Music of Jin Roh has aged like fine wine. Impeccable soundtrack to resonate with the artwork and mood of the film. Unfortunate that it's not as talked about as some of the other anime of the 90s.
Jason Fenton "badass" perhaps in the sense that it's a severe and impassive story. One that shudders, and goes on without fear of hurting or saddening the viewer.
I think this movie was, in more ways than one, a massive slap in the face to one-dimensional storytelling. The movie clearly draws a parallel with the tale of the Little Red Riding Hood. This tale has one precise archetype : there is always an innocent protagonist (Little Red Riding Hood) and an evil antagonist (the Big Bad Wolf). One would think Kazuki is the wolf because he chose to remain a wolf, and ended up killing Kei himself, another would think Kei is the vilain because she was hired to effectively prey on Kazuki, getting closer to him with the ultimate goal being eliminating him. The truth is, they're both the wolf AND the innocent. They both preyed on each other in some capacity, but they also both loved and cared for each other. This is why Kei cites the lines Red Riding Hood said to who she thought was her grandmother as she embraced him at the end in acceptance of her fate, eluding to how the Big Bad Wolf disguised as a loved one to trick the Red Riding Hood, which is exactly what she did to him. And this is also why Kazuki kills her as he screams, cries and grits his teeth, for such a tale always ends in the wolf eating the girl. They loved each other, and the scene is tragic, but it ended in both Kazuki and Kei doing what they had to do : Kazuki killing the woman he loved, and Kei dying due to her actions. The final shot is of the Red Riding Hood book thrown in the water in the middle of a junkyard, signifying how worthless this kind of storytelling is. There was neither a good guy, nor a bad guy, just two human beings.
Wow that's sad. I always saw this anime as a kid in those pre-views before movies and always wondered what it was about. Now i know. Im in tears and i haven't even watched the movie yet!!!
That was a great critique! Thanks for sharing! This movie had such a massive impact on me. I saw it in college when I was taking a course on fairy-tale myths and stories. It's such a beautiful and tragic narrative with roots that run deep, centuries before I ever saw the movie.
I remember watching this movie on DVD with my father in 2003 when I was 7 years old. I didn't understand the plot at all at that age and didn't realize how much of a masterpiece this movie was until I rewatched it as an adult. That ending is ridiculously gut-wrenching.
I think its the parallels between fuse and his mentor that the end really hits hard on, fuse is shocked and in pain, and all tohbe does is distance himself from it because that is how he jaded himself to keep on with the wolf brigade.
Armageddon is not coming and if something is being forgotten it deserves to be forgotten. There is no unknown masterpiece on this planet, unless it was never published.
Perfect song for such a complex movie. There's no simple good and bad, but layers of intrincate, subjective motivations. And not even love can escape from that terrible fate. Maybe it's just what being human is.
The female vocalist Gabriela Robin has always given me goosebumps. Just Googled the name and found out that she is non other than composer/musician Yoko Kanno. Cowboy Bebop, The Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell Stand alone Complex etc. I thought I liked Kannos musik before, but that is one major reason more. :)
I loved this track since I heard it first at a Japanese Symposium in NYC in 1999. It was after the films initial release in Japan at a first screening here stateside. I loved the story of the film and music. It was a bonus to meet the director and creator of Jin Roh.
The perfect musical score to a wonderful movie. I must have watched this movie no less than 9 times in the span of 14 hours last tuesday, it is simply wonderful.
I swear the ending was so emotionally tearing for how she was still hoping for the human to come out of the wolf just to see that there is only a wolf left inside him after that shot. This song just took made the ending so much more chillz bringing. A hidden gem this is and whatever it was criticized for people need to give it another go cause I am pretty sure they were not paying enough attention.
@@despilks My dude, Fuse's superior literally refers to him as a wolf in man's clothing at the end. The trick is actually that they are both victims and predators.
I read reviews on myanimelist and thought this might not be that good. After the movie I realized that they were just too stupid to understand what was happening or they did not pay attention. Did not feel anything most of the movie but when the credits started I began crying.
This thing is like a wolf (But he couldn't shoot cause he wasn't) This thing is a wolf (He is because he shot her) Thus, it is thing to be banished (So he will never find his peace) the first line in the beginning of the film perfectly summarizes and foreshadows the rest of the film. How two of them ends up, but I couldn't stop wishing the prophecy to be wrong. I think Fuse knew this but he couldn't stop it and now he will never find his peace or resting place, screaming to sky in vein like a wolf he became. But girl might have also been a wolf, coming close to Fuse with the trap and being shot by him, forever engraving herself in Fuse's mind like she wanted. What a special movie this
There is some truth to what you say, but watch The Shape of Voice, it is an emotional roller coaster that pulled my heart strings similar to The Wolf Brigade.
Lots of movies like to portray the happy ending idea for the audiences pleasure. This movie tells you the harsh truth: You'll never get a happy ending in reality. There will always be conflict when there is life.
@@AmberStoneDraws Well, it's like this: if you play sad music while I'm feeling sad, I'll feel better. If you play happy music while I'm sad, I'll just shut it off immediately.
One of the few anime films that looks at the ideas of terrorism, and the military and doesn't judge, but doesn't condone it. It simply says that it's a sad life one way or another and you need to find a way beyond or be eaten by the wolf inside us. One man's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter. Except there is no real full truth in either as it could just be a scared person on both ends holding a bomb.
This is one of the songs I remember listening to on the bus ride to high school in the early 2000s. Staring out with sullen eyes at a frost covered landscape passing by... This is one of the things that helped me carry on. What a classic.
Ever since I watched the film adaptation, I was brought down a road I didn’t even know existed. The emotional journey that I walked through brought me to this soundtrack, and I will never forget how it motivated me. The 1999 and 2018 movie both deserve good ratings, it’s a classic, and should be treated with respect. They don’t make them like they used to.
