X (1996)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Rintaro

Writers:

Mami Watanabe (script) and
Mick Nekoi (comic) ...

Release Date:

3 August 1996 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller

Plot:

The story takes place in 1999, the Year of Destiny, and the beginning of the end of the world. The future of the universe rests on one young man...

Plot Keywords:

Destiny | End Of The World | Tragic Villain | Manga | Wings

Cast

Tomokazu Seki	...	Kamui Shirô
Ken Narita	...	Fûma Monô
Junko Iwao	...	Kotori Monô
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Toni Barry	...	Karen Kasumi (voice: English version)
Rupert Degas	...	Shuogo Asagi (voice: English version)
Denica Fairman	...	Kanoe (voice: English version)
Mike Fitzpatrick	...	Sorata Arisugawa (voice: English version)
Tôru Furusawa	...	Seishirô Sakurazuka
Teresa Gallagher	...	Arashi Kishu (voice: English version)
Jeff Harding	...	Kusangi (voice: English version)
David Harris	...	Seiichirou Aoki (voice: English version)
Adam Henderson	...	Fuma Summit (voice: English version)
Masako Ikeda	...	Tôru
Kazuhiko Inoue	...	Yûto Kigai
Stacey Jefferson	...	Hinoto (voice: English version)
Mami Koyama	...	Karen Kasumi
Annemarie Lawless	...	Yuzuriha Nekoi (voice: English version)
Alan Marriott	...	Kamui Shirou (voice: English version)
Rica Matsumoto	...	Nataku
Yûko Minaguchi	...	Hinoto
Kotono Mitsuishi	...	Satsuki Yatôji
Issei Miyazaki	...	Subaru Sumeragi
Larissa Murray	...	Kotari Summit (voice: English version)
Jôji Nakata	...	Kusanagi Shiyû
Yukana Nogami	...	Yuzuriha Nekoi
Liza Ross	...	Toru (Kamui's Mother) (voice: English version)
Toshihiko Seki	...	Shôgo Asagi
Emi Shinohara	...	Arashi Kishû
Junko Takahata	...	Kanoe
Hideyuki Tanaka	...	Seiichirô Aoki
Nigel Whitmey	...	Yuto (voice: English version)
Kôichi Yamadera	...	Sorata Arisugawa

Also Known As:

X/1999 (USA) (promotional title)
X: Their Destiny Was Foreordained 1999 (Japan: English title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence/gore and some nudity.

Runtime:

USA:97 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

South Korea:12 (DVD rating) | Ireland:12 | Australia:MA | Canada:14A | France:-12 | Germany:16 | UK:15 | USA:R

Company:

Bandai Visual Company

Trivia:

The character Shougo Asagi never existed in the original manga, and was created specifically for the film. He takes the place of Kakyou Kuzuki, the bedridden Dragon of Earth dreamseer that appears in the manga and who later appears in the television series. Furthermore, Shougo's power over water was originally Yuto's power in the manga.

Quotes:

[a great red dragon appears before Fûma and Konoe, and Fûma draws back in fear]
Kanoe: Don't worry! That dragon is one of us. Why, it might even be you!

Movie Connections:

References Scanners (1981)

Soundtrack:

Forever Love

It's not good to squeeze a story

When I first watched it, I thought it was one of the best movies I've ever seen. I mean, the story is great. I absolutely love the storyline. I still think so today. But as for the movie, that's another story.

I've read the mangas. I'm not exactly a big fan of CLAMP's work, but this one is the first that I got into with the mangas. I fell in love with one of the characters in the story name Subaru Sumeragi. Favorite character for obvious reason, but if you like any character other than Kamui or Fuuma, then you're in for the biggest disappointment if you watch this movie. OK, to get to the point, this is basically stuffing all the series of the manga into one movie. You won't have time to get to know the characters if you didn't know them already. You just won't get to. Well, they at least explain a bit of their purpose in life for a few seconds. Also, they failed to explain a lot of things about the movie, so that's another big disappointment. Er, and another big disappointment is that, they change some of the character's personality! ANOTHER big disappointment is that they didn't put some of the good story lines in the mangas into the movie. I know that doesn't seem like a big deal and I would like to give an example. There's this one character who loves another character from the other angel (they're enemies angels), but in the movie, they hate each other. So that's what I mean.

But wait, there's a good! The good is that the animation is great. Beautiful and artistic like all of CLAMP's work. It's realistic in animation, and the way it was done was just, wow. even though they lack everything else, but it was still nicely done in animation wise. Now if only the series was done the same way. Oh yeah, the music is great also.

Even though I like the story and how it was animated, I just didn't want to sit through it anymore. Once was enough. So I gave it a 4/10