out of selling lamps. His perfect way of life was crushed when Japan underwent westernization and began to have electricity. Lamps were no longer needed.
The story is simple yet heartwarming. The tale of Minosuke who worked so hard to earn a living only…
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Young Animator Training Project/Anime Mirai short reviews: Part 1/12
The first, and many people argue the best, of the young animator training projects. It has the highest ranking on MAL anyway. It tells the very human story of a guy who followed his dream and started up a lamp business, only to see it crumble in the face of new technology. The tone is perhaps a touch on the maudlin side, with a lot of “oh gosh aint this sad”, but it does an excellent job of humanising the story. The man’s transition from childlike wonder at the lamps to a successful business family man is well paced and does a good job at making us empathise with the character, which is why I don’t feel too down on it getting all maudlin towards the end. They earned that through good storytelling. Ojisan himself perhaps…
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Ojii-san no Lamp is a short film about a boy who finds an antique lamp. His grandfather takes the opportunity to tell him the story about how he used to be a lamp seller. It goes from when he started as a child to when electricity made lamps obsolete. The story is really a drama about technological advancement and, while it is shown in a positive light overall, there's also a degree of tragedy involved for those who are left behind by those advances. It's an interesting look at history and you do feel for the lamp seller's plight. My only issue with it is that the framing device of an old man telling a story to his grandson contributes very little. They could've started with a date and had it be almost as effective.
The characters in this have a great deal of verisimilitude. They feel and…
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Times are constantly changing; old technologies are continuously being replaced by new. Sometimes though, it's not easy to let go of something outdated, especially if it has played a central part in one's life. In essence, this is what happens in "Grandfather's Lamp", when an aged protagonist Minosuke tells his grandson about the role lamps played in his life.
Being one of the 2010 Young Animators' Training Project, the artwork has a simplistic beauty about it and seems to have been done with great care. The shading of the eyes is a little weird - they have these dull colourings that are often used in other anime to indicate a lack of consciousness or control. The background music is also very good, gently supporting the quieter moments and weighing in and enhancing the key ones. Judging…
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Before going into this review, first i would like to dig into something. When someone says "Only mature people can see this ... i recommend only to mature people only ... blah blah". So what is maturity or who are mature people? People above 18 or 21? Well It is not your age which makes you mature , it is the mind! The way you think, the way you perceive things which come across your life decides if you are mature or not.
This short movie anime is one of those special ones which portrays how the life of a hard working villager, the kind of life in a typical Japanese village, the impact of scientific changes in the society (not only in Japan, but in most of the parts of the world .. even India) and "Old technologies never work when you need them". You will know what I mean when you see it.…
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Due to the lack of free time which is supposed to be allotted for my daily serving of anime, I resorted to watching short anime films and such. Of course, I was hoping to find something as magnificent yet light as Tsumiki no Ie. Then I stumbled upon the 4 short anime shows that comprised the 2010 Young Animators' Training Project. As the name of the said endeavor implies, its an on-the-job-training project funded by the Japanese Animation Creators Association to train fresh aspiring animators. Although I found it not as touching, unique and outstanding as Tsumiki no Ie, this anime collection was still worth the watch as each story brought me back to those shows and stories I used to love when I was still a child.
Second of the four anime shorts from this great collection i've watched is…
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Wow, I can't believe no one wrote anything for this yet. Allow me to then :)
I've just completed the series, and I must say; this is simply stunning! A must-see if you haven't yet!
STORY: 10
Shouldn't be much to explain here. The story follows the life of Ojii-san from when he was a kid to present-day. It shows how the new generation is always looking forward to new technologies and the "up-and-coming" inventions, but as they get older, they grow stubborn and wishes to stay with what they grew up with.
ART: 9
A simple, yet elegant art-style is used here, which fits in well with the characters. Soft colors work nice too. If you're planning to watch this, make sure you don't miss the scenes with the lighted lamps. They are stunning!
SOUND: 7
The BGM is the kind that really fades into the…
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