I always see this anime as a story of the conflict between the collective and the individual. Both Kei and Fuse were caught in this conflict. Fuse's superior reminds us that the Jin-roh unit was always a "pack of wolves", and the pack has no place among human. In the anime's opening, Fuse tried to resist this "pack mentality" by displaying his humanity (not shooting the suicide bomber outright). This resulted in him being (nominally) casted out of the group. Nevertheless, the conflict persisted in his mind: he continued to work for the pack, but his nightmares showed that he as an individual had deep remorse about what it meant to be part of the pack. Eventually, the conflict came to a head in the final scene, when he as part of the pack had to kill someone who he as an individual loved. Fuse's scream showed how deeply he was torn between these two identities. In the end, he chose the pack - and lost his individuality forever. Seriously, this is basically what military training do to you. Grind down your individuality until you become part of the pack.
I'm glad someone gets it. There are too many Wehraboos in this comments section, they somehow don't see the obvious condemnation of authoriarianism and just love the movie because the authoritarians won in the end.
@@toastgod1276 jin roh has nothing to do with condemning authoritarianism lmao, the same way it doesn't promote it too. the movie was ultimately showing the inevitability of tribes, with the sect, the national police force, and the keberos corp itself. heck, they said it themselves: "we are not men disguised as dogs, we are wolves disguised as men" showing how they ultimately prioritize the well being of the group over their individuality, as op pointed out. I fail to see how jin roh is "anti-authoritiarian"
@@undefinedhuman7404 Obviously there are multiple ways to read the movie, and tribalism is of course a key theme of it. But I would also consider anti-authoritarianism to be a major theme. The movie does depict the needless brutality of tribalism. But it also depicts the way the tribes attempt to consolidate power in the government in their own hands. And most importantly, the way that each tribe demands that service and allegiance to the tribe come before any individual's considerations, be they love or guilt or remorse. Both of these tie into the connection between the government in the movie and that of Nazi Germany. There's a clear parallel between the the conflict of the Capital Police vs the Special Unit and the real life rivalry of the Brownshirts vs the SS in the authoritarian state of Nazi Germany. Just like how the Capital Police was a branch of the Capital Police, the SS were originally an offshoot of the Brownshirts. And of course, these were all paramilitary/state police forces. Especially with all the Nazi imagery, I can't help but think the movie was trying to say something about it. The authoritarian nature of the Wolf Brigade, Special Unit, and indeed the entirety of the Capital Police is a key antagonistic force throughout the movie. It's what pits two formerly close friends, Henmi and Fuse, against each other, and it's what breaks down Fuse into a slave to the Brigade rather than a person with the freedom to think and feel. I should clarify that tribalism is still of course a driving antagonistic force also. It's what motivates Fuse to stay with Wolf Brigade after all. But the movie wouldn't have been set in a Nazi-themed police state if it wasn't at least in part a criticism of such a system. Jin-Roh has countless themes. Among them, it shows an extreme authoritarian government from the side of the oppressors. Rather than showing only how such governments affect those whom they directly oppress, it places especial focus on showing how they destroy the humanity of their ranks, how they endanger their own people, and how not even the oppressors truly win.
@@undefinedhuman7404 Authoritarianism, ultimately, is the same thing as you described with Tribalism. They lead to the same place. It's sacrifice of the individual for "The Greater Good". The net result is always massive loss of life, through war and genocide. Same reason Socialism, Communism and Fascism are all failed ideologies. People who think otherwise are blind to history and deny what the logical conclusion that these ideas always lead up to.
@@Seyanoo Tbh there was tons of shit in that time period of well. It's just that a long enough time has passed though for all that shit to be filtered out.
One of the top 3 anime of all times, and the only one that manages to make me cry every time I watch it, even though I know how it ends. To say it is a masterpiece is an understatement.
This movie is pretty depressing but not like Grave of the Fireflies depressing. Gives you a gloomy outlook on the human spirit but is beautifully executed. A real tug of war of emotions.
I agree, it's a case of people not being able to fully escape what they feel is their natural way of life, when in truth they always had the choice, they just didn't choose to.
@Corona Virus I just saw the trailers for these shows you mentioned and they all have interesting aesthetics, but the animation quality doesn't really compare to jin roh from what I've seen
Try Ghost In the Shell and its sequel Innocence, both are made by the same studio (Production I.G) so you can get the vibe of Jin Roh animation style from it
I watch this movie every year around thanksgiving (it may have to do with the fact that the first time I saw it, it was thanksgiving, and I saw a TON of great anime films shortly after seeing this, and before the end of the year). I've seen it so many times. Such an amazing film, and the music definitely helped it. It's depressing, bleak, yet has the tiniest bit of hope that feels as though it could be stolen in an instant. Such a great story to this one. I hope thanksgiving hurries the hell up and gets here.
I've watched a lot of anime films, and this one is among one of my top favorites. Haunting music and atmosphere, interesting drama, very well done and nearly realistic design and movement from the characters, and more. It also says a lot as before I usually preferred movies with a lot of action, and now, more of an adult, I'm enjoying a lot of slower paced films like Blade Runner and BR2049, and even movies like this.
@@roboguy75 I actually had the same thought when I was reading over some criticism of this film. A lot of the people who criticized it for being "too boring" seemed rather young to me. I think Jin-Roh is a movie that you need to be an adult to enjoy, because loss and regret are central elements of this film. More than that, this film grapples with the idea that reality is not black and white, and that the decisions that we often must make are not the decisions that we wanted to make. And more often than not, those decisions impart a weight that we carry for the rest of our lives. Until someone has begun to wrestle with such ideas, which come as the natural result of continuing to be alive, I don't think that they can truly appreciate films like this.
User0768 Unfortunately. And like you said, there’s no real good guy in this which honestly I feel more movies, shows, etc need more of. I like the usual good Vs evil but sometimes we need something more nuanced like this. It’s definitely up there with movies I enjoy like Ghost in the Shell, AKIRA, Castle in the Sky, etc.
@@aoe9857 I didn't mean to sound "tough" at all. It just didn't make me cry like it did for many others. It was still sad of course but I didn't push me that far.
Same. Just felt empty and emotional but no crying. What a story, and what an ending. I watched it for the first time last night! One of my favorite movies ever already!
That's how you'll feel when bad things happen in your life. You'll never get to cry it out, you'll just feel empty. People will accuse you of being a monster, but it's OK. You didn't choose this.
Even the stuff that isn't like that and has some semblance of quality behind it doesn't, or can't, really reach the heights of stuff like this, Akira, Angel's egg, Ghost in the Shell, etc. It's disappointing, but the period where creativity and the desire to tell something important or thought provoking is gone I fear.
@@Snooperking Yeah, I'm picking some Enya tunes too, but also some tunes from "The best is yet to come" song from MGS. Someone once told me that if a newly heard song sounds familiar it is because you like it so much the brain creates a link to your past to trigger nostalgia.
5:05 Just makes me sob uncontrollably. Been listing to this for more than the past decade and that part just does me in… It just has Yoko Kanno’s hands all over it. Sounds like the Wolf’s Rain ending theme.
Wolf's Rain is underrated as fuck. I didnt even rate it higher than 7/10 (which is already good, since I use the full scale), but the special atmosphere of that show is top notch.
One of the things I love about the Jin Roh soundtrack is that a lot of it sounds like music from Escaflowne (which isn't surprising because Hajime Mizoguchi). However, this track sounds like something all its own, and it doesn't sound like anything else I've heard in anime. He and Yoko Kanno remain my favorite anime composers.
Man this is so gut wrenching....the mc is so conflicted with violence but can't escape it. The scene where he gets prepared for final assault says it all
I remember going to Otakon in Baltimore, MD in like 2000 with a friend who really liked anime and just being completely blown away by this. The movie, the music, all of it. Even as someone who doesn't really like anime in general, this is up there in my top five favorite movies ever. Edit 6/29/24 And now, 25 years later, I'm learning it was fucking Yoko Kanno. What is this world? What is this?
After watching this movie I could still hear this theme ringing in my ear and from time to time I can't get it out of my head. 10/10 song and an underrated movie.
more than the song itself, it's when u remember the scene in the anime.. "And the wolf ate up little red riding hood." one of the most horrible sentence to hear at the end of an anime
I watched Jin-Roh many years ago but I didn't remember the song. Listening to it just made me sentimental and I have replayed again and again since then. It invoked my feeling of a classmate I just talked to the first time several days ago from which time I realised I had a crush on her.
Hey, I get it the vocals, strings, and ambiance in the intro and outro are top notch. But that bass in the middle chunk...makes this song the best for me.
So many flaws for this anime yet such perfection. Thank you Yoko Kanno and Hajime Mizogucho for the great compositions and performances you have made through your lives and especially together.
Jin Roh was the best depiction of a story I've ever watched, and I've many many motion pictures hollywood and otherwise. And the score, it better be recorded on a golden plate and sent to the space as a remnant of humanity.
just watched it for the first time i legit cried at the credit, goddamn song. good stuff. sad they don't push for that kind of animation anymore, too costly... but we have what has already been done and at least we can keep the classics in our hearts.
Battlefield illistratrated the same philosophy in their ww1 era, mainly decipting the destruction of man, as duely to the ignorance and hatred of man. As you've probably heard in the first mission during the defensive push of the American Harlem Hellfighters against the German advance. "They push, We push, Every once in a while, we push hard enough that the light breaks through the clouds. So the world beyond the war glimmers, just out of reach. The war is the world, and the world is the war." I always adhere to these main principles as they show the true and raw value of a natural man, one without the essence of nation or value. It's true natural order at it's finest seeking to create a dominant form of the same person.
Just saw this for the first time today. Wow. Immediately I fell in love with the music. I'm not big on the big cat and mouse games of covert ops or covert covert ops but I can say that this was good and I don't feel like they make stuff like this anymore. Also the ending was sad.
Ich denke da wir dies schätzen, wurde der Verstand bereits gezeugt. Nur steckt dieser entweder noch in den Kinderschuhen oder wir sind einfach nur zur falschen Zeit am richtigen Ort.
Haunting melody of a past that now seems to never have been at all...one we miss deeply in this dark reality that we currently inhabit as we dread a worse future.
The first time I watched this anime film I deleted the movie from my PC... Because the end was so sad... Today I respect this movie so much, and I shouldn't deleted it.
I love this song Japan forever!!!! In Peace and love together are all Souls in freedom. I learned at school about Japan. My wish was at that time and land is peaceful and Respectful and so many positive power of love together in love to nature. By Florian Marcus Langer he lives in Bremen Germany. Born in Wiesbaden Hessen Germany. At 22.11.1977. At 15 a clock in Wiesbaden. HESSEN GERMANY.
Here is the lyrics to the song: Se he melpt he le heus Tre he melpt o pridi Lingu ni he fe he me Tre he melpt godi Ste he melpt he le heus Tre he melpt o pridi Lingu ni he fe he me Tre heus o prisid godi Eta li hapru Esta mi langu O fabi atshiius Gofria kruhemen entu Se he melpt he le heus Tre he melpt o pridi Lingu ni he fe he me Tre he melpt godi
I think that gabriela robin makes sounds that are not part of any language. It reminds me of latin and my brain tryies to decode it that way. @@lexa9816
Strangely for me it's mixed like a bit old german/norsk dialect mixed with latin words. If i translate it in German: So helfe er uns So helfe uns oh Stolz Die Worte haben mich verlassen/ Die Worte sind nicht mehr für mich So helfe er, Gott So helfe er uns So helfe uns oh Stolz Die Worte haben mich verlassen / Die Worte sind nicht mehr für mich So us oh Lobpreißung Gott [this part is mixed with somewhat portuguese, latin, old german...for me it's harder to translate...."Gofria kruhemen entu" sound totaly like a brazilian portuguese dialect] So helfe er uns So helfe uns oh Stolz Die Worte haben mich verlassen So helfe er, Gott in English: So he (should) help us, So he (should) help oh pride The words are leaving me/ The words are no more for me So he (should) help, god So he (should) help us, So he (should) help oh pride The words are leaving me/ The words are no more for me So he (should) oh praised god When it was written, the author/composer studied/prepared it well and given the mythology of wolf man in each
"Fun" Fact: Jin-Roh is the third in a trilogy, all part of a larger timeline. The previous films, live-action and set years after Jin-Roh, reveal that the Kerberos Unit was ultimately disbanded and subjected to public trials. Meaning Fuse's choice meant nothing. He bought the system a few more years in exchange for his soul. Oshii-sensei preemptively made this ending a thousand times _worse._
"We are not men disguised as mere dogs. We are wolves disguised as men."
Wolves...not men
"We are not men disguised as mere dogs. We are wolves disguised as men.
Could also be a line from Wolf's Rain, lol.
that’s beautiful.
Dogs by Pink Floyd.
Music of Jin Roh has aged like fine wine. Impeccable soundtrack to resonate with the artwork and mood of the film. Unfortunate that it's not as talked about as some of the other anime of the 90s.
I can't never forget how this film ended. this is one badass animation overall
Not sure "badass" is the word I'd use. It's kind of like calling Grave of the Fireflies badass.
Jason Fenton "badass" perhaps in the sense that it's a severe and impassive story. One that shudders, and goes on without fear of hurting or saddening the viewer.
It's beautiful and terrible. A haunting reminder of the true cost of Pax Romana.
That ending is traumatic as fuck, TBH.
I've not seen it but I'm going to look for it now
I think this movie was, in more ways than one, a massive slap in the face to one-dimensional storytelling. The movie clearly draws a parallel with the tale of the Little Red Riding Hood. This tale has one precise archetype : there is always an innocent protagonist (Little Red Riding Hood) and an evil antagonist (the Big Bad Wolf). One would think Kazuki is the wolf because he chose to remain a wolf, and ended up killing Kei himself, another would think Kei is the vilain because she was hired to effectively prey on Kazuki, getting closer to him with the ultimate goal being eliminating him. The truth is, they're both the wolf AND the innocent. They both preyed on each other in some capacity, but they also both loved and cared for each other.
This is why Kei cites the lines Red Riding Hood said to who she thought was her grandmother as she embraced him at the end in acceptance of her fate, eluding to how the Big Bad Wolf disguised as a loved one to trick the Red Riding Hood, which is exactly what she did to him. And this is also why Kazuki kills her as he screams, cries and grits his teeth, for such a tale always ends in the wolf eating the girl. They loved each other, and the scene is tragic, but it ended in both Kazuki and Kei doing what they had to do : Kazuki killing the woman he loved, and Kei dying due to her actions. The final shot is of the Red Riding Hood book thrown in the water in the middle of a junkyard, signifying how worthless this kind of storytelling is. There was neither a good guy, nor a bad guy, just two human beings.
Wow that's sad. I always saw this anime as a kid in those pre-views before movies and always wondered what it was about. Now i know. Im in tears and i haven't even watched the movie yet!!!
yeah
@Tracy Newby wow man, that's awesome ! I wish I was there, that must have been absolutely sick
That was a great critique! Thanks for sharing! This movie had such a massive impact on me. I saw it in college when I was taking a course on fairy-tale myths and stories. It's such a beautiful and tragic narrative with roots that run deep, centuries before I ever saw the movie.
Excellently put
I remember watching this movie on DVD with my father in 2003 when I was 7 years old. I didn't understand the plot at all at that age and didn't realize how much of a masterpiece this movie was until I rewatched it as an adult.
That ending is ridiculously gut-wrenching.
I think its the parallels between fuse and his mentor that the end really hits hard on, fuse is shocked and in pain, and all tohbe does is distance himself from it because that is how he jaded himself to keep on with the wolf brigade.
This style of animation and stoytelling NEEDS to come back.
Most definitely. I miss it
@@foregroundeclipse8725you see my animation films and you will be magnificent at my animation works
Music like this needs to be saved and stored in vaults to survive an armageddon
Agreed, soundtracks such as this has undoubtedly been made beautiful that it should be the first inside.
Words cannot describe how beautiful this is brings a tear to my eye how beautiful this is going into to mix with enigma MCMXC A.D
@@nathanstreet9973 no its too depressing
For whoever survives to know that, despite everything, among humans there was still a speckle of humanity.
Armageddon is not coming and if something is being forgotten it deserves to be forgotten. There is no unknown masterpiece on this planet, unless it was never published.
Perfect song for such a complex movie. There's no simple good and bad, but layers of intrincate, subjective motivations. And not even love can escape from that terrible fate. Maybe it's just what being human is.
I think you just perfectly summed up why I love this movie so much.
Nah I think we've seen plenty of true evil in this world as of late
Epic comment! I can't beat this!
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 Yes and it will be more terrible in the Future!
@@Fanfiktion1988 Eh maybe not
The female vocalist Gabriela Robin has always given me goosebumps.
Just Googled the name and found out that she is non other than composer/musician Yoko Kanno.
Cowboy Bebop, The Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell Stand alone Complex etc.
I thought I liked Kannos musik before, but that is one major reason more. :)
Miss Yoko Kanno is a class of her own. Great musician/composer and vocalist.
Anyone who gives me Space Lion and Grace Omega is deserving of no less than my utmost respect and admiration
@@nitrocharge2404 "Some other time" and "Butter Sea" the list goes on ❤
Wait what?!?! That just blew my mind
Yes, Yoko Kano is Gabriella Robin, minds be blown… Especially for songs like this.
I loved this track since I heard it first at a Japanese Symposium in NYC in 1999. It was after the films initial release in Japan at a first screening here stateside. I loved the story of the film and music. It was a bonus to meet the director and creator of Jin Roh.
Dude you met Mamoru Osii
Wow
nice nice
Lucky bastard
Director and "creator" are not the same person toh
for those who have not seen, no words are enough. for those who have seen, no words are needed
何度聴いたろうか。 切なさや悲しみややるせなさの中にある、怒りにも強さにも感じる響きのある音楽を。心から感謝申し上げます。
聴けて良かった。 人狼。
The perfect musical score to a wonderful movie.
I must have watched this movie no less than 9 times in the span of 14 hours last tuesday, it is simply wonderful.
Did you like the English Dub version, I personally think it's probably one of the best Dubbed Anime Movies of All-Time.
Eng dub suck.
How many times have you watched it since 2015?
which movie? is ist with
leonhard die caprisonne? hahahahahahahahahahahaha
@@mrmoviemanic1 Its not a bad dub, though I still prefer it subbed.
I swear the ending was so emotionally tearing for how she was still hoping for the human to come out of the wolf just to see that there is only a wolf left inside him after that shot. This song just took made the ending so much more chillz bringing. A hidden gem this is and whatever it was criticized for people need to give it another go cause I am pretty sure they were not paying enough attention.
I think you got it wrong my dude. The girl is the wolf. That's the whole trick. Give it another watch.
@@despilks ако си му рекао
@@despilks My dude, Fuse's superior literally refers to him as a wolf in man's clothing at the end.
The trick is actually that they are both victims and predators.
I read reviews on myanimelist and thought this might not be that good. After the movie I realized that they were just too stupid to understand what was happening or they did not pay attention. Did not feel anything most of the movie but when the credits started I began crying.
Nin Mok i didnt thought about officer’s case tbh
"What lies beneath the impenetrable, cold armor is still a man with a warming heart and tears in his eyes."
Hit me hard, as i've ordered my kendo armour set just recently.
@@The_Custos.😊
This thing is like a wolf
(But he couldn't shoot cause he wasn't)
This thing is a wolf
(He is because he shot her)
Thus, it is thing to be banished
(So he will never find his peace)
the first line in the beginning of the film perfectly summarizes and foreshadows the rest of the film.
How two of them ends up, but I couldn't stop wishing the prophecy to be wrong. I think Fuse knew this but he couldn't stop it and now he will never find his peace or resting place, screaming to sky in vein like a wolf he became.
But girl might have also been a wolf, coming close to Fuse with the trap and being shot by him, forever engraving herself in Fuse's mind like she wanted.
What a special movie this
Oh man, anime back in this era was so magical. I miss it so much 😢
Same
Now it's all child molester stuff
Yeah, they really cared about the color tone to match the anime's theme
They don't make them like this anymore.
Patrick Bateman Sad truth....they really dont. :(
There is some truth to what you say, but watch The Shape of Voice, it is an emotional roller coaster that pulled my heart strings similar to The Wolf Brigade.
Yep.
*SIP*
Jin-Roh was a good anime.
Lots of movies like to portray the happy ending idea for the audiences pleasure.
This movie tells you the harsh truth: You'll never get a happy ending in reality. There will always be conflict when there is life.
*sip*
We all saw it comming, we just didn't want to believe it.
:'( I still try to forget.
Tarik360 I swear it just ARGH
I still don't want to believe it.
D00d, it's been coming since the end of Sengoku.
leonhard die caprisonne hahahahahahhahahahahahahha
I loaned this film to a co-worker. She returned it and said "what is WRONG with you?!?" Mission accomplished.
A friendship you won't miss
shallow person
Lmao
it's a piece of art,what's wrong with her
Yeah... this anime is definitely not terrible at all... and the OST is awe inspiring and beautiful....
Somehow RUclips takes me back here every couple years when I need some uplifting music. Anime movies like this have become a lost art, I'm afraid.
Uplifting?!? 😮😢
@@AmberStoneDraws Well, it's like this: if you play sad music while I'm feeling sad, I'll feel better. If you play happy music while I'm sad, I'll just shut it off immediately.
@@suicunesolsan ah, that makes more sense.
And the wolf ate up little red riding hood
wolf of wallstreet??? leonhard di caprisonne hahahahahahaha
@@tomiboy1999 Not in the slightest
@@HandOfThemis HALD SCHNAUZER
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@@tomiboy1999 Really hot bantz you have there.
One of the few anime films that looks at the ideas of terrorism, and the military and doesn't judge, but doesn't condone it. It simply says that it's a sad life one way or another and you need to find a way beyond or be eaten by the wolf inside us. One man's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter. Except there is no real full truth in either as it could just be a scared person on both ends holding a bomb.
Well said .
holy shit that's missing the mark
@@the_babbleboom Not really. I don’t mind if you have a different take but I know what I got out of it. And it was this.
Well said dude
Excellent
This is one of the songs I remember listening to on the bus ride to high school in the early 2000s.
Staring out with sullen eyes at a frost covered landscape passing by... This is one of the things that helped me carry on.
What a classic.
gd to know that theres at least one other person out there whod do this sorta thing : )
Make that three.
4
5 as of now.
🙂 time like that adds days to your life.
Ever since I watched the film adaptation, I was brought down a road I didn’t even know existed. The emotional journey that I walked through brought me to this soundtrack, and I will never forget how it motivated me. The 1999 and 2018 movie both deserve good ratings, it’s a classic, and should be treated with respect. They don’t make them like they used to.
I always see this anime as a story of the conflict between the collective and the individual. Both Kei and Fuse were caught in this conflict.
Fuse's superior reminds us that the Jin-roh unit was always a "pack of wolves", and the pack has no place among human. In the anime's opening, Fuse tried to resist this "pack mentality" by displaying his humanity (not shooting the suicide bomber outright). This resulted in him being (nominally) casted out of the group. Nevertheless, the conflict persisted in his mind: he continued to work for the pack, but his nightmares showed that he as an individual had deep remorse about what it meant to be part of the pack.
Eventually, the conflict came to a head in the final scene, when he as part of the pack had to kill someone who he as an individual loved. Fuse's scream showed how deeply he was torn between these two identities. In the end, he chose the pack - and lost his individuality forever.
Seriously, this is basically what military training do to you. Grind down your individuality until you become part of the pack.
I'm glad someone gets it. There are too many Wehraboos in this comments section, they somehow don't see the obvious condemnation of authoriarianism and just love the movie because the authoritarians won in the end.
genuinely one of the few that gets this movie, great analysis
@@toastgod1276 jin roh has nothing to do with condemning authoritarianism lmao, the same way it doesn't promote it too.
the movie was ultimately showing the inevitability of tribes, with the sect, the national police force, and the keberos corp itself. heck, they said it themselves: "we are not men disguised as dogs, we are wolves disguised as men" showing how they ultimately prioritize the well being of the group over their individuality, as op pointed out. I fail to see how jin roh is "anti-authoritiarian"
@@undefinedhuman7404 Obviously there are multiple ways to read the movie, and tribalism is of course a key theme of it. But I would also consider anti-authoritarianism to be a major theme. The movie does depict the needless brutality of tribalism. But it also depicts the way the tribes attempt to consolidate power in the government in their own hands. And most importantly, the way that each tribe demands that service and allegiance to the tribe come before any individual's considerations, be they love or guilt or remorse. Both of these tie into the connection between the government in the movie and that of Nazi Germany.
There's a clear parallel between the the conflict of the Capital Police vs the Special Unit and the real life rivalry of the Brownshirts vs the SS in the authoritarian state of Nazi Germany. Just like how the Capital Police was a branch of the Capital Police, the SS were originally an offshoot of the Brownshirts. And of course, these were all paramilitary/state police forces. Especially with all the Nazi imagery, I can't help but think the movie was trying to say something about it.
The authoritarian nature of the Wolf Brigade, Special Unit, and indeed the entirety of the Capital Police is a key antagonistic force throughout the movie. It's what pits two formerly close friends, Henmi and Fuse, against each other, and it's what breaks down Fuse into a slave to the Brigade rather than a person with the freedom to think and feel.
I should clarify that tribalism is still of course a driving antagonistic force also. It's what motivates Fuse to stay with Wolf Brigade after all. But the movie wouldn't have been set in a Nazi-themed police state if it wasn't at least in part a criticism of such a system.
Jin-Roh has countless themes. Among them, it shows an extreme authoritarian government from the side of the oppressors. Rather than showing only how such governments affect those whom they directly oppress, it places especial focus on showing how they destroy the humanity of their ranks, how they endanger their own people, and how not even the oppressors truly win.
@@undefinedhuman7404 Authoritarianism, ultimately, is the same thing as you described with Tribalism. They lead to the same place. It's sacrifice of the individual for "The Greater Good". The net result is always massive loss of life, through war and genocide.
Same reason Socialism, Communism and Fascism are all failed ideologies. People who think otherwise are blind to history and deny what the logical conclusion that these ideas always lead up to.
Can never go wrong with the classics, they just don't make em like they used to.
Its hard to find anime like this nowadays hence why I rewatch older animes. 80,90, and 2000 where peak anime imo
I am a retired basketball player. My first pro gig was in Shanghai, China. I caught the DVD back in 2003 one of the best decisions I ever made.
ah yes we need more apocalypse zero
"All because of Money greedy motherfuckers who don't care about quality..."
@@Seyanoo Tbh there was tons of shit in that time period of well. It's just that a long enough time has passed though for all that shit to be filtered out.
Its unbelievable, I watched this one, when it first came out. Now 20 years have past by.
In my opinion 20 years is not that much, just our lifespan is too short.
one of the most mind blowing pieces of visual art ever made in my opinion.
Happy 25th birthday Jin-Roh! 🥳
One of the top 3 anime of all times, and the only one that manages to make me cry every time I watch it, even though I know how it ends. To say it is a masterpiece is an understatement.
Perfect Blue
Ghost in the Shell/Innocence
Grave of the fireflies
Jin-Roh
The End of Evangelion
Ninja Scroll.
This movie is pretty depressing but not like Grave of the Fireflies depressing. Gives you a gloomy outlook on the human spirit but is beautifully executed. A real tug of war of emotions.
I agree, it's a case of people not being able to fully escape what they feel is their natural way of life, when in truth they always had the choice, they just didn't choose to.
@@mrmoviemanic1 this is a better take than 90% of the pseudo-philosophical bastards in this comment section.
@@_drnova1064 HA! "pseudo-philosophical." Nice one.
This is something I keep coming back to, year after year
“And then the wolf..he ate up little red riding hood..”
Let’s be honest the last part had one of us crying..I know I did..
Would be cool to see more movies keeping this style of animation
Otaku culture: *n o*
@Corona Virus I just saw the trailers for these shows you mentioned and they all have interesting aesthetics, but the animation quality doesn't really compare to jin roh from what I've seen
@Un Peruano Mas Could you recommend more Movies?
@@12-OneTwo I'm surprised nobody has said Akira
Try Ghost In the Shell and its sequel Innocence, both are made by the same studio (Production I.G) so you can get the vibe of Jin Roh animation style from it
I watch this movie every year around thanksgiving (it may have to do with the fact that the first time I saw it, it was thanksgiving, and I saw a TON of great anime films shortly after seeing this, and before the end of the year). I've seen it so many times. Such an amazing film, and the music definitely helped it. It's depressing, bleak, yet has the tiniest bit of hope that feels as though it could be stolen in an instant. Such a great story to this one.
I hope thanksgiving hurries the hell up and gets here.
I've watched a lot of anime films, and this one is among one of my top favorites. Haunting music and atmosphere, interesting drama, very well done and nearly realistic design and movement from the characters, and more. It also says a lot as before I usually preferred movies with a lot of action, and now, more of an adult, I'm enjoying a lot of slower paced films like Blade Runner and BR2049, and even movies like this.
@@roboguy75 I actually had the same thought when I was reading over some criticism of this film. A lot of the people who criticized it for being "too boring" seemed rather young to me. I think Jin-Roh is a movie that you need to be an adult to enjoy, because loss and regret are central elements of this film. More than that, this film grapples with the idea that reality is not black and white, and that the decisions that we often must make are not the decisions that we wanted to make. And more often than not, those decisions impart a weight that we carry for the rest of our lives.
Until someone has begun to wrestle with such ideas, which come as the natural result of continuing to be alive, I don't think that they can truly appreciate films like this.
User0768 Unfortunately. And like you said, there’s no real good guy in this which honestly I feel more movies, shows, etc need more of. I like the usual good Vs evil but sometimes we need something more nuanced like this. It’s definitely up there with movies I enjoy like Ghost in the Shell, AKIRA, Castle in the Sky, etc.
To give thanks.
I didn't cry at the end like so many here say but it did leave me feeling quite empty.
You are a tough boy
@@aoe9857 I didn't mean to sound "tough" at all. It just didn't make me cry like it did for many others. It was still sad of course but I didn't push me that far.
Same. Just felt empty and emotional but no crying. What a story, and what an ending. I watched it for the first time last night! One of my favorite movies ever already!
That's how you'll feel when bad things happen in your life. You'll never get to cry it out, you'll just feel empty. People will accuse you of being a monster, but it's OK. You didn't choose this.
I really wish anime like this was still popular. I kinda hate all the otaku type fanservice shit and thats popular now.
Yeah, most of the animes now a days focus on waifus, cliches, generic visual and so on
calm down millennial you're just getting old and your preferences are of less relevance now
@@user-bn5xg6wu1p gtfo zoomer
That and garbage ass yaoi shite
Even the stuff that isn't like that and has some semblance of quality behind it doesn't, or can't, really reach the heights of stuff like this, Akira, Angel's egg, Ghost in the Shell, etc. It's disappointing, but the period where creativity and the desire to tell something important or thought provoking is gone I fear.
0:04 the Little Red Riding Hood theme
2:37 the Wolf theme
Yup we are the wolf hunting a kid
i never feared wolves even when i was in Adler Wolfspark in germany .
i will never stop fearing the unlimited human potential of malice!... ..
Hearing this song hit just after the end of the film leaves you feeling emotionally whiplashed and stunned as the credits roll.
Anyone listening in 2024?
🐺
Yeah..
Can anyone recommend more songs like this?
You know it
@@prakharanand7012best I can recommend is you start listening to certain kinds of Celtic music
yup ! always here
I watched Jin-Roh for the first time couple of weeks ago, but why do I have a feeling that I know this song like my whole life?
For me it kind of reminds me of the Braveheart theme ;)
Its like I have heard it somewhere else...
I swore I had heard it before the first time I watched the film, it really reminds me of some LOTR soundtracks by Enya or something.
@@Snooperking Yeah, I'm picking some Enya tunes too, but also some tunes from "The best is yet to come" song from MGS. Someone once told me that if a newly heard song sounds familiar it is because you like it so much the brain creates a link to your past to trigger nostalgia.
For Enya, I highly recommend "Boadicea". Been entranced ever since I heard it on season 2 of Criminal Minds.
5:05 Just makes me sob uncontrollably. Been listing to this for more than the past decade and that part just does me in… It just has Yoko Kanno’s hands all over it. Sounds like the Wolf’s Rain ending theme.
Wolf's Rain is underrated as fuck. I didnt even rate it higher than 7/10 (which is already good, since I use the full scale), but the special atmosphere of that show is top notch.
Beautiful song, incredible story telling, based visual design. The ultimate anime.
I agree dude. They just don’t make anime like that anymore. Genocidal Organ is more of a modern military classic similar imo.
Eternal Truth It’s on crunchyroll and if you wanna watch it free I’m sure you can find some sketchy site that has it.
@@iamgar6age from nyaa
RUclips recommended me the soundtrack. The comments recommended the film. Thankyou both
One of the things I love about the Jin Roh soundtrack is that a lot of it sounds like music from Escaflowne (which isn't surprising because Hajime Mizoguchi). However, this track sounds like something all its own, and it doesn't sound like anything else I've heard in anime. He and Yoko Kanno remain my favorite anime composers.
Man this is so gut wrenching....the mc is so conflicted with violence but can't escape it. The scene where he gets prepared for final assault says it all
I remember going to Otakon in Baltimore, MD in like 2000 with a friend who really liked anime and just being completely blown away by this. The movie, the music, all of it. Even as someone who doesn't really like anime in general, this is up there in my top five favorite movies ever.
Edit 6/29/24
And now, 25 years later, I'm learning it was fucking Yoko Kanno. What is this world? What is this?
My favorite music from my favorite anime film.
do you know who never appeared in an animated movie?
leonardo di caprisonne? hahahahahaha
Ghost in the shell
@@einc70 which one?
Best anime movie is Perfect Blue.
After watching this movie I could still hear this theme ringing in my ear and from time to time I can't get it out of my head. 10/10 song and an underrated movie.
From 5:06 it is so beautiful and tragic. 6:21 is heartwrenching.
the music looks like retelling the movie
more than the song itself, it's when u remember the scene in the anime..
"And the wolf ate up little red riding hood."
one of the most horrible sentence to hear at the end of an anime
It's just sad that the whole last third of the song isn't in the movie... I just watched it and I didn't hear it anywhere.
I watched Jin-Roh many years ago but I didn't remember the song. Listening to it just made me sentimental and I have replayed again and again since then. It invoked my feeling of a classmate I just talked to the first time several days ago from which time I realised I had a crush on her.
Pure sadness and beautiful this song and movie. I love Jin-Roh forever ❤😢
😭 that ending.
It killed me
何年間前、多感だった頃の娘がこの曲を聴いて黙って涙を流してました。
『人狼』観てもいないのに…。本人に聞いても「わからない、でも涙が出るんだ」って。
良い話だねえ
Hey, I get it the vocals, strings, and ambiance in the intro and outro are top notch. But that bass in the middle chunk...makes this song the best for me.
So many flaws for this anime yet such perfection.
Thank you Yoko Kanno and Hajime Mizogucho for the great compositions and performances you have made through your lives and especially together.
Jin Roh was the best depiction of a story I've ever watched, and I've many many motion pictures hollywood and otherwise. And the score, it better be recorded on a golden plate and sent to the space as a remnant of humanity.
Listening in 2025. 4th of January..... Still actual and amazing work of Master.....
2:35 free timestamp, click as many times as you want
This song as an absolute masterpiece. No matter how many times I come back it it's still just as beautiful as the first
Listening to this reminds me just how massive music is to the experience of being a human being. I'm also quite stoned.
Rewatched this movie today, after over 10 years. I thought I was prepared this time around but it still hurt just as bad...
just watched it for the first time
i legit cried at the credit, goddamn song.
good stuff. sad they don't push for that kind of animation anymore, too costly... but we have what has already been done and at least we can keep the classics in our hearts.
世間ではゲームの方が有名だけど
私にとって人狼といえばこの映画とこの曲だ
人狼のゲームなんてあるんだ
あ、人狼ゲームのことか
良いよな、映画も音楽も
Battlefield illistratrated the same philosophy in their ww1 era, mainly decipting the destruction of man, as duely to the ignorance and hatred of man. As you've probably heard in the first mission during the defensive push of the American Harlem Hellfighters against the German advance. "They push, We push, Every once in a while, we push hard enough that the light breaks through the clouds. So the world beyond the war glimmers, just out of reach. The war is the world, and the world is the war." I always adhere to these main principles as they show the true and raw value of a natural man, one without the essence of nation or value. It's true natural order at it's finest seeking to create a dominant form of the same person.
2:36.. Until this moment you just vibing,, but at this point your all senses are sharpen, gosebumps are hard, and you are ready for fight your ideal..
this movie is a legend and will be remembered.
Give a man a mask..
...and an MG 42.
Give me the whole armor and MG42 wym 😂
the man in the iron mask? leonardo di caprisonne hahahahahahahahaha
He was no man, but a wolf in man's clothing.
Bane?
Just saw this for the first time today. Wow. Immediately I fell in love with the music. I'm not big on the big cat and mouse games of covert ops or covert covert ops but I can say that this was good and I don't feel like they make stuff like this anymore. Also the ending was sad.
i watched this like 17 years ago maybe.. now i remember how awesome this music is
Mamoru Oshii always has the best soundtracks for his films.
Thx to kenji kawai same composer who made song in documentary apocalypse ww2 and previous ghost in the shell
Movie and Soundtrack = Masterpiece...
OMG ive never hear this before incredible! the shivers, the feels. Liked it instantly
You should certainly watch the movie if you haven't already.
Such a great, sad anime.
Mother, what big claws you have!
Mother, what big teeth you have!
I was so engrossed in the themes and symbolism of this movie I missed the soundtrack.
This sounds really nice.
one of the most beautiful anime songs in history,just too painful,sad and hopeless but trying to tell hope.
I forgot this music was from this unforgettable movie. No wonders it gives me the chills.
I can't think of many films which give you a feeling similar to this one. Maybe some Bergman or Bresson films. Perfect
I keep coming back to this one
Diese Musik ist zu schön für diese Welt... der Verstand hat sich noch nicht erzeugt dieses Zeitalter zu schätzen..
Ich denke da wir dies schätzen, wurde der Verstand bereits gezeugt. Nur steckt dieser entweder noch in den Kinderschuhen oder wir sind einfach nur zur falschen Zeit am richtigen Ort.
@@Hypercat0 Dann sagen wir der kollektive Verstand! =)
@@datguyzarathustrafounderof925 Damit kann ich leben. :D
Haunting melody of a past that now seems to never have been at all...one we miss deeply in this dark reality that we currently inhabit as we dread a worse future.
Just watching the Netflix live action remake and this original sound track came up!! Bring back so much memories!
The first time I watched this anime film I deleted the movie from my PC... Because the end was so sad... Today I respect this movie so much, and I shouldn't deleted it.
I love this song Japan forever!!!!
In Peace and love together are all
Souls in freedom. I learned at school about Japan. My wish was at that time and land is peaceful and Respectful and so many positive power of love together in love to nature. By Florian Marcus Langer he lives in Bremen Germany. Born in Wiesbaden Hessen Germany. At 22.11.1977. At 15 a clock in Wiesbaden. HESSEN GERMANY.
Here is the lyrics to the song:
Se he melpt he le heus
Tre he melpt o pridi
Lingu ni he fe he me
Tre he melpt godi
Ste he melpt he le heus
Tre he melpt o pridi
Lingu ni he fe he me
Tre heus o prisid godi
Eta li hapru
Esta mi langu
O fabi atshiius
Gofria kruhemen entu
Se he melpt he le heus
Tre he melpt o pridi
Lingu ni he fe he me
Tre he melpt godi
Roberts
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it doesn't matter. It means what you feel when you hear it.
The lyrics are believed to be interpretations of sounds we hear in life, they don't have a direct translation.
I think that gabriela robin makes sounds that are not part of any language. It reminds me of latin and my brain tryies to decode it that way. @@lexa9816
Strangely for me it's mixed like a bit old german/norsk dialect mixed with latin words. If i translate it in German:
So helfe er uns
So helfe uns oh Stolz
Die Worte haben mich verlassen/ Die Worte sind nicht mehr für mich
So helfe er, Gott
So helfe er uns
So helfe uns oh Stolz
Die Worte haben mich verlassen
/ Die Worte sind nicht mehr für mich
So us oh Lobpreißung Gott
[this part is mixed with somewhat portuguese, latin, old german...for me it's harder to translate...."Gofria kruhemen entu" sound totaly like a brazilian portuguese dialect]
So helfe er uns
So helfe uns oh Stolz
Die Worte haben mich verlassen
So helfe er, Gott
in English:
So he (should) help us,
So he (should) help oh pride
The words are leaving me/ The words are no more for me
So he (should) help, god
So he (should) help us,
So he (should) help oh pride
The words are leaving me/ The words are no more for me
So he (should) oh praised god
When it was written, the author/composer studied/prepared it well and given the mythology of wolf man in each
haunted & beautiful.
tuan vandersluis Have you seen the movie? It fits perfectly.
that's a big yes. & I have it.
this movie is so good
0:00~2:34 is what I've been eagerly searching for
i have just now finished this movie and Im glad i did
"Fun" Fact: Jin-Roh is the third in a trilogy, all part of a larger timeline. The previous films, live-action and set years after Jin-Roh, reveal that the Kerberos Unit was ultimately disbanded and subjected to public trials.
Meaning Fuse's choice meant nothing. He bought the system a few more years in exchange for his soul.
Oshii-sensei preemptively made this ending a thousand times _worse._
that context is crushing.
I just finished the movie, I have no words....
이런음악이 누군가의 머리속에서 나왔다는게… 이런 음색으로 노래를 부를수 있다는게 놀랍다
史実ではないが、見ると懐かしさを感じる作品だ。
Wait what lol?!.
The last 2 minutes are utter sadness and beauty
2025 men here
15years ago... T.T